God's Imitator

Li Renshu looked toward Lin Sizhi again, ”Lawyer Lin, if you were to play this game, could you think of any better solutions?”

After considering for a moment, Lin Sizhi said, ”There probably aren’t any solutions that could fundamentally reverse the situation again. At most, there’s some relatively minor optimization space in the details.”

After thinking for a moment, Wei Yinzhang said, ”I do have an idea.

”Suppose Wang Weidong guessed there might be ’unanswerable questions’ at that level. Then he could actually formulate a defensive strategy in advance to reduce some losses in this extreme situation, right?

”Of course, the prerequisite is that he must make arrangements before the second stage officially begins.”

Everyone was somewhat curious, ”How would he do that?”

Wei Yinzhang explained, ”When Cai Zhiyuan asked the second question, Wang Weidong could reset the rules and ’rotate’ to a player on his side, locking one of his players as the questioner.

”Although Cai Zhiyuan’s side also had free agents deliberately answering against-conscience options to give money and ensure staying in power, if Wang Weidong’s answering players truly chose the unanimous answer, the free agents’ against-conscience options wouldn’t be able to maintain staying in power.

”After that, Wang Weidong would have players on his side ask questions as favorable to themselves as possible. This way, although they’d still lose, they could lose slightly less visa time.”

Lin Sizhi shook his head, ”In theory it’s possible, but in actual operation it’s very difficult.”First, before the second stage game officially begins, Wang Weidong doesn’t know specifically what position Cai Zhiyuan will enter the game in, nor is he certain which side the next person after ’rotation’ will be from.

”If the next person is still from Community 17 or Community 8, Wang Weidong can’t determine whether Cai Zhiyuan instructed them in advance to continue asking the same questions. The risk is too great.

”If the next person is from Community 15, then this player may not be smart enough to keep asking the most appropriate questions. If things go wrong and they fail to ’stay in power’, this problem would repeat.

”Second, to ’rotate’ when answerers have high earnings requires answerers to vote.

”On Community 17’s side, they just need to mindlessly vote to support Cai Zhiyuan continuing to stay in power.

”But on Community 15’s side, it’s very easy to create chaos, because according to the original harvesting plan, they should support Cai Zhiyuan staying in power. But according to the defensive plan, they should oppose Cai Zhiyuan staying in power.

”Especially since there are also Community 1 free agents involved, their votes are also difficult to control.

”These two situations are very easy to confuse. If someone votes wrong, it would completely backfire.

”Finally, there’s the issue of time.

”Because players can’t communicate after entering the second stage, they can only use the 15 minutes before the game starts to assign tasks, so Wang Weidong only has time to give all players one set of strategies.

”Just explaining clearly how to set up the rigged operation is already not easy.

”Cai Zhiyuan could implement a second strategy because he was the attacking side, requiring almost no coordination. He just needed to tell his free agents alone to ’actively answer against-conscience options to ensure staying in power’.

”But Wang Weidong, as the defending side, his plan requires voting coordination from all players. The explanation is more complex, and the implementation cost is higher.”

Zheng Jie asked somewhat curiously, ”What if Wang Weidong didn’t choose to be the room host? For example, if someone with a clear conscience became the room host, then Brother Cai’s questions couldn’t threaten the host, and naturally the room rules wouldn’t be canceled.”

Lin Sizhi shook his head, ”That would be even more unacceptable for Wang Weidong, wouldn’t it?

”The reason he chose to be the room host himself was to ensure that under any circumstances, he controlled the room rules. Set them if he wants, cancel them if he wants.

”As a core player, how could he willingly hand over this kind of power to someone else?”

Lin Sizhi paused, then continued, ”Moreover, if Wang Weidong could really think of this possibility, his optimal solution wouldn’t be to use this method to mitigate losses.

”The optimal solution would be to have players with guilty secrets enter the 4-person room and simply switch to ’internal circulation’ mode.

”Looking at the final situation, although Community 1 was far less clever than Community 15, they received a blessing in disguise and actually had relatively fewer losses.

”And even if Wang Weidong thought of this level, he might still have had a fluke mentality, thinking other communities simply couldn’t think of it and wouldn’t so easily give up earnings.

”Overall, if Wang Weidong chose to struggle a bit more, he might be able to mitigate losses slightly, but there wouldn’t be any fundamental difference.”

Zheng Jie sighed, ”Still too wealthy and powerful. Maybe he could have saved tens of thousands of minutes of visa time!”

Qin Yao nodded, ”Yes, I feel Wang Weidong is a bit like Han Mengying.

”Previously in ’Conglomerate Nation’, Han Mengying could also have used some methods to mitigate losses slightly, but she also gave up.

”Perhaps players like these all have similar characteristics? They’re all somewhat arrogant.”

Lin Sizhi wasn’t surprised by this. He explained, ”Arrogance is very normal.

”Strong players will definitely all be arrogant, just to varying degrees. Conversely, people who aren’t arrogant can’t become strong players.

”Here’s a simple example:

”When your monthly income is 3000, buying something for 500 yuan, you’ll budget carefully and consider repeatedly. If it breaks or gets lost, you’ll feel very distressed.

”But when your monthly income is 30,000? When it’s 300,000? When it’s 3 million?

”The value of this thing doesn’t change, it’s always 500 yuan, but your attitude toward it will be completely different.

”If when your monthly income is 3 million, you’re still haggling over something worth 500 yuan, that would actually be very abnormal.

”Because people’s energy is limited. When you’re haggling over unimportant small matters, it becomes very difficult to concentrate energy on any major matters.

”Like Wang Weidong and Han Mengying, if they really cared especially about a few thousand or ten thousand visa time, they would very easily look back and forth hesitantly in games, and naturally couldn’t become strong players.

”Conversely, since they’re already strong players who have earned a lot of visa time, their ability to bear losses is definitely much stronger than ordinary players.

”With defeat already determined, losing a bit more or a bit less isn’t important to them. This is a very normal thinking inertia.

”If they pursued perfection in everything and deliberately pursued ’not being arrogant’, wouldn’t that be another form of arrogance?”

Zheng Jie nodded, ”I see, that also makes sense.

”So if the core players on both opposing sides all found the optimal solution, wouldn’t the player who got number card 1 have already won?”

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head, ”It’s not that simple.

”Because if you want to test specific reward and penalty rules and values in the first stage, it’s very difficult to ensure your own earnings are maximized. Conversely, if you want to maximize earnings, some specific reward and penalty values might not be measurable.

”It’s hard to determine whether the testing you give up will create pitfalls for the second stage game.

”Moreover, even if you get number card 1, you’re only choosing the room first. The subsequent order of number cards will also affect strategy.

”For example, if large numbers of cards are near the front or back, or even appear in consecutive numbers, some specific tactics can be employed.

”Communities with cards 1 and 2 may not necessarily become opponents. They might also unite to harvest other communities.

”If we really deduce it, considering that each community’s strength and interpretation of the game differ, there are actually many unexpected situations.

”If we must discuss the extreme case of ’everyone finding the optimal solution’, then it doesn’t have much discussion value. In Gallery games, this is a low-probability event that basically won’t occur.

”In previous games, if the optimal solution was found, they all cleared with no pressure.”

After thinking for a moment, Li Renshu asked again, ”So does everyone think the appearance of a new S-rank God’s Imitator is a good thing or a bad thing?”