1224 TWO Chapter 1224-Sounding ou (1/2)

Chapter 1224 – Sounding Out

Gaia 6th year, 12th month, 30th day, a System Notification sounded out around the world.

”World Notification: this is the 6th anniversary of Earth Online, the game will have its 7th update, effective immediately. Please go on the forums to check it out.”

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The moment the notification went out, Ouyang Shuo went online to check the updates as usual.

1. Removal of refugee spawning

Due to the global situation already being settled, Gaia decided to remove refugee spawning. If the Lords wanted an increase in population beyond the natural process, they could only fight wars.

To dynasties, population meant labor.

Regardless of the era, labor was the foundation of a country. Gaia removing spawns affected dynasties with large territories the most.

Amongst them, Great Xia was naturally the most affected.

With the latest size of Great Xia, just a year of spawns would bring in close to 100 million. Removing the spawns meant that their rate of population growth would fall.

This also meant that they would not be able to maintain seven million troops for a long time.

Ouyang Shuo was depressed about it, but there was no flaws to this, and Gaia had a good reason for making this change. Since they wanted the game to be real, such a bug should not exist.

The various territories would have to go from chasing for quantity to chasing for quality.

2. Changing the settings of the trial lands

From the 7th year onward, after a country was wiped out, its players would no longer be teleported to the trial lands. Instead, they would obtain NPC like treatment, and they could either surrender or join other dynasties.

In theory, such a setting weakens the difficulty of wiping out a country.

However, this was on the condition that the two countries had a similarity in culture or things would be difficult.

Gaia made this move to solve the problem due to removing the spawning of refugees. The huge player group was undoubtedly a talent pool and treasure to a territory.

Ouyang Shuo could not help but wonder whether the legendary trial lands were already filled with players, which was why Gaia removed that setting.

The trial lands still had not revealed its mysterious veil.

3. Changing the settings of the beast caves

The beasts would not charge out of the caves immediately. Instead, they might use the cave as a center to build a solid base to slowly eat away at the surrounding territory.

This also meant that the beasts were becoming smarter and harder to deal with.

In the foreseeable future, there would be monster forests, monster mountains, monster valleys, and more in the wilderness, becoming a huge problem.

Similarly, there would be more good places for adventure gamemode players to be at.

4. Releasing the rewards of the 1st industrial revolution.

Removing the technology tree restriction of the 1st revolution, as long as the world had relative research ability, they could develop relevant items and technology.

The 1st industrial revolution started with the birth of machines with the steam engine as the symbolic item. Machines replaced manual work, starting revolutions in metallurgy, sewing, agriculture, and more.

Sewing machines, steam engine, steam powered cars, steam powered ships, and the like were all born.

Gaia was trying to spread such technology to move the wilderness from an agriculture civilization to an industrial civilization to totally change the global landscape.

Ouyang Shuo felt lucky, lucky that he had started the full scale industrialization at the start of the previous year.

From now on, apart from wars, the world would have a new round of economic and technological battles.

Any Lord with a brain would be able to guess that Gaia would definitely remove the 2nd and even the 3rd industrializations.

Before this, whichever dynasty had better technological preparation and skills storage would have the lead.

The above four were the main contents, and there were no new information pieces, signaling that the game world that Gaia had built was becoming more and more perfect.

Gaia was reducing its interference in the game world and allowing it to develop on its own.

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Shanhai City, palace.

Another year had passed. Ouyang Shuo stayed alone in the Imperial Reading Room, looking back at the past year.

Since the Federation had disbanded and Skynet took over, although there two new opponents had appeared, Ouyang Shuo had placed down the heavy burden and started to show his skills.