Monsters Are Coming

Primordial Altar.

Qi Sheng withdrew his gaze from the forum.

The emergence of the training mode was naturally with his tacit approval.

During this period, he also considered the issues of player growth.

Whether the training mode going live would affect the player development system was something he needed to assess.

After all, accumulating experience through real battles is a crucial part of the player faction’s development system.

If the training mode becomes too widespread, it may give rise to a group of players with superficial level strength but lacking real combat skills, "hollow" players.

This would severely affect their performance in future peak battlefields.

For this reason, he had the Guidance evaluate the pros and cons.

Ultimately, it was found that the pros far outweigh the cons.

Guidance predicted the future trend of the training mode, revealing that for the vast majority of players, training mode is more about novelty.

Players who truly experience the growth through hunting and enjoy the thrill of battle become obsessed with the physical feedback from each successful hunt.

This refers to players absorbing the energy refined from supradimenional monsters.

This is also the core reason why the hunting gameplay consistently dominates the top of the playstyle popularity chart.

Players who have experienced this find it difficult to endure long-term relinquishment of bodily control to others.

Moreover, the sense of achievement from personally defeating monsters and enemies, even the sensation of brink-of-death breakthroughs, cannot be replaced by simply winning.

Training, in essence, resembles the "Backseat Driver" mode many players used before acquiring player qualifications.

The difference lies in watching other players grow versus watching their own account grow.

Thus, after experiencing the training gameplay, the vast majority of players return to themselves and do not adopt the training mode as their core development approach.

However, for many players responsible for the logistics domain, the training mode offers double-growth benefits.

For example, players mentioned on the forum who occasionally need to spend time and effort creating strategies, or those who serve as think tanks, akin to the Research Party players.

They are very suited to the training gameplay.

This allows them to concentrate more on their fields of interest, promoting the diversity of the player ecosystem.

The earnings produced from the training mode, he can also take a share through taxation.

Furthermore, in the future prediction model provided by Guidance, the Soul Clan’s training gameplay offers players a "high-order combat tutorial" perspective.

Players undergoing training can observe the combat styles of the Soul Clan, the application of Life Soul Characteristics, and even the timing accuracy, allowing players to intuitively learn many practical combat skills.

This is far more efficient than fumbling through on their own.

Many personal combinations of the Star Vein System can be indirectly optimized for players through real combat performance by Soul Clan members.

Comprehensive assessment shows the benefits outweighing the drawbacks.

This is also why he could approve the "Soul Contract" plugin going live.

Now, as this model officially enters the operational stage, he would closely monitor its subsequent development.

And his next plan is to initiate the first guild competition for the player faction.

Large-scale events will inevitably consume players’ time and energy, to some extent affecting overall sacrificial power tax revenue.

Therefore, he decisively abandoned the lengthy round-robin system in favor of a more ruthless and efficient "single-elimination format".

This means no resurrection match chances, only random BO1 duels, winners advance, losers exit.

The competition’s rules resemble the Ancient God Arena.

And his choice to hold this event is naturally not for entertainment and spectacle.

The core significance lies in forcing all participating teams to confront various factional tactics through high-intensity and randomness opposition.

To directly understand the tactical characteristics of one’s team and the opponent’s team, laying the foundation for war in the future "peak competition" amongst heroes.

Moreover, taking into consideration "honor" as a drive, players engage in battle system optimization and innovation.

Just like rankings in many games.

Ordinary players do not care, yet it is the focal point of top-tier player contention.

What he needs is an all-encompassing Player Corps, with Warband combinations and tactics keeping up with the times, eliminating any stagnant tactical thinking.

Only ever-evolving warbands can make it to the end.

This fundamentally serves as a war examination, capable of graduating the player faction’s war capability to a new level.

This event will open registration to guilds, with guild teams vying for the ultimate crown.

For this, he has prepared substantial ranking rewards.

The most outstanding War Corps should receive commendation.

Having clarified his intentions and with the event functions already constructed in advance, he released an update announcement to all players:

[Challenger Tips (All Channel): The game is about to undergo an update, upon completion a special event will be launched: Peak of the Stars (First Edition)]:

Peak of the Stars (First Edition):

Event Introduction: As the galaxy turns, whispers of power, the true strong will eventually hear the call of the stars.

𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

The Peak of the Stars competition is about to commence, a path paved exclusively for heroes to ascend to godhood.

Here, you will engage with the strongest player warbands of our time, glimpsing the true essence of power in extreme confrontations.

Does your guild have the edge to tear through all obstacles?

Is your team capable of the tacit understanding to trust each other’s backs?

Can your will ignite in dire situations, illuminating the thorny path to victory?

Tread upon the Peak of the Stars, prove with indisputable strength: Who has the right to be crowned among the player heroes, to have their Warband’s name turn into the brightest star in the night sky, etched into history.