Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 521 - 504: If Our Roles Were Reversed

Chapter 521: Chapter 504: If Our Roles Were Reversed

"Oh? This game actually has this function?"

Li Wenhao was successful in filling the position and was able to start operating as the governor, both he and Urbanization were quite surprised.

After all, the officials had never mentioned the existence of such a mechanism before.

But at this moment, this mechanism indeed provided the best solution for the current mess.

"Then I’ll start construction now, let me know if you have any requests."

Li Wenhao began to take over the various unfinished industrial zones left by Mouth King.

It had to be said, people have very different ways of thinking, and since Mouth King liked to build haphazardly, many industrial zones were in a "good enough to run" state, which was quite difficult to sort out from scratch.

But this wasn’t too much for Li Wenhao, who was, after all, quite experienced.

First, for those unfinished construction zones left by Mouth King, Li Wenhao adopted three different approaches:

For areas with only a few buildings, demolish them if possible;

For ones that were half-built and troublesome to tear down, he corrected the planning as much as possible to straighten things out;

As for those that were already a tangled mess, he simply used them as a fixed resource production area without any further correction, to avoid wasting his own energy.

In addition to this, Li Wenhao chose to start anew, directly planning a new district in a resource-rich area far away and operating according to his own scheme.

He had just laid out a few production lines when Urbanization felt like his eyes lit up.

It was like rinsing your eyes with clear water; the whole person felt refreshed.

"Hey, bro, your production line construction is something special! Very neat and clear at a glance.

"An old player, right?"

Li Wenhao explained, "I’m new to this game too, but I’ve played similar games before."

Urbanization couldn’t help but admire, "No wonder, these production lines you’ve constructed are beautiful, and the data is calculated just right.

"Really awesome."

Clearly, Urbanization knew what he was looking at.

Although he couldn’t reach Li Wenhao’s level, he could still tell the good from the bad in production lines.

In the industrial area that Li Wenhao had newly built, various resources for mining and distribution were meticulously calculated, carried out exactly according to the resource ratios of the end products, and dynamically adjusted through means such as conveyor belt speeds, so that each conveyor belt was just about operating at full speed.

This avoided the situation where one conveyor belt was piled with materials while another was in short supply.

Of course, Li Wenhao hadn’t played the later content in the game either, and he wasn’t familiar with the specific resource ratios for many new products, so it wasn’t possible to always do it perfectly.

But during construction, he had a great understanding of leaving room for himself.

For example, if he needed to build a Manufacturing Machine at this moment, and this machine required three types of resources.

If Mouth King did it, he would generally let the conveyor belts of these three resources pass the Manufacturing Machine from any direction, possibly two on top, one below, or one on top, one below, and one to the left or right.

The Manufacturing Machine had four directions for intaking and outputting products, and depending on the level of the machine, there were three to five ports, so his method of building wasn’t wrong and could maintain normal operation.

However, once there was a need to increase output and a new Manufacturing Machine needed to be added here, things would become chaotic.

Mouth King would have to carve out a spot for a new Manufacturing Machine in his messy wiring.

But Li Wenhao would definitely not do it this way.

He would choose to have all three lines pass from one direction of the Manufacturing Machine and reserve enough length.

In this way, when a new Manufacturing Machine was needed, he just had to continue building down from the direction of the original Manufacturing Machine without needing to adjust the routes.

Planning might take some time, but once it was done, subsequent expansions would be very easy.

And the two construction methods could be distinctly seen.

Li Wenhao’s construction method was like drawing grids on a map, with buildings of various sizes scattered in order.

It was like well-planned city districts, or factory assembly lines, or even the patterns on a CPU.

This kind of beauty was universal, so Urbanization could see the level at a glance and sincerely appreciated it.

Then looking at those that Mouth King had previously built.

It could only be said to be... an eyesore!

Even busy watching Li Wenhao’s operations, he had for a moment forgotten to do his own duty as the leader.

"No worries, buddy, you don’t have to fuss over it, you can allocate the tech tree points however you want, you’re the leader, it’s up to you to decide these things."

Li Wenhao thought that Urbanization was hesitant about whether to continue limiting the governor’s power in tech allocations, to the point of forgetting to perform the routine operations of a leader, so he spoke up to remind him.

What he said was still based on his intentions.

Of course, to say that Li Wenhao didn’t mind his powers as governor being limited at all? That wouldn’t be the case either.

