Ultimately, in the game that Cao Haichuan and Li Renshu participated in, the three communities compromised with each other and reached an agreement:
They would roughly distribute total wealth in a 4:3:3 ratio, with Civilian communities having to distribute earnings completely evenly internally and not threaten Conglomerate rule.
Meanwhile, the Conglomerate community spent the entire time nervously concentrating wealth to maintain their ruling position. They couldn’t achieve rapid investment appreciation, didn’t excessively encroach on Civilian communities’ interests, and didn’t dare rashly raise taxes to intensify conflicts.
Only when all three parties reached consensus did they dare to slightly raise taxes, then cancel them after establishing wealth advantages.
The three parties ended the 20-round game under this "full of bugs but functional" situation.
Wang Yongxin was somewhat speechless. This Conglomerate community simply gave him high blood pressure.
Starting with a god-tier opening and only getting 10% more in the end was simply embarrassing but thinking it over, with another Civilian community being smart and coming to sabotage, wanting to seize Conglomerate status without anyone noticing was indeed unrealistic.
Cao Haichuan’s group overall still preferred to complete the game through negotiation, cooperation, and mutual checks and balances.
Of course, Officer Cao definitely had sufficient sensitivity to textual traps or general schemes, which allowed him to counter-sabotage the other Civilian community’s conspiracies and maintain three-party balance but generally speaking, sabotage was much easier than planning, so this was a simple solution under specific circumstances.
With full cooperation, this game could probably achieve maximum earnings from around the 5th round. Considering that investment returns might not be maximized or collision-caused expiration losses, total earnings were roughly 1.8 million.Taking 30% and bringing out half, each person got roughly 65,000.
This could also be seen as the standard earnings achievable under three-party cooperation.
Earnings below this could basically be considered a serious crash.
Wang Yongxin knew that to execute this plan, Cao Haichuan was indispensable.
Because Cao Haichuan had rich criminal investigation experience, was good at reading people, could see through scheming people at a glance, and could provide certain deterrence through words or actions, the three parties could maintain this fragile balance.
If only Li Renshu, Fu Chen, and Zheng Jie were thrown in, whether this plan could succeed would still be questionable.
"Alright, our group’s situation was roughly like that, ordinary and unremarkable, with no special strategies, but it was stable.
"Brother Wang, why don’t you also talk about your group’s strategy? You’re the person who earned the most visa time." Li Renshu smiled and passed the topic to Wang Yongxin.
The other three people in Wang Yongxin’s group, Yang Yuting, Xu Tong, and Jiang He, were all very happy. After all, from the results, this group had averaged over 120,000 visa time, which was simply an ultimate favorable situation.
Wang Yongxin was also very willing to review his operations and further increase his influence within the community.
"After we went in, we were also assigned Civilian status.
"However, in this game, we had a natural advantage, which was our configuration of three women and one man.
"Another Civilian community was three men and one woman, which naturally looked aggressive.
"So to the Conglomerate community, we appeared more weak and bullied, naturally making us the preferred cooperation partner.
"After realizing this, I deliberately lowered my presence and pretended to be a marginal figure in the group.
"I let the three ladies complete all negotiation activities.
"This greatly won the Conglomerate community’s favor, so in the 3rd round, we seized Conglomerate status through textual traps in the rules, namely the method of one person maximizing the 3,000 work button earnings.
"The game after that was very simple.
"I created prisoner’s dilemmas between the two Civilian communities, constantly using various small benefits to break down their mutual trust, ultimately taking away most of the in-game earnings while only triggering wealth shrinkage once or twice."
Zheng Jie didn’t quite understand, "What do you mean by small benefits?"
Wang Yongxin smiled, "Very simple. After we seized Conglomerate status and showed our true colors, the other two Civilian communities would definitely want to unite and achieve mutual loss by triggering wealth shrinkage.
"We weren’t intimidated and continued investing normally.
"Among the two Civilian communities, there were always those players with little visa time and weak wills.
"When the timing was about right, I would find these players and express willingness to invest in them immediately. As long as they accepted the investment behavior, I would give them this ’investee receives all earnings’ investment voucher.
"They would hold this voucher themselves, but when it expired, I as the investor had to go redeem the earnings.
"I told them this voucher was already purchased, so there were only two possibilities: First, I don’t redeem it, then the voucher expires and can only be recycled for 2,000; Second, I redeem it and they immediately get 18,000.
"As long as one person couldn’t resist the temptation, it would cause a chain reaction, completely collapsing the mutual trust between the two Civilian communities."
Zheng Jie was very surprised, "Ah? This works too?
"Indeed, compared to verbal promises with no proof, an investment voucher already written to give the investee all earnings is more convincing.
"This has similarities to Lawyer Lin’s operation of buying likes with exchange vouchers in the ’Blind Date Game’.
"Players with unsteady wills definitely can’t resist this kind of temptation."
Wang Yongxin nodded, "Exactly. Once the weak link is breached and the two Civilian communities can no longer trust each other, we gained absolute initiative.
"In the final few rounds, we raised tax rates as much as possible to harvest the Civilian communities’ wealth, and the game ended.
"Of course, I didn’t go that far in the end and still left about 30% of the earnings for the two Civilian communities.
"Moreover, due to wealth shrinkage caused by Civilian community resistance during the process and not maximizing investment returns, the total wealth we ultimately obtained didn’t reach the theoretical limit of over 1.8 million, only around 1.5 million, which was still a bit regrettable."
According to Wang Yongxin’s account, although they didn’t reach the theoretical wealth limit, as Conglomerate players they took nearly 70%, so their earnings were still the most substantial among everyone.
The four players each brought back around 130,000 visa time.
Of course, if wealth were further concentrated, Wang Yongxin alone could have earned even more but he actually didn’t lack visa time much now, so using it to buy people’s hearts was a better choice.
He definitely couldn’t make the same mistake as in ’Blood Poker’ of taking everything for himself.
Zheng Jie suddenly thought of another doubt, "Wait, I still don’t understand how you guys seized Conglomerate status in the third round?"
Wang Yongxin cleared his throat, "This question is quite complex to explain. We have to start with this game’s ’age structure’..."
But before he could explain in detail, he was interrupted by Cai Zhiyuan.
"Our group also encountered this problem. Why don’t we wait until Qin Yao finishes reviewing our group’s game process, then explain in detail."
Qin Yao was surprised again, "Ah? I’m doing the review?"
Cai Zhiyuan nodded, "Yes, you do the review. Mainly to explain to everyone the cause and effect of Luo Wei choosing to leave the community.
"As for the details within the game, Lawyer Lin and I can supplement your account."