Chapter 780 Expansion Pack: Martial Arts Storm

According to Gaia's settings, five martial arts schools are allowed to open in the first-level county, ten in the second-level county, and fifteen in the third-level county.

As for the capital of the highest level, twenty-five schools of martial arts are allowed to open.

What needs to be explained is that the Martial Art Museum is not the same as the Martial Arts. Although martial arts schools appear in the royal city or the player's city, the major schools need to appear in the wilderness one by one according to the change of dynasties.

The Martial Arts School is just a warm-up version of the sect, and it only teaches the basic martial arts of each sect.

Shanhai City is now a third-tier county town, and Ouyang Shuo can choose fifteen martial arts schools. Five cases are mandatory, and the remaining ten places have to be carefully considered.

The Long Spear Sect, Baji Sect, and Wuhu Sect, the three sects with connections to Shanhai City, naturally had to be chosen. Then there are the five sects of Xingyimen, Wufeng Daomen, Yaowangmen, Yizihuijianmen, and Sichuan Tangmen.

For the last two spots, Ouyang Shuo chose the Happy School and the Overseas School.

Ouyang Shuo's choices are not aimless, they are all sects that may cooperate with Shanhai City in the future. As for those who can't get along with the territory of Shanhai City, even if they choose, they will still feed the white-eyed wolf.

I am afraid that other territories also choose the same way.

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In addition to four major updates, there are five relatively fragmented updates this time.

【5】Increase marching speed.

In view of the fact that the territories of all players have expanded to a certain scale, the march on the road takes too long, and it starts to be counted in months. Gaia decided to increase the basic marching speed of all troops by five times at once.

This also means that whether it is infantry, cavalry, navy, or even food transport teams, their marching speed has increased by five times as a whole in one breath. What used to be a one-month trip now only takes a few days.

Not only that, but if there is a territory characteristic blessing, including the general specialty blessing, it will be a second blessing on the basis of five times the base speed.

In other words, the real marching speed may be increased by six or seven times, or even seven or eight times. In this way, the factor of expanding the game map by ten times is basically eliminated.

When the time is right in the future, Gaia may increase the basic marching speed again, laying the groundwork for the complete cancellation of the popular teleportation tactics in the wilderness.

Ouyang Shuo was unable to make an accurate assessment of how this update would affect the ongoing Yunnan war.

At least one, the left army led by Bai Qi can greatly speed up the attack on Mengding County. But for [Yunnan City-State], which relies heavily on teleportation tactics, this might not be good news.

【6】Cancel the property of territorial area.

Previously, the area option in the attribute column of the territory did not match the actual area of ​​the territory for a long time. This situation is not limited to Shanhai City, it is the case in most territories now.

Therefore, Gaia simply canceled this tasteless attribute.

[7] Further slow down the construction of buildings.

The construction speed of buildings in the game has a special bonus, which is much faster than the construction speed in reality. A house that takes half a year to build in reality can be completed in a few days in the game.

This update is to slow down the construction speed slightly. The construction time of each building has been increased by at least three times, and some are even five or six times.

It's not just construction that is slowing down, ships, artillery, etc. are all forced to slow down. Previously, it only took about half a month for Shanhaicheng Shipyard to build a building ship.

Now I'm afraid it will take more than one and a half months, or even two months.

It will definitely have a huge impact on Shanhai City's shipbuilding industry and greatly reduce production.

This is also to be closer to reality, and at the same time increase the cost of territory construction in a disguised way. Especially for territorial infrastructure, it is a huge challenge.

What the lord can do is to continuously climb the technology tree and improve construction efficiency.

Gaia's move can be regarded as well-intentioned.

[8] Changes to alliance settings.

A territory that has formed a city-state or joined an alliance cannot form an alliance with a territory outside the city-state or alliance. For example, this kind of cooperation between [Yanhuang League] and [Yunnan City-State] will not be allowed in the future.

Similarly, Shanhai City cannot form an alliance with members other than [Shanhai League]. Unless the member is included in the scope of the [Shanhai League], it is not considered a violation.

For example, the [Mediterranean Alliance] formed by Shanhai City in the Mediterranean Sea, including the [Shanhai League-Phoenix League] formed by Phoenix Prisoner Huang, are considered illegal operations.

If cross-alignment has occurred, Gaia will not deal with it based on its consistent principles.

【9】Unlock more manufacturing technologies.

In the wilderness, every manufacturing technique manual is extremely precious, and is regarded as a treasure by the lords. Due to the scarcity of technical manuals, the technical level gap between territories is too large.

Taking Shanhai City as an example, the weapons and equipment of Shanhai City have surpassed those of other territories by a large margin. He also exclusively enjoys many patented technologies, such as shipbuilding, artillery, etc., so as to form a technological monopoly and reap huge profits.

