Chapter 209 Is your child also called Tianba?

Chapter 209 Is your child also called Tianba?

The deletion test is not a public beta after all.

Although there is no limit on quotas or qualifications, there are still not many players participating in this file deletion test.

Yang Dong felt very sorry for this.

The game "I Am a Big Internet Celebrity" must have many people to be fun, or to put it another way, it must have a sufficient player base in order to reflect the core mechanism of the game.

If there are few people, it really won’t be fun…

How many people are needed to support the framework of this game? According to the results of this test, there are at least 100,000 people!

"so much?"

Xiao Lu was a little surprised and said: "You mean, the number of active players in this game cannot be less than 100,000. Once it falls below this level, it will be unplayable?"

"That's right!"

Chen Ba nodded.

This is indeed what he thought and what he told Yang Dong.

Once the game "I Am a Big Internet Celebrity" is officially launched, it must ensure that there are more than 100,000 active players. Once it falls below 100,000, the game will be stopped immediately and there is no need to continue operating it.

This is not something that is forced upon others.

The main reason is that the nature of the game "I Am a Big Internet Celebrity" is too special and cannot be treated as an ordinary game at all. If you don’t even have 100,000 active players, why are you still playing Hammer?

"Brother Dong is under great pressure..."

Xiao Lu clicked his tongue: "100,000 active players is not a small number. Even "Global Evolution" has just broken through this threshold."

"The number of people online at the same time in "Global Evolution" has exceeded 100,000?"

"Almost 200,000."

Xiao Lu chuckled and said: "The battle between players and NPCs is very fierce. Many people come here specifically to play the online mode."

"Global Evolution" is a AAA game.

Although the game has sold a lot of copies, because the game itself is a stand-alone game and the main content of the game is concentrated in the stand-alone part, there are actually not many people in the online mode.

This is also normal.

Most people who play AAA games basically just want to experience the content of the game itself and complete the plot. There are relatively few players who spend all day in the online mode.

Against this background, the number of online players in the online mode of "Global Evolution" exceeds 100,000, which is enough to prove how popular the online mode is.

we can even say……

Many people buy the game "Global Evolution" not for the game itself, but for the online mode of the game.

Don’t be surprised, GTA5 was like this back then. Many people bought the game for the online mode but never played the main story for a second...

"By the way, what's going on with Global Evolution now?"

Chen Ba walked to the water dispenser and poured a glass of water. He asked curiously: "Are the players and NPC still in a stalemate?"

"The situation in the NPC camp is not good."

"Players take advantage of information transmission and can easily avoid those powerful NPCs and focus on the weaker NPCs who are alone."

Xiao Lu was speechless and said: "Under the influence of this tactic, the NPC camp has experienced a large-scale attrition. Although some weaklings died, the number of attrition is really too much."

There are not many people in the NPC camp.

Under the tactical hunting of players, a large number of weak NPCs were eliminated, and the number of NPCs became even rarer.

But then again...

Although the number of NPCs is sparse, there are really many strong ones. Top NPCs that have evolved beyond the 20th and 30th levels are emerging in an endless stream. The high-level combat power is not at a disadvantage.

On the other hand, although the players have an absolute numerical advantage and possess immortality, if they really encounter a strong NPC, they will only end up being crushed to death.

no way!

Compared to players, NPCs evolve too quickly. It also has infinite evolution, and the strongest person in the player camp cannot even enter the top twenty in the NPC camp.

"NPCs cannot be resurrected after death. This is indeed a big problem."

Chen Ba nodded and said: "In view of this, it is no problem to give priority to those weak NPCs."

Anyway, if an NPC dies, one will be permanently missing, and players are infinitely resurrected. From this perspective, there is no problem with the players' tactics.

However, the number of weak NPCs is limited. After these weak persimmons are eliminated, what should be done with the remaining NPCs?

Too many ants kill an elephant?

In the face of absolute strength suppression, there is no such possibility of winning by numbers. If you want to defeat those strong NPCs, you can only ask players of the same level to take action.

Even if they are not at the same level, the difference should not be too big. It is best to be one level lower, or two levels lower...

