The Chamber of Commerce's horse and carriage team came twice more, bringing in addition to the supplies directly exchanged for subsidies, there was also goodwill from the association. And this goodwill came from the forum where the number of registrations has increased significantly recently. Just look at the increase.
The discussion area covers almost all the departments of the Xijia District branch, and also includes the training academy to which the branch belongs, which is where master and apprentice Lin originally stayed.
For apprentices, the training academy is like a boarding school; for formal magicians, it is like the dormitory of a manpower dispatch company. The facilities are complete, but you have to pay to use them; the materials are complete, but you have to pay for reading; the resources are sufficient, but
You have to pay if you want to use it. Although there are many ways to make money, the expenses are also high.
It can be said that in Xijia District, one of the four major divisions on the southwestern border of the mainland, where the largest number of magicians gather, the use of forums has begun to become popular and gradually expand outward. Just look at the magic tower that pops up from time to time.
With the name of the discussion section, you can know that the influence of the forum is indeed increasing.
At the association, the magic named 'Tripwood Forum Browser Technique' is priced at the iGiel that Lin once said. However, the magic stone used to copy the system must be provided by the magician who wants to buy it;
The paper documentation was directly converted into electronic files and placed in the 'Xijia District Branch Announcement' discussion area opened by the Magician Association. It is a discussion area that, like the 'Miscellaneous' discussion area, allows visitors to view it at will.
It can be said that in this way, the material cost is reduced to the minimum.
However, they would not take less of the commission that the association should take. For this reason, during a calm coding afternoon, the energy pool screen suddenly changed to an old face that took up the entire screen. Lin's heart almost stopped with fright.
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Looking at the expression of shock and daze, the old man in the mirror was also a little embarrassed. In order not to continue to be so embarrassed, he had to break the deadlock first and said: "Your Excellency Gabra Shulin Tripwood."
"Well, President Eaton." Lin hurriedly stood up and saluted. The person in the mirror in front of him was none other than the president of the Magician Association, Xijia District Branch, the great magician Chengguo Eaton. He came from the Eaton magic family and was a very powerful man.
He is a senior magician with a great background. Although he is not an extremely arrogant and annoying personality, he is definitely not an amiable old man.
And this magic that can use the mirror of the energy pool to appear and talk is called "Charles Calling". It is a super annoying and troublesome magical world video call system that has no phone ringtone and no choice of whether to answer the call. Lin
I couldn't stop complaining about this, and secretly made up my mind to create something like an instant message, which can be used for video messages, audio messages, and text, so that everyone can have a taste of the feeling of not being able to read back.
Theoretically, the status of the tower owner is equal to that of the president of the association. However, few people have the courage to stand up to this president who was very famous when he was young. That's why Lin let himself show off.
Although he looked respectful, he actually respected the other party. Although there was no deep relationship in the past, the Xijia branch under the leadership of President Eaton has many policies to take care of relatively weak magicians.
As with the apprentice group, Lin is also one of those who benefited.
Now that such a big shot was face to face with him, how could Lin not panic?
"Don't worry, Mr. Tripwood, I'm here to bring you good news." He comforted the new magician who was much younger than him. Chengguo Eaton also had a somewhat kind look on his face despite his advanced age.
Lin Gong gestured with his hands, and Chengguo Eaton continued: "The browser magic you handed over is very good. It can be said to be a pioneering work in terms of convenience, distance, and the amount of information contained."
"Thank you, President, for your compliments." Lin thanked him, but he didn't feel overwhelmed by it. Because when big people talk to you about these things, they usually follow them with a 'but'.
So I listened to Chengguo Eaton continue smoothly: "But now we encounter some small problems, that is, the association will charge some fees for managing this magic knowledge. The price you ordered is directly the smallest basic unit
, the association is doing nothing for nothing.”
"President, I once told the Great Magician Greenwen, and I also explained it in the attached letter, that the association can add necessary management fees to the price I set as the final price. But as long as you maintain
Judging from the price of iKiel, we know that you also understand that the real value of the forum lies in the number of users, not in how much money you get from selling this magic knowledge. Therefore, the price of iKiel, in addition to allowing magicians to have 'even if they don't have
"Using it is just a waste of igil, and it's such a harmless idea, so it can be used by ordinary apprentices to achieve the effect of promotion."
Seeing the old man nodding in approval of this idea, Lin continued: "So in terms of management expenses, I am willing to share half of the income as the cost of the association. What do you think of this?"
For an old man who just showed up and went straight to the topic, Lin briefly explained the ideas of the two parties, and then readily gave up half of the benefits. Chengguo Eaton nodded with satisfaction. At his status, although he is not familiar with the shopping mall
The bargaining behavior on the website is not extremely disgusting, but it doesn't have any good feelings either.
Negotiation is to directly reveal the bottom line, and the deal will be closed if it is close to the psychologically expected target; if it is too exaggerated, just shoot, there is no one-and-done. Furthermore, the original creator cannot do without the benefits of the spread of magic knowledge.
Because it will dampen the enthusiasm of other magicians and thus have a negative impact. In the long run and for the magicians as a whole, the gains outweigh the losses.
