[Server-wide announcement: The outpost has obtained a first-class "magnetic confinement plasma processing machine tool" with a durability of 99% and an industrial index of +100]
[Note 1: This machine tool can produce metal parts of any geometric shape. Now players can submit relevant drawings to the manager assistant, explain the purpose and obtain quotations and material requirements. Drawings can be drawn in the game or submitted through the official website personal page
Electronic file.]
[Note 2: The processing equipment can only change the geometry of the material, but not the properties of the material itself, and the cutting process will produce waste. If you want to process the steel ingot into a steel pipe, please preprocess it first and process it into a rod shape or approximately a rod shape.
If you want to process copper ingots into copper wire, please use a wire drawing machine to avoid occupying precious machine tool resources.】
【Note 3: The specification of the input processing material is limited to 1X1X1m, materials exceeding the specification cannot be processed.】
The announcement will be made at six o'clock in the evening.
This point happens to be the peak of players going online and offline.
Whether they are brick-carrying players who went to the northern towns to pick up trash, or hunters who were hunting in the Elm area, most of them returned to the operation camp.
Looking at the announcement that popped up on the VM, the faces of the young players all showed expressions of surprise.
“Magnetic confinement plasma machine tool?”
“Or CNC?”
“What the hell is this suture monster? Why have I never heard of it?”
“If you’ve heard of that genius, in reality, one minute can be regarded as ‘high constraint’ and ‘long pulse’. Do you understand what it means? Forget it, you don’t understand even after I say it.”
“Hey, these game makers are still so smart that they can brag without even making a draft!”
Although Chu Guang wanted to share this joy with them, the joys and sorrows of people are not the same.
Most players don’t know how hard-earned this machine tool is, and they are even less likely to know how many sacrifices those small players who cannot go online due to bugs have made for it.
They just thought that Boss Xia had another workbench. Now he could not only drill holes for weapons, but also inscribe weapons?
They are all redundant functions anyway!
Smarter little players think of the update to the Alpha0.8 version.
The industrial index of the outpost increased by 100 points from 150 points to 250 points...in other words, an increase of 250%?
Doesn’t that mean the weapon shop is going to be updated!?
Some young players who were more aggressive and happened to be at the outpost excitedly took the steel ingots and went to the manager's assistant to inquire about the price according to the instructions on the announcement.
Some wanted to make an axe, and some wanted to make the steel ingot into a rifle, but most of them left cursing in the end.
Why?
Because it’s simply not worth it!
The start-up fee for a machine tool is as high as 100 silver, and the processing quotation for an ax is as high as 100 silver, which adds up to 200 silver.
With this money, you can buy twenty axes! If you buy them wholesale from No. 81 Steel Factory, there may be some leftover.
As for the rifle, the price for processing a rifled barrel is 200 silver, and the player must provide rod-shaped steel.
If not, plasma heat welding is still required for operation, and the price will be doubled again.
With this money, it’s enough to buy two at the weapon store!
But think about it, an ordinary rifle cannot use such an advanced machine tool, and the cost is completely uneconomical.
At this time, inside the No. 81 Steel Plant.
Sitting on the small bench, [Ah, I need to go to the toilet], he touched his chin with one hand and held the steel ingot with the other, staring at it in deep thought for a long time before he choked out a sentence.
“I speculate that that machine tool should be used to make production tools!”
His good friend [Ward, who knows about athlete’s foot] rolled his eyes.
“You don’t have to say this! Use the tens of millions of CNC machine tools in the laboratory to mill seamless steel pipes, and you’ll be done with it if your boss hammers you or not.”
Brother Biusuo: "Uh... I feel like he will be so frightened that he will call the police and send me in."
Brother Levin: "The cost of using this machine tool is indeed a bit high. I feel that it is not prepared for individual players at all. The startup fee alone is 100 silver coins. Unless it is a company sponsored by a shelter, it is too expensive for ordinary self-employed people!
"
Brother Tousuo: "That's not necessarily the case. Brother Mosquito will definitely be enough!"