"The player camp tried their best to cultivate a few powerful people. It is difficult for them to compete head-on with the NPC camp."

When Chen Ba said this, he also felt that his thoughts were a bit naive.

Cultivate the strongest?

This sounds simple. As long as the players sacrifice themselves and help a few master players, there is a high probability that they will be able to raise a few top evolvers who are not inferior to NPCs.

But the question is, who is willing to be such an injustice, sacrificing himself just to help other players?

joke!

I play games for fun, not as a stepping stone for others, nor as a foil.

As long as the players are not united and cannot concentrate on integrating resources to cultivate strong players, then they will never be able to surpass the NPC, nor can they eliminate the NPC.

After all, NPCs are very united.

"We are indeed united. After all, we all have the same name and appearance. How can we not be united?"

Xiao Lu joked: "Nine out of ten NPCs who cause chaos in the online mode of "Global Evolution" and evolve to high levels are named Chen Jia."

Absolutely amazing!

With so many "Chen Jia" standing side by side, players don't know what to call them.

"Didn't you get a number?"

Chen Ba smiled and said: "No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, etc. Number these NPC Chen Jia. Remember the numbers so you won't make mistakes."

"The number is useless!"

"No. 1 Chen Jia and No. 2 Chen Jia, except for their different strengths, can you tell who is who when they stand together?"

Xiao Lu rolled his eyes and said, "I can't tell the difference anyway, and neither can most players. It's too easy to get confused."

This is indeed a big problem.

Chen Ba thought for a while, and it seems that in future updates, he can add personalized characteristics to these "Chen Jia" to facilitate players' identification.

For example, Chen Jia is in red clothes, Chen Jia is in blue clothes, Chen Jia is in green clothes...

Every NPC Chen Jia looks exactly the same, which is really easy to remember.

"Let's talk about it later."

After writing this down, Chen Ba sighed and said: "The update of "Global Evolution" can be delayed for a while. After all, this game is really not suitable for updating in a short time..."

Who dares to update?

Originally, due to the infinite evolution of NPCs, the game files expanded inexplicably. Chen Ba really didn't dare to update randomly until the players completely relaxed their vigilance.

After all, the players of "Global Evolution" are probably the most concerned and sensitive player group in the world about game file size.

Before going online every day, click on My Computer to check the remaining space on the hard drive. Only after making sure that it has not become smaller can you enter the game with confidence.

What if the remaining space becomes smaller?

Then I have been having a restless day. Whether I am eating or sleeping, I am thinking about why the remaining space on the hard disk has become smaller again? How many more days can this go on?

To put it harshly.

When other games release updates, most players will raise their hands and feet to support them, hoping that the update package will be as big as possible.

But when "Global Evolution" releases an update, players' attitudes are very subtle.

They don’t want the game to have too many updates, because if there are too many updates, it means that the update package will be very large, and if the update package is very large...

The hard drive is really not enough!

Because of this, Chen Ba chose to postpone the new version update of "Global Evolution".

It’s hard to say how long the delay will be.

Chen Ba believes that a more mature time for game updates should be when players and NPCs reach a certain balance and game files are maintained at a stable size.

It's not very stable yet...

As players continue to hunt NPCs, the game files of "Global Evolution" are also shrinking, from nearly 200G at its peak to about 160G.

It is not difficult to see from this result that the players' efforts have indeed paid off, and the game files have been reduced a lot.

But this only treats the symptoms, not the root cause.

The weak NPCs are indeed about to be killed, but the powerful NPCs are still alive! And if these weak NPCs die, won't there be new NPCs to break through to level ten?

Therefore, 160G is only temporary.

If nothing else happens, the game file will expand to about 200G over time, and may even reach 500G.

500G is a dividing line.

Because the number of NPCs is limited, Chen Ba believes that when the "Global Evolution" game file reaches 500G, it will almost reach its limit.

This has reached its peak, which means that the game file size exceeds 500G, which means the complete defeat of players, a large number of players are forced to quit the game, and the NPC achieves a complete victory.

But this is impossible!

Chen Ba will not allow this to happen. If such a day comes, he will not hesitate to announce the suspension of the server and restart the game.

