Chapter 185 - System Update


    Trantor: TeamTWO


    Editor: Jun


    After Ouyang Shuo viewed the information on achievement value and confirming that it was the same as thest life, he turned his attention to check if the season update was too. He was terrified that he might’ve triggered a butterfly effect.


    (1): Regarding death settings: yers’ death penalty wasn''t like before where they would just lose 1 level. Instead, they would lose all their items other than those in storage and fall back to level 0.


    The death punishment was to prevent yers from swarming people with yer quantities.


    For example, Zhan Lang’s Blood Red City had formed an army filled with purely yers. If yers died and they only lost one level, while the enemy troops died when they were killed, then in thete game when yers got to a high level, a yer army would be unstoppable.


    This kind of yer quantity technique was entirely against the bnce of the game and naturally wouldn''t be allowed.


    (2) Regarding the teleportation formation, now only people could be transported and not items unless the items were in the yer’s storage bag.


    For example, when Ouyang Shuo ordered Wang Yuanfeng to go over to Fallen Phoenix Town to help and bring over the triple-bow acruballistas, that was also not allowed anymore. Unless Ouyang Shuo had big enough of a storage space and could store the bed crossbow himself before personally sending it there.


    The settings of the teleportation formation were to prevent yers from smuggling.


    That''s right. It was smuggling.


    If one smuggled things using the storage bag, as it had limited space, teleporting multiple times, the fee might even be equal to the trading cost, so it wasn''t too worth it.


    Of course, to prevent that was impossible, it was just to prevent rampant smuggling.


    (3): Regarding the market setting: The advanced market would now have 2 tforms, mainly the resource trading tform, special items trading tform. At the same time, there would be a new auction tform which was abination of the old one and also the business trading tform, it would allow yers to list items instantly and would be called the super auction tform.


    On the tform, regardless of are you a lord game mode or adventure game mode yer, or an NPC guild in the system''s imperial capital, you can list an item, ce an order, take an order and also buy the item.


    cing an order would be to list your requirements and what you wanted to buy. Listing an item would be to sell your item. Taking an order would be to ept another yer’s listing. Purchasing the item would be to buy the item that was put up for sale.


    Every transactionpleted at the super auction tform, the system would collect 10% tax from the buyer, aspared to the original 20%, it was half.


    The main difference between the old and new systems was that there was now a price war mechanism. The price of an item would depend on supply and demand and wasn''t like previously when it was based on a stable system price.


    Another difference was that special items wouldn''t be sold by the system, including building blueprints. yers had to go onto the tform to trade, it was not as quick, and there were not as many items as before.


    As for building blueprints, they were only sold in the system imperial capital. The lord had to either find someone to buy it for him or buy it from sellers on the super auction tform.


    Apart from that, there were new items on the list of unseble items, including the military grain pill, the Xingjun tent, alchemical fire oil, etc. military resources. If the lord wanted to get such items, he had no choice but to smuggle them.


    Such a setting was because the lords have all gone through half a year in the game and they wouldn''t need to rely so much on the market anymore. Thus there was no need for the market to be like a babysitter.


    The change in the market at the right time was also a test for lords.


    (4) Regarding the ry setting: yers sending items including letters had to do so through the ry. The distance between rys, the weight, and size of the item and the value would all be taken into ount to determine the price.


    This meant that the ry would take over the pigeon letters for yers to send information. If one wanted to talk, they could either use the channel or send the letter through the ry.


    Removing pigeon letters was basically to prevent spies from spreading information on the battlefield. At the current moment, yers could use the national channel, alliance channel and guild channel.


    The method that Ouyang Shuo used previously to send the item to Song Jia had been banned, and if he wanted to do so, even with gold, he had to go through the ry.


    The settings of the ry made use of this basic building from the grade 2 town. It also set a restriction on packages to prevent yers from sending items anywhere, at anytime, and also to preventing trolls.


    (5): With regards to time: All things in the game, like nts and animals, would follow real time, and the increased growth speed from before had been canceled.