Obviously, in Gaia's eyes, this kind of technological advantage should be slightly controlled in Gaia's four years.

Therefore, in the coming time, Gaia will release a large number of technical manuals into the wilderness. As long as the lords are willing, some conventional technical manuals can be obtained.

The intention is to break down the technical barriers and promote the improvement of the overall technical level of the wilderness. For Shanhaicheng, the era of dividends formed by relying on technical manuals is about to fade away, and it will never return.

Gaia's move is not unreasonable.

After all, compared to the "low" cost of obtaining technical manuals in Shanhai City, the profits earned are already very considerable, and it is really not greedy to want to monopolize it forever.

The real intention of Gaia is to urge all the territories not to stick to the rules, but to innovate on the basis of the ancient technical manuals and improve to a higher level, so as to form new technological advantages.

The whole process is driven by the territory's scientific and technological research and development strength.

When the future comes to the planet of hope, the lords need to deal with various unknown challenges, and there is no future for sticking to the rules. Combined with the planetary environment, secondary research and development is the right way.

Ouyang Shuo established the Equipment R&D Center and the Industry Department before, and this was the intention. Taking weapons and equipment as an example, by the time Tang Dao forging technology became popular in the wilderness, Shanhai City had already developed an upgraded version of Tang Dao.

In this way, the technical advantage can still be maintained. And this advantage is that Gaia cannot take it back, nor can it be settled for other territories. Explained in modern terms, this is the exclusive core technology, unique.

This is the advantage of rebirth, without this forward-looking, how can Shanhai City be one step ahead in everything.

Of course, for other lords, this update is undoubtedly a major benefit. If they operate properly, they can greatly shorten the gap with giants like Shanhai City in a short period of time.

Shanhai City can also take this opportunity to supplement the technical shortcomings of the territory, such as glass manufacturing technology, rubber manufacturing technology and other technologies that are not currently available.

It can also be regarded as an inspiration for the industrialization of the territory.

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After checking the system update, Ouyang Shuo was also filled with emotion. The biggest benefit of this round of update is the adventure player. For the lord player, whether it is good or bad cannot be accurately evaluated, and it varies from person to person.

Unlike other games, the update of Gaia is basically not a patch, but more game content is released as the game progresses, so as to enrich the entire game world.

At the same time, there is another big principle, which is to cultivate and experience more powerful "lords". The updates that Gaia rolls out cannot be understood without understanding this supreme principle.

Gaia, as the host of the federation, has actually been improving "Earth Online". A complete data base is the game activities of hundreds of millions of players in the game.

Therefore, in addition to the annual routine update, some details have been updated unconsciously. For example, the adjustment of the forum section, the fine-tuning of the weather system, the adjustment of the ecosystem and so on.

Just as Ouyang Shuo closed the forum, a series of system prompts suddenly came from his ears.

"System prompt: Wangcheng Chengdu/Dali has set the relationship with Shanhaicheng as hostile, and the relationship between the two parties is automatically rated as [hostile], please let the players know."

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Looking at it this way, the Dali court doesn't seem to agree with Shanhai City's attack on [Yunnan city-state]. Ouyang Shuo had a headache when he thought that Shanhai City would have to be recognized by the Dali court when it was promoted to the capital in the future.

"System prompt: The relationship between Wangcheng Jingdu/Jianye/Xiangyang/Chang'an and Shanhai City is set as neutral, and the relationship between the two parties is automatically rated as [neutral]. Players please know."

None of the four royal cities had settled in yet, so setting them as neutral did not exceed Ouyang Shuo's expectations.

"System prompt: The relationship between Wangcheng Quanzhou/Xianyang/Luoyang and Shanhai City is set as friendly, and the relationship between the two parties is automatically rated as [Friendly]. Please let the players know."

Quanzhou has close business ties with Shanhai City, coupled with the bond of Mazu, it is normal to set it as [friendly]. It's just that Ouyang Shuo didn't expect that Qin Shihuang and Han Wudi also had a good impression of Shanhai City, so he was a little flattered, presumably it had something to do with Bai Qi, Xiao He, Huo Qubing and others.

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Ouyang Shuo was about to go to the Wishing Silver Building when another system announcement sounded.

"System Announcement: On the occasion of the third anniversary of the operation of "Earth Online", the game will release the third expansion piece [Wulin Fengyun]. For details, please log on to the official website to check."

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As soon as the announcement came out, the arena that countless adventure players, especially knight players, have been waiting for has finally arrived!

Interested players even linked the just-released system update with the expansion pack. Doesn't the opening of the martial arts school just kick off the prelude to "Wulin Fengyun"? !

Gaia also has a purpose in choosing to release this expansion at this time.

The battle has passed the Three Kingdoms, and the next period is the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. During this period, the buds of various factions in the martial arts are slowly blooming.

As the battle progresses, sects will continue to appear in the wilderness, and the situation will meet.