My Players Are So Fierce
Chapter 347:

It’s widely known on the forum that the 《Reality Realm》 development team is diligent in fixing bugs, especially after the number of participating testers increased and the storyline expanded to cover the entire Transia region. Basically, every week Brother Alpha would release an update announcement.

After assistant Xiao Cui appeared and became active on the forum, she would occasionally be responsible for the updates as well.

In most cases, the update announcements contain minor adjustments to various gameplay mechanics, and occasionally summarize the development status of Crimson Citadel and Transia in an overview format. Therefore, many veteran players jokingly refer to the weekly update announcements as the development team’s “work reports” to the test participants, these “Alpha Company shareholders.”

However, for players who are good at summarizing, thinking, and have keen observation skills, they can easily notice that the development team has been using update announcements and version updates to fine-tune and guide players’ activities in the game.

Today’s announcement is a very typical example.

【《Reality Realm》 43rd Online Update Announcement:

This online update mainly addresses some ‘disharmonious factors’ that appeared during the “100-Day Grand Construction” campaign. Due to the prevalence of slave hunting in Transia, this has caused concern about the surrounding situation from Baroness Miriam, the Crimson Regent, and her administrative team.

She and her administrative team unanimously determined that now is not a good time to provoke our “bad neighbors,” so they urgently contacted the development team to make patch modifications to the current situation.

Amazing!

In all my time doing testing work, this is the first time I’ve seen players’ overly hardcore spontaneous actions force the development team to modify quest gameplay. I can only say you really outdid yourselves.

Here are the specific contents of this update:

1. To redirect players’ attention back to Transia’s internal affairs and improve the happiness of residents in the territory, the busy Lord Murphy and his loyal servant Maxim have decided to hold a month-long “Transia King of Fighters Championship” at the fighting club.

Of course, although it’s called the King of Fighters Championship, fighting isn’t the only competition event. Under the governor’s orders, the Blood Rat Gang has already carved out suitable competition venues for different events in the sewers.

Shooting, throwing, weightlifting, and even blindfolded combat events have been confirmed.

This campaign aims to enjoy activities with the citizens, so the selection range for participating fighters will encompass all citizens of Transia who are bored enough to want some entertainment. Therefore, during this activity period, any little player participating in the King of Fighters Championship has a chance to see familiar faces in the opponent’s seat.

This includes but is not limited to Commander Maxim, Commander Adele, Baron Kudel, and a series of major combat-type NPCs who have already appeared in the storyline.

When encountering them, a series of entertainment-type easter eggs will be triggered. If there’s a one in ten thousand chance to defeat these NPCs, you’ll receive their unique rewards.

Also, don’t forget that the continuous quest “Lord Murphy’s Challenge Letter” can also be obtained during this activity.

Test participants need to be reminded that the online addition of this activity isn’t just the development team’s programmers trying to cover up their mistakes.

It also has strong storyline-related factors!

The cunning northerners maliciously added many unscrupulous prisoners and violent individuals among the prisoners they sent back to our Transia. These fellows who excel at speaking with their fists hope to resume their old trades in Transia, but the valiant little players will tell them that when it comes to speaking with fists, they don’t fear any challenger.

“Nordtov Advance Team Member – Thug” will randomly spawn in this activity. For each one defeated, +1 construction point.

Achieve top three in individual events, +10 construction points.

Win individual event championship, +50 construction points, and obtain the time-limited rare title “Transia Boxing King.”

2. Rule-based restrictions on the “Slave Hunting Team” gameplay have been implemented:

The Crimson Citadel Administration is unwilling to see the current fluctuations in the territory’s diplomatic security situation. Therefore, from when the online update takes effect, refugees from East Prussia and Kafhoka region will no longer increase construction points for players.

Benefits from checking refugees through legal channels (such as assistance from the Bataxin Chamber of Commerce, Avalon Church missionary activities) remain unchanged.

3. New refugee inspection acquisition channel – Call of the Mountain Folk:

The mountain tribes in the Ancestral Woods at the northernmost end of Seicob territory have just sworn allegiance to the Transia Governor, and Countess Sharon of Seicob, who is responsible for managing them, has also been given a special mission.

Because the unique mountain folk group has maintained an ambiguous position in terms of territory division throughout the long history between Transia and surrounding areas, the Governor hopes to call upon the mountain folk from the Saxony region to enthusiastically join Transia through communication between mountain folk.

Players who wish to help mountain folk who have repeatedly suffered persecution from the Goldflower Kingdom enter civilized lands can go to the Ancestral Woods to find mountain folk elders to participate in this campaign.

Saxony mountain folk obtained through this channel enjoy the same construction point benefits as refugees.

Note!

Traveling from the Ancestral Woods to the wild mountain forests of the Saxony region is a dangerous endeavor. Even with local mountain folk as guides, various dangerous wild beasts and treacherous terrain encountered along the way, as well as Goldflower Kingdom mountain patrollers that may spawn at any time, are factors worth considering.

This activity is not suitable for the weak to participate in.

