Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 471: 454: The Endless Points Competition

Two days passed quickly in the laboratory.

All the components Lincoln needed to process were completed and delivered to the place Henry had prepared – a warehouse of a medium-sized racetrack in the suburbs of Xiajing City.

Since this was not some secret technology, and Lincoln even planned to livestream it, they prioritized distance and equipment factors when choosing the location.

After spending a morning at the company, Lincoln went to the racetrack in the afternoon to join Zhou Jingzheng and a group of experienced engineers to assemble the components.

—Although these veteran engineers looked more like ordinary workers, their skills were still intact.

At Prosthetic Journey Company, after the development of auditory and visual aids [Eight Sides], lower limb assistive devices [Journey], and upper limb assistive devices [Heavenly Craft], they all became Lincoln’s employees and completed their upgrades at a significant discount.

Now, their skills and abilities are no less than when they were younger.

It might be difficult for them to catch up with the latest technology directly.

But dealing with hundred-year-old stuff?

That couldn’t be easier!

After hearing about Lincoln’s requirements, the group of people enthusiastically volunteered, and stubbornly refused to accept overtime pay.

Some of them even moved in around the racetrack after bringing their equipment, and had been busy assembling things these days with high efficiency.

Zhou Jingzheng assured Lincoln on the phone, “Whether you come or not, we can make it in time! Absolutely safe and reliable! You can rest assured!”

However, Lincoln still had to go to the site to participate in the final assembly work.

But before he went there, he still had a lot of things to deal with—

Leander came over to apply for more flexible working hours for the live streaming department.

Lincoln thought about it and readily agreed, as the peak live streaming hours were indeed in the evening.

Of course, he didn’t forget to remind Leander to strictly control the daily working hours and to ensure that overtime pay was given in full.

Next was the matter of the new office space.

A five-story office building in the park had just become available and was looking for tenants.

However, contrary to Lincoln’s expectations, the place was vacated not because the previous company had gone bankrupt.

—On the contrary, the company had made a lot of money, expanded its business, and moved to a larger office building.

Although it was a bit surprising, Lincoln still arranged for the housekeeper Quentina to communicate with them as soon as possible.

If they can buy it, they’ll buy it. If they can’t buy it, they’ll rent it.

Lincoln also told Quentina that in this park, if there are any vacant buildings, they should buy them if possible, rent them if not, and strive to take them all.

Cloud Dream’s expansion speed will soon fill up these buildings.

Not to mention that outside of Cloud Dream, Lincoln also employs a large number of part-time workers who help with various tasks in the virtual world.

If they ever decided to work full-time, Lincoln would immediately accept them without hesitation.

So, it’s always good to have more office space.

At the very least, they can use it to store letters from players and gifts sent by them.

The storage room in the original office space had long been full, and Lincoln was reluctant to move things to his home – who would want to bring dozens of boxes of razor blades into their home?!

Now these things have started invading the storage rooms of the new office buildings, forcing Quentina to start selling them off.

Compared to the virtual office, which can be as large as needed, Cloud Dream in reality has an enormous demand for space!

Liang Tian finally settled the experience store in his small hometown county and returned to Xiajing City.

Immediately afterward, he embarked on another busy business trip with Lincoln’s new task of “opening experience stores all over the country”.

Randall and Fred, after receiving Lincoln’s new “Battlefield” development plan and with only a week left on the countdown, became the busiest people at Cloud Dream this week.

Next was the “My World” development team led by Little Chun, whose game was already completed and had undergone two rounds of small-scale internal testing.

Now, it was time to carry out a large-scale test, which was already planned, so there was no need to panic.

Lincoln, out of goodwill, didn’t want to clash with Flying Fox’s “The Last Moment” on the same day, so he planned to advance the closed beta to tonight to give them some breathing room to get attention.

“The Last Moment” might be Flying Fox’s only lifesaver, so it’s better to give them a hand…

If they still release the game on the same day as Flying Fox’s on Friday, following Cloud Dream’s previous schedule, their game might be directly ignored by the players.

Lincoln pondered: At least they are a partner, so let’s not be too harsh.

.Lincoln quickly arranged numerous tasks like a hot knife through butter.

Even so, by the time he finished, it was already noon. After quickly eating a few bites of food, he hurried to the racetrack.

The live streaming will start tomorrow morning, so they are a bit pressed for time.

Lincoln’s busyness doesn’t even allow him time to go to the “Speedy Chase” operation team and check the first day of the preliminary selection for the Card King and Mahjong God today.

Of course, the lack of his attention will not have any effect on the popularity of the competition.

The preliminary selection competitions, which catered to older users, had no complicated procedures.

Once registration was completed and participants walked into Paradise Casino, there would be visible arrow signs guiding them to their tables.

As there were numerous contestants, there was no need to wait.

Upon entering the casino gate, players were instantly matched with teammates. By the time they stepped into the lobby, they had already entered the mirror of the matching result.

Within a minute, they could find their table and sit down, starting the game under the guidance of the NPC referee.

With two days of preparation over the weekend, everyone was fully aware of the rules of Card King and Mahjong God.

National standard mahjong rules were already systematic, and Yunmeng directly moved them over. All participants needed to do was remind themselves not to mix up the rules.

But Landlord is different; it doesn’t have any rigid rules that are universally recognized.

There isn’t even a consensus when several people play.

Cloud Dream conducted a survey and considered the selection rules of the competition before finally deciding to split into groups of three, giving each person 20 chips.

If the landlord loses, they give 2 chips to each of the other two players; if the landlord wins, the other two players give the landlord 2 chips each.

This continues until one person loses all their chips, at which point they switch tables and rematch.

During this process, for each win, the landlord receives 2 points, while ordinary players receive 1 point; for each loss, the landlord loses 2 points, while ordinary players lose 1 point.

Once a player accumulates 10 points, they can submit their score and pass the first round.

If a player has less than 10 points, they can continue to compete indefinitely, even if they have negative points.

This ensures that experts with bad luck are not eliminated.

At the same time, there is a special mechanism –

Even if a player accumulates 10 points, they can choose not to submit their score, keep playing, and earn more points.

When the first round of preliminary selection ends, the top 1000 players with the highest scores can skip the second round and directly enter the third round.

Meanwhile, chips won at the table won’t be taken back and will be added to the player’s earnings.

This leads to many people who originally planned to leave after qualifying to forget their initial thoughts and get more and more excited as they see their chips pile up!

They even forget to eat.

The competition started at 8 am, and it’s been over six hours since Lincoln arrived at the temporary assembly workshop.

The number of players with more than 10 points has exceeded 1.6 million.

However, there are not even 100,000 players who chose to submit their scores and end the competition!

Meanwhile, on the Cloud Dream Live Broadcast Platform,

a small-time anchor, whose live streams hadn’t made much impact in the past three days when compared to the many anchors who were active on Saturday and Sunday, had suddenly become the most eye-catching figure.

The reason is simple –

This guy’s competition score has already reached 78 points!

He has switched tables six times, been the landlord 18 times, and an ordinary player 42 times. His current winning rate is 100%!

He has even planned to change his name to Gambling God after he finishes streaming!