Chapter 171 The relationship between qualifications for closed beta testing and the power of faith
A dark sea of consciousness.
Standing in front of the stone monument, Luo Yan confirmed the refreshed data. The original 3,000 closed beta qualifications had become 3,100!
Not only that, the daily net increase in faith value is also fixed at the number 12001, which is close to an integer!
Combining the results of previous observations, Luo Yan probably figured out the rules and could draw preliminary conclusions from them.
…"After the daily net increase in faith value exceeds 10,000 points, for every 100 points of increase in this variable, 5 closed beta qualifications will be obtained!"
"The ratio is close to 20:1."
This is the conclusion Luo Yan reached through data comparison based on the changes in the increase in the power of faith in the past month.
What’s interesting is that the additional 2001 points of faith value increase are exactly provided by the new population of Beifeng City.
Different from other races.
The power of faith provided by human beings is the most stable. It is not like little devils and goblins that are affected by cohesion. It is also not like stone men, cave spiders, and frost beetles who cannot contribute much due to their low mental level and weak self-awareness.
At present, the permanent population of Beifeng City has reached just 500 people, and these 500 people go to the local temple to pray at least once every seven days.
There are also people who go there every day to seek spiritual comfort.
Considering that the gods in this world are the ones who can really perform miracles, believers who are still devout to Saint Sith will most likely not stay in the Demon King's territory, let alone pray to the Demon King.
Hence, these five hundred people can be counted as his believers by "rounding up".
It's just that considering that individual piety cannot be quantified and counted, there are differences in the mental levels of people of different ages, and factors such as personality may also become interference factors, so this statistical result will almost certainly have errors, but it is not a problem if it is only used as a reference.
Luo Yan made a bold guess based on the curve drawn. Under ideal conditions, the ratio of human believers to divine chosen ones in the necropolis should be around 5:1.
This is determined by the current distribution method of the power of faith in the necropolis. The overall strength of the chosen ones promoted by him is relatively weak, so the power of faith occupied is not too much.
As the overall strength of the players increases, the ratio of human believers to divine chosen ones may be diluted to 10:1, 15:1 or even lower.
This is like the appetite of a cake eater getting bigger and bigger, and the number of providers needed to support this person also increases.
After all, it is unrealistic to significantly improve the overall mental level and soul purity of a certain race. It is impossible for people to become elves overnight.
Hence, if the gods want to ensure the surplus of the power of faith, they often adopt two strategies. One is to control the overall strength of the chosen ones, and the other is to increase the number of believers.
The population of the Saint Sith Empire is close to saturation.
In the absence of huge changes in the society itself, population growth will weaken cohesion, thereby inhibiting the growth of the power of faith. Although the population decline will reduce the number of believers, it will in turn make the living people more united and indirectly increase their cohesion, thereby maintaining the power of faith unchanged.
Hence, as long as the population of the empire does not exceed or fall below a certain threshold, the power of faith gathered by Saint Sith can be maintained in a high range to meet the current expenditure on the power of faith.
From this perspective, increasing or decreasing the number of believers is not the optimal solution for the empire, maintaining the status quo is.
If major social changes do not occur, such as when the Isaac Dynasty tried to start the Industrial Revolution, the decisions of the emperor and the pope will tend to maintain the status quo and increase the internal mobility of vested interests through the cycle of birth, old age, illness and death, thereby "balancing" the overall strength of the chosen ones and reducing the occupation of the power of faith.
For example, a noble like Baron Gus lives in a pampered environment during peacetime. Although his soul level may be silver or higher, since he does not have to fight, he may not really develop his extraordinary power to the silver level until he grows old and dies.
After all, improving strength is a continuous and painful process, even for the martial Lion Kingdom.
And if it catches up with the war years and the regional war situation is tight, the noble master facing a survival crisis will naturally pick up weapons and armor... Even if he does not do this, his son or grandson will do so, thus indirectly completing the "mobilization" of the potential God's Chosen Ones in the region.
In order to prevent sudden accidents, the Saint Sith Church has also granted some special families "artifacts" that can quickly increase their strength and turn the tide on the battlefield.
For example, the "Light of Praise" passed down from generation to generation in the Campbell family.
These weapons themselves are legendary existences, embodying huge power of faith. They will not only bring huge abilities and growth bonuses to the users, but also improve the user's abilities to another level after use!
