The Chamber of Commerce's horse and carriage team came twice more, bringing in addition to supplies directly exchanged for subsidies, there was also goodwill from the association. This goodwill stems from the forum's recent surge in registrations. Just looking at the newly added discussion areas, almost all the departments of the Xijia District branch are covered, including the training academy to which the branch belongs, which is where master and apprentice Lin originally stayed.
For apprentices, the training academy is like a residential school; for formal magicians, it is like the dormitory of a manpower dispatch company. The facilities are complete, but you have to pay to use them; the information is complete, but you have to pay to read it; the resources are sufficient, but you have to pay to use them. Although there are many ways to make money, the expenses are also high.
It can be said that in Xijia District, one of the four major divisions on the southwestern border of the mainland, where the largest number of magicians gather, the use of the forum began to become popular and gradually expanded outwards. Just by looking at the discussion forums named after a certain magic tower that pop up from time to time, you can tell that the influence of the forum is indeed increasing.
At the association's office, the magic named 'Tripwood Forum Browser Technique' was priced at what Lin had originally said. However, the magic stones used to copy the system must be provided by the magicians who want to purchase them; and the paper documentation will be directly converted into electronic files and placed in the 'Xijia District Branch Announcement' discussion area opened by the Magicians Association. . It is a discussion area like the 'Miscellaneous' discussion area, allowing visitors to view it at will. It can be said that in this way, the material cost is reduced to a minimum.
However, they will not take less of the commission that the association should take. For this reason, during a quiet coding afternoon, the energy pool screen suddenly changed to an old face that filled the entire screen. Lin's heart almost stopped with fright.
Seeing the shocked and dazed expression, the old man in the mirror was also a little embarrassed. In order not to continue to be so embarrassed, he had to break the deadlock first and said: "His Excellency Guy Blasch Lin Tripwood."
"Well, President Eaton." Lin hurriedly stood up and saluted. The person in the mirror in front of him is none other than the great magician Cheng Guo Eaton, the president of the Xijia District Branch of the Magic Association. Coming from the Eton magic family, he is a senior magician with great strength and background. Although he is not an extremely arrogant and annoying personality, he is definitely not an amiable old man.
And this magic that can use the energy pool mirror to appear and talk is called 'Charles Calling Technique'. It is a super annoying and troublesome wizarding world video call system with no ringtone and no choice of whether to answer or not. Lin complained about this, and secretly made up his mind to create something like an instant message, which can be used for visual messages, audio messages and text, so that everyone can taste the feeling of not being able to read back.
Theoretically, the status of the tower owner is equal to that of the president of the association. However, few people had the guts to stand up to this president who was so notorious when he was young. That's why Lin made himself look respectful. In fact, he respected the other party quite a bit. Although there wasn't any deep relationship in the past. However, the Xijia District Chapter under the leadership of President Eaton has many policies that take care of the relatively disadvantaged group of magicians and apprentices, and Lin is one of those who benefited.
Now that such a big shot was face to face with him, how could Lin not panic.
"Don't worry, Mr. Tripwood, I'm here to bring you good news." Soothing the new magician who is much younger than himself, Cheng Guo Eaton also has a somewhat kind look on his face at this advanced age. .
Lin Gong cupped his hands to signal, and Chengguo Eaton continued: "The browser magic you handed over is very good. Whether it is in terms of convenience, distance, or the amount of information contained, it can be said to be a pioneering work."
"Thank you, President, for your appreciation." Lin thanked him, but he didn't feel overwhelmed by it. Because when big people come to you and say these things, they usually follow them with a 'but'.
So I listened to Chengguo Eaton continue smoothly: "But now we have encountered some small problems, that is, the association will charge some fees for managing this magic knowledge. The price you ordered is directly the minimum basic price. The unit and the association are doing nothing."
"President, I once told the Great Magician Greenwen, and I also explained it in the attached letter, that the association can add necessary management fees to the price I set as the final price. But as long as you maintain Judging from the price of IKiel, I know that you also understand that the real value of the forum lies in the number of users, not in how much money you get from selling this magic knowledge. Therefore, the price of IKiel, in addition to allowing magicians to have 'even if they don't have "Using it is just a waste of Ikiel. It's such a harmless idea, so it can be used by ordinary apprentices to achieve the effect of promotion."
Seeing the old man nodding in approval of this idea, Lin continued: "So in terms of management expenses, I am willing to share half of the income as the cost of the association. What do you think of this?"
For an old man who just showed up and went straight to the topic, Lin briefly explained the ideas of the two parties and then readily gave up half of the benefits. Chengguo Eaton nodded with satisfaction. In his position, although he doesn't dislike the bargaining behavior in shopping malls, he doesn't have any favorable impression either.
Negotiation is to directly expose the bottom line, and close the deal if it is close to the psychological target; if it is too exaggerated, just shoot, there is no back and forth. Furthermore, the original creator cannot but benefit from the dissemination of magical knowledge, because that will dampen the enthusiasm of other magicians and thus have a negative impact. In the long run and for magicians as a whole, the gains outweigh the losses.
