[Next settlement time: 7 months later]
[About to replenish system funds, target amount: 60 million]
[System funds 53.28 million being replenished…]
[System funds replenishment complete]
[System funds: 60 million + 32.03 million]
[Fixed assets: 320.28 million]
[Infrastructure projects: None]
[Personal assets: 2.725 million]
[Permanent reward details:]
[An additional 10% increase on the original conversion amount.]
[50% of the current cycle’s initial system funds can be used for charitable activities.]
[For each cycle where wealth conversion value reaches 800,000 or above, you will receive a *significantly impactful* mysterious reward.]
[Can consume a certain amount of personal assets to increase the profit-sharing quota of a certain industry, at a ratio of 1:100. Can be used once in the current cycle, and the consumed personal assets must not exceed 100,000.]
[Current uncompleted project: Jingji Hotel roller coaster project, must be officially open to the public in the next cycle.]
The system listed all the permanent rewards that were currently still in effect. In addition, there had also been some one-time rewards, such as reducing system funds by completing learning tasks, random technology breakthroughs, and other rewards that had already been used, which were not included here.
Having completed the settlement again, Pei Qian finally let out a sigh of relief.
It was mainly a mental relaxation.
Physically, Pei Qian had been sleeping until he naturally woke up every day, and had been consistently eating from Slackin’ Delivery, with a relatively balanced diet. His body was in great shape, and he had a good appetite.
However, Pei Qian couldn’t start resting immediately. To ensure that each project could be successfully completed before the next cycle’s settlement, he still needed to assign tasks to each department first.
After that, Pei Qian would have one to two months of rest time without any worries.
Pei Qian felt somewhat emotional—time flew by so quickly.
In the blink of an eye, this was already the system’s tenth settlement.
Pei Qian felt that his growth and progress were quite obvious, from being at a loss about making money at the beginning of the settlements, to now being able to consistently achieve losses and obtain special rewards.
Clearly, as Tenda Group continued to develop and grow stronger, the system would also make certain adjustments to the rules.
Just not knowing when the next system update would be.
Pei Qian felt that he should take advantage of the time before the system updated to grab as many benefits as possible.
Otherwise, given the system’s character, if it implemented another system upgrade based on the Matthew Effect in the future, Pei Qian might not be able to handle it.
In terms of the specific management model for Tenda Group, Pei Qian was also completely different from when he first started.
At the beginning, Pei Qian just wanted to lose money without any specific plans. When one industry made money, he would hastily start a new industry.
As a result, the various departments mysteriously started coordinating with each other.
Now there were too many departments in Tenda Group, and Pei Qian himself couldn’t manage them all. Many times, he let departments he couldn’t attend to operate in a state of benign neglect.
Now Pei Qian’s policy was to focus on the major issues and leave the minor ones.
Previously, he always wanted to sabotage money-making industries to make them lose money, but found the results unsatisfactory. Not only did they not lose money, but they made even more.
So, for those industries that were already profitable, Pei Qian felt that if there were no good ideas, it was better not to interfere.
Letting them slowly make money was still better than giving some pointers and suddenly seeing them boom.
The focus should be on new industries with greater hopes for losses, striving to achieve everything in one go, losing all the money made by other industries at once—this was more practical.
In addition, for some industries related to people’s livelihoods, such as Sloth Apartments, Slackin’ Delivery, etc., Pei Qian couldn’t be bothered to manage them anymore. If they lost money, that was good; if they made money, they wouldn’t make much anyway. It was like contributing to society while losing money.
There were quite a few things to be busy with this cycle. Pei Qian had found a small notebook to make notes, afraid he might forget.
“Where to start?”
“Hmm… let’s start with the gaming department.”
Pei Qian flipped through his small notebook. Currently, Tenda Group actually had three gaming departments: the original Tenda Gaming Department, Shangyang Games, and Chi Xing Studio.
Tenda Gaming Department had already decided to develop “Eternal Cycle,” and Chi Xing Studio had confirmed they would make “Real Estate Agent Simulator.”
The only thing that hadn’t been decided was what Shangyang Games would make.
“This time, we must create a project with a very, very low chance of success!”
Pei Qian flipped through the types of games Tenda had already made, pondering what kind of new project he should arrange for Shangyang Games.
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August 1st, Wednesday.
In the meeting room of Shangyang Games, Pei Qian prepared to lead everyone in a brainstorming session.
Because after thinking hard for a long time yesterday, he couldn’t come up with very good ideas.
One could only say that a single person’s wisdom is ultimately limited.
Perhaps today, brainstorming together with everyone, they might come up with good ideas?