    This change was to increase the realism of the game further. For example, the wild pigs and cows that Shanhai City reared, which needed 3 months originally now needed half a year or even a full year.


    (6) Regarding military settings, one is the adjustment to soldier ranks, officially adding rank 10-12 ranks above elite soldier, as an elite war soldier. The second was the change in military forces and to increase the specialty of the force. Divisions and above could undergo training, and upon seeding, the division would obtain their own specialty.


    After advancing the soldier rank, elite soldiers now had two choices: either change ss to a basic general or continue to be elite war soldiers, addingbat power to the military.


    Each had their pros, and it depended on the lord to choose.


    These new settings increased the choices in military y and increased many possibilities.


    (7) With free regards to the free mode setting, the items that yers design had to be recognized by the system and given stats. If not, they wouldn''t have any use.


    (8): Regarding the lord’s rank: Above Duke rank, there were new ranks, from prince to emperor. When one reached prince, he could build his country and be called a king. The requirement of a prince was 2 million merit points, double that of a duke.


    As for the game updates, it was just the 8 above. What kind of effects they would bring about, only time would tell.


    Apart from the system update, Gaia also published an article on how to differentiate between authentic and fake secret manuals. Without thinking, the prices of the authentic secret manuals would rise dramatically. Ouyang Shuo wanted to know how much money he would be able to earn from the 120 gold secret manuals that he had umted.


    Ouyang Shuo went out of the forums, the moment he got back into the game, a system notification appeared in his ear.


    “System notification: Half a year has passed, and many heroes have appeared. The territory leaderboard, guild leaderboard and celebrity leaderboard have officially been opened.”


    “System notification: Half a year has passed, and many heroes have appeared. The territory leaderboard, guild….”


    “System notification: Half a year has passed, and many heroes have appeared…..”


    The 3 most powerful rankings had been officially opened, Ouyang Shuo opened them and checked them one by one.


    Firstly was the territory rankings, an important ranking for the lord yers.


    Ranking- Territory


    1st- Shanhai City (Qiyue Wuyi)


    2nd- Pill Sun City (Chun Shenjun)


    3rd- Fallen Phoenix City (Feng Qiuhuang)


    4th- Blood Red City (Zhan Lang)


    5th- Consonance City (Bai Hua)


    6th- Swordsman City (Feng Qingyang)


    7th- Handan City (Di Chen)


    Note: The rankings only took note of those of rank city and above, those of simr grade were split by who upgraded first


    Ranking - Guild


    1st- Blood Evil Mercenary Group (Blood Romance)


    2nd- Snow-war Rose mercenary Group (War Rose)


    3rd- Jianqi Zongheng (Yijian Xi)


    4th- 18 Horsemen of Yanyun (Yanzi Lisan)


    5th- Jin Yi Wei (Xiuchun Knife)


    6th- Liuguang Pavillion (Jun Yo)


    7th- Thread (Qing Sikou)


    8th- Qingfeng Pavillion (Moon Shines Over The River)


    9th- Tingyu Floor (Jianqi Leiyin)


    10th- Laojun Temple (Priest Qingniu)


    Out of the 10 mercenary groups, only Blood Evil Mercenary Group and the War Rose Mercenary Group were the strongest while the rest were pretty bnced.


    Jianqi Zongheng mainly epted pdins, 18 Horsemen of Yanyun mainly epted generals, Jin Yi Wei primarily epted runners, Liuguang Pavillion primarily epted healers, and Laojun Temple primarily epted priests.


    Qingfeng Pavillion and Tingyu Floor mainly epted spies and did intelligence work.


    The Thread was the most special as they mainly took in work upation yers. They were the most different but could still get to the 7th spot, from that one could see how strong they were.


    Ouyang Shuo also knew that Qingfeng Pavillion was the guild for Consonance Studio, and the guild leader Moon Shines Over The River was Bai Hua’s brother.


    Yijian Xi and Jianqi Leiyin were originally a couple, but after they had quarrels, they broke up and built their separate guilds in Earth Online.


    Jianqi Leiyin was furious, and as such he changed his ID, treating Jianqi Zongheng as his enemy.