Ch.82Feel the Weight of the Armband. (5)

Anyway, due to the secret technique of the administrators who had drawn all four great demon swords.

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-[Mom I’m cold let me in]

-[Hey admin gays, hurry up and show us the awesome event details]

-[What the hell are they doing releasing updates like fanboys in a game that kidnapped and imprisoned people’s minds]

-[Dunno?]

-[Seriously weird]

-[Every time these bastards do something like this, I can’t tell if I’m actually kidnapped in a game or just playing while suffering from delusions]

-[These guys…?]

-[They act like death game administrators but behave like total fanboys]

-[How do they lose more dignity the further we go, seriously]

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While the gallery and chat were burning with such minor fanboy complaints.

The administrators, who had been dragging out the update while working hard on something.

Finally succeeded in posting a very clear announcement about what the new event would be.

And what was the content of the event in that announcement?

I only found out about it after a full ‘8 hours’ had passed since they said they would start the update…

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<General Announcement>

<<<New Event ‘Price of Goodwill’ Guide>>>

<As of now, all standard quests undertaken by Commanders, as well as quests given by each faction, will award Commanders with points upon completion.>

<Rankings will be determined in order of those who have accumulated the most points.>

<A special shop that can only be accessed with event points will be opened, offering premium characters and starships available exclusively there.>

<We ask for Commanders’ interest and participation.>

<<<Update Contents>>>

<‘Price of Goodwill’ event in progress>

<Opening of exclusive shop for ‘Goodwill Points’ earned through ‘Price of Goodwill’>

<Please note that depending on your ranking score in this event, some administrative privileges for the gallery may be transferred in the future.>

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“…Oh.”

Unlike the ‘Pirate Raid’ event, this seemed to follow the format of a proper game ‘event.’

I felt quite satisfied with that aspect.

However, separate from that satisfaction, I also felt that this event was rather cleverly designed.

After all, people who only cared about ‘benefits’ and nothing else.

That is, people who weren’t concerned with ‘rankings’ could get plenty of sweet rewards through the ‘exclusive shop’ mentioned there.

But for those who wanted to gain administrator privileges through rankings, or were just obsessed with the rankings themselves…

They would inevitably face significant limitations when it came to using the event’s exclusive shop.

Moreover, based on the announcements so far, they had only mentioned the top 10 rankings.

So users were occasionally wondering if only the top 10 would receive rewards.

‘That’s nonsense. As far as I remember, games still gave rewards even for lower rankings.’

Logically speaking, if only the top 10 got rewards and everyone else got nothing, who would care about rankings?

It’s just that compared to the top 10, the rewards would be less generous.

But naturally, the higher your ranking, the better your rewards would be.

Anyway, I felt that the purpose of this event was to make people choose: either give up event rewards to climb the rankings.

Or forget about rankings and just enjoy the sweet event rewards.

Thinking that most users would probably feel the same way.

I headed to the Biology Research Lab with Jessica to receive quests.

And at the same time, I quietly opened the gallery to see how others were reacting.

But when I actually opened the gallery, users’ reactions were a bit different from what I had expected.

Clicking on the ‘Event Analysis Post’ that first caught my eye on page 1 of the gallery.

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Title: Newbies Must Read) Newbies, let me tell you what’s important in this event

Author: Maximus

Content: [Event Notification Message]

The key point of this event is how many quests you can receive from your affiliated ‘factions’

And how quickly you can complete them

And the most important thing for that is the ‘trust’ system you can build with factions

If you’ve already built up trust diligently, you can take on and complete more quests to quickly earn points

If not… well, I don’t need to say more, right?

Enjoy the event everyone

Comments

-[Upvote for tips]

-[Thanks for the tips, especially with all those newbie-killing jerks running around lately]

-[Oh so trust is the important factor]

-[So people who properly built up both trust and strengthened their fleet will sweep up all the points?]

-˪[More precisely, not just fleet strengthening, but you also need to have properly trained at least 5 superhumans by now](Author)

-˪[Huh? Why’s that?]

-˪[Because faction quests are literally ‘requests’ to commanders, and sometimes they need superhumans instead of fleets](Author)

-˪[Ah I see, thanks]

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Since the tip post only talked about how to earn event points rather than climbing the rankings.

I momentarily wanted to ask how to handle the rankings, but…

As Jessica, who was reading the gallery while walking with me, said.

“Well, that Commander isn’t wrong. After all, most Commanders are either like you who disappeared and came back… or completely new arrivals.”

“…I see.”

Hearing Jessica’s words, I realized I had been thinking about it wrong from the start.

I felt glad that I hadn’t voiced my thoughts out loud and had kept them to myself.

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Anyway, as we walked while looking at the gallery, we soon arrived at the entrance to the Biology Research Lab.

Opening the automatic door (which was alive) with Griyanar’s uniquely bizarre and twisted aesthetic sense.

<<“You’ve come at just the right time, Commander Icarus.”>>

“Oh.”

Surprisingly, Oxianor, who usually stayed inside the neural network cum space cocoon beyond the wall of organic matter, was outside talking with Griyanar.

“What brings you out here? I’ve never seen you come out on your own before.”

<<“Well, actually, the Queen has conveyed some rather important information… through our neural network.”>>

“I’m quite curious what this is all about.”

<<“It’s nothing complicated. As intelligent terminals assigned to ‘Commanders’ affiliated with our faction… she wants us to conduct a sort of test on you all.”>>

“Hmm.”

<<“It’s nothing difficult, just a simple favor we’d like you to do for us.”>>

Hearing that, I realized this was because of the update the administrators had implemented.

I nodded at Oxianor’s telepathy and asked what they wanted me to do.

“Alright, so what do I need to do?”

<<“Well, first we’d like you to defeat another faction’s fleet nearby. It doesn’t matter which faction, just eliminate one of them.”>>

“That’s easy.”

Fortunately, perhaps because this was literally the ‘first’ monumental quest I was receiving.

The fact that I could complete it without any difficulty given my current forces.

I nodded and told Jessica beside me to immediately dispatch part of the fleet.

“Did you hear that, Jessica?”

“Yes, I’ll organize and deploy some ships right away.”

Then, turning away from Jessica, I decided to continue the conversation with our eyeball gentleman Oxianor, making somewhat exaggerated gestures.

“So, is there anything else? I feel like I could take on additional requests if you have any.”

<<“A truly admirable attitude. The Queen will certainly appreciate your friendly disposition.”>>