Chapter 1404: Chapter 364: Lure the Enemy Into the Trap—Pay Your Taxes!
As the test representative, he is undoubtedly the first to "taste the delicious crab."
The process of marking the Control Mark took less than 10 minutes. After consuming a large amount of spiritual power, Yang Xiu acquired his ninth pet: Divine Artifact · You Ying.
In subsequent forum discussions, players raised many questions about this operation.
For instance, if one’s acting skills aren’t as good as Yang Xiu’s, can they still capture members of the Divine Artifact Clan?
Or if too many members of the Divine Artifact Clan are captured, will it arouse suspicion from their higher-ups?
This question was posed to Guidance by some players.
Guidance replied that members of the Divine Artifact Clan traveling outside experience considerable attrition annually.
You Ying’s journey to the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range was unannounced to its clan, making this just a typical case of a member dying while exploring.
As long as they aren’t caught in the act, this entrapment mode can continue to cycle.
As for acting skills, that’s something players need to figure out themselves.
However, acting skills are never the focus of the Divine Artifact Clan’s concern; rather, it’s the emotional aura that players emit.
Assured by Guidance’s confirmation, pet flow players on the forum decided to take action again.
Next, they plan to contact the Divine King to arrange a small squad within the United Battle Group, during which players marked with the Pain Imprint will head to the Divine Artifact Clan’s territory and try again using Yang Xiu’s methods.
In the future, this point will also serve as a rallying point to entrap powerful monsters.
Other players can go to places outside the Divine Artifact Clan’s territory to lure out powerful creatures; as long as they can teleport here, nearby players will assist in capturing them.
Meanwhile, nearby pet flow players on standby are not idle.
They can hunt Evil Spirits that derive from the Waxing Moon nearby to gain sacrificial power and growth.
This successful capture allowed pet flow players to successfully establish their cooperative platform in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range area.
To further enhance the entrapment strategy, several leading players are even considering a membership system.
Avoiding players who want to muddle through just to get help from others but are unwilling to contribute themselves.
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Primordial Altar.
Qi Sheng paid close attention to the process of capturing You Ying.
The forum divides players into orthodox and evil factions, but in his view, such a distinction is meaningless.
Whether pet flow or summoning stream has more growth potential cannot be generalized.
The summoning stream excels in stable growth, able to grow alongside the player’s own progress.
Pet flow, on the other hand, excels in flexible system building, allowing self-enhancement through external advantages and compensating for its own shortcomings.
Both are powerful systems centered on the Life Soul, contributing to the development and construction of the Player Faction.
Essentially, there’s not much difference.
He only cares about one thing: whether players from these systems can generate more tax revenue for him or expand the faction’s pie.
The summoning stream’s revenue is still in the development stage.
He extracts 30% of the Shock Value earnings from all layouts within the Small World.
As the scale of operations expands in the future, these earnings will continue to grow, and revenue channels will not be limited to the Small World.
Perhaps summoning stream players might develop more ways to generate Shock Value in the future.
But compared to the relatively mature pet flow, the current revenue output of the summoning stream can be ignored.
The number of pet flow players is not small now, with daily records of pet transactions.
However, there’s an issue.
Externally controlled pets by players cannot be bought or sold through the Trading House; instead, they must contact sellers on the forum for offline transactions.
This bypasses the taxation step.
It also complicates transactions, reducing players’ development time.
Qi Sheng firmly believes that improving players’ transaction efficiency is indirectly boosting sacrificial power output.
He decided to open a new category for the Trading House: Pet Market.
Allowing players to list controlled pets for free trade in the Trading House, with a 5% tax upon transaction completion.
However, pet transactions must include the Pet Space.
Ensuring that pets can still move within the space after being listed rather than freezing their Life directly.
This will maintain the pets’ activity and preserve normal life signs.
Once a buyer purchases the pet, the segregated, independent Pet Space will automatically complete the binding transfer, equivalent to the seller selling both the "cage" and the pet.
Therefore, each transaction must account for the cost of creating the Pet Space.
This setup offers two advantages.
First, it streamlines the transaction process; no need to agree on times or locations. Players can directly list for sale if they wish, and those interested can purchase across spaces without negotiation, using the pet immediately upon transaction completion.
As for the varying player aura on Control Mark Spiritual Patterns, the Challenger System can assist in modifications.
Ensuring the pet remains controllable after trading.
The second advantage is that perfecting pet trading can bring more tax revenue.
The popularity of the pet market has been consistently high.
Veteran players’ pets aren’t worried about finding buyers, as new players keep joining.
This influx of 50 million novices led to a surge in the prices of pets nearing obsolescence held by veteran players.
New players will automatically take over the pets from the hands of veteran players.
When this batch of novices grows into veteran players, succeeding batches will acquire the pets they phase out.
One pet transfers through numerous generations, and this model will persist indefinitely.
With frequent inheritance, even the total revenue from transaction fees can surpass the pet’s original market value.
For example, a pet valued at 10,000 sacrificial power with a 5% transaction fee does not change its market price with each transaction and may even increase.
After 20 turnovers, the transaction fee revenue can equal the pet’s original market value.
Thus, the forum’s fierce debate over the orthodoxy and evil factions, or which system holds more developmental potential, is entirely irrelevant to him.
Whether pet flow or summoning stream, stable tax contribution is the key focus.
