God's Imitator

Ye Lin’s attitude was firm: "I understand, but I still stick to this view.

"Our community currently has a number of new players. The good news is that Dr. Qin and Huang Shengjie have good talents and adapt quickly, but Lu Qi, as a new player, still needs to grow and be taken care of. If more new players come in, and several new players are selected into the game at the same time, it could lead to a collapse, causing serious casualties.

"Retaining this vacancy to look for a veteran player with some strength is a better choice.

"If a second vacancy appears in the community, then recruiting from the community will not be too late."

Yao Yuan looked at Lu Bingjun.

Lu Bingjun had been deep in thought and finally nodded: "Hmm, what Ye Lin said does make sense.

"So, let’s see what happens in the next game.

"After entering the second phase, we have gone through a screening game and a judgment game.

"According to the usual pattern of Walkway, the next one is likely to be a relatively safe allocation game, which is also the most suitable type of game for recruitment.

"So, let’s leave this vacancy until the next game.

"If the next game is indeed an allocation game, and we do find suitable players, then recruit them into the community; if we can’t find suitable candidates for various reasons, then after the next game, we can no longer leave the vacancy unfilled indefinitely, so recruit directly from the community.

"What do you all think?"

Most players nodded in agreement.

Ye Lin thought for a moment and also accepted this statement: "Okay."

Lu Bingjun looked around at everyone once more: "Alright, let’s end this discussion here.

"Although several topics didn’t reach a clear conclusion, I believe that the discussion itself is meaningful.

"Thank you all for your hard work, and take a good rest during this time."

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One day later, in the evening.

Lin Sizhi returned to his room and found a new invitation message on the computer screen.

[Hello, Lin Sizhi.]

[After two games, players and imitators should have a deeper understanding of the new rules in the second phase.]

[Now, Walkway extends a new design invitation to you:]

[Please design a game with the themes ’Strengthen Visa Time Redistribution’ and ’Community Confrontation.’]

[This allocation game still does not require all to participate, and as a designer, you can screen participating players through specific rules.]

[Please note: Staying as close as possible to the style and theme of this phase will greatly enhance the game’s score and selection probability.]

[This game does not have a bidding session; all imitators will have a fair chance to compete.]

[The game proposal is in the drawer of your desk.]

[The deadline is 8 PM three days later; you have 72 hours to complete the game design.]

[Walkway will evaluate all submitted proposals and adopt the one with the highest score to arrange the game venue.]

[Please make your choice.]

What surprised Lin Sizhi somewhat was that this game’s invitation did not have a bidding session, meaning that the imitators finally didn’t need to spend their own visa time to seize this opportunity.

However, upon second thought, this actually made sense.

From the current situation, Walkway has different rule changes for three different types of games concerning ’bidding’:

For ’screening games,’ Walkway’s attitude is to let imitators freely bid, with the highest bidder winning, but it allows imitators to use more extreme means to scrape visa time from players in the game to ensure that their high investment can pay off;

For ’judgment games,’ Walkway’s attitude is more like encouraging imitators to take revenge if they have grievances. The ultimate goal is to kill, and spending visa time is not a problem as long as this purpose can be achieved;

For ’allocation games,’ Walkway’s attitude is to leave a channel for imitators to earn based on their hard skills. As long as the game is designed well, they can still stand out and accumulate visa time, ensuring they won’t be unable to participate in auctions because they can’t save the first pot of gold.

According to the rules of the first phase, besides using 1 million minutes’ visa time to kill specific players, the visa time carried by imitators was more like a burden.

Nowhere to spend it, and it easily exposes them.

But obviously, that was only because at the beginning, Walkway deliberately relaxed the rules to ensure the growth of the imitators. Many imitators could maintain survival by occasionally earning some visa time even if they were lazy for a long time.

But in the second phase, the pressure on imitators to earn visa time suddenly increased, and the gap between imitators will be further widened due to the impact of these rules.

Judging from the content of the game invitation, this time the game has almost no restrictions and is very free.

Even the not-so-smart imitators can come up with decent designs by ’guessing the topic.’

Of course, for powerful imitators, the more free the design invitation, the more they can achieve specific goals through the game.

Lin Sizhi tapped on the table lightly, deep in thought.

He had repeatedly reviewed Wei Yinzhang’s drafts during his spare time, but most of them weren’t particularly complete designs; the highlights were still concentrated on specific prop imagery.

If the opportunity arose, he could also flexibly use certain elements in the game.

After consideration, Lin Sizhi wrote down four words on the proposal: ’Prison Factory.’

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Four days later, in the morning.

During this period, players in the community were still randomly selected to endure pain, but most players had barely adapted and tried to share it through rotation.

As for Huang Shengjie, although withdrawal-like pain still appeared frequently, the hardest period was considered over.

A broadcast notification appeared in the community hall announcing the start of the game.

[Good morning, players!]

[Walkway will open in one hour.]

[The name of this game is ’Prison Factory.’ The game’s goal is ’Strengthen Visa Time Redistribution’ and ’Community Confrontation.’]

[This time, the game will forcibly select 10 players from the community to participate, with two games, each involving 5 people.]

[The screening criteria are as follows:]

[1. Few game participations in the second phase;]

[2. Less visa time earned in the second phase;]

[3. Less participation in community discussions in the second phase.]

[Players meeting the above criteria will be prioritized.]

[The players forcibly participating from this community are: Qin Cheng, Yao Yuan, Wen Wan, Geng Yuxia, He Qinyun, Shen Bowen, Zheng Chunhua, Zhou Wanlin, Lu Qi, Huang Shengjie.]

[The above players are free to form 5-person teams to participate in the game.]

[Please all players prepare.]

Seeing the content on the big screen, the players couldn’t help but become chaotic.

Huang Shengjie, dumbfounded, confirmed the list on the big screen once more: "Wait, doesn’t this just happen to exclude the three core players in our community?!"