Yang Yuting didn't want to meet with Lu Xinyi either. After all, everyone knew that although this girl looked sweet, she was actually incredibly cunning. You never knew when you might get schemed against.
"Let's go Dutch?" Yang Yuting suggested.
Lu Xinyi smiled and pressed "I'll Pay", "It's fine, I like beautiful women. I'll get this."
Yang Yuting had no choice but to press "You Pay".
"It seems like you people from Community 17 discussed a strategy from the very beginning, didn't you? That it's best not to say a single word when you meet me?"
Lu Xinyi observed Yang Yuting's expression with great interest.
Yang Yuting was silent for a moment, then shook her head, "Not really. It's just that I think you're too formidable. Saying the wrong thing could get me tricked, so I'm just taking some necessary precautions to protect myself."
Lu Xinyi spread her hands helplessly, "Alright, alright, it seems my reputation is beyond saving.
"But since you acknowledge that I'm very smart, what if I tell you the optimal solution for this game now? Are you willing to listen?"
Yang Yuting was taken aback for a moment, "Optimal solution?
"Would you be that kind? I'm afraid you have some ulterior motive."
Lu Xinyi smiled, "Of course I have an ulterior motive, but as it happens, our interests are aligned in this game.
"So you can listen to my analysis first. If you think it makes sense, then do it. If you think it's a trap, then don't believe it. How about that?"
Yang Yuting was noncommittal and didn't give a clear response.
Lu Xinyi didn't mind and just began her analysis on her own.
"By now, I've pretty much figured out the mechanics of this game.
"The 'Blind Date Game', as the name suggests, isn't a confrontation between communities, but a confrontation between male and female players.
"The method to win as much visa time as possible is also very simple, and that is... to squeeze every male player you meet for all they're worth."
Yang Yuting was a bit exasperated, "I knew it. You definitely weren't thinking of anything good."
Lu Xinyi was very frank, "Think whatever you want. If you want to criticize me with some boring morals, feel free.
"This is just the optimal solution I've analyzed based on the game's rules.
"First of all, the game is unfair to male and female players from the start. Male players get extra visa time, while female players have their visa time randomly deducted.
"Although we know the deduction is actually very small, it's still a deduction.
"Assuming we play completely within the game's rules, the male players' gains will always be thirty thousand more than ours.
"If we're really talking about fairness, then at the very least, this thirty thousand visa time should be balanced out. We should each get fifteen thousand."
Yang Yuting thought for a moment and nodded slightly, "If you had said from the start to split the thirty thousand evenly, I would have found that understandable."
Lu Xinyi leaned forward slightly, staring into her eyes, "My question is, since this is already an unfair game, why should I go through all the trouble just to get a barely fair result?
"Do you think the process itself is fair?
"In other words, this is a game from the Arcade. Once you're in, you're on your own, and your fate is your own to bear. It's an unfair game to begin with, so what's wrong with me using my abilities to create even greater unfairness?"
Yang Yuting fell silent.
Lu Xinyi continued, "As for what to do specifically? It's actually very simple.
"You can propose to every male player from other communities that you match with to 'evenly split the 30,000 minutes of visa time'.
"They give you a voucher for ten thousand or fifteen thousand minutes as a deposit, and you promise to mutually 'Like' them during the final meeting.
"As for how to trick them into handing over these vouchers, that's up to your own abilities.
"If they're easy to trick, then trick them. If they're not, then give them a few 'Likes' to sweeten the deal. In any case, these 'Likes' are useless if you just hold onto them, you have to give them out eventually.
"I believe for a young, beautiful, and charismatic girl like you, as long as you're willing to do it, it will be as simple as eating and drinking.
"In short, after getting the voucher, refuse any further meeting requests from them and continue to find your next target.
"Until the final meeting, just pick the one you find most pleasing to the eye and exchange 'Likes' with them.
"Of course, if you're a bit greedier, you can also trick them out of more 'Likes' in the process.
"Let's assume that in the 8-hour game, you can match with a dozen or so male players, and five or six of them accept your proposal. That's a solid sixty thousand minutes of visa time.
"Add the final thirty thousand, and you can get a total of 90,000 minutes. That's very substantial, isn't it?
"You know, in many trial games, you might not even earn this much even if you risk your life."
Yang Yuting was a bit shocked, "But, wouldn't that lead to social suicide?"
Lu Xinyi looked at her with a hint of exasperation, as if mocking her foolishness.
"How would it be social suicide?
"First, you're tricking people from other communities. After this game, everyone goes their separate ways. Who can hold you accountable?
"Second, in this game, information is completely blocked. Even if you make promises to several male players at the same time, they can't verify with each other.
"Finally, even if some of them get on the Showcase and denounce you, it's completely meaningless.
"Because the promise you made to them is to 'mutually Like in the final meeting'. This can't be verified until the final meeting. How can he be sure whether you've backed out or are just waiting for the final meeting?
"Even if he really gets on the Showcase to denounce you, he'll quickly be voted 'Boring' and swiped away. After all, who wants to see a grown man crying and whining on screen?
"That would just be disgusting.
"As for the players from your own community, what does it have to do with them? It's your skill to earn as much visa time as possible from the game. If you've already established some proposals for sharing benefits, they can even profit from it.
"There's a difference between close and distant relationships. Would they really distance themselves from you just because some male players from other communities got scammed?
"So, from a game mechanics perspective, this is our optimal solution for earning visa time."
Yang Yuting fell into deep thought.
Soon, she looked up and asked with some confusion, "Since this plan is so perfect, why don't you just execute it yourself? Why drag me into it?"
Lu Xinyi gave a meaningful smile, "Aren't you asking the obvious? Of course, it's because the more people who execute this strategy, the more and faster everyone will profit.
"You might think that the fewer scammers there are, the less likely they are to be exposed. Wrong. The more scammers there are, the more there is safety in numbers.
"If many people execute this strategy together, then the male players will have no choice. They either give the voucher to me, or they give it to you.
"Otherwise, they can forget about getting the final 30,000 reward from mutual 'Likes'.
"When we meet other female players, we share this idea with them and turn 'male players should give vouchers' into a consensus. Then all female players can benefit from it.
"Besides, to put it another way, let's assume this game really has some kind of targeted punishment mechanism. A single scammer would be in great danger, but if there are many scammers, everyone's risk is reduced."