Under the premise of having reached preliminary cooperation intentions, nitpicking over such trivial details was meaningless.
Han Mengying worried that Community 17 might play tricks, but couldn’t think of specific possibilities. If so, then limiting the key personnel of this plan could also serve a certain purpose.
She naturally knew that Qin Yao was equivalent to Lin Sizhi’s puppet and would definitely earnestly execute Community 17’s group decisions, but as a core member of this plan, if the ’Finance’ lacked powerful intellect and psychological qualities, they would very likely expose flaws when executing complex plans.
Having Qin Yao serve as finance was much safer than having Lin Sizhi do it personally but since Han Mengying designated Community 17’s ’Finance,’ she naturally couldn’t serve as Community 4’s finance anymore.
Cai Zhiyuan pointed to the person with the least presence in Community 4 so far, a male player who looked dull and wooden, Sun De.
"We choose him."
Han Mengying nodded decisively, "Fine, no problem."
Then she and Cai Zhiyuan looked toward Community 12.
Fan Zehui consciously stepped aside. Obviously, he would absolutely not be chosen in this situation.
Cai Zhiyuan’s gaze swept over the remaining three people, his expression somewhat hesitant.Indeed, these three were all weaklings, making it difficult to select the weakest one.
Han Mengying pointed at Zhou Rong, "Let’s go with this little sister."
Cai Zhiyuan immediately shook his head, "No, I choose this aunt."
Han Mengying asked, "Is there a difference?"
Cai Zhiyuan looked at her, "If there’s no difference, then I still choose the aunt. If it makes a difference to you, then I even more want to choose the aunt."
Han Mengying sighed helplessly, "Fine, then let’s choose Aunt Zhou as finance. There really isn’t much difference."
Zhou Guifen’s reaction was similar to Qin Yao’s, also completely bewildered.
She hadn’t expected that as someone just going through the motions, she would also be assigned such an important task.
However, this task wasn’t complex. As Han Mengying said, even somewhat slow people could handle it, so Zhou Guifen agreed.
After assigning the ’Finance’ for the three communities, everyone temporarily no longer needed to worry about any scheming problems and could wholeheartedly earn money through game mechanisms.
...
Soon, Community 17’s players also began reaching the 10,000 wealth investment threshold.
Lin Sizhi came out of the notary office, putting the investment voucher he had just obtained into his pocket.
The investment voucher contained very detailed information, including the investor and investee names, the specific round when investment returns would be generated, the investment plan (i.e., who specifically would obtain the investment returns), etc.
This was obviously to better remind players.
Without writing this, when players had many investment vouchers in hand, it would be difficult to remember clearly which voucher should be exchanged in which game round.
As the game continued, many people’s visa time had exceeded 10,000, and visits to the notary office to exchange investment vouchers became increasingly frequent.
After each game round began, the three communities each had to calculate their wealth ratios, also considering investments within communities or between communities. This calculation volume was substantial and quite brain-burning.
Especially trying to avoid situations where ’current round investment returns exceed limits.’
Once investment returns approached the 130,000 limit, going to the notary office to exchange investment voucher returns might result in losses or even rejection.
For example, if current investment returns had already been exchanged 7 times, taking away 126,000, then further exchanges could only get the remaining 4,000, after which nothing more could be exchanged and investment vouchers would be directly rejected.
When exchanging in the next round, investment vouchers would have expired and returns would directly shrink to 2,000.
This was quite painful loss, so everyone tried to avoid such situations.
If the investment return limit were 120,000, it could be roughly distributed according to a 2:1:1 ratio, saving much calculation but it was precisely 130,000, which couldn’t be evenly divided, requiring frequent adjustments between communities based on wealth ratios, further increasing difficulty.
"Luo Wei, go help Community 4 with more calculations," Cai Zhiyuan said to Luo Wei who had just come out of the notary office.
Luo Wei was stunned, "Huh? Why?"
Cai Zhiyuan lowered his voice, "We need to better grasp Community 4’s wealth situation. If Lawyer Lin and I went over, it would seem too deliberate.
"Qin Yao needs to serve as ’Finance’ and has no time.
"If you go help, they would most likely accept it."
Luo Wei hesitated somewhat, "But what about calculations for Community 12 and our community?"
Cai Zhiyuan reassured, "Don’t worry, these calculations aren’t complex. Lawyer Lin and I are sufficient to complete them."
Luo Wei looked over. At Community 12’s work buttons, Lin Sizhi was explaining things to Zhou Guifen.
Zhou Guifen kept nodding, though unclear whether she actually understood. In any case, she completely did as Lin Sizhi requested.
Obviously, because Lin Sizhi was excessively smart, players from other communities naturally kept respectful distance from him, fearing being deceived.
Only players like Zhou Guifen could have a few more words with him.
Luo Wei considered for a moment and nodded, "Alright, I’ll go check on Community 4.
"Do I need to execute missions like defection or something?"
Cai Zhiyuan shook his head, continuing to lower his voice, "Our community absolutely won’t kick anyone out, so we can’t utilize recruitment rules and don’t need to consider defection.
"Going over, you’re mainly observing Community 4’s ecology, feeling out these people’s personality traits and discourse power distribution methods. Perhaps you can find breakthrough points for subsequent strategies.
"Of course, if you can’t find any, that’s fine too. We can think of other methods."
Luo Wei frowned, "Isn’t it a bit late to start observing Community 4’s players and looking for breakthrough points now?
"At the current pace, with all of us cooperating for optimal efficiency, total wealth will quickly reach 500,000.
"By then Community 4 might very well change their tune. We should prepare for rainy days, right?"
Cai Zhiyuan sighed softly, "There’s no choice. Lawyer Lin and I have studied the rules many times, but this game isn’t a fair competitive game.
"As Civilian players, using mutual loss deterrence strategies as much as possible to achieve Nash equilibrium and leave with one-quarter of the returns is already the best result.
"No matter how good the strategy, without game rule support, it cannot be implemented."
Luo Wei asked somewhat uneasily, "Can we really be certain of taking away one-quarter of the returns?"
Cai Zhiyuan nodded, "Should be, yes."
Luo Wei wanted to say more but ultimately swallowed her words.
"Alright, I’ll go over the next time Community 4’s wealth ratio exceeds 50%, asking them for investment while inquiring whether they need help with calculations, and observing the three players besides Han Mengying along the way."