Now that the first problem was solved, Chengguo Eaton asked the second question: "For the domain name system and the web page system, I tried to build these two sets of magic on the president's exclusive energy pool. Although it seems to be successful,
But it cannot be enabled. And you have no relevant explanation in the documentation. Where might this problem occur?"
Just by listening, Lin knew the answer without even thinking about it. Because that was exactly the hole dug in the documentation that he had handed over before. Faced with the inquiry from his immediate boss, Lin began to explain the tree shape that the domain name system should have.
Structure. Each layer of servers only points to the server of the upper layer and manages its own legally authorized domain name.
To put it bluntly, the Atoli Source Pool in the Tower of the Great Sage, as the first DNS server in the Lost World, naturally has the status of (dot). Other energy pools can only become sub-level servers and provide services to
.(dot) registration is required to have a legal domain name.
If anyone else wants to build the top-level server of .(dot), it will only create two independent networks that are difficult to connect to each other. If you want to communicate with each other, you have to go back to the original and memorize the complex and complex string of energy pools in each magic tower.
Long tag.
"Then can the domain name system with .(dot) authority be transferred to the association district headquarters?"
Faced with this good question, Lin of course boldly said yes. Even the data that already exists on the forum can be completely transplanted! The premise is that all users of the forum must suspend their use during the transplant operation, and this time
Not sure how long it will be.
In view of the fact that people in the Lost World do not know the limit of tolerance for "server under maintenance", Lin also expressed this level of doubts very straightforwardly.
Chengguo Eaton also admitted that when the forum is still in the promotion stage, it is unfavorable to have such a situation. If users lose confidence, they will have to spend more effort to recover.
In this regard, Lin took advantage of the situation and proposed the concept of ''. Simply put, it is to let the association district headquarters have a first-level DNS server, and other people who want to own domain names can just apply directly to the association. And the great sage
The .(dot) of the tower is only used as the starting point for website query.
Chengguo Eaton also agreed with this approach. In the final analysis, the association just hopes to have the space to manage all magicians. Just like the magic knowledge that the original creator has passed away, the association does not spread it for free. On the contrary, it formulates
The price becomes a method to control the breadth of the magic's circulation.
For knowledge that you don’t want too many people to know, or powerful attack magic, set the price a little higher to reduce the desire of some cash-strapped people to buy. For magic that you want every magician to be able to use, set the price a little higher.
Set a lower price and promote it vigorously, hoping that everyone will stuff a spell notebook. Ultimately, they hope to stuff the magic that is listed as a 'must learn' into the apprentice's third-ring textbook.
Of course, those fees have become one of the important sources of income for the association.
As long as the association has room for maneuver, Chenguo Eaton does not have to insist on a certain result. Besides, Lin's willingness to give up profits before was not a good reason to give in here.
For their own problems, they all got a good result. Chengguo Eaton said a few polite words and cut off the connection. Things returned to normal, and more than ten days later, such a scary scene happened again...
This time it is aimed at the Chamber of Commerce, which belongs to the Magicians Association.
The profit-seeking nature of businessmen makes them very sensitive to some newly emerging technologies. Not to mention that the forum can obtain information from various places as soon as possible--as long as there are informants in the local area--this is much faster than the eight hundred miles.
, flying pigeons to deliver messages, or finding a messenger to run a marathon is even faster.
In addition to business intelligence, if magicians, tower owners and other chambers of commerce in various places can trade and place orders on the forum, as long as they are combined with reasonable transportation routes, the trade volume will undoubtedly increase to another level.
It is a pity that in the forum, in the instructions before opening a new article, Lin clearly wrote three prohibitions. People who came into contact with the Internet for the first time in the world of Midi actually obeyed them obediently, at least they did not hear anything
What kind of accident happened? Lin couldn't help but sigh at the simple Internet culture.
The first prohibition is to prohibit writing full magic spells in the general article area; the second prohibition is to prohibit drawing magic circles in the general article area.
These two bans are for the same reason. You must know that the forum is based on the eight powers based on magic. In other words, this seemingly product of technology is actually something mysterious. If you write a curse in the article
It is not impossible to write or draw a magic circle, and other people will be washed by fireballs when they open the discussion thread.
Especially the basis for installing the browser system is either an energy pool or a magic stone, which itself is the source of magical energy.
Although the way text is encoded, the text does not directly represent its meaning. In other words, the encoding behind the text content displayed by the mantra on the forum may not necessarily produce the effect that the mantra should induce. But don't be afraid of it.
Wan, just in case, if it is just right, some unlucky person will be confused by the magic.
In order to deal with this possibility, Lin passively used article classifications. In addition to general articles, he also set up an additional category of magic articles to remind users who clicked on the discussion thread that the article content included spells, magic circles,
It may have an effect, please take protective measures yourself.
The third prohibition is against trading activities. All activities such as bartering, money for things, things for money, knowledge exchange, etc. are all prohibited. Regarding this ban, not only President Chengguo Eaton, but also many people use
Everyone was puzzled. It’s just that today, on behalf of everyone, the president asked it in front of the creator.
Lin only replied:
"I have no ability to guarantee the performance of the contract."