Before time travel, Dali started playing the game "Gods and Demons" a year after the game was launched. He was a casual player. At that time, he didn't know how to upgrade. What impressed him most was that there were so many NPCs in various towns, and he could find them at will.
You only need to talk to an NPC a few words to receive a mission. The mission experience is small, the rewards are small, and if you do too much, it will be boring.
At that time, the channels all over the world were full of dungeon leveling and team building, and the experience of repeatedly clearing dungeons was much faster than running tasks. Dali didn’t understand. Is the game company doing something unnecessary? Since there is
Without such an efficient upgrade method as grinding dungeons, who would bother to do tasks? It’s worth designing so many tasks for each NPC, and the system randomly generates tasks after the tasks are completed. Is it just to facilitate players to make money? In fact, tasks are not the best way to make money.
Best way.
Later, players discovered the reputation system. Doing tasks can improve reputation. However, killing monsters in dungeons or in the wild can also improve reputation, and the efficiency is still much faster than doing tasks and running errands. What's more, players discovered that some big cities have
At the quartermaster, just giving him some materials can increase your reputation like a rocket. For example, for the famous cloth quartermaster, if you first give him 1,000 pieces of wool, you will appreciate him, and if you give him 1,000 pieces of silk, you will respect him. For slightly rich players,
It's too easy to worship.
In short, in that era, the greatest value of tasks was to trigger chain tasks and hidden tasks. In terms of the understanding of players at that time, the reason why game companies designed so many tasks was to hide in the forest, and to prevent players from
It’s easy to find hidden tasks. This view was still recognized as correct until the eve of the big time travel.
And Dali has always doubted this point of view. Because in his mind, a great game company must have another deep meaning. During this time, when he was running errands, he clearly felt that it was different from that in his previous life.
In the previous life, when the Dali dungeon finished gaining reputation and returned to the city to buy supplies, the NPCs would only praise from a distance: "Did you see it? That's the rumored hero in this town. The monsters he once killed..."
But now, NPCs will greet Dali with a smile in person, say hello, have you eaten? The weather is nice and other annoying topics.
The former is awe, while the latter is indeed kindness - the difference in the attitude of the NPC towards you will determine the difference in the task you trigger! This is the iron law of task flow.
So this should be the reason that triggered today's plot. Can you get appreciation from the trainer no matter how many monsters you kill? Absolutely not. People who have gotten to this point have eaten more salt than players have eaten. Players
This achievement is nothing. If you think carefully about what the trainer said, the answer should be that being popular is really good!
In other words, the reputation gained by completing tasks is actually popularity, or popularity. This is fundamentally different from the reputation gained by killing monsters.
The reason why I was able to receive Paladin reputation missions at more than ten levels is probably because of my high popularity.
In order to verify this, Dali decided to carry out the task to the end. Of course, he seemed to have no other choice after being frustrated in his leveling strategy.
Now the fixed tasks of hundreds of NPCs in the town have been completed by Dali, but it doesn't matter, the system has a daily random task generation system, and NPCs will randomly generate a new task every day. In the previous life, Dali had no chance to try it. At that time, he was just
I was a casual player who followed the crowd. Later, after I lost my job and became a professional power leveler, I could only follow the strategy.
After Respect, the experience and reputation of the daily random tasks began to increase, and the difficulty also became greater. This was reflected in the fact that the scope of his errands was no longer limited to the town, but had extended to the countryside. Dali began to feel that it was difficult, and the NPCs in the countryside were
Very unfamiliar. Dali began to wonder if if things continued like this, the errands would be extended to other towns or even the city.
In the next few days, Dali will greet Fiona as soon as she goes online, but unfortunately there are still no tasks. According to her years of training experience, it is impossible for her to not have follow-up tasks, especially those involving reputation. Maybe her popularity and respect will lead to new tasks.
The task is released?
Fortunately, the speed of material acquisition suddenly exploded. Every day, the mailbox was full of all kinds of ores and gems sent from the auction house. Dali was both happy and surprised. What he was happy about was that he didn’t have to wait two or three months.
What’s surprising is that at this stage when the most advanced players are only level 35, how can there be so many mid-level materials on the market? Dali is considering whether to buy them at a reduced price.
On this day, after processing the mailed materials, Dali continued to do daily random tasks.
I casually ordered a little girl named Emily who had been looking around in front of her house. This child was characterized by her greedy and playful nature. The tasks given to Dali every day were just to buy some candies and some small toys for her brother, okay?
Well or something like that.
Today, the random system will arrange what she eats and plays with again?
Today, she squatted on the ground and buried her head in her knees without making a sound. Hey, hey, Dali tried to talk to her but she didn't reply. Could it be that she had a stomachache and wanted to take medicine today?
Dali said: "Emily, what's wrong? Do you have a stomachache? Brother bought you medicine? Talk, don't you recognize brother?"
