Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

“Didn’t you guys notice? Daxia has run to the seaport on the edge of the map. Isn’t that also for avoiding combat?”

“So our tactic and Daxia’s are essentially the same.”

“It’s just that our execution of the tactic is more extreme!”

Turner was full of confidence, analyzing the tactics and positions of the T1 War Zone—

“Daxia: Tactical correctness, but incomplete execution.”

“Russia: Big (muscles) but brainless, provoking the whole world, the path to death.”

Only for France, “Tactical correctness, complete execution, unified concept, great hope!”

*

The next morning, the same process, the T2 War Zone began voting to choose positions.

A discussion group was set up when the list was announced yesterday, but it had not yet reached work time, and the system personnel of Cloud Dream remained silent while lurking.

But this did not affect the players from different countries in discussing with each other.

Especially the six countries in the T2 War Zone, who had a heated discussion yesterday, and had mostly figured out their positions and tactics.

Therefore, the morning voting went very smoothly, and after a quick bargaining for less than an hour, all six areas completed their position selection.

The other two [five-star] resource zones, [Area 2: Industrial District] and [Area 6: Airport], were taken by Germany and Izumo respectively.

After that, the positions around the city quickly lost their attraction.

Although there are still many [four-star] resource zones distributed here, the remaining four countries in the T2 War Zone chose to stay away from this place and chose more peripheral areas.

Everyone foresaw that the intensity of the battles in this area would be amazing once the competition started!

Then Turner saw with some uneasiness: the tactics of the Ottoman Republic, Annan, and Italy in the T2 War Zone appeared one after another around France’s position.

Although there is still some distance between them, looking at the map, they were surrounded!

The only gap is in the north, but the north is blocked by the river passing through the city, and there obviously won’t be boats in the anti-aircraft hole, so crossing the river won’t be easy for them.

Faced with this situation, French players can only comfort themselves: the doors of the anti-aircraft hole are indestructible!

And they came up with two ideas—

Nothing new, it’s just the messy talk of alliance that has been mentioned many times before.

But unlike the previous void alliances, now that the positions have been determined, they can naturally target more accurately.

The first target of French players is: Daxia.

Not because Daxia is strong, but because of Daxia’s position: The seaport is in the southwest corner of the map, forming a straight line with the anti-aircraft hole and the city center.

If France successfully allies with Daxia, the three countries to the west, south, and southwest will be sandwiched between France and Daxia, making Daxia the ideal ally.

As a well-known French war reporter, Turner naturally took on this important “diplomatic task.”

With regard to this, Daxia’s war reporter Yi said: You’re right! We must form an alliance!

In the meantime, sensing the threat from France and Daxia, the Annan and Italian players also sent their own war reporters to seek an alliance with Daxia to ensure the security of their rear.

Daxia’s war reporter Super Tomato said: You’re right! We must form an alliance!

Then there were Germany and Izumo, which were relatively far away and would not have direct collisions in the early stage.

This time the war reporter Yelang said: You’re right! We must form an alliance!

…

In the morning, not only the countries of T1 and T2 War Zones but also Daxia had formed alliances with six countries – not including itself, only Russia and the Ottoman Republic were exceptions, and even the countries in the T3 War Zone had formed many alliances with Daxia.

Basically, they would accept everyone.

As long as you propose it, we’ll form an alliance.

Turner was in a mess because of this magical operation and couldn’t help but wonder if he should believe it…

*

Fortunately, by the afternoon, his worries were greatly alleviated –

As a large number of countries in the T3 War Zone chose their positions, the seemingly vast battlefield was quickly divided into separate areas.

Although it wasn’t packed in every corner, it gathered 36 countries across three war zones.

This was an unprecedented grand move.

Indeed, there are nearly 200 countries in the world, but there aren’t that many countries with a large market, and that have developed in Cloud Dream.

Many small countries have a low total population, and an even smaller gaming population, it’s not uncommon for a country to be unable to form a thousand-person team.

There are also some countries with large populations and sufficient numbers, but economically underdeveloped, with users able to afford the Mirage Console being extraordinarily scarce.

This issue is particularly evident in Africa.

Africa is unlike Europe or America, where there are no restrictions on Cloud Dream in terms of network standards or national policies, and one can have unrestricted access to it.

The only problem is: most African countries are extremely poor, with very poor basic conditions.

Not to mention how many families can afford the Mirage Console, even if a small number of people can afford it – there are always people with money in poor places – the infrastructure of most countries cannot provide good network conditions.

Apart from this, there are countries where there are no problems with population or economy, but the government prohibits the entry of Cloud Dream, Persia being a prime example.

Lincoln can see from the backstage that there are players in Persia who normally enter the virtual world, but the number is extremely, extremely small, and they are scattered in different games, unable to form a thousand-person team to play Battlefield.

It is because America is indeed so strong in terms of economy, market, and citizens that it can withstand strict bans and still put together a complete team to participate in the competition.

Under these circumstances, having 36 participating countries is already a miracle.

It wasn’t until this time that Turner realized: everyone seemed to be in a “double state of encirclement and being encircled.”

This is equivalent to returning to the same starting line, and the sense of worry naturally eased a lot.

*

At 5:00 PM Daxia time, the official live room was opened, and familiar commentators “Ren Jian” and “Zara” took their places and began warming up the audience.

At 5:30 PM Daxia time, the final roster was confirmed, and players who were not online automatically lost their eligibility to participate in the competition and were urgently replaced by randomly selected online players from the same country.

At 6:00 PM Daxia time, all participating players were transported into the venue simultaneously.

At this point, all positions were separated by a transparent barrier, and no one could enter or exit.

In the next half-hour, players had to find weapons and supplies in the position and arm themselves.

Finding weapons is not difficult; you can see them after walking a short distance.

But to arm 1000 people, that’s very difficult!

Players never expected that they would have to choose and equip their own weapons on the field, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.

At 6:30 PM Daxia time, many people were still struggling to choose what weapons to use, and all the barriers began to dissolve rapidly from top to bottom.

Time waits for no one; the battle has already begun.

As the battle began, a sharp air-raid siren echoed through the sky:

“Woo—”

“Woo—”

“Woo—”

Accompanied by the sharp whistling sound, a deep red system prompt appeared in every player’s vision:

“Warning!”

“Warning!”

“Nuclear weapons have entered combat deployment!”

“Please find the controller in time and terminate the nuclear missile launch!”

“WTF?! It’s real?” Super Tomato looked up at the sky in shock, “What if we can’t find it? Do we just get randomly bombed?”

“What is this? Nuclear bomb shrinking circle?”

“Can we even play like that???”