“And most of them are from India, China and some other countries of East Asia.”
International borders meant nothing for Royal Road. Any person from any country was able to enjoy the game using capsule. Even the language barrier was removed, thanks to the automatic speech translation software, provided by Unicon Corporation.
“I heard there’s a trading company in Korea that works only with Royal Road…”
“That’s true. They sell items and in-game money obtained by their employees. I’m not going to criticize them, they made their own decision. But we made ours, and do not want publicity. A lot of our members are unsociable by nature and prefer to be alone… Players like that wouldn’t be able to show their potential in a big company. That is why we created The Dark Gamers Union.”
Choi Joong Hoon’s words slightly confused recruits.
“Then what does being in the Union mean?”
“Good Question. The main reason for Union is information exchange. Our union accumulates information gathered by members. It allows you to learn about hunting grounds, good dungeons, profitable trading routes and rare monsters…”
“Wow, you share information? So it means that once I join the Union I get access to the information database?”
“Unfortunately, it’s not so easy. You can’t get all the information immediately. Member’s access level is determined by his rank within the Union.”
“Eh, why’s that?”
“That’s just security measure. It didn’t happen before, but some member might leak our information outside, and Union is all about information.”
“Guess that’s true. Once there’s enough people about anything can happen.”
“Yeah. Also players of level 100 have no use for information about dungeons of level 200 and higher. Therefore we assign ranks to our members according to the value of information they provide. And that rank determines how much access they have to our data. That’s how it all works. Of course every new member gets access to the basic information.”
“So rank is directly dependent on the value of information you provide?”
“Not just that. If you actively participate in the Union’s activities, your rank rises. Same thing if you sell items through our auction website often enough. But there’s a certain limit to that kind of advance in rank.”
“That looks good enough. So how do we sign up?”
Two guys, who came with Choi Joong Hoon, started to fill the papers. They stated their character names, levels and other related information.
Depending on this data the initial rank was assigned. As the guys had a level of 140, they got assigned the lowest rank ‘D’.
“Aren’t you going to sign up too?”, asked Joong Hoon after approaching the calmly sitting Hyun.
Lee Hyun though it over 2nd time and after counting all the pros and cons shook his head.
“I’m not going to join.”
“So that’s your answer?”
Joong Hoon didn’t look disappointed in the least.
“Well, if you refuse to join, that means you do play Royal Road. And as you agreed to come here with us you must have a certain interest in our organization. But if that’s your decision, there’s not much I can do…”
Then Choi Joong Hoon leaned to Hyun’s ear and whispered:
“Those two are just random people. They probably won’t even use information available to them. But I can see that you are different. So if you would join our Union, you’ll get access to some special information…”
“…”
“I suppose you just don’t want to bother with sharing valuable information, if you don’t need access to information for newbies. Isn’t that so?”
Lee Hyun was quite surprised. It looked like Choi Joong Hoon saw a lot of players like Hyun and so was pretty accurate with his assumptions.
“Anyway, that’s fine. Everyone has their own principles. And our Union respects that. However I’ll give you an advice: If you’re a serious Royal Road player you’d better off joining our Union.”
Lee Hyun, who was silent up till this moment, quietly replied:
“I don’t have time to raise my rank and I don’t want to give away any information.”
If Lee Hyun was to reveal his name – Weed – he’d most likely have some problems. He recalled how On Joo-wan threatened to interview him.
But even the 2nd rejection didn’t upset Joong Hoon. On the contrary, it seemed he liked Hyun’s response.
“Okay. At least people like you won’t stab in the back. Do you know our website? Then listen here. Login kj9008, password 165008. That’s a special account for people who join our website for the first time. Once you login using it, you’ll get a rank ‘C’, and it gives you access to a decent amount of valuable data, trust me. Also, you can change the password once you login if you’re worried someone else might get access to your information.”
“Why do I get such a special treatment?” – asked Hyun indifferently, and added – “Colleague?”
“That’s simple. Dark gamers have three rules. First rule of dark gamers is ‘Don’t trust anyone’. That exactly describes our current relationships.”
