Conquering OtherWorld Starts With a Game Chapter 18.1: Let's Grind!

First day of the open beta, 6 p.m., 11 hours (real time) after the game was "officially in operation."

Yang Qiu, squatting in Exile Town's Town Hall, was silently monitoring the currency flow between players and "NPCs."

The concept of gold farming was non-existent by design in this game. The reason was simple: money in this game was actual physical currency, not just data.

The copper coins that players obtained through quests were real coins. Yang Qiu had purchased a ton of copper over the Internet at market price, then got a small manufacturer to custom-make the game currency, ensuring that the copper alloy coins contained no less than 50% copper.

At present, it seemed that copper coins would serve as the primary game currency for a long time. After all, Yang Qiu couldn't afford to make silver coins. A ton of the cheapest silver would cost several million yuan, and Yang Qiu had no way of coming up with that sort of money.

Of course, copper coins weren't bad either. At least, the indigenous NPCs like Hal and Rex were willing to accept these copper coins that hailed from Earth's industries… While they couldn't understand why the undead, who didn't need to eat, drink, or rest, were willing to work so hard for copper coins (nor could they comprehend the so-called reputation value), they could still accept these copper coins as their wages.

In any case, the currency in this world was already a great mess. Privately minted coins of noble origin varied greatly in specifications, quality, and grade. These finely crafted 50% copper alloy coins were more than sufficient to replace the worn-out copper coins circulating in the kingdoms of this world.

In short, to increase players' motivation to do quests and allow the limited currency to circulate infinitely, means of currency sink had to be established to counteract the NPCs' distribution of copper coins via quests.

At present, there were two main currency sinks. The first being an "essential item" that players needed, which was a waist bag sold by the tailor Yarisha

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