Chapter 113 The Beginning of Harvesting

The players present were overjoyed, and they couldn't wait to open the faction store interface.

Compared to Version 2.0, the variety of faction goods had increased hundreds of times, with all kinds of equipment, materials, and props available. Because the Legion cooperated with many consortia, Han Xiao deepened cooperative relationships, negotiating with the heads of these consortia to open up the consortia's commodity channels to the Legion members. This was equivalent to using these consortia's goods to enrich his own faction commodity library, a bit of sleight of hand to make a profit as a middleman.

In this way, as long as it wasn't too rare, things could be bought directly in the Legion store, greatly enhancing the Black Star Legion's logistical capabilities.

During the past seven years, Han Xiao had also integrated a large number of blueprints, vigorously building up the logistics department. With the support of strong economic strength, he established countless military factories and assembly lines for the logistics department, and also cultivated a group of professional talents. The Legion's independent production capacity was extremely strong, and it had stockpiled tens of thousands of kinds of mechanical equipment, including advanced rare equipment, pink gear, and orange gear.

All materials and equipment were supplied to all Legion members, and as long as they had money, they could arm themselves to the teeth.

The Black Star Legion's standard armor had also been improved many times in the past seven years, integrating the technologies of various intermediate armors to strengthen it into more superior armor. It was equipped on a large scale to middle and low-level Legion members, called the "Black Star Legion Seventh Generation Individual Armor," divided into more than a dozen models such as strong attack, defense, and reconnaissance.

The armor on most players was already outdated, and compared with the current seventh-generation armor, it was simply like a crude handicraft.

Looking at the faction store list, the players present were fired up, especially professional players like Kuang Dao and Hao Tian who were not short of money.

As long as they participated in the war, all the good things, including orange equipment, were 50% off!

This was an opportunity that must not be missed!

The players had accumulated a sum of money in Version 2.0. Finally encountering this kind of discount opportunity, they could afford more powerful equipment. The idea of frugality was immediately thrown to the winds.

What was saving money for? Wasn't it just for spending it at the right time!

Enough was enough!

Without exception, the players present did not hesitate to apply to participate in the military operation half a month later through Philip's subprogram.

Philip processed the applications extremely quickly, and soon approved all the players' applications. Han Xiao released the tasks he had already prepared.

[Faction War Mission: The Black Star Counterattack]

[Mission Introduction: The Zero Organization has prepared a large-scale counterattack military operation. As a glorious Black Star warrior, you have participated in this expedition.]

[Mission Requirements: Follow the Black Star Legion fleet and obey orders to participate in the battle.]

[Reward: Black Star Legion Favorability +500, unlocks subsequent battle missions of the Secret War.]

The players present only glanced at it briefly, and their attention returned to the faction store. Sure enough, the prices of everything had been halved.

Everyone was overjoyed, wishing they could dance for joy.

Han Xiao released this task to guide the players. Because the main storyline mission could not be released by himself, he used the mission introduction to let the players know that participating in the battle would unlock the subsequent missions of the Secret War main storyline, giving the players a peace of mind, increasing their interest in participating in the war, and reducing the number of people who chose to slack off.

In his previous life, the Zero Organization assigned players to participate in the war, and since he had retained so many players, he had to do the job himself.

This large-scale military operation was not proposed suddenly. Han Xiao knew that the players would return during this period. Two months ago, he had already begun to prepare for this large-scale counterattack operation, waiting until now to bring the players to participate in the Secret War together.

Although the players had hoarded a lot of experience and money in Version 2.0, Han Xiao now needed astronomical fees to level up. Relying solely on the experience accumulated by the players in the previous version was not enough. He had to fatten up the players, otherwise the task settlement cards he had hoarded would be useless.

Now that the version had just opened, Han Xiao couldn't wait to guide the players to participate in the war, so that they could earn experience by doing war missions as soon as possible. Only by increasing the players' spending power and letting the players become prosperous together could he earn more. His consistent approach had been to aim for mutual benefit and overall well-being.

In other words, the leeks were not completely mature yet and needed to be fertilized diligently.

Moreover, Han Xiao was very clear that with the increase in the level cap in the new version, the players' first choice would definitely be to level up. In this way, the players' desire to consume would decrease. How to stimulate domestic demand and make the players willingly take out their wallets to spend money was a difficult problem.

