Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 189: Is Super High School That Simple?

Chapter 189: Chapter 189: Is Super High School That Simple?

Wang Dawei chatted with the barrage as he operated the game seriously.

"Our school’s key classes have to be strict, so let’s set the elimination rate to 50% initially."

"Oh, the maximum I can set it to is 30%, huh? Alright, then. Let it be 30%."

"Hey, you students of the airplane classes, don’t panic. Principal Wang will make sure you won’t be eliminated."

"Class 123 used to be the key class, but now Principal Wang has turned classes 1 to 5 all into key classes! The students who were at the back of class 123, please bear with us for a moment. You guys go to class 4 and 5 to make some space."

"Okay, next let’s move all these members of the Funeral of Love Family to the back of class 123."

"Ah, too bad this game doesn’t allow building walls, otherwise I would really build one inside the classroom to separate these Funeral of Love Family students from the other good students!"

"Bad habits are contagious, but there’s no helping it, this is just a temporary measure. You good students at the back, just endure it for now. After all, they’ll be gone after the next pop quiz."

The bottom elimination feature needed to work in conjunction with in-school tests, and after each exam, bottom elimination would be triggered based on these students’ test scores.

So, in the final stretch of time, Wang Dawei cranked up the frequency of tests to every two days!

After each test, you could see a bunch of flashy selective enrollment students from the previous key classes reduced in number, and other students from regular classes who were good at studying would automatically take their places.

Wang Dawei immediately started maneuvering, transferring those students who had picked up bad habits through excessive contact with the Funeral of Love Family to prevent the spread of these habits.

Afterward, new members of the Funeral of Love Family would take the vacated spots, followed by a pop quiz and triggering of the bottom elimination.

"Hey, this is actually working. Although our school’s numbers are dwindling, you can clearly feel that it’s on the rise!"

Soon, the honor roll for this year’s college entrance examination also came out.

Wang Dawei flipped through it and was overjoyed.

"Great! There’s actually one that made it to a 985 university! And it’s a student from our airplane class, too. Congratulations! See, I told you the airplane class has a good omen—it signifies soaring to the skies, taking off!"

"Too bad no one got into the TOP2. That’s a bit disappointing, but I believe with Principal Wang’s wise leadership, it’s only a matter of time."

"Let me check the undergraduate rate..."

"Not bad! A big improvement! Our Henggang Middle School can level up again!"

Wang Dawei suddenly felt like he had found the correct way to play this game.

After several rounds of bottom eliminations, the underperforming students had all been sent away, and the undergraduate rate along with the top university enrollment rate naturally soared!

Furthermore, with the influx of funds from selective enrollment students and the cafeteria price increase, Wang Dawei was able to hire more great teachers and give out bigger performance bonuses to incentivize them, so the progress of the good students was quite rapid.

With this give and take, he easily achieved the goals that previously seemed unreachable!

And as the school upgraded again, more new mechanisms similar to "selective enrollment students" were activated.

First was "Militarized Management" and "Strict Militarized Management," which allowed Wang Dawei to punish students with more severe measures while significantly reducing the loss of reputation points.

For example, if previously, a minor mistake by a student incurred a harsh punishment that would deduct 5 reputation points, now only 1 point would be deducted.

Even after implementing "Strict Militarized Management," reputation points could be left completely untouched, and students could be dismissed for just about any made-up reason!

Next was "Extreme Study," which removed all the chairs from the cafeteria, forcing students to eat standing up, but significantly shortening their mealtime.

Of course, these harsh measures might cause a significant drop in students’ Health value and mental well-being, and some might even jump off the building.

But that wasn’t a big problem for Wang Dawei. He simply installed iron bars on all the high floors.

"Students, if you’re feeling desperate, die anywhere you like, but please don’t die in the school. Principal Wang has been so good to you, don’t implicate him, okay?

"Especially those of you who study well, do you know what your irresponsible actions are doing? You’re bringing down Principal Wang’s college admission rate! You’re biting the hand that feeds you!"

"No matter how great our pressure is, can’t we wait until after the college entrance examination results are out before taking such steps?

"As for those of you who don’t study well, Principal Wang fully understands your eagerness to help improve the admission rate. But we still need to be mindful of the time and place, not in the school. If parents kick up a fuss, it will seriously reduce reputation points. There’s a debtor for every debt, and let’s be clear, Principal Wang is innocent."

