"Just think about it, maybe it’s Korean won or yen, and do you think missions come every day? This is definitely the startup fund given by the server’s beginner tutorial, it must be useful."
The murmurs of the few people reached Lin Miao’s ears, and the reason he did it was very simple.
The European dollar issued by the European Community bank, abbreviated as Eurodollar, is currently the most widely circulated currency in this world. At the same time, the European Community is the unipolar power of the world, and no matter whether it’s Neon Huang Ban or the new US Military Science, they all have to bow before it. He has no capital to contend with the current world’s financial system. If he purely used Eurodollars as the game currency, these players might collectively run to those big companies within three days.
Because the opponents can always come up with a large amount of money to crush him, causing players to have a huge psychological imbalance.
Even though Lin Miao has the power to control players’ online and offline status, the information channels of the network society cannot be blocked. Forcing players to work, or worse, abandon the game using such power is not feasible.
After all, everyone is here to play the game, and no one truly wants to be someone else’s slave.
To make them willingly work for Lin Miao, he must present something others cannot offer, which is the GP points and the related businesses, creating the illusion, oh no... the intuition that Eurodollars are not important, but GP points are.
For example, with equipment binding, it is okay for them to be cannon fodder in the early stages, but later on, when they have assets, there will inevitably be incidents where they fear dying and losing equipment. GP points can bind equipment, and upon death, they can have the agency issue a task to recover the equipment, which other players can accept.
Only bound equipment can use the modification chamber for installation.
Of course, using the modification chamber also requires GP points, otherwise, you have to find prosthetic doctors outside by yourself. Forget about brushing the prosthetic system.
Without brushing the unified system, without the modification chamber, using multinational prosthetics from a prosthetic doctor, even as a player, the physical modification limit will greatly reduce, and cyber psychosis will still occur on players, but instead of going crazy and killing, it results in physical coma, directly kicking them offline.
At the same time, all limited industry consumption in the future agency, rare prosthetics, enhanced prosthetics, special equipment production, buying a house, buying a car, all require GP points. On the periphery of the European Community’s financial system, creating an independent financial system unique to players, in this way all players can be firmly tied to the agency.
Of course, Lin Miao doesn’t have that many Eurodollars to squander, and players don’t have production value, so the money given to players, he has to take back now.
[Main Quest for Beginners: Complete Basic Modification]
[Mission Target: The modification system is now online. Players can now purchase modification qualifications at the agency to perform basic prosthetic modifications (with complimentary basic neural linker, back neck slot, and basic artificial eye).]
[Basic Modification Surgery Qualification: 500 Eurodollars + 200 GP points]
[GP points can bind prosthetics, use modification chamber times (medical/surgery 100/1 time), note: each part is limited to binding one piece of equipment, cost fluctuates based on equipment quality, and bound equipment can issue a retrieval task after player death, with task cost borne by the game official.]
[Mission Reward: Free equipment binding once]
As expected, Brother Ni wore an expression of ’I knew it’, the rewards from beginner tasks are essentially for the next tutorial, giving you money is to make you buy task equipment, giving you an apple is to have you roast it.
Then the four looked at the only NPC here, counted the money, and handed it back.
Damn... I seem to have forgotten about this...
Lin Miao indeed had an employment recruitment contract in hand, but the problem was there was no suitable candidate, and there were few players, so setting up positions was impossible, and there was no electricity here, so even substituting with a robotic shop assistant wasn’t feasible.
Starting a business is tough.
Lin Miao took the money, turned around, and fetched four sets of neural linkers and artificial eyes from the garage, then handed them to the players, saying, "You’ve got your items, but I don’t recommend you undergo body modification right now."
The giant was a bit confused, "Ah... why? Is there something else we need to prepare in advance?"
"If you go through the body modification surgery now, it might take you at least half an hour, so it’s best to do it during your resting time, that way it won’t affect your limited activity time."
"That makes sense," the giant came to suddenly understand, nodding repeatedly, "It indeed can’t delay our game time, let’s wait then."
The hassle level of equipping items was somewhat beyond their imagination. In their view, it might be better to have a skippable cutscene CG, like the slow-paced game ’Red Dead Redemption’ where even skinning is done slowly, not everyone likes that.
However, looking at the realism level of this game, no one said anything.
Potato, "What are we going to do next? We’re not building houses again, are we?"
He had been busy all morning and was beginning to suspect he was playing a carpentry simulator. For players, always doing one thing is very easy to get boring.
"No." Lin Miao shook his head. "I’ll teach you how to shoot, then prepare for a reconnaissance mission."
"I just found a ’Night Wanderer’ base nearby, with not many people, around four or five, it’s necessary to clear them out."
Lin Miao’s 600 Eurodollars weren’t spent in vain. Besides providing contact details for the Wanderers, the bartender also marked on the map the recent red dot range where ’Night Wanderer’ appeared or stationed. Coincidentally, Stone Ridge Mountain town was located between the ’Night Wanderer’ and Adcardo activity areas, but more towards the ’Night Wanderer’ side.