“…”
“And most of them are from India, China and some other countries of East Asia.”
International borders meant nothing for Royal Road. Any person from any country was able to enjoy the game using capsule. Even the language barrier was removed, thanks to the automatic speech translation software, provided by Unicon Corporation.
“I heard there’s a trading company in Korea that works only with Royal Road…”
“That’s true. They sell items and in-game money obtained by their employees. I’m not going to criticize them, they made their own decision. But we made ours, and do not want publicity. A lot of our members are unsociable by nature and prefer to be alone… Players like that wouldn’t be able to show their potential in a big company. That is why we created The Dark Gamers Union.”
Choi Joong Hoon’s words slightly confused recruits.
“Then what does being in the Union mean?”
“Good Question. The main reason for Union is information exchange. Our union accumulates information gathered by members. It allows you to learn about hunting grounds, good dungeons, profitable trading routes and rare monsters…”
“Wow, you share information? So it means that once I join the Union I get access to the information database?”
“Unfortunately, it’s not so easy. You can’t get all the information immediately. Member’s access level is determined by his rank within the Union.”
“Eh, why’s that?”
“That’s just security measure. It didn’t happen before, but some member might leak our information outside, and Union is all about information.”
“Guess that’s true. Once there’s enough people about anything can happen.”
“Yeah. Also players of level 100 have no use for information about dungeons of level 200 and higher. Therefore we assign ranks to our members according to the value of information they provide. And that rank determines how much access they have to our data. That’s how it all works. Of course every new member gets access to the basic information.”
“So rank is directly dependent on the value of information you provide?”
“Not just that. If you actively participate in the Union’s activities, your rank rises. Same thing if you sell items through our auction website often enough. But there’s a certain limit to that kind of advance in rank.”
“That looks good enough. So how do we sign up?”
Two guys, who came with Choi Joong Hoon, started to fill the papers. They stated their character names, levels and other related information.
Depending on this data the initial rank was assigned. As the guys had a level of 140, they got assigned the lowest rank ‘D’.
“Aren’t you going to sign up too?”, asked Joong Hoon after approaching the calmly sitting Hyun.
Lee Hyun though it over 2nd time and after counting all the pros and cons shook his head.
“I’m not going to join.”
“So that’s your answer?”
Joong Hoon didn’t look disappointed in the least.
“Well, if you refuse to join, that means you do play Royal Road. And as you agreed to come here with us you must have a certain interest in our organization. But if that’s your decision, there’s not much I can do…”
Then Choi Joong Hoon leaned to Hyun’s ear and whispered:
“Those two are just random people. They probably won’t even use information available to them. But I can see that you are different. So if you would join our Union, you’ll get access to some special information…”
“…”
“I suppose you just don’t want to bother with sharing valuable information, if you don’t need access to information for newbies. Isn’t that so?”
Lee Hyun was quite surprised. It looked like Choi Joong Hoon saw a lot of players like Hyun and so was pretty accurate with his assumptions.
“Anyway, that’s fine. Everyone has their own principles. And our Union respects that. However I’ll give you an advice: If you’re a serious Royal Road player you’d better off joining our Union.”
Lee Hyun, who was silent up till this moment, quietly replied:
“I don’t have time to raise my rank and I don’t want to give away any information.”
If Lee Hyun was to reveal his name – Weed – he’d most likely have some problems. He recalled how On Joo-wan threatened to interview him.
But even the 2nd rejection didn’t upset Joong Hoon. On the contrary, it seemed he liked Hyun’s response.
“Okay. At least people like you won’t stab in the back. Do you know our website? Then listen here. Login kj9008, password 165008. That’s a special account for people who join our website for the first time. Once you login using it, you’ll get a rank ‘C’, and it gives you access to a decent amount of valuable data, trust me. Also, you can change the password once you login if you’re worried someone else might get access to your information.”
“Why do I get such a special treatment?” – asked Hyun indifferently, and added – “Colleague?”
“That’s simple. Dark gamers have three rules. First rule of dark gamers is ‘Don’t trust anyone’. That exactly describes our current relationships.”
“…”
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