Therefore, the development team makes a special recommendation here that players should consider trying this gameplay after reaching the Black Iron rank.

4. Dorothy’s black market rare goods quantity has increased, and each batch of goods refresh time has been extended to 10 days.

5. The Seicob Winged Cavalry’s profession system is finally complete, and has given birth to the Winged Cavalry advanced profession “Heart of the Woods – Holy Grail Knight” represented by Knight Valand. Thanks to the efforts of Countess Sharon and Knight Valand, the Transia officials have finally mastered the manufacturing method of Winged Cavalry equipment.

This equipment belongs to advanced spirit items and requires certain manufacturing industry expertise to possibly master its complex manufacturing method.

Manufacturing industry players can go to the Administration to study a series of manufacturing blueprints, and the Administration will also provide corresponding military orders according to blueprint unlocking progress.

6. Fixed a small number of bugs.】

This update announcement stated right at the beginning that it was a gameplay supplement targeting the current main quest line, and its listed restrictions made a group of “hawk faction” little players in the comments below feel like they’d lost their parents.

Leading Pigeon:【Damn! The benefits of slave hunting teams have been directly cut off, the dream of occupying mountains as kings and being great bandits, recreating Water Margin in another world in Transia has been shattered! Let’s disperse, seems like the development team still isn’t free enough.

What are you afraid of?

In our situation, are you still afraid of being reported?】

Ah Yuen:【What kind of eyesight do you have? If you can’t use it you can donate it to people who need it, okay? Look more carefully! They’ve said very clearly, only East Prussia and Kafhoka regions can’t use slave hunting team methods anymore, the Cato region hasn’t been restricted.

In other words, as long as you want to, you can still do some tricky operations.】

Lumina Yanghen:【If I remember correctly, those Wolfsbane vampires who came to fight us last time were from the Cato region, right?

According to the background explanation, that place has now been given to the Wolfsbane Clan by King Louis as their mainland headquarters. In other words, if we go there to check for refugees, we’ll have to face off against Wolfsbane vampires?】

Life Is Pretty Good:【This is obviously the Blood Vulture Clan inserting their private interests, worthy of being the storyline’s favorite child, the development team even acquiesced to players’ provocative behavior towards the Wolfsbane Clan. In other words, they haven’t banned the slave hunting team gameplay.

They just put restrictions on targets to avoid harming ‘friendly forces’, actually this is quite good, drawing clear bottom lines makes it easier to control the scale and situation. I was also worried that everyone playing too wildly would lead to an uncontrollable situation.

With Transia’s current overall strength, directly provoking the Goldflower Kingdom like this is just like Little Si Guo jumping up to smash Tyson’s knee.】

Sister Pomegranate Uproots The Weeping Willows:【Your analogy is really weird yet vivid. Whatever! Let’s go, let’s go boxing! Let’s go register at the Blood Rat Gang now, didn’t they say there’s a chance to encounter combat-type NPCs?

Just right to test our combat power improvement progress during this period, I still plan to complete the legendary event of challenging Lord Murphy before the Black Plague arrives.

Sigh, after the new version opened, Maxim’s strong challenger events all stopped, can’t see him all day long, it’s really worrying.】

Ruthless Horseshoe Crab:【This kind of design must be an easter egg, they won’t let NPCs participate in full status, otherwise who could beat them? They’re all skull level, even detection magic can’t see their specific information clearly. It will only give you a prompt of ‘extremely dangerous’ or ‘like a deity’.】

What Color is Loyalty:【Damn, you dare to use detection magic on their own NPCs, amazing brother! Wasn’t it said that being detected by this would provoke hostility? You really don’t consider grinding their favorability.】

Ruthless Horseshoe Crab:【F**k! This thing actually increases hostility when detected? F**k! I was wondering why every time I go to the sewers, Lady Dorothy is so indifferent to me, turns out this is the reason.

F**k!

Lost 5 million ah, Lady Dorothy, that kind of cool tattooed big sister is my sweetheart.】

Frostfang Claw:【When you understand her you’ll know, your tattooed big sister is just an unreliable senior goofball.

Also, the Blood Rat Gang’s reputation merchant put up a batch of special “treasure maps” this morning, brothers who are interested can come take a look, but this guy is always moving between several strongpoints, his location isn’t easy to find.】

Onboard Joy Stick:【!!! You can buy treasure maps directly now? Damn, treasure hunter gameplay has been greatly strengthened! Fangfang, help me buy a few sheets, I’ll give you money after I log in.】

Frostfang Claw:【Uh, I can help you carry, I still buy at internal preferential prices. But don’t rush, this thing isn’t the kind of treasure map you imagine, to be precise, those things record the locations of some tombs on Transia’s land that might have good stuff hidden in them.

And it’s sold in the form of ’employment agreements’.

After you buy it you have to hand over part of the proceeds to them according to the agreement.

And some of these tombs conflict with the reputation of certain main storyline NPCs, such as a series of treasure maps recording ‘Veterans Cemetery’.

If you do this, it means your reputation with the Kadman People’s Army will be invalidated.

