Wang Yongxin was silent for a mont, then sighed, "This ga was indeed very dangerous.
"The dangerous part wasn't entirely in the nurous death rules, but in creating an extrely cruel zero-sum ga environnt among various player groups.
"On the surface, it seed like conflicts among 'hidden players,' 'field players,' and 'audience,' but actually, there were also conflicts 'within community players.'
"In the ga, as long as you killed the other four players from your own community, you could exclusively enjoy all the profits.
"Moreover, this kind of murder could be carried out in a very concealed form.
"For example, as a core player in the ga, if you guessed a certain behavior might trigger joint implication, at this ti you only needed to arrange specific players to commit this behavior, and you could very likely use the ga rules to eliminate them.
"Afterwards, you could completely say it was an oversight in your decision-making. Because there were many behaviors in this ga that might trigger joint implication, and there was fundantally no way to prove whether the core player didn't think of it or did it deliberately.
"So that's why in Community 12, Chen Guangming alone obtained all the community's gold coins.
"The design of 'hidden players' was also quite insidious.
"Because in previous gas, there hadn't been such a design. Actually, as early as bidding on plots in the first phase, many players realized the plot opening order might have human factor interference.
"But most players would only think of 'audience voting.' It was hard to imdiately think of hidden players existing.
"And whether it was the plot opening order or the criminal announcent order, they actually made so field players transfer hatred to the audience and naturally drive up shelter prices to harvest gold coins from the audience in revenge.
"So it cleverly deflected the contradiction.
"And even if a few players realized this, they wouldn't loudly proclaim it.
"On one hand, not proclaiming it could bring extra benefits to themselves. For example, Chen Guangming realized this very early, invested large amounts of gold coins to bid on plots and beca the 'privileged community,' gaining favoritism from 'hidden players.'
"On the other hand, proclaiming this would bring disaster to one's own community. Because 'hidden players' having their identities exposed would inevitably try every ans to target the community that spoke the truth.
"Through adjusting the plot auction order and criminal announcent order, 'hidden players' could directly target this community, making them suffer heavy losses before they even had ti to adopt self-preservation strategies.
"So although Officer Cao also realized this relatively early, he could only remain silent.
"Because once he exposed it too early, the targeted community might very likely not be Community 7, but our community instead."
Cai Zhiyuan added, "The key is that even exposing it couldn't change the ga's status quo.
"Instead, it might make other communities even more eagerly send money to hidden players.
"To break this situation required at least three relatively justice-minded communities forming an alliance and working together.
"But in the ga, aside from our community being willing to do this, other communities weren't willing.
"Community 12 and Community 15 only wanted maximum profits.
"Community 7 had neither sufficient wisdom nor sufficient morality.
"As for Community 9, they were slightly better than Community 7 morally, but could only be said to be at a normal person's level. Limited capability, and their stance wasn't particularly firm either. With just our two communities, we couldn't change anything.
"So Officer Cao's decision was correct. In this situation, we could only choose to preserve ourselves wisely."
Zheng Jie nodded, "Yes, if we substitute ourselves in, if most communities beca 'hidden players,' it would be hard to resist that temptation, right..."
The 'hidden player' identity indeed had great advantages.
Because the ga rules never ntioned it, ordinary players fundantally couldn't realize their existence.
Even if they realized 'hidden players' existed, killing them required using hidden chanisms in the ga, which could very likely trigger large-scale field player deaths.
In this situation, 'hidden players' might mistakenly think they were absolutely safe, or might also choose to gamble that even if a few field players realized their existence, they wouldn't expose it.
From the ga chanism perspective, hidden players could try to improve field players' survival rates and advise field players not to sell shelters at high prices by adjusting the nine-square grid opening order and cri announcent order. But in reality, hidden players would very likely not do this.
Calculating based on the situation in the ga, if Cao Haichuan hadn't ultimately used the hidden chanism to kill these players, assuming there were 5 of them, each person could obtain over 70 gold coins.
The key was no cost at all. They fundantally didn't need to exchange their original visa ti as gold coins.
This also ant each of them could achieve profits of over 150,000 minutes of visa ti in the ga. This was a huge temptation very difficult for ordinary players to resist.
Li Renshu looked at Wang Yongxin again, "Brother Wang, if you were in the ga, how might you break the situation?"
After a mont of consideration, Wang Yongxin said, "I might choose to forcibly compete with Chen Guangming for 'privileged community.'
"Then try to form an alliance with Community 12 and Community 15 as much as possible, and in the final vote, cast the vote for the weakest Community 7.
"Simply put, 'colluding' with them.
"I know doing this might not be great, but if 'preserving life' is the first goal, this might be the best thod.
"And the number of people who die should also be fewer."
Li Renshu nodded. Wang Yongxin was relatively frank on this question, which indeed matched his consistent style but just then, Wei Yinzhang, who had been silent all along, said, "But...
"If you did this, I'm afraid you'd fall into the God's Imitator's trap."
Wang Yongxin was stunned, "Why? From the ga chanism perspective, doing this, aside from losing a lot of gold coins, wouldn't have any additional downsides."
Wei Yinzhang shook her head and explained, "Has everyone thought about why the God's Imitator specifically selected one community to beco 'hidden players,' having these hidden players decide the nine-square grid opening order and criminal file announcent order?
"If it were rely to 'maximize conflict intensification,' they could completely accomplish this purpose through specific rules.
"For example, plots default to opening in the most crowded community locations, criminal files are announced according to the number of people who committed cris from most to least or least to most, etc.
"This way, the God's Imitator could better ensure the ga process proceeded according to their expectations.
"But leaving these matters to hidden players to do, what if the hidden players' and God's Imitator's ideas weren't consistent?"
Yang Yuting lowered her head in thought for a mont, "Perhaps because using specific rules or chanisms would be more troubleso? Unable to adapt according to the specific situation at the ti."
Wei Yinzhang shook her head, "No, I believe the real reason is:
"If rules decided everything, then this ga's ultimate main contradiction would beco the contradiction between 'players' and 'God's Imitator.'
"But if following the current approach, having hidden players decide everything, then this ga's main contradiction would be the contradiction between 'players' and 'players.'
"This is the effect the God's Imitator truly wanted to achieve.
"The 'Shelter Ga' isn't just a killing ga. It's simultaneously a heart-attacking ga.
"The impact of attacking the heart isn't within the ga, but outside the ga."
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