That afternoon, all the supplies in the Stormwind Gang's main camp were tallied.
In addition to the secret vault, they also found 700 tons of fresh water, 220 tons of fuel, a large amount of ammunition, and enough food for Red Iron Town to eat for two weeks.
There were over 20 lightly damaged vehicles, but these vehicles had outdated designs, not only having very limited combat power but also inferior speed and range compared to Cangyuan's new armored all-terrain vehicles, which Lu Yuan completely disdained.
Their best fate was to be melted down and re-smelted into steel, along with the wreckage of all vehicles destroyed in previous battles and the tin houses in the camp, which could provide Red Iron Town with approximately 3500 tons of alloy raw materials.
This already exceeded Red Iron Town's annual alloy output, meaning the smelter needed to be expanded.
As expected, Hart's room was searched, and a large amount of jewelry and luxury items were found, including high-grade tobacco and alcohol produced in Oasis City, which now became campaign souvenirs for the players.
After this battle, Cangyuan, which was already developing rapidly, instantly got another wave of wealth!
Although the cold fusion battery had less than 3% charge left, it could still last for over a year at a maximum discharge power of 2 megawatts.
Lu Yuan planned to send it to Red Iron Town, which could immediately fill 70% of its electricity gap.
The "Lion Hunt" campaign event thus successfully concluded!
Lu Yuan handed the kill count statistics work to the Butler AI; it would compile the number of kills and assists from all players' kill videos, as well as the total value of destroyed vehicles, thereby calculating the honor points they should receive after the event concluded.
For Lu Yuan, manually counting the task experience of 25 players every day was already the limit; similar work in the future could only be entrusted to AI.
Including the economic system.
As Cangyuan's scale grew larger, the number of goods produced increased, and the industrial chain became more complex, relying solely on manually allocating production capacity and products would definitely not work.
It was time to update the economic and monetary systems.
Players all had pads and electronic bracelets, meaning everyone had electronic payment hardware; on this basis, issuing Cangyuan's own electronic currency was just a matter of lifting a finger for Lu Yuan.
He alone could simultaneously play the roles of both the central bank and commercial banks.
However, whether to simultaneously launch savings and lending functions with the monetary system, what the reserve requirement ratio should be, how to control prices, what inflation rate is considered healthy, through what mechanism to distribute currency to players, how to control currency over-issuance...
Just thinking about it gave him a headache.
If Xing Hai was just a game, Lu Yuan, as the planner and GM, could of course forcibly reclaim a large amount of idle currency from players through means such as high-level equipment, high-level dungeon tickets, and high-level skill tuition fees, roughly controlling inflation.
Just like in most mobile games and online games.
In the early stage, a task yielded tens of yuan in income, and a piece of equipment hundreds; in the later stage, a task yielded millions in income, and a piece of equipment hundreds of millions.
It didn't matter.
But the problem was, this was a real world.
The same currency would also be used for trade with other forces in the future; in this situation, the company internally couldn't arbitrarily set high prices for various goods and services, otherwise players would all go outside to consume cheap imported goods, causing a large outflow of funds, deflation, currency devaluation, and a decline in monetary credit, leaving him to just look at the reports and worry like an idiot.
Restrict players from trading externally as individuals, and control all import and export businesses himself?
Doing that would also cause significant problems.
Lu Yuan's primary goal was to make Cangyuan grow and strengthen, and the economic system existed to assist this goal.
Suppressing players' enthusiasm for getting rich and becoming stronger, and constantly exploiting them, was equivalent to forcefully holding Cangyuan's head down and preventing it from growing taller, which was putting the cart before the horse.
By then, if Cangyuan were destroyed due to insufficient strength, players would just log off when the server shut down, but he would be paying with his life.
Based on the same reasoning, there should be no gameplay restrictions in the future; the number of times players can clear dungeons or complete tasks daily should not be forcibly limited, and the so-called "class balance" should not be achieved through weakening.
Everything should be aimed at "becoming stronger".
This was not a game, but a cruel wasteland universe packaged as a casual game!
Players could get into character, but he couldn't revive, so he couldn't get too deeply involved!
In fact, even real game companies in parallel universes were gradually abandoning game mechanisms that restricted player freedom and starting to use rewards more to guide player behavior.
With so many competing products on the market, players would always vote with their feet and play games with less annoying mechanisms.
In short, frankly speaking, even if all players were brought together for non-stop meetings and discussions day and night, it wouldn't necessarily solve the economic problems in Xing Hai.
Fortunately, there was now a Butler.
Whether this "management AI" was truly capable or not, let's test it with the task of 【Establishing a Stable Economic System】.
As the sun set, the players moved the supercomputer out of the shelter, lifted it onto a vehicle, and prepared to transport it back to the main camp.
Leaving aside the issue of it being an electricity guzzler, this guy's immense computing power was actually also a rare resource.
But what exactly it could be used for still needed Nan Guo de Xue to thoroughly research.
"Alright, let's go back!"
Lu Yuan shouted to the players, having no intention of staying here for long.
It was true that the shelter could defend against nuclear bombs, but the internal space was limited and not suitable for placing production facilities, plus a lot of construction had already been done on Devil Mountain, and the nuclear missile defense system was taking shape, so he temporarily did not plan to relocate here, only leaving a few mechanical guards to defend it.
In the future, he could consider opening a branch base here to properly develop underground dungeons, small and medium-sized Raiders camps, and such in the depths of the Desert, strengthening control over the surrounding areas.
"Going home~"
Victory Male God happily jumped onto the all-terrain vehicle.
"Stealing other people's stuff is just more satisfying than making it yourself!"
The players were all in high spirits, showing no signs of fatigue from the battle; of course, this battle was indeed relatively easy.
The local Raiders of Li Star were no longer a match for Cangyuan and had completely become wild monsters.
"Speaking of which, by this time tomorrow, we should know how many honor points we got, right?"
"It won't take that long, I estimate it'll be about ready by tomorrow morning in reality."
"Great, I'll just log in and check when I'm taking a paid poop!"
"Speaking of which, how much production capacity does power armor currently correspond to?"
"For basic power armor, using only one small 3D printer, it's about one set per week."
"That's probably not quite enough... Can we borrow other people's honor points first this time, and then pay them back with interest after the next event is over?"
"Hey... you've got a lively mind, there's a chance!"
In private, the players were already developing new rules.
"Alright! Everything that can be loaded is loaded. For fuel and water, we'll need to come back and transport them a few more times later! Let's set off first!" Black Smoke, with the air of a veteran, patted the truck door that Caoyuan was responsible for driving.
"Caoyuan, speaking of moments like this victory, shouldn't you show off your singing voice?"
"Alright, I'll sing! Sun↓sets↑in↓the↑west↑..."
"Haha, this song is fitting!"
Amidst the loud chorus and cheering, Lu Yuan got into Nan Guo de Xue's car.
He had basically ridden in all the players' cars; among them, Guo Li Cheng's driving skills were the most indescribable, Black Smoke's car was fast but the bumpiest, and Chang Kong would drive over and fly off any slope he saw...
In comparison, Xue Jie's car was still the most stable to drive.