…

After the New Year, in addition to developing the FPS game "Time and Space Investigation", Chen Ba is also looking for a new office.

That's right!

Tianba Studio needs to find a new office space due to various reasons such as staff expansion and equipment acquisition.

After the studio moves out, the original office will become the residence of "Xianyu Digital". Anyway, the rent has not yet expired, so it can be considered as a good use.

The task of finding a new office was mainly done by Huang Qing, while Chen Ba was only responsible for making decisions.

"how about this?"

"The location is good and the area is large. The only problem is that parking is not easy and the rent is very expensive..."

Chen Ba shook his head.

Jiangning is not a first-tier city, but what is surprising is that the leasing standards for these office buildings in the urban area are proper first- and second-tier CBD standards.

Are you kidding me?

At this price, wouldn’t it be nice to spend a little extra to settle down in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen?

"The rent can be negotiated..."

Huang Qing reminded: "We are high-quality tenants. As long as we show sincerity, the rent will definitely be much cheaper."

"It's not much cheaper."

Chen Ba shook his head and said: "Forget it, let's move to an office building for two years for the time being. Anyway, I don't know what the situation will be in two years."

Moving is easy.

When Chen Ba and Huang Qing rented the 7th floor of an office building in the city center, they quickly hired a professional moving company to relocate various studio equipment and hardware.

The game is not affected.

For most of the studio's online games, the servers are rented from other people's servers, so even if they move, the servers will not be stopped for maintenance.

As for stand-alone, it has no impact.

When Tianba Studio moved, the business that was most affected was the Tianba community.

Because Tianba Community servers are not rented, moving will naturally affect the normal operation of Tianba Community.

But it's not a big problem.

The move only took a few hours, and Chen Ba had already posted a pinned post on the community, explaining that the Tianba community might be inaccessible due to the move of the studio.

“If the community is inaccessible, it’s not that Tianba has closed down or run away, it’s just that the studio has moved!”

The news that Tianba Community will cease operations due to the move would have aroused heated discussions among players. But compared to another major event, this is nothing.

The well-known player "Zhang Pengfei" was blessed with a son. After communicating with his wife, he decided to name his son Zhang Tianba...

"Ah ha? You have children?"

When Chen Ba received the news for the first time, he almost thought he had heard it wrong.

But then he thought about it, Zhang Pengfei has been married for such a long time, so it is really not surprising to have a child now.

On the contrary, the name he gave his son is the biggest highlight!

Of course, it's just Zhang Tianba. Although it's a bit weird, it can't be said to be explosive. After all, Zhang Pengfei and his wife met in "Love Counselor", so it is understandable to name their child this.

What really exploded was that after Zhang Pengfei's post went viral, a large number of "Love Staff" players in the community said: What? Is your child also called Tianba?

Oops, what a coincidence!

My lover/daughter-in-law and I also met through "Love Staff". To commemorate this fate, my children are also called X Tianba/X Ba.

At first, Chen Ba thought everyone was joking.

No, no, no, no one would be like Zhang Pengfei, a fool, and name his child "Tianba", right?

But when everyone posted the child's birth certificate on Zhang Pengfei's posts, Chen Ba couldn't hold it any longer.

Are you serious?

Are there really so many people naming their children Tianba? What about Wang Tianba, Zhang Tianba, Yang Tianba...not only boys, but also a few girls named this?

This scene reminded Chen Ba of the early years when Zihan Zihan was popular. At that time, there were even four or five Zihan Zihan in a class.

it's good now!

Zihan Zihan is gone, the Tianba team is here! In the future, there won't be several "Tianba" appearing in a class at the same time, right?

Everyone expressed surprise at the fact that so many people collided with each other.

Because everyone thought that they were the only ones who thought of naming their children after "Tianba".

As a result, after Zhang Pengfei posted, everyone discovered that among the children born in the past two years, there were so many "Tianba" babies.

According to Chen Ba’s observation.

Among the players of "Love Staff", as long as they successfully enter the marriage hall, they basically want to commemorate it.

How to commemorate it?

Before we can think of a better way, naming the child "Tianba" is the best way to commemorate him.