Ch.64Faction Sentiment (3)

Of course, that might just be my misunderstanding, and maybe we could already join factions.

Not a chance.

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<Global Announcement>

<Commanders, have you had a chance to experience the newly introduced factions?>

<Next week, we’ll be updating the game to allow you to join these factions directly.>

<Once you join a faction, leaving will be complicated and time-consuming, so please consider your choice carefully.>

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The global announcement from the administrators confirmed my suspicions.

Thanks to this, for about three days including today, the neutral players and solo users in the gallery mocked the faction partisans who had been spouting propaganda.

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-[All that hype for nothing lolololol](2)

-[These idiots are already running smear campaigns when we can’t even choose factions yet?](4)

-[Typical of Koreans, already trying to divide people](15)

-[The division is all your fault lololololololol](6)

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The neutral players(?) and solo users seemed to dominate the gallery with their mockery.

But exactly three days later…

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-[just Earth Federation](15)

-[SCREEEECH! SQUEEEEEAL!!](8)

-[Love peace, love country, love comrades](9)

-[Just trust and follow the Empress](22)

-[Let’s kill those Xenovia bastards and pirate trash, and reclaim humanity’s glory!](35)

-[Xenovia haters get lost lolololol](25)

-[It’s time for our daily Federation praise session](46)

-[Ugh, you bastards, stop posting so much](2)

-[SQUEEEEEAL](21)

-[Brought a well-done version of the Empress](251)

-[The one above is still rare, you idiot](45)

-[Dominating this universe is humanity’s natural right](56)

… … … … … …

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Not just the gallery.

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-[Why did you abandon your homeland?]

-[Welcome, Earth-lovers]

-[Earth Federation is the most perfect and greatest faction]

-[Sure, tiny hexagon]

-[If I choose Monster, can I add tentacles to female characters?]

-[You can’t just add them as you please, idiot]

-[Sex]

-[Just support pirates already]

-[Why are these idiots causing chaos here too?]

-[Why? Because… it’s fun]

-[GYAAAAARGH]

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The global chat was also flooded with slander and garbage posts, creating what looked like a small-scale but explicit political battlefield.

And seeing those monster enthusiasts, I started to wonder.

Was choosing the Monster faction a mistake? The thought kept creeping into my mind.

“Jessica, Jessica.”

“What is it?”

“Even though Griyanar gave me a logical explanation about why monsters are good, seeing these idiotic comments…”

“Ah… yes.”

“I’m starting to think that choosing the Monster faction might have been a mistake.”

“Hmmmm…”

Unlike the others who couldn’t see the community chat, Jessica was the only one who could view it with me.

She couldn’t deny my concerns, but it’s not like we had any better alternatives.

Wondering if we should have chosen something else, I quietly asked Griyanar, who was conducting biological experiments on the pirates, aliens, and monsters we had captured in the newly built biological research lab.

“I thought we already finished this discussion, Commander?”

“Ahem.”

“Besides, now that I’m obsessed with space monsters, why would I tell you about the advantages of other factions?”

“…You have a point.”

Faced with Griyanar’s factual assault—who was transplanting monster tentacles onto a bald pirate’s head as a hair loss treatment—I could only nod in agreement.

Thinking about it more, there was no need to be swayed by the gallery’s slander.

‘Who am I? A high-ranker shining at 3rd place, and the master of the Pirate Empress…!’

I already had one faction under my command(?), so why should I be influenced by those lowly beings who couldn’t even command a faction?

After coming to that conclusion, I decided to ignore the main gallery page filled with slander and instead spent the remaining time completing daily quests and thoroughly exploring the gallery wiki tab to enrich my knowledge, which was essentially at newbie level despite being called a veteran.

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And finally.

The day of the update that users, including myself, had been waiting for arrived.

…Actually, we should have been enjoying the update by now, but…

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<Extended Maintenance Notice>

<The update is currently taking longer than expected.>

<Estimated time remaining until maintenance completion: approximately 5 minutes>

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Surprisingly, after kidnapping and confining people’s minds, the operators or developers or whoever they were had messed up the update.

Users were voicing their complaints everywhere—in the gallery, chat rooms, and all other places.

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Title: Are you kidding me with this extended maintenance?

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Extended Maintenance Notice Screenshot]

This is truly legendary, for real

Comments:

-[So they can kidnap and confine over 100,000 people, but they can’t handle an update? lololol]

-[To be fair, programming can be difficult]

-[lolololololololol]

-[True]

-[lololol]

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But the outrage didn’t last long.

As soon as the notification that the update was finally complete appeared before the users’ eyes…

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-[Earth Federation awaits your enlistment](44)

-[Monster group just waiting for you](36)

-[Fun and exciting alien play with space elves](37)

-[Just trust in the Empress’s chest and thighs](29)

-[Why are pirate bastards only simping for the Empress?](6)

-[“Where are you going?” “Neutral country.”](5)

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Everyone switched gears immediately, as if nothing had happened.

They began a wild rush to bite, tear, taste, and enjoy the newly opened ‘Join Faction’ feature.

Of course, not all users rushed to join factions as soon as the update went live.

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Title: Wouldn’t it be better for newbies to wait and see?

Author: TunaCan

Content: [Official Image]

It’s not about anything else, but once you join a faction, it’s really troublesome to leave.

If you leave when your goodwill is only partially built, they might decide you used them and send fleets to your base.

There’s no disadvantage to joining late anyway, so wouldn’t it be better to wait and see what the scouts say before deciding?

Comments:

-[Oh]

-[This is true]

-[Honestly, this person is right. Newbies who don’t know better might get screwed if they only look at appearances or propaganda]

-[What’s this? First newbie hate posts, and now newbie lovers are appearing again?]

-˪[Those guys are notorious trolls, just ignore those idiots]

-˪[Oh really? Didn’t know that]

-[For things like this, you should always wait and see what the advance team reports]

-[If you jump in mindlessly, you’re screwed]

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Following a veteran player’s advice, surprisingly many users decided to wait and see how things developed.

I was one of them, of course.

This was because the four factions had the characteristic of randomly changing their ‘tendencies’ each season.

If you joined based solely on propaganda, you could end up deeply regretting it.

And finally, as reports from the “advance team” who went in first started appearing in the gallery…

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-[What the hell? Why are these bastards like this?](5)

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“Oops, here we go.”

I finally grabbed the popcorn I had set aside and started munching on it while browsing the gallery.