Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 185: Can I Apply for the Position of Director of Academic Affairs? (Three more updates, requesting monthly passes!)

Chapter 185: Chapter 185: Can I Apply for the Position of Director of Academic Affairs? (Three more updates, requesting monthly passes!)

Wang Dawei quickly regretted his choice of difficulty level.

He shouldn’t have tried to show off by picking the highest difficulty. The quality of the student body is just too worrisome!

At the moment, two-thirds of the students in the school seemed hardly serious about their studies, with smokers, drinkers, fashionistas, and those with infectious bad traits...

And among them, many were repeat offenders!

The first time he discovered a student had dyed their hair, he just ordered them to cut it, but after a few days, he saw they had dyed it back! This time it was a haircut plus a reprimand, next time a haircut plus sending them home for reflection, but this guy was stubborn, and in a few days, the dye was back again!

Wang Dawei started to wonder whether he was just unlucky to come across such stubborn kids, or if there was some kind of BUG in the game.

Furthermore, as Wang Dawei delved deeper into the game, he found it was riddled with problems that severely impacted his gaming experience.

For instance, there was a "One-Click Course Scheduling" feature in the game that would automatically arrange teachers for classes according to the students’ schedules.

But once he actually used it, he realized it was totally useless!

After using One-Click Course Scheduling, some teachers were left with nothing to do, while others were worked to death. Moreover, there seemed to be no correlation between the teachers’ abilities and the students they taught, with poor teachers often being assigned to good classes.

Wang Dawei seriously suspected that the game’s "One-Click Course Scheduling" feature hadn’t been well-designed at all. It was just thrown together with a couple of irrelevant rules to deceive the players.

But Wang Dawei didn’t have much of a choice, after all, it’s called "One-Click Course Scheduling", not "One-Click Optimal Course Scheduling". You tell me, is it one-click or not, did it schedule classes or not?

Wang Dawei found that if he wanted to achieve optimal educational goals, he would have to check each student’s grades one by one, sort them into classes, then personally adjust the curriculum and designate teachers for each class.

Isn’t this just a scam?

If that’s the case, why even have this "One-Click Course Scheduling" feature? Is it just to intentionally infuriate the players?

And Wang Dawei’s idea of "advanced students leading the lagging ones" didn’t work at all.

He indeed mixed the good and poor students, hoping that the good students would help improve the academic performance of the poor ones. But unexpectedly, the poor students’ grades didn’t improve, and the good students’ grades instead regressed...

Soon after, the school ran into a budget shortfall!

Initially, the finances were barely manageable, but in order to improve student performance, he had to hire better teachers from outside, and these teachers demanded high base salaries to join.

In the game, the school’s finances came mainly from two sources: internal revenue and funding allocations from higher authorities.

And the funding from the higher authorities depended on the school’s college acceptance rate and reputation value.

Improving the college acceptance rate in the short term was impossible, so Wang Dawei could only look within the school.

He found only two ways to do this: either dock the staff’s salaries or raise the prices in the school’s store and cafeteria.

After wrestling with the decision, Wang Dawei raised the prices of everything and finally covered the financial shortfall.

But soon, higher authorities came for an inspection!

The cafeteria’s price hike was severely criticized, leading directly to a decrease in school reputation, and some of the funds were deducted, nearly causing Wang Dawei to spit blood on the spot.

Not only that, but whenever Wang Dawei wasn’t vigilant, these troublesome students would cause mischief, such as fighting, playing cards in the classroom, hiding in the bathrooms to smoke, and so on.

Wang Dawei had no time for anything else and was just glued to his screen catching these students.

Besides, many serious and nasty BUGs appeared in the game.

For example, you could set a class as a key class and then set an elimination rate, where the last few in the key class would be moved to the regular class, while top students from the regular class would automatically move up to the key class.

But even this feature had a BUG; the students eliminated from the key class didn’t appear in the regular class—they just mysteriously vanished!

Additionally, there were frequent glitches with artwork assets in the game, such as the tables and chairs in the cafeteria and the doors and windows of the classrooms often getting jumbled and changing into a completely different style.

Whether it was a mistake in resource allocation within the game or an overlay of different art assets, Wang Dawei couldn’t tell.