Brother Levin: "He won't say anything anymore. Anyone who looks at that guy will say he's going to be punished. By the way, how much money do we still have in our account?"
Brother Wusuo: "4,000 silver... The new guy came in and bought a lot of axes and arrowheads before. What? Are you going to share the dividend?"
Brother Levin: "What the heck! This little money is enough to divide a piece of wool. I plan to get a thermal punching machine. Those parts that couldn't be made before should be able to be processed by this machine tool. Once the holes are drilled,
With the machine, we can make seamless steel pipes!”
Brother Levin rolled his eyes: "Don't be awesome. We will be offline in a while. You go and upload the drawings. Let's make something simpler. I guess it won't be too expensive."
Brother Tousuo chuckled.
“Okay brother, this is exactly what I Bi She made!”
…
Just when Brother Levin and Brother Wusuo were discussing the big plan, discussing how to make the seamless steel pipe industry bigger and stronger and create brilliance in the wasteland, on the third floor of the nursing home not far away, Xiao Qi raised the camera to watch
He whispered to Chu Guang who was standing aside.
“Master, is the price you set a bit too expensive?”
Just now, at least a dozen people made inquiries, but when they heard that the activation fee was 100 silver coins, they were immediately frightened and turned around and left.
It costs 100 silver to turn on the phone. It’s a money grab!
Hearing Xiao Qi’s suggestion, Chu Guang didn’t take it seriously.
"It's not expensive at all, I even think it's cheap. They think it's expensive just because they don't understand the version deeply enough, which means they are not our target customers at all. If there is no threshold at all, God knows what kind of drawings they will come up with.
, do you want to use that thing to make a bunch of broken javelins and broken axes?"
Talk to Boss Xia about this kind of thing!
The two workbenches she has there, one DIY and one found, can both be used to do this.
Xiaoqi clicked the camera as if she understood something, as if she understood it, but she didn’t seem to understand it. From its point of view, if they are not allowed to be used to produce those things, wouldn’t it be enough to just stipulate that they are not allowed to be used?
Why do we have to go around in a circle and use "threshold" to limit it?
Chu Guang did not intend to explain to AI the purpose of doing this, or the difference between human behavior logic and AI algorithms.
How to say it?
Chu Guang does not object to players using some weird and bizarre ideas, but he needs to be restricted by the rules so that players can consider whether it is worth it before using their creativity.
As Xiaoqi said herself, this machine tool is not used to produce those crude gadgets at all.
Taking the AK47 he made previously as an example, 6 kilograms of steel were used to make a 3 kilogram workpiece, half of which was cut into strange-shaped steel scraps, and most likely could only be sent to the steelmaking plant for recycling.
In addition, there are also the electricity consumed and the inert gas naturally lost during use. These are visible costs, not to mention the invisible hidden costs.
The real purpose of this thing is to produce "tools for production", or to process some "high-tech value-added" high-precision equipment if materials are available.
The latter does not need to be considered for the time being, the former is the main goal at this stage.
Chu Guang planned to go step by step and first let his little players get a thermal punching machine to solve the problem of the barrel.
For the time being, we will not consider the complicated technologies of three-roll rolling and centering straightening. To simply produce seamless steel pipes, a punching machine is enough.
Whether it can be produced in batches, efficiently, and with guaranteed quality and quantity is a matter for later. You must first have the production capacity before you can think of ways to optimize it.
For a long time to come, seamless steel pipes will become the most important pillar industry of Vault 404.
As for the craftsmanship of the receiver.
Chu Guang hesitated for a while between milling the receiver and stamping the receiver, but finally chose the latter.
Although the milling casing is more modern and has higher precision, the disadvantages are also obvious, which is a waste of materials, high requirements on personnel and equipment, and even lower production efficiency.
For example, the AK47 he made with a machine tool before was strictly speaking a milled receiver. Even the barrel and the rifling in the barrel were cut with a single-atom knife.
