Chapter 707 - 706: Donation
Soon, everyone stepped forward one by one to complete their donations.
Although both the ’Community Construction Fund’ and the ’Community Special Fund’ can be counted toward unlocking new items, their significance is different.
This is because the ’Community Special Fund’ is merely for adjusting the visa time players carry, and theoretically, players can freely withdraw from it.
Some players, such as Shen Bowen, have a substantial amount of visa time themselves, but most of it is just deposited in the ’Community Special Fund’, which does not significantly contribute to the community’s construction.
Only the donation ranking of the ’Community Construction Fund’ can be considered as a player’s contribution to the community.
Therefore, what everyone is checking at the moment is the ranking of the ’Community Construction Fund’.
[1. Lu Bingjun: 870,000]
[2. Lin Sizhi: 420,000]
[3. Ye Lin: 310,000]
[4. Qin Cheng: 130,000]
[5. Yao Yuan: 90,000]
[6. Huang Shengjie: 80,000]
[7. Zhou Wanlin: 70,000]
[8. Shen Bowen: 60,000]
[9. Zheng Chunhua: 50,000]
[10. He Qinyun: 50,000]
[11. Zhang Yan: 50,000]
[12. Wen Wan: 40,000]
[13. Geng Yuxia: 30,000]
[14. Lu Qi: 30,000]
After ’One Word Breaks the Prison’, Lu Bingjun donated all his earnings, and he still leads far ahead on this ranking.
However, he did not participate in subsequent games, so he temporarily has no new visa time to donate.
Ye Lin had earnings from the Jury Game and donated an additional approximately 80,000.
Lin Sizhi earned quite a lot in ’One Word Breaks the Prison’ and the Jury Game, so there was no need for him to keep too much visa time in the open, and he donated all of it, overtaking Ye Lin to reach second place.
Besides, the proceeds from both the ’Prison Factory’ and the Jury Game were generally high, so players who participated in these two games also earned a lot of visa time.
Qin Cheng and Huang Shengjie donated a little more, while Zhang Yan and Lu Qi donated less.
Apart from this, some players donated more visa time than they actually earned during this period.
For example, Zhou Wanlin and Shen Bowen.
They only participated in ’Prison Factory’. After deducting the fixed visa time consumption for one month, theoretically, they didn’t have much visa time left to donate.
But they chose to withdraw some visa time from the ’Community Special Fund’ (deposit section) and donate, to ensure that the numbers behind their names wouldn’t appear too low.
After Deng Xiao’s death, the visa time he had previously deposited into the community was still there, just not recorded.
Additionally, a large amount of visa time has been deposited into the ’Community Special Fund’.
So when adding up the full amounts of the two funds together, they have reached 1,780,000.
Lu Bingjun considered: "Judging from the previous amounts, unlocking a new item happens for every additional 300,000.
"Moreover, once we spend the fund on new items, it will take a long time to accumulate the fund back again.
"Since we’re just 20,000 short of the final tier, let’s gather another 20,000."
He and Yao Yuan each donated an additional 10,000 of visa time from what they carried and deposited it into the Community Construction Fund.
Afterward, three new items indeed appeared in the store.
[First Player Identity Card privileges 1 and 2, cooldown permanently reduced by 7 days.]
[Price: 150,000 minutes of visa time]
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[Discount Coupon]
[Consumable, automatically activates upon purchase, all items within the community and other expenses are priced at 80% for 7 days. Cooldown period of 30 days.]
[Price: 100,000 minutes of visa time]
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[First Player Identity Card privilege 4 unlocked]
[4. After a player holds the Identity Card for a continuous month, they can naturally gain 2,000 minutes of visa time per day. The timing begins upon purchasing the privilege, and if there is a change in holder, it will restart the timing.]
[Price: 120,000 minutes of visa time]
These three brand-new items are very appealing to all players.
Everyone is carefully reading the detailed descriptions of these items.
Lu Qi first noticed the item Discount Coupon.
"A discount coupon! And it’s 20% off?
"These three items combined total 370,000 minutes of visa time. If we apply the 20% discount, we can save 74,000!"
Qin Cheng shook his head: "You have to factor in the price of the discount coupon itself."
Lu Qi instantly realized they made a blunder: "Oh right, the coupon itself costs 100,000... If it only saves 70,000, then it’s a loss.
"But in that case, isn’t there no need for the coupon at all?
"We need to spend a total of 500,000 minutes of visa time for this coupon to be worthwhile.
"There’s not enough stuff to buy right now!"
Lu Bingjun paused for thought: "The Discount Coupon must be encouraging us to buy some important items together.
"Like the Immunity Coupon.
"The Immunity Coupon, First Player Identity Card, and its respective time reduction services are definitely worth it using one discount coupon.
"But we’ve just recently bought the Immunity Coupon."
Yao Yuan suggested: "Then it’s quite clear what we need to buy.
"We can save some relatively non-urgent special items for next time when we purchase the Immunity Coupon together.
"That way, we’ll surely meet the amount necessary to make the Discount Coupon pay off.
"For instance, reducing the cooldown time for privileges 1 and 2 of the First Player Identity Card is useful, seeing that we effectively used it during ’Prison Factory’.
"Just that it doesn’t provide great value for money.
"There’s no need to purchase it at the original price right now."
Wen Wan felt a bit disappointed: "Uh? So, we’ve gone through all this effort to unlock 3 new special items, but there isn’t a single one we can buy?"
Clearly having new special items but not buying anything does feel a bit incomplete.
Yao Yuan pondered for a while: "If we have to choose one to buy... then it would have to be the fourth privilege of the Identity Card.
"Although 2,000 minutes of visa time per day seems modest at first glance, it provides a highly stable return.
"It only takes 2 months to fully recover the cost.
"Moreover, we’re not buying the other items mainly because purchasing them at the original price isn’t worth it, and we want to save them for using with a Discount Coupon.
"But the situation with this item might be different.
"Its original price is 120,000, and you save 24,000 or 12 days using the discount coupon.
"In other words, we can roughly determine: if we estimate that we’ll consume the Immunity Coupon within 12 days and purchase another using the coupon, there’s no need to buy the fourth privilege now.
"Conversely, if we don’t use the Immunity Coupon within 12 days, then purchasing now remains justified, even potentially wiser."
Huang Shengjie scratched his head, feeling something seemed off.
"Wait, doesn’t it say? The timing begins only after purchasing the privilege.
"Though Brother Lu has held the First Player Identity Card for over a month, according to the rules, buying it now will still have the benefits start next month.
"We can’t calculate it based on 12 days then, can we?"
Yao Yuan explained: "Shengjie, you might be overthinking it.
"The exact timing for starting doesn’t affect this issue.
"Since purchasing this privilege one day earlier means starting the timing one day earlier and thus starting the benefits one day earlier.
"The visa time generated by the difference is fixed."
Huang Shengjie paused for a moment: "Oh, it seems that’s indeed the logic."