This system ensures efficient allocation of the power of faith, even at the cost of almost locking class mobility. Unless they have made great achievements, civilians will be civilians in this life, and they will be civilians in the next life. At most, they will be reborn in a rich family... and this is still a situation where they can afford to hire a priest and have the opportunity to be reincarnated and become a human being again.
If he died carelessly in a mass grave like Robert, there would be no chance of returning to the arms of Saint Sith and being reincarnated. These lonely ghosts with nowhere to go will at best become undead, and eventually disappear like weeds into the universe, making room for new weeds.
Hello, on the other hand, adopts a completely different strategy.
Due to the lack of resources, famine often breaks out in places outside the Demon City, the quality of the population is uneven, and the cohesion is even more difficult to describe. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the demons always fluctuates with the belief in the demon god, which indirectly makes it difficult for them to defeat humans and alliances of various races on the frontal battlefield.
However, precisely because of being at a disadvantage, Hell is more inclined to seek change. In the past thousand years, not only have three demon gods been changed, but the system has also evolved from the early feudal system to the "main god offline" system.
In addition, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the chosen ones, Hell will consciously extend the lifespan of high-level demons, at the expense of intra-class mobility, to improve the overall strength of the chosen ones, thereby making up for the huge gap between grassroots combat effectiveness and social productivity.
With the expansion of the power of faith, Hell will also try more actively to corrupt the vested interests of the empire and its tributary countries, intimidate the believers of Saint Sith, shake the cohesion of human society on the surface, and thereby rob the cake from Saint Sith.
The Necropolis is one of the hell camps and is located in the heart of the human world. The best strategy is to follow the old methods of hell and let its minions develop freely, and take advantage of the opportunity of Chaos to make trouble to poach Saint Sith.
However, due to a coincidence, Luo Yan had one more card in his hand that he could play that was not available in Hell.
That is to expand to the planet Kaa!
Osland’s cake has been almost divided by all forces. Even if he poached Saint Sith’s corner, he would still be picking up the leftovers from the demon god Bayali. If he wanted to open up the situation, he still had to set his sights on the "New Continent" N light-years away.
For the Necropolis and even the entire Osland, it is the real "incremental market", not the "stock market".
His faith value increase was able to exceed 10,000 points before, largely thanks to the outpost fortress deployed on the planet Kaa.
Humbling about this, Luo Yan's heart moved slightly, and he cast his eyes on Youyou floating in the sea of consciousness.
"If the number of believers decreases significantly, resulting in a decrease in the increment of the power of faith, will the upper limit of closed beta players also be reduced?"
He wanted to know if the power of faith was reduced, whether some closed beta players would be unable to enter the game.
If he can, he needs to figure out whether he can take the initiative to decide who can come online and who cannot come online, otherwise all the people who work will be unable to come online, and the only ones who can come online will be just guys who are trying to make ends meet.
But just when he was thinking this, Youyou's answer negated his concerns.
"It is unlikely that the number of closed beta players will decrease."
Luo Yan frowned slightly.
"Should?"
Yoyou replied in an ambiguous tone.
"Yuyou is not sure what the specific situation will be, but based on the principle of extraordinary power itself, although the number of players will not be reduced, the overall strength will be weakened, right? For example, the specific manifestation is that all players or NPCs who are promoted through you will receive DEBUFF, such as the extraordinary power is attenuated by 10% or 20%."
Hearing what Yoyo said, Luo Yan immediately understood what it meant.
This is actually similar to his previous guess. Under ideal circumstances, there is an optimal ratio between the number of believers and the chosen ones.
If the number of believers far exceeds that of the Chosen Ones, the Chosen Ones' power will not be directly affected, but they will only gain a larger growth limit. But if the number of believers is too low, it is equivalent to fewer people making cakes. As long as the appetite of the chosen ones remains unchanged, the extraordinary power that each chosen person can get will naturally decrease.
Replacing the chosen ones with players is roughly the theory that Yunyu mentioned.
That is, when the number of believers falls below the threshold, all players in the server will automatically receive a DEBUFF that weakens the extraordinary power, and the debuff caused by this DEBUFF can be infinitely close to 100%!
Although it is impossible to achieve 100%, Luo Yan feels that with his current prestige, even if he loses power one day, more people will miss him than Reggie Dragon.
