My Players Are So Fierce
Chapter 346:

Regarding whether to establish a slave capture team to contribute to the “100-Days Grand Construction” main quest, not only were Murphy and the NPCs watching, but among players, discussions about this matter had also not reached a unified conclusion.

Especially on the forums in recent days, whenever someone brought up this topic, it would trigger a wave of reasoned arguments from various factions.

“Law-abiding” players like Lumina and Lady Aqua felt this behavior was too extreme and dangerous, while “hawks” like Joy Stick and the student party thought such things were quite normal.

The remaining neutral party

Also known as the melon-eating party had no particularly strong views, they only cared about whether the argument was entertaining enough, and occasionally when not satisfied, would personally join in to add fuel to the fire.

For example, in the current thread titled “Population is Everything, Everything for Population!”, both sides were engaged in a “fierce battle.”

Led More Than Three to Five Pecks:【@Shrimp Catcher, when is your slave capture team heading out? Save a spot for us brothers, Meow King can’t log in for 7 days, we need to find something to do too. Heard you’re planning a big operation in East Prussia, shall we meet up near Pioneer Fortress?】

Precipitation Niuniu Is Not Afraid of Difficulties:【Damn! You’re trying to face-roll the Short Marshal now, stealing their people isn’t enough, now you want to camp near their fortress? Let me tell you, don’t push it! If we really anger the Pioneer Army, with our few people, they’ll bury us in one charge.】

Day One No Fap:【What’s there to fear! It’s just 3 days of confinement, what these bastards did in Seicob City, I Day One can’t stand it! It’s only because Transia is currently too weak to fight back, otherwise I’d definitely be the vanguard to fight these shameless invaders.

Can’t win the war so they use plague, how are they any different from little Japan?】

Shrimp Catcher:【@Led More Than Three to Five Pecks, planning to cross the border from Smuggler’s Woods at noon today, we’ve gathered 30 people! If you veteran players want to join I absolutely welcome you, you can wait at Anderma Hills, where you fought with Circle Tower last time.

I’ve already scouted it out!

From there, walking west for 2 hours will get you to Goldflower’s border village.

That village has lots of people, we can grab them and run, definitely able to get back to Transia before the Pioneer Army’s cavalry can respond.】

Master Ziwei:【No need, brother, really no need, it’s very dangerous over there, I say you’d be better off following us to the Cato region, you don’t even need to cross Lake Shulps to find many refugee villages, there’s no proper armed forces there, you can get many people without even fighting.

Oh, right!

@Electronic Succubus Old Tune, isn’t your team Avalon Church missionaries?

There are many Avalon believers in the Cato region, you can go there and use your silver tongues to convince a batch of people to come back, won’t you get construction points easily?

Those believers are heavily discriminated against over there, I see them living quite miserably, bringing them back to Transia to bathe in God’s light again would count as doing good deeds.】

Don’t Need Hands to Show Off:【Damn, this sounds promising! Let us discuss it first.】

Lumina Yanghen:【Discuss what! You really plan to go be slave traders? This is too ridiculous, they’re living fine in their own villages, yet you have to drag them to Transia. Most importantly, have you seen what Transia looks like now, you bring people over and there’s not even a place to live

It’s sinful.】

Bricklayer:【Uh, Sister Lumina, don’t worry about housing, Grayman and I just built collective dormitories for the refugees in the industrial zone of Anderma Hills, right in the area attached to Brother Loyalty’s armament factory.

It was specially requested by him.

Just waiting to recruit workers from there, although the refugees from the Cato region aren’t wealthy, many of them can at least read and write, which is much better than the local illiterates in Transia.

Besides, aren’t you also actively recruiting returning refugees from Kafhoka?】

Sword Saint Ashina:【When we recruit people back that’s called returning home, they were originally Transians! They just fled to other places because of war.

But you guys are capturing slaves, it’s only because there are no ships and sea routes, and Transia doesn’t have plantations and whip-wielding overseers, otherwise it would be the triangle trade all over again.

However, we have Gnoll overseers here and never-ending construction sites, plus being controlled by a bunch of vampires, so theoretically, what’s happening in Transia is more evil than the triangle trade.】

Invincible Tyrannosaurus Cheche:【Little Ashina’s talking nonsense, East Prussia used to be Portia Federation’s border region, so bringing people from there back to Transia now also counts as ‘returning home’.

Besides, the dev team didn’t say this wasn’t allowed, we’re just taking people not harming them.

Most of the first batch we took back actually came with us willingly, you haven’t seen how badly they were bullied by Goldflower’s thuggish soldiers!

After we took down that evil outpost, do you know how many people cheered and applauded us?

