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Years and Changes (Part 1)

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Chapter 1

Years and Changes (Part 1)

After Liu Yifei and others successfully conquered the mine dungeon in the dwarf village, everyone in Plague City had a rare free time.

The dwarf tribe entrenched in the mountains far away from the dwarf village has not seen any movement. To be honest, this makes Liu Yifei feel quite strange.

Now that everyone is here, you should come over and say hello no matter what, right? Either fight or make peace, in short there must be an explanation. What is going on with hanging around like this?

There was even one time when Liu Yifei couldn't bear it any longer. Taking advantage of the dark night and high winds, he rode Gregory and hovered over the opponent's newly established stronghold for a while, trying to find out the opponent's true identity.

But what Liu Yifei didn't expect was that the system actually prompted "the other party's information is not visible."

This is really a heck of a situation~

Liu Yifei has never encountered this kind of thing. Even in a system city where a spiritual or even legendary city lord is in charge, as long as you have the ability to fly above people's heads and hover for a while, you can basically understand the situation in the territory.

What kind of state is this "invisibility"?

Liu Yifei went offline and called the game company to complain, but what he learned surprised him

The customer service staff actually told him that the system was preparing to be upgraded and that all matters could not be updated until the upgrade was completed.

upgrade???

The system is actually being upgraded???

What is this situation?

Liu Yifei, who didn't know what was going on, didn't tell anyone else about it, but kept it secretly in his mind. However, he had no intention of relaxing about various matters in the territory.

The comprehensive upgrades that can be seen everywhere in Plague City continue.

Even with the more than 100,000 laborers invested by His Majesty Toradere to help with the construction, the comprehensive construction and upgrading of the fifth-level city is still a big project.

In particular, Liu Yifei's original foundation is still too weak. Many buildings that should be built at level 4 are not in place for upgrading. Therefore, the territory is jumping directly from the three poles to the full level five state. Various processes are required.

You can imagine how complicated it is.

Liu Yifei does not need to worry about the construction of the territory. He is still only concerned about the accumulation of military strength in the territory.

"Heroes of Might and Magic OL" has always been a war game, and based on what he has seen and felt in the past two months, the game itself is obviously shifting from RPG to strategic war. This is reflected in the recent emergence of more and more player lords.

It can be felt that the game has reached a stage where player lords are gradually allowed to apply for permissions.

Of course, there are only so many villages and towns arranged by the system. If you want to seize a territory, you must be quick enough.

If you want to start from scratch and go to the wild to choose an address to build a small village after obtaining the authority of the lord, the difficulty is not high. For Liu Yifei, who has experienced monster sieges, the grand scene at that time is really fresh in his memory.

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In addition to the emergence of more and more small village and town-level territories, there is also news that some powerful players with huge cash investment have begun to try to develop their own small village and town-level territories to a higher level.

The most classic among them is naturally the "Monster Destroying City" incident involving "Migal" that Liu Yifei encountered when he went to the Elf Tribe.

Liu Yifei is really unkind. Not only did he watch the show from a distance, but he also took great pleasure in his misfortune and helped him shoot a lot of aerial videos.

From the top to bottom view of the video, you can have a very clear grasp of the entire situation.

Liu Yifei even uploaded this extremely exciting and exciting video to the forums of the Jingling Tribe and the Ghost Tribe afterwards, and then set it as a paid download video with a download limit of one United Coin per person.

, you are basically exposing other people’s scars and putting money into your own pocket.

Although more related videos were quickly posted on the forum, and most of them were free, the angles they chose were not as good as Liu Yifei's. Most of them were from the inside of the town looking out.

It's probably a video of the player responsible for the defense in the town committing suicide.

Although someone disrupted the situation, the videos Liu Yifei took still provided him with an income of hundreds of thousands of United coins. This is why Liu Yifei was not in a hurry to sell gold coins and equipment to make money.

Because Liu Yifei discovered more and more that with his knowledge and the large number of videos of great value accumulated in his hands, as long as he was willing to post these videos on the forum, if he dared not talk about them, he would get back more than a hundred

Ten thousand joint coins is still no problem at all.

It's just that these videos recorded by Liu Yifei contain more or less important information. As long as a person who is interested can do a little digging, it is not difficult to analyze what he wants from them. In addition, Liu Yifei has not been in short supply recently.

Money, so he failed to become a qualified video intelligence dealer.

Except for Michael's extremely tragic example of group destruction, all other town-level lords' attempts to upgrade to a first-level town were all in vain~

Obtaining the construction permit of a first-level town does not seem to be too difficult. As long as the player lord has a good favorability with the superior NPC city lord in his jurisdiction, and then makes more local contributions, he can successfully obtain this quota.

But how to convert this quota into real results has stumped a group of people~

Scan all the posts on the Eight Tribes Forum, and you will probably find more than thirty videos of "town upgrade failure". These were self-exploded by the brave "lords". As for the other secret videos that have not been exposed,

, and countless people fell in front of the huge monster.

