God's Imitator

Han Mengying scoffed, ”What an idealistic plan!

”You can indeed make the total wealth fail to reach 500,000 through lying down and not cooperating.

”But have you considered the punishment for game failure?

”You can only bring back 10% of returns to your community, and if the visa time brought back is less than 10,000, an additional 50,000 minutes of visa time will be deducted.

”Mr. Lin, you might be wealthy enough not to fear deductions, but are the others also not afraid?

”Moreover, we can leave the country with the wealth earned in the first 10 rounds. Can you do that?”

Lin Sizhi paid no attention to Han Mengying’s provocation, ”You haven’t heard of the ’principle of the fortunate yielding,’ have you? Obviously, as Conglomerates, you are the fortunate ones in this game.

”When facing the possibility of ’mutual loss,’ you should be the ones to yield.

”For you, this is an excellent opportunity to earn visa time.

”If investment returns can be maximized quickly, the total wealth at game end could reach 1.6 million or even 1.8 million. If Conglomerates take half, they’d get at least 800,000.”Divided among four people, bringing 50% back to the community, each person would have nearly 100,000 visa time.

”You think we fear visa time deductions, but don’t you fear this 100,000 that could be easily earned flying away like a cooked duck?

”On this issue, can your community’s four people reach unanimous agreement?

”If it really comes to a ’total loss’ ending, do you think Communities 12 and 17 would suffer more, or would your Community 4 suffer more?

”As for leaving the country, you can hardly ensure all wealth is distributed evenly so all four exceed 100,000.

”So if leaving, someone would definitely be abandoned. Who do you plan to abandon?

”Of course, even if you really leave, we’d only welcome it.

”Because after you leave, you’d also give up management room authority. For the remaining 10 rounds, we 8 Civilian players could play with zero tax rates ourselves.

”Since we have more people, we can occupy 8 buttons to maximize work income without triggering wealth shrinkage, and can fastest maximize investment return limits.

”With the same 10 rounds, we 8 people could achieve the 500,000 total wealth goal without money being deducted.”

Han Mengying fell silent because she could feel that Fan Zehui and Community 12’s players had their internal scales tipping toward Lin Sizhi’s side.

The threat of ”mutual loss,” the key wasn’t in specific actions, but in convincing the other party you had determination to achieve mutual loss.

Obviously, after Lin Sizhi’s remarks, Community 12 had gained such determination to some extent.

Though not very resolute yet, it was enough to make Han Mengying change strategies.

Han Mengying’s attempt to debate game rules with Lin Sizhi was itself a kind of test.

If Lin Sizhi couldn’t provide sufficiently convincing reasons while Han Mengying could successfully persuade Community 12, the game would end early without any more suspense but now, Han Mengying’s attempt had failed.

Lin Sizhi and Community 17 were indeed not easy enemies to deal with.

”Fine, I admit you make some sense.

”But you still need to provide a distribution plan that satisfies all of us. Otherwise, this fragile cooperative relationship among three communities won’t last long.”

Obviously, compared to ’destruction,’ ’construction’ was more important.

Lin Sizhi had destroyed the cooperation intention between Communities 4 and 12, but he also had to propose a better benefit distribution plan.

Lin Sizhi naturally already had a plan, but before he could speak, Cai Zhiyuan spoke first.

”Luo Wei, you’re an actuary. I believe the plan you propose should gain more people’s approval.”

Han Mengying showed a slightly surprised expression, but after hearing ”actuary,” she looked Luo Wei up and down with considerable interest, saying, ”Oh, then what good plan does this actuary lady have?”

Luo Wei seemed not to expect Cai Zhiyuan to suddenly have her propose a plan, appearing somewhat surprised but since she was already placed in this position, there was no need to decline such an opportunity to directly influence the game’s progress.

After considering for a moment, Luo Wei said, ”If we want to formulate a plan where all three communities benefit, it’s not complex in principle.

”The first goal should still be making the cake bigger, but to maintain cooperation stability, each side should yield some interests.

”The Conglomerate community has comprehensive advantages, so they should yield all four work buttons, with each Civilian community taking two.

”After that, we invest in each other within communities, maximizing investment return limits each round as much as possible.

”Then the Conglomerate community slightly raises Civilian community tax rates for redistribution. I can help calculate specific tax rates.

”This would be the most profitable choice for everyone.”

Han Mengying frowned slightly, ”This definitely won’t work.

”Investment returns have limits. As your Civilian communities’ wealth grows, investment behavior will become increasingly frequent. With numerical advantage, you’d seriously squeeze our Conglomerate players’ investment space.

”You could still possibly use certain methods to complete visa time reversals and seize back Conglomerate identity.

”I cannot accept such possibilities existing.”

Luo Wei thought, ”But you Conglomerates can adjust tax rates anytime to harvest Civilian player wealth. The initiative is still on your side.”

Han Mengying shook her head, ”Tax collection is very uncontrollable. What if we collect too much or too little?

”Moreover, management also includes Civilian players, so tax collection would inevitably distribute some to Civilian players too.”

Luo Wei explained, ”You can rest assured about this. I can calculate it for you. These things can all be calculated.”

Seeing the exchange somewhat reaching an impasse, Lin Sizhi reminded, ”Tax rate issues are sensitive and difficult to adjust, because management personnel composition keeps changing. Even if taxes are collected, they can’t be accurately distributed to specific players.

”My suggestion is not to consider taxation initially.

”We can completely rely solely on investment to distribute wealth proportions.

”From now on, none of us can cover our identity cards, always displaying our ’wealth’ balance.

”The bulletin board will display total wealth in real time. After simple calculations, we can determine each community’s proportion of total wealth.

”We can use cross-community investment to ensure wealth proportions always maintain a fixed value.

”My suggestion is 4:3:3.

”If there are large deviations, for example, if your Conglomerate’s total wealth is below 40%, you can request wealthier Civilian communities to invest in you. If your total wealth exceeds 40% by too much, then it should be reversed, investing in Civilian communities with smaller proportions.

”Similarly, our two Civilian communities can also adjust through cross-community investment based on wealth differences.

”Beyond this, under the premise of not affecting this wealth ratio, Conglomerate players can prioritize obtaining investment returns.

”This advantage should be big enough for you, right?”

Under the premise of investment return limits, prioritizing investment returns meant being able to compress the other two communities’ investment returns.

Han Mengying thought, ”I accept other rules, but our proportion is too low.

”My demand is 60% and two 20%s.”

Luo Wei looked at Lin Sizhi and Han Mengying. Obviously, both had intentionally stated proportions clearly favorable to their own sides. The final equilibrium point wasn’t hard to see.

”Then let’s compromise. How about 50% and two 25%s?

”Conglomerate players taking half the money is enough to ensure advantageous position. Neither Civilian community could pose any threat to you.

”For Civilian communities, this proportion is already the bottom line. If you still don’t agree, then there’s only one outcome: mutual loss.”

Having discussed to this point, most people basically agreed with this proportion.

However, Han Mengying couldn’t immediately make a decision, instead having brief discussions with Community 4’s other players.

Soon after, she returned, ”Deal.”