In ancient times, we brothers would at least count as righteous heroes who right wrongs.】

Seeing the gunpowder smell emerging, the thread became even hotter.

Various players jumped in to take sides, arguing red-faced over this slave capture issue, even drawing in the usually composed Lady Aqua.

Finally, Meow King, who was currently on “forced vacation” and “sightseeing, cultivating temperament” with Brother Stick, couldn’t watch anymore and stepped forward saying:

Meow King:【What are you arguing about! Arguing makes my head hurt, your two sides argue back and forth without even figuring out where the main contradiction of this problem lies. Listen to me first, give me some face, okay?

@Does the Cyborg Snail Dream of Electronic Trees, you posted this thread, come out and manage it! Whoever randomly labels others and damages player group unity will be kicked out directly.

Let me tell you there are bad people in this forum now, constantly inciting everyone to split up, if I find out who’s barking like a dog, watch me Gank you offline.】

Meow King had some prestige among the player community, whether in-game or not everyone had heard of him, seeing him speak up now, everyone gave face and temporarily backed down to avoid becoming the “bad people” destroying unity in Meow King’s words.

Meow King:【Now your argument about whether slave capture is good or not, whether it’s okay or not, these are all superficial contradictions! Don’t box yourself in.

Let me ask you, why does everyone want to capture slaves?

Isn’t it just to get construction points to exchange for those things in the special supply store that seem very overpowered at this game stage?

Setting this aside, this ‘100-Days Grand Construction’ is actually just a normal event, no different from the previous Gnoll Hunt.

But have you noticed a very important issue!

Now everyone arguing about the population issue here are all combat profession players, why don’t we see administrative profession and manufacturing players participating in this discussion?】

Master Broken Blade:【Obviously! My blacksmith shop gets one point for every 10 swords made, as long as the apprentices don’t slack off, 10 points per day steady and sure. Would I be so free to go risk my life capturing slaves with you?】

Life Is Pretty Good:【Uh, I think I understand what Meow King means, we administrative players in this event just need to complete the registration and work assignment of refugees within the specified time, and as long as there are no mistakes, we can get construction points when logging off daily.

Especially at Grayman’s side.

They get lots of points for every house they build.

For us administrative players, there are many channels to obtain construction points, really no need to risk doing slave capture business.

But combat professions are indeed different, they don’t have so many paths.】

Meow King:【Exactly, this is the core of the contradiction!

Administrative professions and manufacturing players have much more advantage in the construction field than combat professions, and for combat profession players to get the same rewards as administrative professions in this event, they only have one path which is helping the territory fill up its population.

Actually, although I haven’t been able to enter the game these past few days, I’ve analyzed this quest through others’ descriptions.

The dev team has put the solution right in the quest description.

There are still many refugees waiting to be searched and registered in the vast territory of Seicob now, I estimate the dev team’s original intention was to let combat profession players complete this while exploring some corners of this newly ruled Seicob map, triggering more random events to advance the plot.

However, the problem is that Seicob’s plains are too vast, and refugees are always scattered.

For players who can only rely on horses for fast travel now, searching one by one in such a large place is like looking for a needle in a haystack, far less convenient than risking going to the border to intercept a large group of foreigners at once.

Therefore, this situation turning out like this isn’t a moral issue.

This is purely an efficiency issue!

Only an idiot would spend an hour on a problem that can be solved in 10 minutes, don’t you agree?】

Feel You Poor:【What Meow King says makes sense!

I also think it’s pointless for everyone to argue back and forth about this kind of thing, those things listed in the special black market are indeed good, but they’re just equipment and items, won’t there be better things to exchange when the next version comes? And they don’t necessarily have to be exchanged with points.

For example, yesterday I donated 3,000 gold coins to the administrative office, and then received a set from NPC.】

Sister Pomegranate Uproots The Weeping Willows:【Shut up! Your words have zero persuasiveness! You’re not allowed to discuss these topics that don’t match your class before you understand the hardships of ordinary players’ lives.

So, is Meow King saying that this path divergence problem actually occurred because the dev team didn’t consider thoroughly when designing the quest?】

Meow King:【I didn’t say that, side-eye laugh. But the reward setup for 100-Days Grand Construction does have some problems, it weakened the benefits for combat professions too much, and didn’t provide more channels to obtain construction points, which is why everyone had to take risks.

Even to the point of sacrificing morality as a means.】

The thread immediately filled with agreement.

It must be said that Meow King’s analysis indeed pointed to the core of the problem, and Murphy, who had been lurking, saw it was about time and jumped out to explain:

Alpha:【There’s a reason for this setup, because when analyzing statistical data after the Gnoll Hunt event last time, the dev team found that combat profession players’ benefits were basically several times that of administrative players and manufacturing players.