If the leader was an idiot and kept limiting him, he would definitely get irritated.

But overall, he wasn’t as easily upset as Mouth King.

Because Li Wenhao was confident in his own methods, he believed that doing his best as a governor and even further expanding his authority was the optimal solution for the overall interest.

And if the leader limited his power and it resulted in severe consequences, Li Wenhao felt he would have no regrets.

So it didn’t matter at all.

But Urbanization clearly hadn’t thought so.

"No problem, I think it’s totally unnecessary to invest in these tech points.

"After all, even if I did it myself, I definitely couldn’t build as well as you would.

"Just wing it, I’ll work hard to support you."

On the side of Urbanization, they had become unexpectedly cooperative.

Li Wenhao realized that their relationship had completely changed from that of Urbanization and Mouth King’s past interactions, and entered into a sort of positive loop.

When two players don’t trust each other, the Leader will devise ways to limit the Officer’s power, which in turn will further increase distrust.

But when two players start off with a relatively high level of trust in each other, they naturally need not invest resources into upgrading these tech points, since any conflicts can be resolved through discussion.

In such a positive cycle, trust would gradually strengthen.

Although Li Wenhao had taken over partway, he had already established a decent trust with Urbanization.

On one hand, it was because during his time as a spectator, Li Wenhao’s comments were quite rational and objective, and he somewhat stood on the side of Urbanization, which earned him favor.

On the other hand, it was because Li Wenhao truly was capable and had done a great job building.

As a result, Urbanization naturally felt a bit awkward pushing for those tech points.

The two of them were each responsible for their own areas and coordinated quite tacitly.

Though there were inevitably some disagreements and conflicts, Li Wenhao was rather easy to talk to, and he would offer his suggestions, so disagreements didn’t escalate.

Li Wenhao merely put forward his suggestions normally, and if Urbanization still disagreed, they would go with Urbanization’s ideas, since, after all, according to game mechanics, he was the Leader.

In this way, after around fifteen minutes of cooperation, Comet’s development truly bloomed.

It was then that a system notification popped up.

[ Mouth King has entered the room. ]

In the spectators’ player list, Mouth King’s ID appeared all at once.

Urbanization didn’t beat around the bush and started straight off with a question mark.

"?"

Mouth King stayed true to form and replied with a question mark as well.

"?"

However, the question marks from the two of them clearly carried different implications.

Urbanization’s question mark meant: What’s the meaning of running away without a word last time? You’ve got the nerve to come back?

On the battlefield, deserters are always more despicable than the defeated.

After all, the defeated can claim they were simply not capable, while deserters who abandon their teammates also carry the additional burden of low morality.

And Mouth King’s implication was: How is this game still going on??

Clearly, he had applied MOBA game mechanics to Star Plan.

Since it’s a two-player cooperative game, if a player runs away, there should be two outcomes.

One is that if there’s no reconnection within, say, three minutes, the game ends in defeat, followed by certain penalties for the deserter.

The other is to rematch with another player to complete the game.

However, the second option is less likely because most players don’t like to join games in progress; they prefer to start from the beginning.

So the matched player might also run, thus resulting in a vicious cycle.

But regardless, Mouth King thought that after being disconnected for so long, the game would have ended, right?

The moment he logged on, he should be able to start a fresh new game, right?

What shocked him, however, was that the game was still ongoing, except the Officer was now Li Wenhao.

And he, on the other hand, had become a spectator.

In his panic, Mouth King first searched the screen, then found the button to exit the room.

Thankfully, Star Plan was somewhat humane in this regard.

If the rule was set such that a player who leaves mid-game and logs back in is still locked into the ongoing game and cannot leave, then Mouth King would find himself in a very awkward position.

Actually, Lilith had considered this kind of setup at first, but ultimately abandoned it.

Because this method could only generate a small amount of negative feelings in the short term but was unsustainable. After all, players wouldn’t be forced just to stand by and watch; they would definitely quit the game again, or simply stop playing altogether.

Driving away a player just for a bit of negative emotion wasn’t worth it.

Seeing the exit button, Mouth King breathed a sigh of relief, instinctively wanting to click and leave.

But the next second, he changed his mind.

Why should I leave?

Now that I’m a spectator, doesn’t that mean I can freely offer commentary and stir up trouble?

I shouldn’t leave; this is my home court!

Hmph, if our roles were reversed, I’d show you what real cruelty is!

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