Now that the first problem was solved, Cheng Guo Eaton asked the second question: "For the domain name system and the web page system, I tried to build them on the president's exclusive energy pool. Although it seems to have been successful. , but it cannot be enabled. And you have no relevant explanation in the documentation. Where might this problem occur?"
Just by listening, Lin knew the answer without even thinking about it. Because that was exactly the hole dug in the documentation that was handed over before. Facing the inquiry from his immediate boss, Lin began to explain the tree structure of the domain name system. Each layer of servers only points to the server on the upper layer and manages its own legally authorized domain name.
To put it bluntly, the Artori Source Pool of the Tower of the Great Sage, as the first DNS server in the Lost World, it certainly has the status of.(dot). Other energy pools can only become sub-level servers and register with .(dot) to have legal domain names.
If someone else wants to build the top-level server of .(dot), they will only create two independent networks that are difficult to connect to each other. If you want to communicate with each other, you have to go back to the original and memorize the complex and lengthy string of marks in the energy pool of each magic tower.
“Then can the domain name system with .(dot) authority be handed over to the association district headquarters?”
Faced with this good question, Lin of course boldly said yes, even the data that already exists on the forum can be completely transplanted! The premise is that all current users of the forum must suspend their use during the migration operation, and it is not certain how long this time will be.
In view of the fact that people in the Lost World do not know the limit of tolerance for "server under maintenance", Lin also expressed this level of doubts very straightforwardly.
Chengguo Eaton also admitted that it would be unfavorable for such a situation to occur while the forum was still in the promotion stage. If the user loses confidence, it will take even more effort to regain it.
In this regard, Lin took advantage of the situation and proposed the concept of '.com'. To put it simply, the association district headquarters is allowed to have the first-level DNS server, and other people who want to own domain names can just apply directly to the association. The .(dot) of the Tower of the Great Sage is only used as the starting point for website query.
Chengguo Eaton also agrees with this approach. In the final analysis, the association just wants to have the space to manage all magicians. Like the magical knowledge of its deceased original creators, the Society does not disseminate it for free. Instead, the set price becomes a way to control the breadth of the magic's circulation.
For knowledge that you don't want too many people to know, or powerful attack magic, set the price a little higher to reduce the desire to buy among those who are short of money. For magic that is hoped to be used by every magician, it sets a lower price and vigorously promotes it, hoping that everyone will stuff a spell notebook. In the end, he hopes to put those magics listed as 'must learn' into the apprentice's three-ring textbook.
Of course, those fees become one of the important sources of income for the association.
And as long as the association has room for maneuver, Chenguo Eaton does not have to insist on a certain result. Besides, Lin's willingness to give up profits before was not a good reason to give in here.
For their own problems, they all got a good result. Chengguo Eaton said a few polite words and then cut off the connection. Things returned to normal, and more than ten days later, such a scary scene happened again...
This time it was aimed at the Chamber of Commerce, which belongs to the Magicians Association.
The profit-seeking nature of businessmen makes them very sensitive to some newly emerging technologies. Not to mention that the forum can get information from various places as soon as possible - as long as there are informants in the local area - this is better than the 800-mile express, flying pigeons to deliver messages, or finding a messenger to run a marathon. fast.
In addition to business intelligence, if magicians, tower owners and other chambers of commerce in various places can trade and place orders on the forum, as long as they are combined with reasonable transportation routes, the trade volume will undoubtedly increase to another level.
It is a pity that on the forum, in the instructions before opening a new article, Lin clearly wrote three prohibitions. People who came into contact with the Internet for the first time in the world of Lost World actually obeyed obediently, at least they didn't hear any accidents. Lin couldn't help but sigh at this simple Internet culture.
The first prohibition is to prohibit writing all-magic spells in the general article area; the second prohibition is to prohibit drawing magic circles in the general article area.
These two bans are for the same reason. You must know that the forum is based on the eight powers based on magic. In other words, this seemingly product of technology is actually something mysterious. If you write a spell or draw a magic circle in an article, it is not impossible for others to open the discussion thread and be showered with fireballs.
Especially the basis for installing the browser system is either an energy pool or a magic stone, which itself is the source of magical energy.
Although the way words are encoded, the words do not directly represent their meaning. In other words, the text content displayed by the mantra on the forum and the coding behind it may not necessarily produce the effect that the mantra should induce. But I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm just afraid in case, if it's just right, some unlucky person will be confused by the magic.
To cope with this possibility, Lin passively used article classification. In addition to general articles, there is also a category of magic articles to remind users who click on the discussion thread that the content of the article contains spells and magic circles, which may have effects, so please take protective measures yourself.
The third prohibition is aimed at trading activities. All bartering, money for things, things for money, exchange of knowledge, etc. are all prohibited. Regarding this ban, not only President Chengguo Eaton, but also many users are puzzled. It's just that today the president, on behalf of everyone, asked it in front of the creator.
Lin only replied:
"I have no ability to guarantee the performance of the contract."