The programmers felt they must provide corresponding compensation to different career paths to maintain necessary game experience, equivalent to them doing a career balance.

However now it seems their rash attempt has encountered a billion tiny problems.】

Invincible Tyrannosaurus Cheche:【Damn! Brother Alpha got blasted out!】

Alpha:【Roll eyes, I’ve been here all along.

My presence is in every arguing thread you post, I’m just collecting your opinions and have already fed back this problem to the dev team.

They’ve also realized the strategy error through some players’ abnormal gameplay methods these days, online updates will be released soon.

However, I want to remind some little players who focus on the ‘slave capture business’ here.

Not criticizing your methods, because since the dev team designed this gameplay it means we don’t suppress your ‘creativity’ in the game and efforts to try ‘dark routes’.

But we hope you plan gains and losses well before executing such risky actions.

For example, intelligence I can reveal now is that the ‘bellicosity’ of NPC Marshal Loren Steelheart Frederick, the administrator of Pioneer Fortress in East Prussia, is constantly rising due to your too successful plundering actions.

According to current pattern progression, after at most two more slave capture actions by you, the fragile peace between Transia and the Pioneer Army will crack because of this.

There’s even danger of small-scale military conflict breaking out.

My dear little players, you also don’t want to see the Crimson Citadel we worked so hard to repair get razed by the angry dwarf marshal and his Silan brutes under his command because of your actions, right?】

Ah Yuen:【Damn!】

Spicy Gugu Chicken:【Damn+1】

Terra Nova:【Damn+2! Is this ghost game mechanism actually operating like this? Sounds like a chaos system with multiple factors working together?

That is to say, as long as the slave captors continue provocative actions to keep raising the other side’s bellicosity, they can drag all of Transia into total war?

This is too ridiculous!】

Onboard Joy Stick:【Ridiculous? No, not ridiculous at all.

Because many wars in the real world broke out just like this.

But according to the AI level of NPCs in this game, once there’s risk of war possibly breaking out because of us, I think we’ll be handed over by Crimson Citadel’s administrative office first thing to quell the other side’s anger.

After all, fundamentally, we’re not in the right on this matter.

It’s not that we can’t form slave capture teams, but now is not the time!

Transia’s military power and national strength are too weak, in the current situation everyone better behave, who wants to see the NPCs they painstakingly established and raised destroyed because of others’ reckless actions?】

Leading Pigeon:【Then what to do! So worrying, if we can’t do this kind of edge behavior, do we really have to count refugees one by one?

100 refugees only give 10 points, any weapon in the store, any advanced skill manual costs 50 points.

The collectible items Lady Tris and Lord Murphy put up can even sell for over 100 points, just like the Spirit Manual ‘Grand Duchess Tris Teaches You Curse Magic’ that good pigeon pigeon has my eye on.

A whole 150 points!

This means good pigeon needs to bring 1,500 refugees to the administrative office! Most annoying is, those refugees are playing hide and seek with us.

How long will it take to find them?】

One Punch to Destroy the Galaxy:【Uh, actually this isn’t as hard as you think, Sion and I and three other brothers have been wandering around Seicob these days.

According to the experience of Brother Crab in our team, as long as you figure out how to hire a mountain folk guide, those simple but skilled trackers can lead you to at least one group of refugees.

Nothing that happens on that land can escape them, so the mountain folk know clearly where those refugees are hiding!

Unfortunately you need to grind Winged Cavalry reputation to hire them, but honestly, there are really quite a lot of homeless wanderers on those plains, definitely more than you think.】

Ruthless Horseshoe Crab:【Damn! You wastrel! You just revealed our team’s little secret like this? Damn it, do you know how long it took me to find this method?

Now it’s over.

Can’t eat alone anymore.

Fortunately I just exchanged for that ‘Blood Knight Sword and Shield’ set I’ve been eyeing for a long time from the store, otherwise I’d really be dead because of you.】

One Punch to Destroy the Galaxy:【Hehe, isn’t it because we’ve all exchanged for the things we needed that I revealed this little trick.

Can’t just watch brothers walk down the slave trader’s evil path.】

Scholar Xiao Wang:【Quick! Online update log posted on the forum! Go look! The dev team just did an online hot fix, adding a new channel for combat profession players to obtain construction points.

But I feel something weird about that quest description.】

Sinking Fish Playing Games at Work:【Huh? What’s weird?】

Scholar Xiao Wang:【It’s that the new quest is called ‘Real Men Go Down to Fight Club’, content says Lord Murphy and Lord Maxim want to promote Crimson Citadel residents’ happiness by selecting capable people throughout the territory to hold ‘Transia’s First King of Fighters Championship’.

Hey!

Just from the name you can tell it’s not serious!】