Chapter 67

"Hmm……"

Li Dong focused intently on the character on the screen, carefully maneuvering the spaceship into the docking position at the space station.

As an experienced player with a frigate-class spaceship, Li Dong was immediately given a significant role after joining the Free Badge, becoming a lieutenant with over a hundred subordinates.

This made him very satisfied. Compared to his previous solo adventures, joining an organization allowed him to deeply understand the power of a collective. The native creatures he once feared were all wiped out in coordinated attacks. Those who had robbed him were "punished" and forced to restart their accounts, which made Li Dong extremely proud.

However, the only downside of joining an organization was the loss of freedom. Everything had to be done according to the organization's upper management, and he could no longer explore at will. In this world, there are always trade-offs; there are no benefits without drawbacks. Li Dong had long understood this.

Moreover, Li Dong had already sensed that if he didn't join an organization now, he would become cannon fodder in future conflicts over resources. Scattered players would either be cannon fodder or be caught in the crossfire, with no real difference between the two.

After all, the entire star system currently explored has thirteen planets, and apart from the Blue Planet, none of the other planets are suitable for human habitation, allowing only small colonies to be established.

Many factions were drooling over the ownership of the Blue Planet.

"Jimo, have you heard? The Supreme Honor and we had a conflict in the Triangular Zone recently."

After enabling voice chat, characters could directly converse when they were close to each other. The player speaking to Li Dong was named "Sword and Sword," a player with a rank one level below his.

"A conflict? What happened?"

Li Dong hadn't been on the forums or social media recently, so he really didn't know what had happened.

"I heard it was over the Triangular Zone of Nymia. You know it's rich in rare minerals, an important source of special steel. It was originally a place where scattered players gathered to mine, but we, the Free Badge, took it over. We didn't expect the guys from Supreme Honor to be不服气 (unwilling to accept it) and come over, claiming it was theirs."

"Isn't that ridiculous? Whoever gets there first owns it. How can they claim it's theirs?"

"Sword and Sword" sounded very angry. From his young voice, Li Dong guessed this player was probably still in middle school.

These middle school students, why don't they study properly and play games instead?

Li Dong sighed inwardly and didn't continue the conversation with "Sword and Sword." "I have something to do, I'll leave first."

He controlled his character, turning left and right in the corridor, heading towards the central control room.

This space station was funded and built by the Free Badge, using over 500 players and spaceships, gathering a large amount of resources. It was constructed in just one day, costing over 15,000 credits. It could dock ten frigate-class spaceships and accommodate 1,500 players, making it a massive structure in the Blue Planet's synchronous orbit.

Seeing the Free Badge's grand gesture, other factions were not to be outdone and also raised funds to build their own space stations. Even the rich player from Supreme Honor, with a wave of his hand, spent a large amount of credits to build a colony base on the moon, gathering over 3,000 players to transport resources using spaceships, costing a total of over 205,000 credits. The sheer wealth of this player shocked all the other players.

Who else could spend over 200,000 RMB in one go in the game if not a rich person?

There were definitely many people who wanted to be friends with a rich person, and thus the power of Supreme Honor grew even more, becoming the strongest faction in the game.

Therefore, Li Dong was not optimistic about the conflict between the Free Badge and Supreme Honor. The Free Badge had many skilled players, but they couldn't withstand the overwhelming number of players from Supreme Honor.

"Endless Stars" is a very peculiar game. The official did not release any items to make things easier for players, so many things had to be built by the players themselves. Therefore, once a faction was established, both sides were wary of each other and dared not easily provoke conflict. Once a war started, if one side lost, their base would be destroyed, and even if all the players respawned, they would be left with nothing, unable to start over.

When Li Dong arrived at the central control room, he found that there were already dozens of player characters inside, all of whom had the same or higher ranks. The president of the Free Badge was sitting at the front.

The meeting was conducted via voice chat, and as long as everyone didn't speak at once, it was similar to a real-life conference call.

"Everyone is here, let's start the meeting."

The president, sitting in the leadership position, spoke first: "The topic of this meeting is about the Nymia Triangular Zone. I would like to hear everyone's opinions."

"Let's start a war and give those guys from Supreme Honor a good lesson. Otherwise, they'll get too arrogant."

One player suggested.

"No, that will only provoke a war from Supreme Honor. The resources of the Nymia region are not worth starting a war over."

"But if we don't teach them a lesson, how can we survive? The Free Badge's reputation will be ruined."

"Is reputation that important? Have you heard of enduring humiliation to achieve greater goals? Supreme Honor is the strongest faction now, and their leader has enough money to revive his subordinates. Can we afford to fight them?"

"Why don't we launch a surprise attack on their base without declaring war, completely destroying their foundation? That way, even if they respawn, they won't be a threat anymore."

The meeting immediately turned into a heated debate, with each player having their own opinion and not agreeing with each other.

The president, "Free Dragon Wing," remained silent, allowing the players to argue without intervening.

In reality, the core of the Free Badge, as a game studio, was always the eleven members of the studio. The other players in this high-level meeting were just resourceful and potential players that "Free Dragon Wing" had brought in to appease and democratize the organization.

What is a studio for? Of course, it's to make money.

"Endless Stars" had only been out for less than a week, but its potential was recognized by "Free Dragon Wing," who immediately joined the game and even invested over 100,000 RMB from the studio as initial development funds.

Therefore, "Free Dragon Wing" placed great importance on the rare minerals in the Nymia region. They had already investigated and found that, based on current trading situations on forums and social media, the value of these rare minerals exceeded 150,000 credits!

That's 150,000 RMB!

In the current value of explored mining areas on the Blue Planet, it ranks second.

This is still the current market price. Given the development of "Endless Stars," the number of players could exceed 300,000 in a month. This is not a joke; previously popular mobile games had installations exceeding ten million, and the mobile game market is a vast wealth area that has not been fully developed yet!

By then, with the increase in player numbers, the value of this mining area will double.

After all, the Blue Planet, as the only new player starting area, has a mining difficulty that is not on the same level as mining on outer space planets.

Not to mention the difficulty of mining on asteroids, the time and fuel costs for round trips are not small, and cannot compare to local mining.

"Free Dragon Wing" believed that the most cunning aspect of the game developers was the inclusion of specific ammunition and spaceship fuel, which can be traded. Unlike other games where spaceship fuel is infinite, the fuel in this game is so expensive that it is truly heartbreaking...

Even the manufacturing difficulty and price of various weapons are almost on par with reality.

Who could imagine that the cost of an ARP-1 ground-to-ground missile is 25 RMB?

The construction cost of a frigate-class spaceship is over 4,500 RMB?

Such high costs mean that even though the blueprints for frigate-class spaceships have appeared, only major factions have the capability to build them, while ordinary players can only sigh in admiration. Even the Free Badge has only managed to build two.

Therefore, this also means that players are very hesitant to use weapons. Watching an explosion on the screen is beautiful, but if the essence of that explosion is RMB, no one would laugh. (Request for support and recommendations, thank you for the support of the readers)

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