I Became a Commander in a Crappy SF Game.

Ch.80Feel the Weight of the Armband. (3)

by fnovelpia

This was my first time experiencing something like this, so I was extremely perplexed.

Of course, I wasn’t the only one feeling this way—other users in the gallery probably had similar reactions.

“What nonsense is this? Why stop in the middle of an update?”

“I know, right? This is the first time I’ve seen something like this too.”

Since this bizarre situation might be happening only to me, I decided to check my status window first rather than embarrass myself, just to make sure these bastards hadn’t messed something up again.

After about 10 minutes of searching through everything…

‘Good, I haven’t missed anything.’

Once I confirmed it wasn’t my fault, I immediately opened the chat window to start venting about the management team.

But as soon as I opened the chat, what I saw was…

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-[They’re good at kidnapping people, but why do they screw up updates?]

-[Waited a whole week just to get an extended maintenance lol]

-[Regular maintenance followed by extended maintenance lololol]

-[Wow, this is just perfect]

-[Hey management, what are you doing?]

-[It’s not like they’re taking down and bringing up servers, so what’s the problem? lol]

-[lolololololololol]

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“…Hmm.”

The chat was scrolling at a rate of dozens of messages per second.

Since it seemed I wasn’t the only one affected, I immediately opened the gallery window to check public opinion.

And sure enough, as the chat window showed…

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-[Regular maintenance lol Extended maintenance lol What’s next, emergency and temporary maintenance too? lol](65,235)

-[Like if you want to see the gallery burn](1,633)

-[The activity here is insane](8,721)

-[You will all burn](15,222)

-[Why did they stop the update? Buddha](34,115)

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It’s not like we’d been fighting in a large-scale battle for days on end.

With the announcement of an “event,” everyone had been holding back on combat, saving resources and fleets for days, resulting in a lull.

But our dopamine-addicted uncles apparently couldn’t handle this extended maintenance(?).

Even though there seemed no need to freak out like that…

A significant number of people were having meltdowns in the gallery, and the situation looked quite serious.

Of course, when I actually clicked on the posts to check…

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Title: The activity here is insane

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of a girl making a V sign with a burning house in the background]

Of course there’s nothing else to talk about but this

Comments:

-[Management you bastards why no update]

-[Ah these spamming bastards seriously;]

-[Management you bastards why no update]

-[You lunatics, stop it]

-[Damn notifications](Author)

-[Management you bastards why no update]

-[I’m getting notification bombed just for posting]

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‘…Are they idiots?’

It was enough to make me think that. Either they had too much time and mental energy to spare…

Or they were genuinely questionable individuals mindlessly spamming the gallery and posts.

“Commander, that Commander seems to have lost his mind.”

“Yeah, he’s definitely 100% lost it.”

While Jessica and I were having this brief conversation…

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Title: MUST READ) Warning to people posting in the gallery now!

Author: Arcadia

Content: [Authentication shot of the troublemaking clan]

Currently, some trolls are spamming comments on every post in the gallery

Don’t enable comments unless you want to get notification bombed, better to stay quiet until the moderators handle it

Comments:

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“So that’s what’s happening.”

“Everyone has too much time on their hands, with energy overflowing in strange ways.”

“You can say that again.”

I nodded at the post from the 4th-ranked user, then decided to close the gallery and get back to my regular tasks while waiting for the update.

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While Icarus and other users were stepping away from the gallery and returning to their “daily lives”…

The former “Villain Alliance,” which had gathered most of the trolls in the game under the motto of “free play” and had become the largest single clan…

At the command center of the current “Loki Clan”…

“Clan Leader, isn’t this enough gallery spamming?”

“Yes, just leave a few people to take the fall and tell the rest to withdraw.”

“Yes sir! Everyone heard that? Quickly withdraw and just have a few people tank as planned.”

“Aye.”

They were finishing up their “spamming operation” in the gallery and preparing to quietly withdraw.

Of course, such “troublemaking” was something frequently perpetrated by the many trolls affiliated with them.

As the 4th-ranked “Justice Clan” had pointed out, it would be fair to say they were just bored and decided to start fires.

But the members of the Loki Clan who were actually responsible for the troublemaking…

And the face of the clan leader “Betelgeuse” was filled with discontent, more than would be appropriate for their usual antics.

It wasn’t just dissatisfaction from not being able to cause enough chaos—there was even more irritation evident.

Perhaps from the perspective of users being notification-bombed in the gallery, they might demand to know what these bastards had to be so upset about.

Unfortunately, those users weren’t present here.

And at the same time… from their perspective, this kind of reaction was actually quite natural.

“Clan Leader, is this really right?”

“…”

“I mean, we gathered to enjoy ourselves freely and not be threatened by others… frankly speaking, we didn’t gather to become the management’s dogs.”

“That’s right! That’s right!”

“The Vice Clan Leader is right! Why should we do what they tell us to?”

Incredibly, their “gallery terrorism” operation wasn’t something they wanted to do from the beginning.

“Haa, shit… this is driving me crazy.”

As could be seen from the “message window” that Betelgeuse was looking at while holding her head at the command seat…

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Surprisingly, they had been acting on direct orders from the game’s “management” to manipulate community opinion.

Of course, they received compensation in the form of a now hard-to-obtain 10-pull gacha ticket and resources.

Nevertheless, Betelgeuse and most clan members felt the reward was woefully inadequate compared to being “forced” to do this.

“Tsk, they’d better not think about using us like this again, damn management.”

“That’s right!”

“That’s our Clan Leader, I believed in you!”

The clan’s command center continued to express their resentment toward the management team.

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