Compared with the tragic collective failure of small town upgrades, a small number of village-level lords have successfully upgraded to town-level territories.

Based on the players' careful induction and summary, they finally found a bumpy road to success amidst countless failures:

First, the terrain of the territory must be good.

Village-level strongholds can only build very crude "fences" that are no different from fences.

You want to expect this thing to help you withstand the endless army of monsters. It is nonsense. Once your stronghold is in the open land of the plains, you can basically be sentenced to death~

The best situation is that there is water, mountains or other things on one or both sides of the territory to help you block the monsters, so that the player lord can concentrate his troops to deal with the other monsters.

Although there are usually corresponding monsters in the waters, they either cannot come ashore, or their strength will be greatly reduced after landing. In short, they are much easier to deal with than the beasts on land~

Second, be sure to carefully collect detailed information about the monsters around your territory.

Once a stronghold is confirmed and upgraded, the monsters' spawn points or "territory" will be invaded, so the monsters' attacks are almost endless.

However, the system will not refresh monsters located too far away. Generally, information on monsters within ten miles of the territory must be collected to facilitate targeted response measures.

At the same time, the lord also needs to master the effective tactics of boss-level units of this kind of monster.

Because based on actual experience, we know that when monsters siege a city, a boss will definitely be spawned, and often there will be more than one boss spawned. At least there will be a boss for each type of monster. If you can't find a way to fight among the luàn army,

If you kill the enemy boss, congratulations~

Because you will see the boss hiding shamelessly in the distance and constantly directing his subordinates to attack your territory. And if you encounter a boss who is not very good at commanding and only charges with brute force, then the situation may not be the same.

There is an improvement, because the defensive line deployed by the player is very likely to be easily torn down by the opponent.

Third, and the last and most important point is that if you want to ensure the success rate of territory upgrade, then invite as many people as possible to help.

The success of the city defense battle in Puni Village has a lot to do with the extremely powerful personal combat abilities of Liu Yifei and others, but it mainly lies in the field control ability of a super powerful boss.

If nothing else,

oThe durability and defensive power of the wall of bones that you summoned at that time are by no means comparable to that of the poor fence~

If the intensity of the monsters' attack on the defense line was one-tenth of the strength of the wall, the existence would have collapsed long ago...

But it’s not possible for every player lord to have it in their hands.

ol This type of super subordinate, even strictly speaking, there are almost no players who have recruited their own subordinates in the game~

After all, if you want to recruit subordinates, you must first become a lord of a party, and it is obviously difficult for a lord at the level of a small village or town to make powerful NPCs willing to become strong men who are loyal to them...

Without the help of a boss who can powerfully control the field, players can only use long-range strikes or build earth walls, traps, trenches, etc. outside the village to prevent monsters from causing premature damage to the village itself.

Any of these methods require a lot of manpower to complete the work.

It doesn’t matter how the player lord sends people to build a defense line at the beginning of the war. It’s just the defense personnel inside the territory. If you don’t stand up with three to five hundred people, you can’t even think about it.

This is just the upgrade of a small village to a small town. If a small town is upgraded to a small town...

Thousands of people may not be able to care enough

Of course, the last upgrade of Michael's territory was more complicated. It involved factions and interest groups, which made NPCs also take action against Michael. Under normal circumstances, this situation is not easy to trigger. Players have to

The most important thing to consider is the attack power of the monster itself.

Of course, no matter what kind of upgrade situation it is, the most ideal state is naturally success~

Once it fails, the broken defense line will no longer be able to resist the invasion of monsters. Because the monsters were severely enraged, their attack power at that time was also unprecedentedly high. It can be said that it is a typical situation where the hatred tank is full. If the player lord's little

Once the stronghold is destroyed, they will hardly choose to retreat.

In this way, once the territory upgrade fails, it almost means that all the wealth and previous efforts have been wasted. It also makes players more cautious to a large extent, and they do not dare to upgrade the territory casually. Even if they want to upgrade, they must

Spend a lot of time planning various things, but even so, there are still not many examples of villages being successfully upgraded to small towns~

While Liu Yifei was busy hoarding his internal strength, he was browsing various popular videos on the forum that he had ignored some time ago, and a large part of them always revolved around the theme of the year-end competition in the arena...

Half a year is an extremely important landmark moment for any game.

At the end of half a year, whether the game can achieve any amazing results, whether the online rate of the game can always maintain its peak, whether the game has any hot topics that can be talked about, and other factors will directly determine the game.

Operations in the next one or even two years

Fortunately, judging from the current good market response, the next year will be a prosperous year for "Heroes"

The year-end arena competition is an important official event. It is intended to continue to increase the popularity of the game. It is also used as a kind of feedback to give players a chance to enjoy PK, and to provide generous rewards to the winners in the PK.
To be continued...