Lin Sizhi considered for a moment and decided to abandon the design of this game.
Judging from the content of the game invitation, this time it’s another allocation game, which roughly aligns with the previously observed pattern.
However, compared to previous allocation games, this invitation explicitly states the death rule allowed to appear in extremely special situations, or a more stringent visa time penalty rule.
This means that even as an allocation game, the danger and difficulty are gradually increasing, with Walkway consciously raising the temperature.
But from the current situation, no matter how the temperature is increased, the risk of death and punishment must still be strictly controlled within a certain range, not reaching the level of screening games.
Allocation games are still the safest and highest-yield type.
For Lin Sizhi, he has already designed an allocation game "Prison Factory" before, and now wants to complete "Awakening Rules," the most important thing is to kill a high-value player or identify an Imitator.
Simply earning visa time is no longer meaningful for Lin Sizhi.
Although there is a death rule in this game, its restrictions are many, and it is difficult to selectively screen a specific high-value player.
In this situation, trying to target a high-value player through game mechanics and successfully kill them is far more difficult than other game types.
"Prison Factory" did lead to the death of Zhao Heng from Community 23, but that had a certain element of luck.
Moreover, Zhao Heng might not qualify as a truly high-value player, as other strong players might not make the same mistakes as he did.
Thus, Lin Sizhi decided to give up this opportunity and use the occasion to continue searching for and observing other Imitators.
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The next morning.
Qin Cheng stood in front of the vending machine, routinely checking the consignment situation of drugs and the special goods page, then fell into contemplation.
Ye Lin approached and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Qin Cheng explained, "The prices of drugs consigned from other communities have basically stabilized, generally maintaining about a 10% increase over the purchase price within the community.
"Type O drugs are generally priced around 550, and Type F drugs are relatively few, priced around 450.
"This price should not fluctuate significantly in the short term."
The stabilization of drug consignment prices indicates that the supply-demand relationship has roughly achieved balance.
The total demand of players needing to buy drugs from other communities is also limited.
These people must first get drugs from within the community, and only if there’s still a gap will they consider selecting cheaper options from drugs consigned by other communities.
Prices of drugs consigned by other communities are entirely self-determined, capable of being set at exorbitant rates or as low as 1-minute visa time.
Thus, the final price reflects the rough supply-demand relationship.
Ye Lin thought: "Hmm... this indicates that the communities truly controlling the drugs and those purchasing the ’Sales License’ should be even fewer than we estimated."
For communities that do not control drugs, the overall supply of drugs must be short, or else these consigned drugs wouldn’t sell.
The additional drug shortfall of these communities relies on those controlling drugs and purchasing the sales license to fill in.
If the final consignment drug prices fall below market price, it indicates more communities controlling drugs and purchasing the sales license than anticipated.
If far above market price, it indicates a shortfall, fewer communities controlling drugs and purchasing the sales license than anticipated.
Currently, this situation suggests that the drug supply and consumption of the 32 communities is roughly in balance.
This is slightly below Ye Lin’s earlier expectations.
Ye Lin pondered: "Up until now, communities wanting to consign drugs should have already purchased the ’Sales License’.
"Because once the consignment list appears, everyone will inevitably suspect it’s a function of some ’Special Goods’, likely unlocked through donating visa time.
"Communities with the ability to control drugs shouldn’t be too weak and should easily pool together these community funds.
"Since the communities selling and buying drugs have roughly been set, maybe we can estimate the number of communities selling drugs?"
Qin Cheng slightly shook his head: "It’s hard to estimate accurately.
"Because these communities may each have different drug control plans.
"Wanting to buy all drugs and control them is unrealistic, other communities likely implement similar ’Whitelist Systems’ to us, meaning some exemptions and some are bought.
"Each community’s situation differs, with varying exemption numbers, actually leading to different additional ’replenishment quotas’.
"Selling communities probably intentionally controlled drug supply, preventing excessive release that could overwhelm the market.
"We can almost consign our previously held drugs to recuperate, at the prices of 520 and 420."
Ye Lin nodded: "Hmm, you can decide on these matters yourself."
Qin Cheng opened the special goods interface again: "During the Discount Coupon period, all products can be purchased at 80% off, buying some special goods is definitely worthwhile.
"I’m thinking, maybe we could try boosting the community fund to 2.7 million and see the next special product."
Having decided, Qin Cheng returned to his room, bringing all previously controlled drugs in a medical box to the hall.
There were many, so he made two extra trips to move everything.
Under everyone’s witness, he counted these drugs again.
"These drugs were counted before ’One-Sided Story’. Total, there are 110 bottles of Type O, and 102 bottles of Type F drugs, purchased from the community for a total price of 95800 minutes of visa time.
"As for drugs after ’One-Sided Story’, we’ll temporarily not sell them, as they might be needed in the next game.
"These drugs will be sold at slightly below market price, and all visa time gained will be deposited into the community fund.
"Because matters related to drugs are crucial, I’d also like everyone to witness this."
The amount of drugs was considerably substantial, with over 200 bottles stacked high on the table.
Qin Cheng began to place these drugs in the vending machine, consigning in groups of 5.
Since consigned drugs must be unopened, there’s no need to unscrew open each bottle for inspection, as long as quantities match up and can be consigned, there is no issue.
There were a significant number of drugs, even consigned in groups of 5 bottles, it took a long time.
Once all were consigned, many drugs from earlier consignments had already been sold.