"Generally speaking, I understand that the early three thousand players should be provided by the remaining faith of Lint Isaac, the God of Machinery. Now I have to rely on my own strength to gain more believers to support more chosen ones... Is this what you mean?" Seeing that Luo Yan understood what he meant, Youyou shook his big abstract head up and down excitedly.
"Hmm! As expected of the Demon King, he discovered the core of the problem right away!"
Feeling a little embarrassed by this flattery, Luo Yan coughed lightly.
"This is not something difficult to discover, right? You have hinted to me many times, urging me to expand my faith territory and so on."
In fact, he thought that Lint Isaac's remaining power of faith should be more than this. After all, there are still many people in the Kingdom of Lane who remember him, but not many people pray to him devoutly.
However, considering that this guy not only invented a set of mechanical spells, but also redefined inscriptions, maybe a large part of the power of faith has been spent.
No matter how you say it, that guy has become history. Now that you have walked out of Novice Village, you should do your best to rely on yourself.
Luo Yan, who was lost in thought, couldn't help but come up with the idea of Kao planet again.
…It would be great if a group of human acolytes could be trained from Beifeng City and sent to the outpost fortress on the planet Kaa."
How about building a "training base" next to the outpost of Kaa planet?
For example, throwing the newly recruited acolytes away to practice hard for two years and then bringing them back to replace them with new people...
This method seems feasible!
Just when Luo Yan was seriously thinking about this plan, a new idea suddenly appeared in his mind -
It would be great if the acolytes he sent to the planet Kaa not only prayed themselves, but also assimilated the local "indigenous" Kaa people into his followers!
This idea may seem fanciful, but if you think about it carefully, it seems that there is no chance at all.
Especially, Luo Yan quickly remembered that players had mentioned in the updated posts on the official website forum that the Kaa people did not rely on traditional methods to reproduce, but grew from mushrooms.
The Khaos tribe often patrols the mushroom forest, bringing the cubs they pick up back to the tribe to raise them, and in the process completes the brainwashing of the latter, assimilating them into machines that only know how to kill, and servants of Kalmandes, the "Flame of Destruction".
If the mushrooms on the planet Kaa can be affected in some way and the genes of the Kaa people can be improved, maybe there will be a way to assimilate the aborigines on the planet Kaa!
The more Luo Yan thought about it, the more interesting it became.
At least this is an idea worth trying!
If successful, not only can the corruption of the necropolis be further spread to Chaos' lair, but it may also reduce the cost of players' resurrection!
"Yuyou, say hello to Tyrell, the leader of the Gray Wind tribe for me. I have something to talk to him and Gray Wind about... I may need their cooperation regarding the plan to establish a research site for the Kaos on the fifth floor of the maze."
When it comes to expanding the territory of the power of faith, it is more active than anyone else, which even it feels inferior to itself.
Luo Yan closed the window projected on the stone tablet and was about to end his meditation and leave the sea of consciousness, but Yuyou, who had just left for two seconds, suddenly floated back to him.
"By the way, Lord Demon King, have you forgotten that there is a desperate city on the tenth floor of the labyrinth where nearly a hundred thousand demons and devils live. If the demon statue there can be replaced with your statue, why do you need to worry about the power of faith not increasing?"
When he said this, Yuyou was so greedy that his mouth was watering.
If it has that kind of thing.
Luo Yan guessed that it would ask this question and replied without thinking.
"I have not forgotten that place. In fact, our acolytes have also gone there to preach, but the progress is relatively slow. After all, the demons and demons there have just surrendered, and their faith is still dominated by the demon god Bayali. We can only change their minds subtly, and when the time is right, put our statue next to the demon god statue. If it is too hasty, it will be counterproductive."
In fact, it is not just Impasse City.
Including the Blood Blade clan, everyone has the potential to expand the power of faith. He has never forgotten it, but the strategy he adopts is relatively conservative.
After all, this piece of meat is already in the pot for him. As long as he doesn't do anything too outrageous, there is no way he can run away.
However, Yuyou's words still gave him a wake-up call.
It has been almost a month since the four demon generals offered their loyalty to him. During this time, he has been busy with the internal affairs of the necropolis and has no time to wander around the vassals' territories.
Now that the work at hand has finally come to an end, maybe it’s time to go to his loyal city of Impasse and accept the cheers and admiration of the residents there...
I went to the hospital for a review today and updated it in advance... I feel like I have been running to the hospital every three days in the past few months, which is a mild pain.