Core members like Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin had all arrived. Everyone was clearly very excited about the new game they were going to make.
Tenda Gaming Department had already decided to make “Eternal Cycle.” Although it was just a DLC for “Look Back and You’re on Shore,” anyone who knew a little about this game’s mechanics would know that it wasn’t just a DLC.
It was just slightly smaller in scale, but the game mechanics were completely overhauled. It would be perfectly fine to call it a sequel to “Look Back and You’re on Shore.”
Shangyang Games and Tenda Gaming had always been in fierce competition. Since Tenda Gaming was already making a very excellent game, Shangyang Games certainly couldn’t fall behind!
With Mr. Pei overseeing, this would definitely be another classic work, without a doubt.
However, this new project was somewhat different at the inception stage.
Previously, Mr. Pei would point out a few directions for everyone. Although these directions seemed a bit vague, they were puzzles given by Mr. Pei. In reality, Mr. Pei had already thought about the ultimate form of the game.
Everyone just needed to restore the complete form of the game in Mr. Pei’s mind based on the clues he provided, and the task would be considered complete.
But this time the situation was slightly different. Mr. Pei didn’t seem to have a very specific idea, but rather let everyone brainstorm to jointly determine the general direction of the game.
Clearly, this would further increase the proportion of everyone’s ideas in the game design plan.
Both Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin were guessing whether this was because Shangyang Games had already produced many successful games, and the entire studio’s design and production levels had improved, so Mr. Pei was consciously guiding everyone towards higher difficulty?
Was Mr. Pei trying to reduce Shangyang Games’ reliance on his ideas, and making an effort to ensure that Shangyang Games could continue to produce many well-received excellent works even without his ideas?
It should be so.
Therefore, everyone was extremely focused, hoping they could keep up with Mr. Pei’s thinking.
Looking around at everyone at the conference table, Pei Qian somehow felt the atmosphere was a bit peculiar.
What was with these people’s expressions, looking as if they had been injected with chicken blood!
It was just opening a new project, was there any need to be so excited?
Well, be excited if you want.
Remember your current expressions of anticipation, because in a few minutes, they will turn into confusion!
Most people had arrived, and Pei Qian decided to formally begin.
“Today’s meeting is a brainstorming session to decide specifically what our next new game will be. Everyone should speak freely, and everyone will have a chance to speak.”
“Even if you feel your ideas aren’t mature, it doesn’t matter. Don’t feel embarrassed. Many excellent designs are born from seemingly unreliable ideas.”
“First…”
“Let’s all think about what type of game we should make.”
Obviously, the first step was to determine the game type.
Although the goal was to make a random game with the intention of losing money, the game type still needed to be clear. If the game type wasn’t clear, Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin would have a lot of room for interpretation, and the final product might end up vastly different from what Pei Qian had in mind.
For other game companies, this often meant project failure and financial loss, but for Tenda, it usually meant huge profits.
Therefore, Pei Qian needed to eliminate these uncertainties as much as possible.
Everyone looked at each other, and soon many raised their hands to speak.
“I think an action game would be good!”
“Doubt VR glasses are selling well, and ‘Fitness Showdown VR Edition’ is also very popular. How about taking this opportunity to develop a VR game masterpiece?”
“I think we could make an FPS game, preferably for both PC and mobile.”
“Can we consider an MMORPG?”
Everyone was talking over each other, saying all sorts of things.
Although everyone present was a designer, different designers also had different game preferences. In this unrestricted situation, everyone’s comments would obviously be influenced by their own game preferences.
They would say whatever came to mind.
Pei Qian listened silently, and his already chaotic thoughts became even more chaotic.
This way of discussion wouldn’t work!
Because everyone present was a core member of Shangyang Games, having been in game development for so long, they were all very skilled. The proposals they put forward, although influenced by personal preferences, were basically quite feasible.
Even if some of the proposals seemed to have a chance of failure, such as making a relatively retro time-charged MMORPG, upon closer examination, the chance of failure was still not high enough.
Such a game, even if developed in a conventional way, would likely find buyers.
So, he needed to find a way to guide everyone back to the correct discussion method.
Pei Qian gently tapped the table: “Everyone, please wait a moment.”
“Each person has their own ideas, which is a good thing, but this way of discussion makes it difficult to form a unified opinion.”
“How about this, I’ll give everyone a simple direction.”
“What do you all think, which type of game is one that our company has done relatively little of, and where our foundation is relatively weak?”
“Preferably a single-player game.”
The reason for adding the last sentence was mainly for safety.
Indeed, Tenda had not yet made a large-scale multiplayer online role-playing game, i.e., an MMORPG, but developing such a thing still carried too high a risk of success.