Creating a Virtual World

Chapter 57: Overview of the ecosystem inside and outside the game

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Three days later, Jiang Qiao was browsing the financial reports and operating status of Holy Spirit since its launch in the Astrology Tower.

The system book presented all the data of the Holy Spirit Server in front of Jiang Qiao in the form of a projection.

Judging from what was displayed in the System Book, the income that the Holy Spirit brought to Jiang Qiao was... zero.

Zero to zero, but the commercial value of the Holy Spirit has been fully highlighted with the influx of players. The price of a gold coin of the Holy Spirit has risen to three hundred and seventy-two yuan, which is exactly doubled compared to the first time the server was opened.

Jiang Qiao expected that the price of gold would increase instead of decrease as the number of people increased, and what was really expensive in the Holy Spirit was the special equipment.

"Are you really not going to put a few pieces of equipment on this trading website?"

Hai Lan used the Tiangong web browsing gadget to order takeout. The web pages she used were those that Jiang Qiao often used, so there were some websites that Jiang Qiao had collected in her favorites.

She has recently learned how to surf the Internet very quickly, just like today she discovered a website for trading game props called 4396 Game Trading Network.

This website is the largest trading platform for game props and accounts in China. Hai Lan successfully found the Holy Spirit section while browsing this website.

The Holy Spirit section shows that the price exchange rate between Holy Spirit gold coins and Chinese currency is 1 to 372. The recent increase is 90%, and there is a possibility of continued increase.

This is much more profitable than stock trading.

Jiang Qiao would sigh no matter how many times he saw it.

But what really caught Hai Lan's attention was... the equipment trading section of the Holy Spirit section. The most expensive piece of equipment in the section was called 'Grona's Piggy Bank'.

This is a special piece of equipment. It does not have any attribute bonuses, but it has the effect of increasing the amount of money obtained when killing BOSS and elite monsters by 25%.

Special equipment is equipment without level restrictions, but the equipment itself takes up the player's equipment slot.

The equipment in the Holy Spirit player includes a helmet, top, belt, legs, shoes, cloak, gloves, two rings, two accessories, and an additional blessing totem and two-handed weapon slot.

Some Hunter and Gunner players will also have equipment slots for 'Special Ammo'.

There are a total of fourteen equipment slots. If the special equipment obtained by the player is a ring, then this special equipment without any combat attribute bonus will occupy a slot in the ring.

As for the special equipment designed by Jiang Qiao, it has some... April Fool's Day effects. Most of the equipment has more negative effects than positive effects. Special equipment like Grona's piggy bank can be used by all professions and has no negative effects. Its price on the Holy Spirit Equipment Trading Network remains high.

Grona's piggy bank is sold on the Holy Spirit official website for 430,000 Chinese yuan. This special equipment alone is enough for Jiang Qiao to buy a private car.

The Holy Spirit eliminates the possibility of opening multiple studios or using robots to earn gold coins, so the gold price of the Holy Spirit may continue to rise in the future. The piggy bank is an accessory equipment. If the rich man buys two piggy banks and hangs them on his body, it will stably produce 50% more gold coins when he goes to the base, and it should not take long to earn back the money.

"I have more than ten here! There are also the anger of the fire elf, the memory of the light elf, the mercy of the water elf and so on." Hai Lan said as a bunch of Grona's piggy banks appeared in her hand, three glowing memories of the light elves floated above her head, three small fireballs fell beside her, and there was a group of liquid condensed beads gathered under her feet.

The Elemental Elf series is also a high-priced equipment, and it is a "Blessing Totem" equipment that does not take up much slot. The effect is that skills with corresponding attributes below level 35 have a certain chance to be released twice.

On the 4396 game trading website, the stable price is above 300,000.

"You really can think of the idea of the game official selling equipment."

Jiang Qiao closed the system book and smashed it directly on Hai Lan's head, and the pile of piggy banks in her hands all fell to the ground.

"No way?" Hai Lan rubbed her forehead. This was the second time she came up with a bad idea and was scolded by Jiang Qiao.

"If you want to go out of business, the reason why special equipment is so expensive is that there is no way to ship it right now."

Jiang Qiao knew that all the special equipment currently listed on the 4396 trading website were from the first abyss hunt. Currently, no special equipment was produced in the Holy Spirit map.

As for epic equipment... players can obtain it in every heroic dungeon. Although it is difficult, at least there are some produced. It is not difficult for a player to find a good team and work hard for a month or so to put together a set of epic equipment.

"No one should know, right?" Hai Lan really had no common sense in this area.

"You don't need that much money for a takeaway meal. Holy Spirit will be profitable in the future, but what's important now is to expand the number of people on the server and improve the average level of the players."

Jiang Qiao doesn't care much about money, but he is not without desire. He will still make money when it is time to make it, but he can easily control his desire for money that he shouldn't make. The bad idea that Hai Lan proposed was money that Jiang Qiao shouldn't make.

"Okay." Hai Lan still obediently ordered her takeout.

She was very obedient in this regard, which made Jiang Qiao feel more and more that what he raised was not a goddess, but a pet.

After analyzing the direction of the financial system within the Holy Spirit, Jiang Qiao continued to open the system book and began to pay attention to the growth progress of the server itself.

Jiang Qiao's conspiracy... well... the new plan was very successful. The first one was the main quest newly released by the puppet girl, which made a lot of Holy Spirit players, even including Zhao Mingwei, rush to level up like crazy.

Secondly, the best-of-the-game replay function newly launched by Holy Spirit has caused major guilds to start competing frantically for the clearance records of major dungeons. The frequency of major guilds forming groups to brush the Tower of Trials is several times higher than before.

Jiang Qiao felt that the presidents of the various guilds must have really started to take it seriously. They not only began to study in the game, but also seemed to have started to recruit helpers outside the game.

During these three days, Zhao Mingwei and Jiang Qiao were invited by major guilds to break dungeon records. Zhao Mingwei was the main force, and Jiang Qiao was just a bonus.

The result is that the growth rate of the number of people on the server has doubled or more in three days. Previously, the upper limit of players on the server could steadily increase by 300 people per day, but in these three days, the number of players eligible to play has steadily increased by 700 people per day.

The number of Holy Spirit players finally broke through the 5,000 mark and reached 6,700.

Hai Lan was so happy that she wanted to order a cake to celebrate, but Jiang Qiao knew that compared with those national-level online games with millions of daily active players, the number of 6,700 registered players was really nothing.

The maximum number of players of 6,700 was set by the first and second batches of Holy Spirit players by killing monsters in the Tower of Trials.

"What's left is the growth of creation energy?" Jiang Qiao looked at the most basic creation energy. In the past few days, the creation energy has increased from 14,000 to 19,000. It will increase by three to four points every seven or eight minutes, and occasionally increase by fifty or sixty points.

All the energy for creation comes from the monsters in the Tower of Trials killed by players, as well as the energy obtained from the relics decomposed by players.

"Hmm? Segman, the money-giving boy, is here again?"

Jiang Qiao saw that the growth rate of creation energy suddenly jumped from three to four per second to a number of +700, and instantly realized that his God of Wealth had come again.

(End of this chapter)