So I feel it’s quite a trap.】

Tiger Leopard Rider – Lin:【Whether it’s a trap mainly depends on the benefits, brother tell us about the benefits of this thing?】

Frostfang Claw:【I don’t know, I personally really hate this kind of behavior, but judging from the benefits that exist in the first generation Count Seicob’s tomb it should be quite profitable.

However, grave robbing in this magic world is risky, I’ve never seen those dark people’s mechanisms before, one careless move and you’re easily buried inside.】

Feel You Poor:【So is it part of the ‘evil path’ gameplay? If you can’t grind People’s Army reputation doesn’t that mean missing out on a set of veteran equipment?】

Don’t Need Hands to Show Off:【We assassins and thieves in the Blood Rat Gang also have reputation equipment for sale, it happens to correspond, equipment acquisition actually isn’t affected, mainly it might interfere with subsequent storylines.

But honestly speaking, if you really lack money, grave robbing is also a decent alternative path. Can get rich quickly, but definitely has risks.

This is just different strokes for different folks.】

Gentle and Elegant Lady Aqua:【So, has the development team started trying to make different storyline path choices to divert players? These details are really well done.

Also, we Silver Moon Pride group just discussed, feeling that we monopolizing the Bataxin Chamber of Commerce line seems quite unfair, so here sharing with everyone the tutorial for recruiting refugees through proper channels from the Bataxin Chamber of Commerce. We’ve already established relationships with Lady Palen, so just mention our names when you go there to do business.

But don’t do bad things under Silver Moon Pride’s name, little brothers, doing that is very naughty.】

Shrimp Catcher:【Wow, Sister Aqua is really beautiful and kind-hearted! Too bad I’ve already decided to go boxing, otherwise I’d definitely want to follow you guys to Kafhoka to see the sights.】

Fatal Orchid Huahua:【What sister? At your age, you should call her auntie, understand!】

Sword Saint Ashina:【o(╯□╰)o! Huahua you’re dead, Lady Aqua is already sharpening her knife.】

Invincible Tyrannosaurus Cheche:【Auntie! I don’t want to work hard anymore, working hard is so difficult.】

Gentle and Elegant Lady Aqua:【Don’t want to work hard? Come to auntie, let me give you a few slaps to wake you up, okay? So young and don’t want to work hard, just want to live off others?

The threshold for this industry is also very high, little brother, don’t underestimate the gold content of being a host. Covers mouth and laughs】

——

As players on the forum started their routine nonsense, Murphy, who had been lurking, also felt relieved.

He admits that when he came up with the construction points system, he was a bit inconsiderate, but now with the patch specifically left for combat profession players, things should develop in the right direction.

“Ah, I always say Natalie is Avalon’s shepherdess, but now it seems I’m a shepherd, with the herding whip in hand having a slight error that would trigger a series of chain reactions. This time I’ve learned a lesson.

In the future, I must be more cautious and careful when it comes to quest design.”

Murphy touched his core bead and sighed, thinking that it’s actually because Transia isn’t strong enough. If they could really restore to the strength of the Portia Federation era, hmph, what’s wrong with his little players crossing the border to catch a few people? Would that dwarf Loren really dare to start a full-scale war over this?

As he was feeling slightly displeased as a lord, an administrative clerk knocked on Murphy’s office door, and after getting permission, walked in and handed a report to the governor with both hands.

Murphy took it and glanced at it, then said in surprise:

“Are they so enthusiastic about registering for this King of Fighters Championship? So are the citizens of Crimson Citadel this free every day now?”

“It’s mainly because there’s a severe lack of entertainment activities, and Transians have always liked being brave and fighting,”

The clerk answered very properly:

“Your initiative came at just the right time, Governor. Our people hope to participate in this kind of large-scale activity before the boring winter arrives. Because of the war, today’s harvest festival and several local festivals couldn’t be held.”

“Hmm, indeed, if you hadn’t mentioned it I almost forgot, the Sacred Blood Festival that’s of great significance to vampires is next month.”

Murphy looked at the dense statistics of “contestants” on the report, he rubbed his chin and said:

“Perhaps I should also prepare festival matters in advance for the Blood Vulture Clan members. This year is a moment worth commemorating for both Transia and the Blood Vulture Clan.

Then let’s prepare according to the current rhythm, start the first match of the King of Fighters Championship at the fighting club in two days.”

“Uh, Governor, Regent Miriam has a small suggestion.”

The clerk looked up at Murphy with a trace of timidity, he said quietly:

“The Regent also believes that holding a large-scale activity at this time is beneficial for the citizens’ physical and mental health, but as the advocate of the activity and currently the most prestigious person in Transia, the Regent hopes you could participate in this activity that enjoys with the people in the form of an ‘opening fight’.”

“???”

Murphy’s face was full of question marks.

He really couldn’t imagine himself, such a handsome person, dressed up like a boxer appearing on the boxing ring at the fighting club, and was about to refuse immediately, but then hesitated for a moment.

He said:

“It’s not impossible, but who will be my opponent?”

“Well, regarding this, Regent Miriam has already arranged everything for you!”