Antler City and Rune City are two styles that belong to the kind that is vast and sparsely populated.

The city has just begun to grow, and on the other hand, it is also a deliberate attempt by Paradise Eternal Darkness.

This experienced guild leader saw very clearly that Rune City has a plot foundation, it is easy to recruit civilian NPCs, it is only a matter of time before the population exceeds 50,000, and a large area of civilian residences and commercial areas is a realistic demand.

Antlers is different, to be precise, all other player cities are different, there is no need and no way to recruit so many civilians, and more urban space will be reserved for shops and guild buildings.

So in Antlers, you'll find wide, unseemly streets everywhere, as well as beautifully built buildings for different purposes waiting to be rented.

The two walked in the night, and the braziers on both sides of the road were burning all night, illuminating the neat and wide road, and there were billboards hanging on the streets and shops on both sides, half of which were from a well-known mobile game company in reality.

Virtual games and mobile games have a fair amount of overlapping audiences, especially for games like Echo of the Gods, which are fixed at night, so it's only fitting to advertise here.

"Already received so many ads? Is the flow of people at a new high? Lu Kuan looked around and asked with a smile.

"That's,"

Heaven did not hide the pride in his tone: "Anyway, I'm also the No. 1 Guild of Waiheke Harbor here, isn't it normal to be lively." ”

Lu Kuan laughed, of course it was normal.

A hundred miles south of Antlers City, the map of the Lost King City gradually unveiled its mystery, where most of the monsters are undead, and the coins dropped are almost zero, which is extremely depleting to the player's leveling.

However, the probability of refreshing treasures in the royal court is extremely high, as long as it is not an unfathomable unlucky person like Lu Kuan, you can find a small treasure chest in an average day, and at the same time make up for the leveling expenses, you can also have a lot of surplus.

Therefore, Antlers City is becoming more and more lively these days, and its popularity is firmly firmly at the top of the guild station.

On the road, a group of five carriages came from the opposite side, passing by the two of them, Lu Kuan covered his nose and frowned: "I said that you should also engage in greening, and if you are not good, you can also get some water, the stone roads are paved, and such a big dust is too bad for the scenery." ”

"Someone sprinkles water every day,"

Heaven Yongyin said helplessly: "It's too expensive to engage in greening, let's get something else done first, and greening is not in a hurry." ”

The cleanliness of the city directly affects the satisfaction of residents, and it will also involve the adjustment of the city's tax rate, and the best way to travel to the NPC's stay in the city is of course to do a good job of greening, so that the livability of the city is as high as possible.

Livability is one of the attributes of the city, it is a bit special, it is not that you can grow by planting hundreds of trees and laying a few flower beds, but it needs to be carefully designed, and then passed on by the NPCs to slowly rise, and the growth cycle is quite long.

A higher level of habitability can increase the city's stickiness to mobile NPCs, increase the loyalty of civilians very slowly, increase the city's reputation among NPCs, etc., which is a statistic that everyone is reluctant to invest in at the beginning, but cannot be ignored in the later stages of the game.

Especially for druids and certain elven subspecies, such as the ursa druids and forest dryads in Runeterra City, the attractiveness of cities with high habitability will increase exponentially.

At the beginning of the construction of Rune City, Lu Kuan spent a large amount of gold coins to maintain the original trees and shrubs in the city, and invited professional NPCs to carry out greening design, and calculated all the way, it cost no less than 200,000 gold coins just to purchase and transplant special ornamental trees.

Now, whether it's Riptide Harbor or Iron Boots, when it comes to the cities that NPCs in the taverns want to be, Runeone City is definitely the first choice - and with that, it's worth the money.

"Still have to squeeze out a little bit,"

Lu Kuan fanned away the flying dust with the palm of his hand, and said to Heaven Yongglo: "If you can't build a large-scale gardening, you can retreat to the next best thing, hire some druids to transplant big trees and shrubs in the wild, and then bring some water over, which can improve a lot." ”

"How much will it improve and how much will it improve the tax rate?" Heaven Eternal Darkness obviously has his own ideas, and he doesn't quite agree.

"Is 0.1 percentage point an improvement?" Lu Kuan said with a smile.

The president of the conference stared at him when he heard this: "Really fake, really influential?" ”

The 0.1% tax rate here is not the opposite of raising the livability of the city and then raising the tax rate, as many people think.

A higher livability can attract more mobile NPCs and players, expand the size of the city, so that tax revenues will rise, and managers can appropriately reduce taxes without reducing the city's income, attracting more people and business opportunities, forming a virtuous circle.

In this way, when the scale of development reaches a critical point, the overall tax of the city is on the low side, and a moderate increase can greatly increase the income of the city, and the impact on urban residents is also very small.

Whether this idealized scenario can be achieved depends largely on how to increase the attractiveness of the city in the first place, and increasing livability is only one way to do it.

Repair the city, reduce the teleportation cost, desperately rescue the dwarves, recruit NPCs, give more quest opportunities for players who come here, wipe out bandit and monster camps, and open trade routes......

All this Lu Kuan did was nothing more than for this purpose.

"It's not the same as the guild station in the previous game......

Listening to Lu Kuan's few words to explain the current situation thoroughly, Heaven Yongdim felt that the fog in front of him had been removed, and he saw a broad avenue that had been hidden.

Heaven Eternal Gloomy originally understood these truths, but he didn't think about Antler City, after all, the current scale of Antler City is still small.

"Take your time, lack of money? Then it's up to you to convince the financiers behind you,"

Lu Kuan looked at the general chief's thoughtful appearance, and said with a joke: "I have recently built a third teleportation array, and the cost is quite large, if you are really short of gold coins, I can withdraw more than 200,000 yuan from the reserve, but it will be calculated as interest." ”

Heaven Yongyin waved his hand when he heard this, and said arrogantly: "How can the reserves be used casually, don't worry, I have already figured out how to convince them." ”

Lu Kuan smiled when he heard this: "That's good." ”

The two walked and chatted, and walked around the inner wall corner ring road of Antler City, referred to as the outer ring road, and took in the watchtower under construction, the large roads and alleys paved with stones, and the vendors who got up early to pack up the small trucks and rush to the market to occupy their places.

At this time, Heaven Yongyan raised his hand and made a gesture, and Lu Kuan knew at a glance that the other party was receiving new news.

"Guess who's coming in?" Heaven Yong Paused for a few seconds, then turned around and asked Lu Kuan.

Lu Kuan raised his eyebrows, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he blurted out: "Blue gun? ”

Heaven Eternal Darkness first showed a surprised expression, then pointed at Lu Kuan and smiled, "You can guess this...... According to the news from the Blue Gun, the cliff where they were stationed had just collapsed. ”