ctnovel Chapter 38 The Otherworldly Uncle
Chapter 38 The Otherworldly Uncle
"It seems the only option is to try and win over those players who love to create interesting content, and see if we can use some gimmick to lure them to Carlo Star on their own."
After pondering for a moment, Jiang Yong couldn't think of any way to quickly get the Arcadis Federation involved in the affairs of Carlo Star, so he decided to settle for second best and try to simply borrow the power of a few players.
Interstellar civilizations typically have well-thought-out and comprehensive plans when exploring unknown star systems. A surface civilization like Carlo isn't exactly a high-value target worth disrupting the original plan for. Therefore, even if a player were to spend a fortune to buy a spaceship, travel tens of thousands of light-years to find Carlo, and send data back, the Federation would simply consider it a lucky freak. They might grant that person some freedom of exploration, but wouldn't send a large-scale expedition.
Speaking of which, when the players first logged in on a large scale in the previous life, they did indeed do all sorts of inexplicable and bizarre things, leaving the Arcadis Federation bewildered for a while. They thought that there was a problem with their own synthetic human technology, causing the new batch of citizens to be mentally unstable. It was much later that they truly discovered that this group of people could be resurrected, could learn at high speed, could suddenly disappear (log in and out), and had their own internal mental network (forum), among other anomalies.
The reason why the players' anomalies were discovered so late is also related to the advanced nature of interstellar society. In advanced civilizations, resurrection, mind networks, and high-speed learning are not impossible. However, these are either common only in lower-level areas or require a considerable price. The players' behavior may not seem outrageous at first, but once the player group grows large enough, it is difficult to avoid attracting the attention of advanced civilizations.
In fact, by the late game, many civilizations had discovered that the characteristics and behavior patterns of the players were extremely similar to those of the "game players," which made life quite difficult for the players for a period of time. A wave of nihilism swept through interstellar society, and there were even large-scale conflicts between NPCs and player groups. But that's another story.
For Jiang Yong, players with full interstellar equipment and the ability to contact interstellar civilizations are like godsends, and he must do everything he can to win them over.
"So, regardless of how things proceed in the future, the top priority right now is to cultivate a good reputation and earn trust among the player base. What pretext should we use...?"
Jiang Yong buried his head in thought for a moment, then his eyes lit up.
"Got it!"
Once he had an idea, he immediately began registering an account. After thinking for a moment while staring at the "Please enter username" prompt, he decided not to use his previous life's ID, but to create a new one. Partly, he wanted to see if an ID truly represented "another version of himself," and partly, he wanted it to fit his current situation and the things he was about to do…
[Are you sure you want to use "Otherworldly Uncle" as your username?]
Looking at his newly created ID, Jiang Yong couldn't help but smile.
"confirm!"
I'm currently in another dimension, and I'm going to be an uncle later, so there's nothing wrong with that title.
[Hello, Uncle from Another Dimension, welcome to the official forum for "Star Age: Evolution"!]
As a notification flashed, the previously grayed-out buttons for posting, replying, and sending private messages suddenly lit up. Jiang Yong didn't waste any time either; he immediately posted a message the moment he created his account.
Title: Believe it or not, Evolution is launching next week!
The content is very short, just one sentence:
"My uncle works at a game company, and he said that the higher-ups have revealed that the game will officially launch on June 19th. Again, if you don't believe me, then forget it."
Since the game hasn't been released yet, there aren't many users posting on the forum, but the number of views is enormous. Jiang Yong's post was immediately flooded with replies.
"sofa."
"Holy crap, an uncle's faction has appeared!"
"Speaking of which, this is the most original format of the 'insider' story, right? I feel like not many people know it anymore."
"Who said that? Aren't the people who played World of Warcraft back in the day still the main force in online games?"
"How old is the old man upstairs?"
"One hundred and fifty-five, what's wrong?"
"...Speaking of which, isn't anyone going to discuss whether what the original poster said is true?"
"What do you mean 'really'? Every time there was a closed beta test a few years ago, a bunch of 'insiders' popped up, but in the end, they all turned out to be empty promises."
"But this time they even posted the specific date, so they must really be confident."
"Posting this on the official forum is like directly challenging the official stance; aren't they afraid of censorship?"
"By the way, the poster's ID looks familiar. It seems to be from a pretty popular anime from over a hundred years ago. I'll find some time to rewatch it."
"Laughing and patting the dog's head upstairs."
"Fifteen characters, fifteen characters, fifteen characters, fifteen characters..."
"[picture]"
"[Image], [Image], [Image]"
……
The number of replies to the post increased rapidly, and then inevitably veered towards spam and meme battles due to the lack of content for discussion. Jiang Yong felt relieved and wanted to shout to the sky that everything had come back.
There is little hostility on the internet in the 22nd century; people chat in a friendly manner.
There were quite a few posts discussing the issue seriously, but most people were dismissive. After all, there had been many people claiming to be insiders posting for clicks, but none of them had provided accurate information. However, Jiang Yong didn't care about any of that. When the game was actually released, these people would be shouting that he was a prophet again.
As for whether this direct confrontation with the authorities would invite sanctions, Jiang Yong had considered it, but ultimately concluded that it wouldn't be a big problem.
In his previous life, there were many people who leaked information on the official forums, and some even achieved certain results, but the official authorities never intervened. According to rumors he had heard, this was because the entire "Star Age: Evolution" project was actually operated by AI, with very few real people in the game company, and even fewer qualified to review updates. If there were a mole, it would be easy to find out with a little investigation.
In other words, even if his leaked post goes viral on the day the game launches, the official staff will only think that he's just a lucky guy trying to gain traffic. Moreover, "Uncle" is only a temporary identity that Jiang Yong uses to attract popularity in the early stages. After the game is officially launched, he still plans to focus on creating tutorials and strategy guides to avoid going too far and getting censored by the official team.
As for future strategy guides, Jiang Yong plans to wait until the game is officially launched and he has accumulated a following before posting them; there's not much point in posting them now.
"...One more week."
After browsing the forum for a while, Jiang Yong closed it and began to think about his next strategy.
The situation on Carlo Star was a matter of life and death for him, and he didn't intend to place all his hopes on the players. He realized that the things he had planned before the forum opened still needed to be done.