Chapter 6: Chapter 5: Market Value
While looking through the forums, my mind naturally drifted towards the ‘User-Submitted Content’. From what the description had said earlier on when I was assigning the magic system for Earth, this was an easy way to earn an income of points, though I doubted how useful it would be. For instance, how many people would assign their worlds an entirely new magic system if their own world had already progressed considerably? Most likely, the point income would come from either new Keepers, or Keepers that are starting new worlds.
However, there should be other types of content that Keepers can create and submit, such as special minerals or unique technology. This kind of content could be purchased by any Keeper, regardless of how long their world has been running. It would be an easy thing to place a formerly unknown element in a world and have it naturally discovered, or have a new technology created.
As such, I decided to look at what kinds of content was already there. To my surprise, there really was a lot. Elements like mithril, orichalcum, and a few others I’ve never heard of were present, as were many different systems. The Game System that my world was using was even listed in the User-Submitted Content, as well as several of the classes I was currently using in my world.
Well, it makes sense that was created by a Keeper. Maybe they wanted to make their world more like the Admin Room, with its video game theme. I nodded my head slightly, and continued looking. Each piece of content had its own price, as well as the ‘royalty’ which the original creator would receive. The royalty generally seemed to be 10% of the content’s actual price.
Now, what really surprised me was something else altogether. There were actually two pieces of custom content listed as being created by EarthForceOne, the username I was assigned. The first, ‘Random Power Mutation’, was listed as being worth 150 points, and caused people in the world to randomly mutate to gain special powers. However, from the comments on the thread, it did not seem like a popular choice, because of the very flaw that caused the death of the person who submitted it.
The second piece of content was ‘Warp Drive Connection’, a technology tree which allowed tech-themed worlds to connect to each other by means of faster than light travel. This one actually seemed more popular, even though it cost a whole 300 points. The price on that confused me, until I thought about it more deeply. The destination when using warp technology in scifi stories was not always fixed. More often than not, you would emerge at uninhabited worlds, or even completely empty space.
So, the high cost is actually an investment to get potentially unlimited extra worlds to start with. There was even a level of the tech tree which allowed you to choose whether or not discovered worlds were inhabited, and if so to assign them races. It didn’t say anything about what level of technology the new world would have, so I didn’t bother looking too deep. Even if I assume that I get 10% off as being technically the ‘creator’ of the content, which would normally be the royalty I receive when it is purchased, I am nowhere near able to afford that system.
Well, at least I’ll be able to get some income every now and then from people buying this. Though, maybe I should create my own content. It’s been long enough that anyone that wanted to buy the Warp Drive Connection could have done so during the previous Keeper’s reign. So again, I would probably need to wait a while before getting anything back for it.
Tilting my head back in thought, I first decided to check what other content had been published. If I see what isn’t an option for me to create, I can get hints on what would be. To my surprise, I found multiple systems that looked like they should have been considered magic systems. The first, and most obvious example, was a ritual system. By offering up certain items during a ceremony, it was possible to receive magical effects. How is that not a magic system!?
As I was wondering that, I caught sight of a tag at the bottom. It actually was a magic system, but was tagged as ‘Advanced’, whatever that meant. Maybe only magic systems that can be used quickly were listed at the start when you create a world?
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There was another system that was somewhat similar to that, listed by a LordSlow. This system was a skill-based system which awarded magical effects based on how well you performed certain skills, such as sculpting or music. I shuddered as I imagined how terrifying it would be to go to a death metal concert, and have that system suddenly activate.
Though… there was another piece of content submitted by the same person that caught my eye. This was a race template, meant to guide people to create races that would not destroy the balance of their world. This particular race was known as the Demon race. They had the unique trait of ‘Meritocracy Evolution’, meaning that they would evolve into different forms based on their own work. Their starting form was simply an imp with the lowest level of stats, but if that imp worked hard enough, and continued evolving, it could eventually become a demon king.
The Demon race content had a note attached to it, suggesting for users with already-developed worlds to wait until they received a new world in order to place the demons in. Then, connect the worlds through whatever means the Keeper wanted. That way, the demons would be able to develop without dying out as their weakest form.
I was tempted to buy that race immediately, as my world was still undeveloped for the most part. However, their cost was 50 points, and I couldn’t justify that kind of expense just yet. I’d wait until I had enough points, and if need be I would simply add them to the next world I received. That made me chuckle, as I planned for the next world to be a tech world. High tech demons would certainly be fun to play with.
For now, I at least had an idea of some things I could create. Fortunately, the last Keeper of Earth was a lazy slob, but he focused on cultural development so that he could get his entertainment. And that same entertainment industry, from books to television shows, could serve as the starting point for my new content.
The first thing that I submitted was a race of my own, named ‘The Forgotten’. They had a high intelligence and comprehension rating, though low physical abilities. Where they really shined were there unique traits. First was ‘Automated Memory Deletion’, a trait I defined as ‘Any living creature, the moment they look away from the possessor of this trait, completely forgets their existence’. Then came ‘Post-Hypnotic Suggestion’, an ability that already existed in the system to implant ideas in targets, and ‘Bioelectric Field’ to give them the power to generate and manipulate electric currents.
All hail the Doctor. I thought with a small grin, as I submitted the race. Not only would the Forgotten be a good race to develop in a new world alongside another race, it would also be very useful for invasions. If you throw in a few dozen, or even a few hundred, of them during an invasion, you could potentially make the Keeper’s own people assassinate him.
I wasn’t surprised when the race had the starting cost of 75 points, being a fairly expensive sapient species. What did surprise me, was that someone almost instantly bought it. Within five minutes, I was notified of the sale, and saw that I had two notifications waiting for me on the computer.
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