With the end of the PandaVerse Festival, Jin was finally around to congratulate the top 50 people with the highest number of raid points. However, it was also a sensitive topic as there were Royal Zodiac clan members within the ranking board. Snake General Hou Fei and a few Royal Zodiacs were on the list as well, especially when they were given some form of raid point compensation when they buy such expensive items for public use.
Thus, Jin decided to congratulate those people individually and told them the reason behind it before adjusting the ranking list so that the Royal Zodiacs were not included in the scoring board. Some of the Royal Zodiacs who were anonymous and were within the top 50 rankings were glad that Jin was considerate to consult them as they requested him to remove them from the rankings.
But that did not mean that they did not receive the reward, it is just that Jin had to not only readjust the scoreboard but also spend in addition due to the new people filling up the scoreboard.
This was because he had decided to give a monetary prize as per the scoring board rankings. It was a shock to everyone since this was not announced and never had they heard how a Dungeon Supplier store awards cash for their efforts. Though to some people, it was contradictory, since cultivators spent money in order to get those raid points. But having a fair sum of compensation was no doubt appreciated.
However, the cash prize of 50000 Yuan was given out only to the top ranker (which was quite obvious and expected who he was, seeing how our dear hippo cultivator led the fights) while the rest was given non dungeon supplier related items such as the latest phone from HuaWee, top of the line household appliances and even a decent sum of shopping vouchers to the Tree Mall. (One would be surprised how everyone was overly excited to get the latest refrigator, wok set, water filter dispenser. )
And if that was not indicative of Jin’s ‘generosity’, he even had an ‘End of the Festival’ lucky draw and the users were able to try their luck depending on the number of tickets they had purchased. No doubt, higher tier tickets would be rewarded with more tries and everyone had a shot to win something back home.
Even those people who were unlucky were still given a consolation prize that was worth 5 Yuan of shopping vouchers to the Tree Mall and could also be used in the Dungeon Supplier store. It might not be much per se, but due to the number of tickets an average cultivator might hold as well as the crowd who had joined the raid instance, the amount each person gets could easily go up to 100 Yuan.
And that was assuming someone had the worst luck to get the lowest tier of the lucky draw pool so most people were able to get nearly twice or thrice the shopping vouchers. (Or even more chances to get household appliances as well as electronics such as the latest UPad and UPhones which everyone was raving about.)
Not to mention, this is the best way to boost the Tree Mall’s economy even though it hardly needed any assistance given that this particular PandaVerse Festival had allowed more people to try out the foodstuff and stores that were less visited. This is especially more effective when Jin purposely printed the vouchers in such a way that upon using the said voucher, it promotes a certain store that gives more discounts or it can be used as a standard Tree Mall shopping voucher which held a lower value.
Yet Jin was still doing this so that if he ever acquired another ‘Tree Mall’ in either another district or better, in another province, all of these will provide the necessary exposure especially when his dear advertising director, Kiyu behind the scenes promoting through MeChat and other social media platforms.
“Make other people ‘FOMO’ (Fear of Missing Out) and they would be dying to try. As long it’s not just a novelty thing and we can prove that we are worth the hype, the crowd would be here to stay.” Kiyu said this once in a meeting on how to improve the PandaVerse Festival and everyone was shocked at how ‘current’ she was with the modern trend. Naturally, Jin gave the go ahead and their media platforms were rapidly gaining followers.
Not to mention, all the live streaming which Kiyu had employed alongside Bear Cub One being the official partner for Dungeons and Pandas had allowed Jin and perhaps China to be the very first country to introduce Dungeon Instance Live Streaming.
However, the prizes were not the main event neither was the partying that went on through the afternoon till the dead of night.
Jin had chosen the following day to announce the real prize for the raid instance while marking the true end of the PandaVerse Festival. A video had been uploaded courtesy of Kiyu’s magical hands in film technology on Monday showing the statistics of the PandaVerse Festival. How many Demon Rats had been killed in total, the number of deaths the cultivators had suffered, what kind of potions and items were bought the most from the store as well as a compilation of ridiculous and ludicrous plays that had been captured by the System.
Comments were flooding throughout the entire video but it was insane when Jin gave the introduction of Farming World Instance as a result of the completion of the raid instance. Once the video was done, an “Ask Me Anything” Session was conducted through the Pandamonium App to ascertain people’s views. While he needed the land for his purpose, he had allocated a sizeable portion of both Northern and Southern Region land for the cultivator’s use.
But instead of allowing people to own the land per se, Jin had purposely ensured that it would be a collective effort to til the land. This is mainly due to the reason that he wanted to use the cultivators as a means of additional manpower and labour. With the exception of a few, most of his paying customers were salary workers and they would not have the time to ensure that their lands were well managed.
This would be a different story if a group of cultivators collectively managed the land as a whole. Tasks would be given out by the System so that they could earn Farm Points which could be exchanged for Panda Coins and those tasks will make sure that the farm would be maintained with little to no resources from the System.
It was a brand new concept that Jin was willing to partake in and at the same time, a social experiment to see if the cultivators could cooperate as they always had for Dungeons and Raids. Once announced, a lot of people would be excited about new content although some were disappointed that they were not able to own any ‘digital’ land for themselves.
Jin did iterate that if these two sections of farms were well managed, he might consider land ownership to several ‘hardcore’ farmers or small permanent groups could be allowed to own such land depending on their performance and accumulation of Farm Points. In addition to Farm Points, they were also entitled to earn a small stipend depending on their contribution since those Farm Goods could be sold off.
And that sentence alone brought lots of excited whispers and questions to their faces. What happens if someone accidentally or intentionally sabotages the crops? How long can do they need to work to receive such a stipend or if bullying occurs etc?
Jin reinforced such issues had to be ironed out when the time comes but there would certainly be ground rules to make sure that no one is taken advantage of. He even promised that if cultivators were harassed outside the dungeon supplier store, those affected could contact Jin and his team through the Pandamonium App and police would cooperate with them to deal with such problems.
Seeing how Jin was able to get the police to guard the PandaVerse Festival instead of private security shows that he did have some sway or relationship. Not to mention, the appearance of the Royal Zodiac Clan Heads had made people wonder what kind of clout Jin holds.
But all these assurances gave the Pandarens and prospective customers something to look forward to.