The stamping case is different. In addition to the troublesome process of making molds, the entire production process has almost no technical content, and the efficiency of mass production is particularly high.
The only disadvantage is poor accuracy, but compared with its two advantages of cheapness and durability, this shortcoming cannot be regarded as a disadvantage at all, at most it can be regarded as a minor flaw.
After all, in the wasteland environment, the average combat distance is less than 100 meters. No matter how accurate the shooting is, it is not as fast and stable as the shooting.
Based on the stamping process, Chu Guang plans to simply imitate the AK receiver and design a 7mm caliber rifle.
Compared with the upper and lower receiver designs and seven-shoot locking design of the AR series rifles, the AK U-shaped receiver and two-shoot locking design are more than twice as difficult to produce. Once the mold is made, it can even be punched directly from a single piece of steel.
come out.
What is the concept of being able to punch out a whole piece of steel?
It can be mass-produced like ink paper under a printer, and can be used with a barrel and a solid wood stock, which perfectly meets the combat needs in the wasteland environment.
There is a reason why this thing sells well in the third world.
Especially in a place where human life is not valuable, the cheaper the gun, the better.
How wasteful it would be to die?
…
The next day.
There was a crowd of people at the door of the weapon store. Many young players came back from the operation camp last night, waiting for the weapon store to open.
Yawning Boss Xia has long been accustomed to this.
Opening the store door on time as usual, she took out the two samples that Chu Guang asked her to make yesterday and hung them on the semi-open window.
Those are two rifles made of solid wood and pure steel.
One of them has a compact layout. The butt and magazine are in the shape of a standard assault rifle. The top rail can be used to install a sight, and a grip can be installed under the barrel.
The other one has a significantly longer barrel and receiver, and the magazine embedded in the gun body only shows a triangular outline, which looks slightly wider.
What the two have in common is that they both have a rough appearance and majestic lines, and their appearance is very similar, just like good brothers coming down the assembly line. Not only are they similar in appearance, the names of the two guns are also very similar, long.
That one is called LD-47s, and the shorter one is called LD-47.
In addition, they have a very coquettish nickname——
Sickle!
“Damn it, the weapon shop really has new items today! Brother Fang is awesome!”
“I understand this! LD-47s should be snipers!”
“Got it! It’s 98K!”
“98k ghosts! It’s obviously a continuous attack!”
“Wait a minute, that short one...why does it look more and more like an AK to me?”
“Be confident and get rid of any doubts. This operator is lazy again and probably copied CF’s skin directly!”
The prices of both guns are very cheap. The long one costs 250 silver coins, and the short one costs 200 silver coins. They are actually only twice as expensive as the iron tube rifle!
As long as you are an old player now, who doesn’t have two hundred silver coins in your pocket? Especially in the battle with the legion, the basic income is 150 silver coins!
Many people are still hesitating, but Tails, who has quick eyes and quick hands, has already taken action.
“Boss lady! Give me a haircut! I want the long one for the tail! Give the short one to Si Si.”
Looking at the short-haired female player, Xia Yan yawned and muttered a few words.
“Samples, not for sale. If you want to buy, please wait two days.”
Hearing this unskilled and unstandardized Mandarin, the surrounding players were instantly stunned.
Holy shit?
The boss lady not only changed her legs, but also updated her voice pack!
Epic level enhancement!
Just when there was a commotion in front of the weapons store, the industrial area to the south was equally lively.
Many small life professional players who have registered as self-employed have just gone online and are about to get on the truck and go to the mobile camp to go to the market, when a bunch of orders pop up in the task bar of VM.
Among them, some require the production of wooden gun stocks, and some require the production of grips. It is not difficult, and it can even be said that it is enough to have hands.
Some things that are slightly more difficult include polishing lenses and making optical sights. The types can be said to be diverse.
These tasks have one thing in common, that is, the rewards are quite generous, and due to the update to the Alpha0.8 version, there is an additional 10% reward bonus for orders!
In addition, the first 100 orders of each product will receive additional contribution point rewards and regional reputation.
