Huang Shengjie was a bit surprised: "Sold so quickly? I thought the consignment price of the drug was generally stable? I even thought the drugs in these communities were almost saturated."
Fu Yujun considered for a moment: "Hmm... Based on the current situation, the demand and supply for drugs are still quite dynamic, making it difficult to have a concept of ’real saturation.’
"Because players buying drugs can’t be sure whether the consignment price of the drugs will change in the future—it might fall below the cost price or it might increase.
"After all, these drugs are the result of long-term accumulation by drug-controlled communities, and it’s hard to say whether such a sufficient supply will exist in the future.
"So when they see relatively cheap drugs, they’ll still choose to buy them, even if they won’t need them in the short term, they can store some of them.
"Besides, this stability might not be maintained for long, as the demand for drugs among these players is gradually increasing.
"Once they start taking drugs, they’ll only take more and more afterward."
Qin Cheng glanced at the consignment situation of the drugs briefly, not waiting for all of them to be sold, as it was just a matter of time.
"Let’s calculate the total price of these drugs as 100,000; these need to be included in the community fund."
Before ’One-Sided Word,’ the community fund was 2,400,000.
Qin Cheng spent 50,000 to purchase a ’Drug Sales License,’ and another 100,000 to buy a ’Discount Coupon.’ The additional costs for gatherings can be ignored in terms of total amount.
In ’One-Sided Word,’ everyone’s profits were quite good, except for Fu Yujun who received 84,000 minutes of visa time.
30% of the total income was automatically included in the community fund, which was already a vast amount of 129,000.
Thus, after counting the revenue from drug sales, the community fund reached around 2,480,000.
Qin Cheng considered for a moment: "Once we reach 2,700,000, we can take a look at what’s the next special product, making shopping during the ’Discount Coupon’ period more cost-effective.
"Not necessarily useful, but no harm in checking.
"I’ll donate 100,000."
Qin Cheng didn’t think too much and quickly completed the operation.
Other players were somewhat surprised.
Because so far, Qin Cheng hadn’t reserved much visa time for himself.
He only ensured that the visa time he kept was sufficient to guarantee the normal operation of the ’Pain Exemption List,’ seemingly not planning to keep any excess. Each time donating to the community fund, his proportion was noticeably higher than other players.
Other players, regardless of the visa time they had, generally saved a majority for unforeseen circumstances.
Lin Sizhi said: "I’ll take care of the rest of the visa time."
He also stepped forward to add 100,000, bringing the total of the community fund to 2,700,000.
Qin Cheng’s action clearly had some anchoring effect: if he had just donated two or three thousand, then Lin Sizhi probably wouldn’t feel comfortable donating the rest, and they’d be far from the target of 2,700,000, putting pressure on other players to contribute as well.
In that case, it would feel like everyone was pitching in.
In the current situation, other players don’t have to struggle over whether or not to donate, thus removing any pressure.
Everyone turned their eyes to the details of new products on the vending machine.
[’First Player Identity Card’ 6th Special Privilege Unlocked]
[6. Players holding identity cards can select 4 players within the community, excluding themselves, to receive ’Profit Growth.’]
[Effect of ’Profit Growth’: When settling player earnings in the game, receive an additional ’10%.’]
[This list can be adjusted once a month.]
[Price: 80,000 minutes of visa time.]
Huang Shengjie was a bit surprised: "Huh? There’s actually something like this? It’s much more useful than the previous privileges, isn’t it?"
So far, the First Player Identity Card had already bound 6 special privileges, with the previous 5 being: reject one mandatory invitation, send suggestions, votes counted as 2, continuously gain visa time, view a specific vote.
Each of these privileges is useful on its own, but none have a decisive effect.
Currently, the most commonly used privilege seems to be ’Send Suggestions.’
But the 6th privilege is a real increase in profit, and a percentage increase at that, making it obviously more useful than the previous privileges.
Especially when compared to the 5th privilege, they have the same price, but the effect is vastly different.
Fu Yujun was also a bit surprised, quickly doing the calculations.
"Assuming we choose the four strongest players who can consistently earn about 50,000 in each game, and they rotate playing twice a month, then the extra profit from this privilege would be 40,000.
"The discounted price for this privilege is 64,000, so it could pay off in a little over a month."
Ye Lin nodded: "Yeah, and this is just a conservative estimate.
"This ’Profit Growth’ definitely needs to be given to the highest-earning players in the community.
"Ordinary players generally participate in a game once a month, but the stronger players in the community enter more frequently, with a normal frequency of once every two weeks, sometimes even consecutively.
"Also, 50,000 is just a relatively low expected profit; in some cases, they might directly earn 200,000 or even more from a game.
"In that case, 10% directly amounts to 20,000 minutes of visa time.
"From our previous earnings situation, this tool is absolutely worthwhile, let’s buy it."
Everyone else’s attitude was very consistent: definitely buy it.
Compared to the previously seen privileges, this one is incredibly cost-effective and valuable.
It’s still within the Discount Coupon’s effective period, so there’s no hesitation; Qin Cheng directly pressed the ’Purchase’ button.
But a line of prompt information appeared on the screen.
[’First Player Identity Card’ privilege activation cannot be skipped; please unlock the previous privilege first.]
Seeing this result, Qin Cheng didn’t seem too surprised, as they had already discussed this possibility beforehand, now just confirming it.
"Seems like we have no choice but to buy.
"Since there might be more privileges linked to the identity card. From the total product list, card privileges account for about 1/2 to 1/3.
"If we don’t buy the fifth privilege, it means all subsequent privileges can’t be bought, which is a loss.
"Unless we’ve decided not to increase the community fund or activate any new special products going forward."
Everyone nodded, agreeing with Qin Cheng’s statement.
"Let’s buy."
For a typical community, community fund accumulation might be slow, fluctuating up and down around a fixed value for a long time, avoiding this kind of dilemma.
But Community 2 is considered a high-revenue community, and the majority of players hope to continue accumulating more community funds and buying more products, so stopping here is unrealistic.