All in all, the more Wang Dawei played, the more he felt that something was off, and the more mentally exhausted he became!

The monotony of the content, the cumbersome operations, and the frequent BUGs gradually eroded Wang Dawei’s initial enthusiasm for the game.

At this point, he was starting to regret his choice. He might as well have listened to his audience and played the single-player "Ascension"!

Fortunately, time in the game passed quite quickly, and after half an hour, Wang Dawei finally experienced Henggang Middle School’s first college entrance examination.

Buses transported the students to other schools’ examination venues, and after some time of waiting, a list of honor appeared in the game interface.

"Alright, let’s take a look at the results of Principal Wang’s one-year struggle.

"Very good, just as Principal Wang expected, the goal was not achieved..."

The honor roll was sorted by grade from highest to lowest, and also marked the students’ names, classes, arts/science track, and admitted colleges.

Under Principal Wang’s leadership, the highest score among the first graduating class of Henggang Middle School was 538 in the liberal arts, enough to get into Magic Capital Commercial College, a second-tier university.

Of course, in reality, different provinces have different systems, and many no longer follow the arts/science track but use more complicated models, like "3+1+2." However, the game developers seemingly took the lazy route and stuck with the traditional arts/science segregation.

This page also displayed the overall college admission rate for this year’s national college entrance exam.

[TOP2 University Admissions: 0]

[First-tier University Admission Rate: 0%]

[Undergraduate Admission Rate: 39%]

[School Reputation for This Academic Year: 874]

To upgrade to a district-level key high school, the undergraduate admission rate had to reach 50%, and the school’s reputation had to hit 1000 points. Clearly, they were far from these benchmarks.

Wang Dawei felt helpless; he hadn’t anticipated failing to achieve even the first goal of the game!

So what was he even talking about?

If he couldn’t make it to a district key high school, how would he ever achieve city key status, let alone become a super high school?

The problem was, Wang Dawei didn’t think there was anything wrong with his approach!

He had been seriously tackling discipline issues, ensuring that misbehaving students received the most fitting punishment after a trial by a panel of three teachers.

Moreover, he tried as much as possible to have the better-performing students influence those who were struggling, and squeezed as much funding as he could to hire excellent teachers...

But no matter what he did, the resources were always tight—simply inadequate!

A good chef can’t cook without rice!

A monotonous gameplay, incredibly high difficulty, tedious operations, and frequent strange bugs... all these rapidly drained Wang Dawei’s enjoyment of the game.

Of course, Wang Dawei also thought that this might be because he stubbornly chose the highest difficulty.

If he had opted for the lowest difficulty, where the quality of student intake was high and education funds were abundant, achieving the undergraduate admission rate and corresponding reputation score would certainly have been much easier—it might even have been possible to develop some TOP2 students with a bit of luck.

But then again, wouldn’t that be just fooling himself? It seemed to lack any real fun as well.

Thinking this, Wang Dawei had no choice but to apologize to his viewers.

"Sorry, guys, I originally thought this game would be quite fun, but now I was wrong; the developers simply don’t know how to make a simulation game, completely wasting the theme!

"Forget it, I’m going back to play ’Ascension.’

"But before that, I’m going to request a refund! Even though the game only cost six yuan, I’d rather throw that money away than give it to such an unscrupulous game company!

"By the way, I haven’t really looked into which company developed this game."

Wang Dawei returned to the game details page on the official platform and then looked at the developer of the game.

"emmm... Hell Frontline? Why does that name sound so familiar?"

He clicked on the company’s portfolio, and almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

"Damn it! ’Hell Inferior Demon’! Isn’t that the famous cyber debate game?

"No wonder, this company has a terrible track record! If I had known that ’Henggang Middle School Simulation’ was developed by them, I would never have played it!"

Wang Dawei exclaimed that he had been duped, feeling like someone who entered a dry latrine without holding his breath and ended up taking a deep breath by mistake—his guts were turning green with regret!

Enough said, it’s time for a one-stop unsubscribe and refund!

However, just as Wang Dawei was about to give up, a paid comment suddenly appeared in the live stream.

"Principal Wang, can I apply for the position of Head of Academic Affairs?"

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