If I missed this, I’m still a human?!
With such a generous reward, many young players who focus on life and career were immediately excited. One by one they picked up their tools and went to work in their own small workshops, wishing they could weld their buttocks to the bench.
Of course, compared to those self-employed people who do manual work, the ones who are really happy are some "big producers" who invest in shelters.
Early in the morning, the No. 81 Steel Factory at the outpost received an exclusive order - [Produce 100 receivers and 100 barrels for the outpost]
This order has clear requirements for the material, specifications, dimensions and even processing accuracy of the product, making production very difficult.
But, that’s not important!
What’s important is that the wise manager of Shenwu not only offered a generous price of 4,000 silver coins, but also paid 50% of the order in advance as an advance payment.
The sudden "windfall" made Brother Shisuo and Brother Levin dizzy.
Although the money is placed in the business account, it is still money!
Stimulated by the order, the two people, who were still a little hesitant, took a deposit of 4,000 silver coins and a large amount of steel in the inventory without saying anything, and went to the manager's assistant to customize a large number of parts, ready to go to work and stamp the stamping parts.
The punching machine for the gun barrel and the stamping mold for making the receiver are completed.
In addition, the two of them also invested in the advance payment of 2,000 silver coins that they had just received, which was still warm, and used it to issue scavenging tasks and order raw materials needed for production.
Although there was not a penny left in the steel plant's account, the two of them didn't feel anything was wrong at all. Instead, they felt that the future was promising.
On the surface, in order to complete this order, not only did they not make any money, but they also used the money in their pockets.
But can we only look at the surface when looking at the problem?
Of course not!
The money spent did not disappear, but changed into a more advanced form and stayed with them forever.
With the punching machine and the mold for stamping the receiver, they will be able to complete more orders, further reduce the cost of production, further improve the efficiency, and the snowball will start rolling.
This wave is more than just a loss.
It’s like winning pot, isn’t it?
Coincidentally, as the major shareholder of the steel plant, the wise and powerful manager also feels the same way.
For Chu Guang, money or not is a trivial matter. The key is that such a wave of operations not only greatly increased the production capacity of the steel plant, but also reduced the logistical pressure on the outpost.
And all he paid was just a few thousand Happy Beans.
This wave probably can’t be considered a win at mahjong.
It should be said that it is a win-win situation!
After all, he won twice.
In addition to the gun itself, Chu Guang plans to assemble all the wooden butt, triangular bayonet, magazine drum, bipod, optical sight and other accessories.
In the future, just by selling accessories and bullets, you can recover a lot of silver coins, and you can even dump the excess production capacity to surrounding survivors, or even export it to Red River Town and Boulder City.
Chu Guang can be sure that as long as his weapons are sold cheaply enough, those mercenaries and caravan guards who cannot afford too expensive weapons will definitely love him to death.
“But... when that time comes, it will definitely not work to use game currency as currency.”
Although these game coins produced in the pre-war era have excellent production technology and have certain anti-counterfeiting capabilities, their shortcomings are also obvious, that is, their quantity is limited.
Players can use electronic currency, but those wastelanders will not admit invisible things, they don't even believe in paper money.
Furthermore, Chu Guang was not sure whether the merchant named Sun Shiqi had any tricks up his sleeve, such as secretly hiding a bag of coins without selling them to himself.
This kind of thing is not impossible.
Looking at the bustling outpost industrial zone that was once again bustling with activity, Chu Guang silently made up his mind.
“The second generation currency must be launched as soon as possible!”
This work must be completed before the end of winter.
Once winter is over, trade in the northern suburbs of Qingquan City will become active again. At that time, players will also usher in a more open, broader, and more challenging world.
At this moment, a familiar voice came from behind, pulling Chu Guang's thoughts from the distance back to the present.
The heavily armed Fang Chang nodded slightly and said respectfully: "Dear manager, we are ready. When will we set off?"
Standing up from the chair, Chu Guang grabbed the warhammer placed aside and hung it behind his back.