Chapter 8

Translated by Seraphic

Loop 25

●Day 1●

Well, let’s begin posting again.

The plan is as follows.

Last time it was proven that posting other works in advance could increase the points received by the primary work.

Therefore, I’ll post other works until the 50th day to build up a following.

Then, I’ll use 300 days to post the primary work.

Starting off, I’ll post twice daily to increase visibility.

When posting once daily, the decrease in rate that I gain points is greater than the increase.

Updating once a day averages a 700 point increase.

Twice a day averages 1000 points.

Missing a day, it becomes around 200 points.

Basically, posting twice a day gives 300 more points and missing a day gives 400 less points.[1]

Of course, these aren’t going to be exact numbers for any given date.

It just helps as a rule of thumb.

I’ve got about 400 chapters in stock to use.

There are 300 days to spread them out.

For the first hundred days, I’ll post two chapters daily.

Then, I’ll post once day for 200 days after that.

When I’ve finished the manuscript, I’ll use the monthly loop to go back and post the next scenario.

After testing scenarios 1, 2, and 3, I’ll post the one that garnered the most points.

Of course, all of the scenarios should be able to take cumulative first place.

At the very least, they’ll get more points than last time.

The target is of course 350,000 points.

That was the cumulative first place as of the 365th day.

Last time I reached 210,000 using 272 chapters starting around 70 days in.

Around 130 chapters and the completion boost will be added to this.

One hundred and thirty is about half of 272.

Half of 210,000 is about 100,000.

As the increase in points slows down as the story continues, the actual figure is likely 60 or 70 thousand.

However, the completion boost will definitely raise that figure, so 310,000 is still reasonable.

A figure of 300,000 is estimated.[2]

This is just a stone’s throw away from 350,000.

The remaining 50,000…

We’ll fill it up with Scenario 3 in the next loop.

[1] …..Maybe I missed something in translation, but I think that should have been 500. Numbers are kept as they are in the raws, though.

[2] The author uses a phrase here (大台に手が届く) which I thought sounded kind of like a stock trader.

[3] I’m fairly sure most readers would know what *Doki Doki* means, but it seems a little lax to leave it untranslated.

[4] I’ve transliterated it because it was in hiragana (as opposed to roman characters or katakana usually used for loanwords), but it should be noted that “Yuubaa” is itself probably a transliteration of “Uber”.

[5] Lys’ explanation at http://ebisutranslations.com/2017/10/08/syosetu-101/

[6] The phrase used is 一発逆転の作戦に出る. Context seems to suggest 一発逆転 (a sudden reversal of the situation) implies a “betrayal”, but I wasn’t certain so I didn’t want to translate it that way.

[7] A weird phrase is used here, 鯖読んで, which literally translates to “mackerel reading”. In Japanese, this is an idiomatic way of referring to a number that has been over- or understated. In my understanding of Japanese Wikipedia, this may have come from the days before refrigeration, when fish merchants farther inland would understate how long it had been since the fish was caught to give the impression that it would be fresher than it actually was; however, this is a disputed etymology.