Apart from this, as the school’s reputation points kept increasing, the enrollment list also grew longer, even allowing for selection!

This was fantastic news for Wang Dawei. Now he could further improve the quality of the student intake!

Of course, there are many skills in the game, and not just management-type skills, there are also many skills that can improve the students’ talents, enhance their Health value, improve their mental health, and so on.

But these skills basically also require a certain amount of money or time to implement, and they will occupy the opportunity to use other skills.

Wang Dawei clearly had no intention of upgrading these worthless skills.

The subsequent gameplay proceeded smoothly for Wang Dawei.

The enrollment rate and prestige of Henggang Middle School continued to rise, and the higher the prestige, the better the quality of the students. In this original model, even without doing anything, steady growth was achieved.

What Wang Dawei did the most was thank the audience for their gifts and then change the names of students and teachers to the IDs of these viewers.

Just like that, Henggang Middle School kept leveling up.

From a district key school, to a city key school, and then to a provincial key school...

Until finally, when Henggang Middle School truly became a super school, Wang Dawei even found it a bit dull.

"Hey, isn’t this a little too easy? This is the highest difficulty level?

"Such a disappointment!

"Let’s see, good, this time we have ten students from the aviation class who got into the TOP2! Congratulations, congratulations indeed!

"All this is clearly thanks to the students’ unrelenting efforts, let’s applaud the youth who struggle! Of course, Principal Wang also played a tiny, tiny role in this process.

"Back when I first came to Henggang, it was just an ordinary high school that even students with school choice did not want to attend. After many years of struggle by Principal Wang, Henggang has finally become a top high school in the country, providing society with a great number of talents every year, and also fulfilling the dreams of students, getting them into the universities of their choice!

"Ah, let’s keep it modest, modest, these are just some minor achievements not worth mentioning for Principal Wang."

Such shameless statements, of course, triggered unanimous condemnation from the audience.

"I’ve never seen such brazen shamelessness!"

"Are those your achievements? Isn’t that all thanks to the viewers directing you from the side, you puppet!"

"At the command of Director Gu, we will rise up immediately, overthrow Principal Wang, and elect Director Gu as the new principal!"

As a live streamer, Wang Dawei naturally had thick skin, and after ignoring these comments, he continued to start the next school year’s game while giving a brief summary of the gameplay.

Although he had essentially cleared the game by this point, there were still so many viewers sending gifts, so it would take another two or three school years to finish completely.

But having played up to this point, almost all gameplay mechanics had been experienced and the content had been mostly explored.

It could even be said that there wasn’t much content in the game to begin with, and it was the inspiration from the bullet comments that made Wang Dawei forcefully create some show effects.

Even so, it still couldn’t be considered a good game.

Thinking this, Wang Dawei said, "It’s about time to make a final verdict on this game, to sum it up in one sentence, I actually don’t recommend it!

"The gameplay is quite monotonous, and it can’t really be said to be fun; maybe it’s okay to watch a streamer play, but that’s just the entertainer’s own show effect and doesn’t have much to do with the actual content of the game.

"The biggest problem with this game is, as a simulation management game, it lacks any real freedom!

"Actually now that I think about it, isn’t there only one method to clear the game, the one I’m using right now? Attract more school-choice students, make money with a shady cafeteria, then pay high salaries to the teachers, strictly differentiate between key and regular classes, try to get rid of the poor students as much as possible to improve the enrollment rate and then deal with inspections from higher-ups—all while making concessions to the enrollment rate and prestige, and even the elimination of poor students is achieved through a bug...

"Eh?"

Midway through his speech, Wang Dawei suddenly stopped.

Because he suddenly realized something.

The gameplay indeed is quite monotonous, but... aren’t those real-life super high schools the same?

Unintentionally, Wang Dawei had walked the path that these super high schools had taken over ten or even dozens of years, and it was strikingly similar!

Wang Dawei suddenly had an epiphany: "So this is the underlying message of ’Henggang Middle School Simulation?!’

"No, this designer looks very amateur, he definitely didn’t think of these things beforehand.

"But as the saying goes, ’the best-laid plans often go awry,’ while making a rubbish game, he inadvertently achieved this profound satirical effect!"

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