Chapter 201

Episode 201. Events are meant to be enjoyed equally. (2)

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**Title:** From now on, we shall begin the worship of armbands.

**Author:** ㅇㅇ

**Content:** [List of armbands that have written death notes]

ㅇㄷㄴㅂㅌ

**Comments:**

– [LOLOLOLOLOLOL]

– [Death Note is so sweet~]

– [Ah, this is what makes the gallery great.]

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**Title:** If you’re the idiot who just got immortalized in a gallery meme post, upvote LOLOLOL

**Author:** ㅇㅇ

**Content:** [Screenshot of a post immortalizing a gallery meme post by an armband]

Man, why did I even post this?

What if they really come for me?

My heart’s pounding like crazy, I’m having a panic attack.

If you want to delete the post now and seek salvation, upvote LOLOLOL.

**Comments:**

– [LOLOLOL]

– [No way, straight to the death note.]

– [Cheering at the three letters: Death Note!]

– [LOLOLOL]

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As the armbands’ “death note” verification posts started popping up, the gallery users’ worship posts (?) began sprouting like mushrooms after rain.

It felt reminiscent of factions from past lives hiring comment bots to manipulate things.

Of course, it’s somewhat expected, but in a gallery with a lot of traffic, when mindless worship posts keep flooding in, it’s natural for some “normal” users to feel annoyed.

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**Title:** Isn’t that just people trying to start beef with the armbands?

**Author:** ㅇㅇ

**Content:** [Screenshots of worship posts with nicknames and titles partially blurred]

They’re just trying to make someone famous, form a clique, and control the gallery’s narrative.

Or maybe they’re just trying to suck up to the armbands for some benefit.

**Comments:**

– [What benefit is there in siding with armbands?]

– [There’s a lot, actually. If this were real life, maybe not, but here, armbands can really control the narrative.]

– [Aside from the beef, it’s honestly annoying.]

– [You can tell they’re just mental toddlers trying to start drama.]

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As these “normal” users started catching on and criticizing the situation, the mindless worship posts quickly died down.

The atmosphere of having to worship armbands vanished in an instant, but… the problem was, just like the armband worship lunatics, the opposition (?) also had their fair share of crazies.

Of course, since their level of craziness was pretty much the same, even the silent majority with neutral tendencies started calling it all “lunacy” and “not fun.”

Despite Raksha and other armbands posting warnings disguised as death note verifications (?), the trolls and some agitators, already in motion, started posting disgusting and NSFW images without any real purpose.

Suddenly, the event-induced chaos turned into a marathon of disgusting and NSFW images, threatening to turn the gallery into Sodom and Gomorrah once again.

However, given the structure of this event, there wasn’t much for users to do directly.

With me and other user armbands on real-time surveillance duty, and even the recently less-active admins jumping in, the agitators—numbering only a few hundred to a thousand—were completely suppressed within 10 minutes.

Of course, while users could block them, deleting their posts was another matter entirely.

For a while, the gallery was in chaos, with top-ranked users reduced to crying while deleting poop, gore, and NSFW images.

Amid the disgusting content, the “dedicated” NSFW collectors kept saving images, slowing down the armbands’ deletion rush.

The situation remained chaotic in many ways.

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“If the Commander hadn’t been slowing down the deletion process by picking up weird stuff, wouldn’t this have been over already?”

“Jessica, Jessica, NSFW images are a serious matter.”

“…Huh?”

“And think about it, do you really think I’m the only one picking stuff up?”

“…!”

Of course, no one, including me and the gallery, knows the real reason why the deletion rush was slowed down.

But anyway, with the agitators’ heads neatly hung like that, the gallery started returning to normal, thanks to the users who stayed silent during the chaos.

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And so, as things started to normalize, discussions about the event began to slowly surface again…

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**Title:** Why is this event PVE instead of PVP?

**Author:** ㅇㅇㅇㅇ

**Content:** [Event notice image]

It’s not that it’s bad, but wouldn’t it be better to have players fight each other rather than exploring dungeons or something?

Honestly, since PVP usually just makes you lose, shouldn’t they at least make the event PVP to balance things out?

**Comments:**

– [Are you aiming for a Pyrrhic victory?]

– [PVP is meaningless anyway, unless they reduce the losses during the event, but yeah.]

– [If they did that, only the lucky veterans would rise, and newbies would just get stomped into the ground, lol.]

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“Unless it’s war, PVP in this game is just madness.”

With the appearance of this whiny post by a PVP enthusiast, I shook my head and started looking at other posts.

Soon after, I came across a proper analysis of the event.

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**Title:** Why EU events are PVE.txt

**Author:** ㅇㅇ

**Content:** [Image of past event list]

It’s all about fairness and balance among players.

If they made the event PVP, only big clans or hardcore veterans would dominate the rankings, making the game boring.

And what about players who got screwed over by pre-event shenanigans?

That’s why.

But with PVE?

They just throw in some AI dungeons scaled to the event, and everyone’s happy.

It’s a win-win for both the devs and the players, so why bother with PVP events and give themselves a headache?

**Comments:**

– [This is it.]

– [Not wrong, tbh.]

– [Plus, mobile games are more PVE-focused anyway, PVP is just for boomers.]

– [You little brat, still wet behind the ears…!]

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**Title:** But this event had to be PVE

**Author:** ㅇㅇ

**Content:** [Map showing damage in the Central Zone and ‘Southern Zone’]

This shows the damage from the Central Zone invasion and the clashes in the ‘Pirate-Earth border’ area, commonly called the Southern Zone.

As you can see, tens of thousands of players got wiped out, and even the players who initiated the attacks got wrecked too.

Even if it wasn’t as extreme as the 1v5 battle the 3rd-ranked player bragged about, top-ranked players got ganged up on and took down enemy fleets even as they died.

Plus, major clans like Humanity and Loki lost significant forces, causing a sudden drop in player power.

Like it or not, a lot of players were on the brink of being unable to recover.

[Image of Humanity Clan’s chat log]

This is something I got with help from a friend, but there are reports that Humanity spent at least tens of millions worth of resources just to recover from this war. Imagine how bad it is for others.

So, I think the devs intentionally made the event PVE to rank players based on points and gave everyone their own instanced dungeons.

**Comments:**

– [Great analysis.]

– [Wait, that many got wiped?]

– [I heard there was a big clash in the South, but damn, that’s crazy.]

– [Wow.]

– [Props for the analysis.]

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“Oh, so that’s how it was.”

And as I read this sharp analysis (?) that I hadn’t even considered, I could only nod in agreement.