Giving a 50% discount to participants was Han Xiao's way to stimulate players' desire to consume.

A large number of players formed a surging flow of people, left the square, and went straight to the logistics department, while browsing the store list and looking for their favorite equipment or props.

"A set of standard armor, and a pink gear too!"

"We're rich, this wave is a big win!"

"I didn't expect to have such benefits at the beginning of the version. Is this to improve our combat effectiveness so that we can protect ourselves in the war, or does the commander love us!"

More than 100,000 players almost crowded the logistics department, all placing orders and picking up goods.

In addition to individual players buying and buying at will, some guilds began to organize manpower, call friends, and start crowdfunding.

"Such an opportunity is once in a lifetime. Let's raise more money and buy something big directly!"

The president of the God Clan Guild, Jupiter, looked excited, preparing to use the guild's activity funds to raise money to buy several sets of mining equipment and mining spaceships, and then take the guild's peripheral members to mine resources, providing a steady stream of profits for the guild.

Kuang Dao and other professional players preferred high-quality rare equipment, asking the club's guild for money to buy pink and orange gear in large quantities.

These hundreds of thousands of players were like they were on drugs, their desire to consume was unprecedentedly high, and they frantically purchased a wave, carrying bags of new equipment. Although their wallets were emptied, everyone had a happy smile on their faces.

They saved half the money, so happy!

At the same time, Han Xiao returned to his office to check the Legion's background financial income.

"In less than half an hour, I earned 2.7 billion Enas..." Han Xiao smacked his lips secretly. Even though the Black Star Legion now had strong assets, this was not a small amount. Calculated, more than 100,000 players spent an average of nearly 20,000 Enas per person. Although the goods were all 50% off, after deducting the cost, this wave of profits was still several hundred million Enas.

With the Black Star Legion's current productivity and warehouse inventory, satisfying all the players' needs was just a piece of cake.

Han Xiao didn't play the trick of raising prices first and then discounting them. He really gave a 50% discount this time. Mastering the technology patents, the profit after the discount was still very high!

The players were not stupid and remembered the prices in the previous version. Moreover, Han Xiao was not short of money now, so there was no need to ruin the players' favorability for this little bit of income. He wanted the players to feel real benefits.

Han Xiao's goal was not to earn this wave of money. He stimulated the players' desire to consume, mainly to empty the players' wallets, and then use long-term discount activities to make the players have an urgent need to make money, so they would work harder to participate in the war. In this way, they could indirectly farm experience, cycle again and again, and constantly... squeezing the players' wallets could stimulate their fighting spirit!

A mature leek must learn to fertilize itself!

"These players have spent all their money, and it's almost time to start..." Han Xiao narrowed his eyes and grinned.

In fact, emptying the players' wallets was just foreplay for Han Xiao's preparation. The real harvest had just begun!

…

Logistics Department.

With less than three digits left in their savings accounts, the players happily put on their new equipment, feeling that it was worth the money. The feeling of spending money was still unfulfilled, and they opened the faction store again to browse, seeing if they could still get any cheap deals.

Looking at those powerful equipment that were still sky-high prices after the discount, many players were very tempted, but unfortunately they couldn't afford them even with the discount. They had to stop daydreaming, reluctantly looked away, and see if there was any cheap equipment. At this time, many people realized that there was much more knowledge in the faction store than in the previous version.

Taking a closer look, many players were shocked.

The faction store actually had all the basic and advanced knowledge of the five superpower systems of martial arts, machinery, magic, superpowers, and psionics!

There was even a part of high-end knowledge!

Everyone clearly remembered that in Version 2.0, the Black Star Legion's five major profession knowledge were not complete.

In fact, basic and advanced professional knowledge could be collected as long as you spent money. With the Black Star Legion's financial resources, Han Xiao had collected low-level professional knowledge of all professions in the past seven years, and even bought a lot of high-end knowledge.

The Black Star Legion's scale had reached today's point, with countless members under its command, all with different professions. Buying so much knowledge was to facilitate the training of soldiers.

However, in the eyes of the players, this had extraordinary significance. Players in other star fields had to cultivate the favorability of professional mentors and grind the contribution of different factions in order to learn their professional knowledge, which was very troublesome.