After waiting for a long time, he still remained silent. Dali was a little impatient. He had to do hundreds of daily tasks every day. He didn't have time to spend time with the little brat, but he couldn't just leave abruptly. This would damage his image.
As a task stream, image is very important. So he made great efforts to advance before retreating: "Emily, are there any difficulties? Maybe brother, I can help."
He didn't say anything or raised his head, so he had no choice but to leave. He said as he walked: "If nothing happens, brother has no choice but to leave. What do you want to eat? Ah, brother will bring you a lollipop tomorrow. Goodbye..."
Just then, there was a cry from Emily behind her, huh? There's something going on! What task was triggered? Impossible, I've finished all her fixed tasks. How could I be stuck on random tasks for so long? Is it a hidden task?
Yes, a mission hidden so deeply can only be a hidden mission! Dali felt faintly excited.
Dali quickly turned around and squatted in front of her, touched her head, suppressed his excitement and asked gently: "Emily, if you have any difficulties, tell me, brother, I will definitely find a way to help you solve it."
The little girl raised her head suddenly, her face turned into a cat from crying: "Really?"
I guess this time I am interested in a more expensive toy. The toy only costs a few dollars? Dali said confidently: "Well, my brother is a paladin. Is there any paladin who can keep his word?"
The little girl lowered her head and said slowly: "I lost my mother's necklace..."
God! You can’t ask me to find things! What Dali hates the most is searching for things. It’s easy to ask him to find a dog or a cat. You can ask everywhere, but if the necklace is lost, try asking everywhere: “Have you seen Emily’s family?
Necklace? She lost her mother's necklace..." The answer is most likely: "What do you mean? Do you think I picked it up?" As a result, the favorability and reputation plummeted...
Such a tragedy.
Dali asked helplessly: "What does the necklace look like? Where was it lost? When was it lost?"
The little girl murmured: "I just don't know when or where I lost it. It looks like it, it looks like a white chain with three green beads, so big..." while talking, she gestured with her hands.
.
"What else? What else?" Dali was anxious, what he said was so abstract, how could he find Dali?
The little girl whispered: "No more..."
Dali is stupid. In the previous life, there were indeed many mission maniacs who specialized in finding hidden missions. They indeed triggered many hidden missions, but most of them were helpless. In their words: discovering hidden missions only requires perseverance and luck, but
Completing hidden missions really depends on wisdom, strength, and a lot of luck.
However, wisdom, strength, and luck have always been nothing to Dali.
At this time, the little girl sobbed in a low voice: "If my mother knew that I lost her necklace, she would definitely beat me to death! Brother, I must help me."
The clueless mission prompt made Dali confused and confused, so he could only say casually: "How could it be possible? The most mom can do is give her a spanking..."
The little girl cried: "Mom is a stepmother!"
Stepmother! Dali finally understood why this little girl asked strangers for candy and toys all day long. It turned out that the family lacked love. This problem was serious. If the little girl was beaten to death because of his own incompetence, his reputation would be ruined.
To what extent? But the problem is, I am really incompetent. I am really not capable of completing hidden tasks and so on!
There are many opportunities in life, but you have to know how to make trade-offs. Giving up on a task will result in a loss of reputation, and failing to complete it will result in a big loss, so it is better to give up. After struggling for a long time, Dali decided to give up. Only Nanyan said: "Emily, the information you provided is solid.
There are too few, I really can't help you find it, so, so, so -" The little girl's eyes became desperate, so hard that she couldn't bear to say it for a long time!
Suddenly, an idea flashed in Dali's mind. Three green beads and a white chain? A silver cat's eye necklace? A silver and green agate necklace? Really? It's not a particularly expensive thing anyway, why not make one to deal with her? God knows the mission items and jewelry.
It doesn’t matter whether the finished product looks the same or not. Even if the mission fails, I will still have a reputation for righteousness and I won’t lose a lot of points! Yes, that’s it!
So he hurriedly said: "So, I will help you make a new one, and your mother will definitely forgive you!"
Emily's desperate eyes became confused: "New?"
"Yes! It's new! I'll make it for you right away!" Dali took out a full set of tools and started work on site. Just in case, Dali decided to spend money to make a high-end silver-green agate necklace.
In Emily's curious eyes, a new necklace was completed. Dali handed the necklace to her: "Go back and give it to mom!"
Emily held up the necklace, her eyes became very, very weird, very indescribable.
Seeing Emily's strange expression, Dali asked guiltily: "Is there anything wrong with this?"
Emily was startled, her expression finally returned to normal, and she was a little at a loss and said: "This one is different from mom's one. Although it also has three green beads, it is larger..."
Dali said with shame: "It would be better if it were bigger. It means that my necklace is more advanced. It means saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. Your mother will definitely be happy and will forgive you. Okay, brother has something to do. Ming, see you tomorrow!"
"Brother, goodbye..."
There was no task completion, and there was no reminder of the task failure, so we just sent her away? Dali left in a hurry with a guilty conscience. Will he be able to see her again tomorrow? Dali felt guilty.