However, in the Black Star Legion, they could learn the knowledge of five professions, which meant that they didn't need to change factions or find mentors. The professional knowledge was handled by the Black Star Legion alone, which could save a lot of effort and time. This was an advantage that players in other star fields didn't have!

What surprised the players the most was that not only had the professional knowledge increased, but it didn't cost any money!

In the previous version, learning knowledge cost money. At this time, in the store list, learning professional knowledge did not require spending Enas, only faction contribution and experience!

Although the experience fee for learning knowledge remained the same, the required faction contribution was also 50% off!

"Knowledge is free?!"

"This is not reasonable. Why is knowledge free? Didn't we lose money buying knowledge in the previous version?"

"Wait, I found the reason!"

When in doubt, ask Philip. Some players were quick to take action, opened the internal program to inquire, and soon got the answer.

Due to the expansion of the Black Star Legion's scale, training camps had been established in various places. In order to train legion members on a large scale, the exchange mode of professional knowledge had been changed. No tuition fees would be charged anymore. Legion members could apply to learn professional knowledge as long as they had enough contribution.

This system was not only applicable to players, but also to NPC members. It was equivalent to the Black Star Legion's on-the-job training course.

Everyone suddenly understood, and they realized even more the scale of the Black Star Legion. A star cluster-level organization was indeed different from the past, generous and with a perfect system.

"So, this is also our benefit?" Apart from some people who felt depressed because they had spent money in vain, everyone else was overjoyed.

"So, we don't have to pay for learning knowledge in the future, as long as we have faction contribution?!"

"Damn, that's too profitable."

"As expected of a growing faction, the treatment is too great!"

Most players felt comfortable and personally felt the actual benefits brought by the Black Star Legion's development over the past ten years.

Compared to faction benefits, the Black Star Legion was far ahead of all the factions that players in other star fields had joined!

So happy!

"The three consecutive guiding tasks just now rewarded a lot of faction contribution, so I can learn several knowledge skills. My basic knowledge hasn't been fully learned yet."

"Hehe, it's good that I've spent all my money, so I don't have to spend any money to learn knowledge."

"The faction contribution is also 50% off. This wave of benefits is so damn good, too profitable!"

With the idea of taking advantage of everything possible, many players with potential points happily learned professional knowledge.

As the players bought these knowledge skills, Han Xiao's dry experience bar began to grow slowly.

"It's finally here..."

Han Xiao took a deep breath, feeling refreshed.

This was what he needed most!

Canceling the tuition fees for professional knowledge was to harvest the players' experience on a larger scale. Because this system also had to take into account other non-player members, Han Xiao changed it to a system of exchanging contribution for knowledge.

Because for normal members, experience was a non-existent entity. If there was no contribution requirement, it would be equivalent to giving it away for free, which would cause serious problems. This was the bottom line for maintaining the faction system.

In order to get the players to take out the experience they were preparing to use to level up to learn knowledge, Han Xiao used three guiding tasks to give the players a wave of faction contribution, and used a 50% discount to stimulate the players' desire to consume and empty their wallets.

When the players had spent all their money, out of the unfulfilled feeling of the 50% discount activity, they would inevitably want to continue to take advantage. At this time, letting the players discover that learning knowledge didn't cost money, and that contribution could also be 50% off, would allow a considerable number of players to get carried away and take out their experience to learn knowledge. The reason why they were getting carried away was because they could actually learn knowledge at any time, but Han Xiao needed to harvest a wave of the players' experience in a short period of time.

After holding back for ten years, he couldn't bear it anymore!

Considering that he had to maintain the value of faction contribution as a secondary currency and couldn't cause "inflation," Han Xiao didn't give the players too much contribution for free... otherwise, he would have liked to give the players 10,000 contribution points in one go, directly to the [Revered] relationship, so that they could learn as much knowledge as they wanted, not only emptying the players' money, but also emptying their experience, leaving them with nothing!

"But it's good to harvest slowly. Leave some experience for the players so they can level up to Grade B quickly. You can't cut the leeks off at the roots..."

Han Xiao knew that he couldn't force things to grow.

Watching the experience bar rise frantically at a long-lost speed, he licked his lips with a moved expression.

Seven years, he could finally fill the experience bar, that insatiable little slut!