Liu Pet in "Fire Phoenix Burning Plains"
King Liu Of Chen was the only prince among the heroes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and also the last prince of the Great Han Dynasty in the four hundred years, Liu Pet was brave and fierce, good at using crossbows, the arrow technique was very skilled, he could make ten shots, plus Chen Guoguo Luo Jun was good at managing money and security, so Chen Guo was a pure land in the broken Central Plains at that time, and the people of neighboring counties came to the rescue, Luo Jun took out all his assets to help them, so that they could save their lives. Chen Guo's number of troops reached more than 100,000.
However, Liu Pet rarely appears in the game, taking the most famous Three Kingdoms game glorious Three Kingdoms series, before the 13th generation, Liu Pet did not have the opportunity to appear. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms series did not really set its sights on the main history until the sixth generation, adding many characters recorded in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Pei Notes, such as He Qi and Chen Zhi. And Liu Pet is more partial than these two, not only in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, not only in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but also in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Pei Notes, his deeds are written in the Book of Later Han, so the first six generations naturally will not consider this person.
The seventh and eighth generations have not improved much compared to the sixth generation in terms of appearances, basically remaining around 550. The Ninth Dynasty was raised to 650, but most of the new warlords were supplemented by late characters, and even those who began to become active after the fall of Wei Shu, and the Tenth and Eleventh Generations only maintained the same size as the Ninth Dynasty. The twelfth generation is more strange, the number of martial generals does not increase but decreases, and the thirteenth generation finally raised the number to 700, which is not a large increase, and it also includes the group of returning figures of Jiaozhou Shi Xie. The power enhancement versions of the eighth and thirteenth generations have increased by 60 and 100 people respectively, which makes players rejoice, but this is only a strengthened version after all, basically following the framework setting of the original version, changing the map and changing the script will not be done, so for Liu Pet, who has his own power, it is naturally not a chance to appear.
Although after thirty years of development, the number of 313PK has finally increased all the way to 800, it is still far from the expectations in the hearts of fans of the Three Kingdoms. For example, Zhang Chao, one of the initiators of the Dong-Dong Alliance, who was listed as the Eighteenth Route Princes in the rendition, actually appeared for the first time in the 13th generation, and it seems forgivable not to take into account such a figure as Liu Pet under this premise. As another example, the Sima family has not produced any other members since the eighth generation of Sima Ling, including all the participants in the Rebellion of the Eight Kings and Sima Jun, who has been fighting with the bald tree for several years.
The Three Kingdoms Chronicle 14 increased by 200 people in one breath, reaching the 1,000 mark in an instant, which is supposed to be able to get out of Liu's favor, but in fact, it is not. I took a little inventory of the composition of these 200 people, of which 43 were the old characters deleted in the past, of the remaining 157 people, 51 people from the Cao Wei forces, 29 people from the Shu Han forces, 42 people from the Sun Wu forces, 7 yuan shao forces, 5 yuan shu forces, 3 gongsun zhan forces, 3 he jin forces, 3 gongsun yuan forces, 3 dong zhuo forces, 2 Tao Qian forces, 2 Liu Yan forces, 2 Shi Xie forces, 1 Lü Bu forces, 1 Liu Biao forces, 1 Han Sui forces, 1 foreign forces, 1 foreign forces. 2 powerless. In addition, 34 of these 157 people have personal biographies in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and 42 are related to the master, which is nearly half of the proportion, which means that most of them can be called figures with heads and faces.
There were only six people who could be made into separate forces, namely Chang Feng, Duan Simmer, Guan Cheng, Koji Yan, Zhao Shizhen, and Qi Gui, and none of them did it, and Guangrong seemed to have some resistance to the establishment of a new force. Zhao Shizhen started in 248, and was suppressed that year, there is no suitable script to understand, Chang Feng, Guan Cheng, Koji yan belong to the nature of thieves, the series is often in the form of wild martial generals to deal with this group of people, such as the Four Heavenly Kings of Runan, which can be recruited at the beginning of the Qunxiong script, the problem is Duan Simmer and Drain the Mud.
Duan Sheng was a general of Dong Zhuo's army, and Duan Sheng, who had been a soldier in Huayin for many years, respected the Han Dynasty but was in fact an independent force, and later participated in the crusade against Li Dai. In the game, The Muddys are made into wild warriors like other alien leaders, because there are no controllable alien forces and cities in the game, and Duan Simmer is subordinate to the Li Dai forces and Yang Feng forces in the 194 script and the 196 script, respectively.
The key reason for this design is that in history, Duan Simmer Tun Bing Huayin, this place is between Luoyang and Chang'an, located near Tongguan, but in the 14th generation, Luoyang and Chang'an did not have a city, and Luoyang and Chang'an were difficult to directly dump to become Duan Simmer's territory, plus Duan Simmer this person has always been very respectful to the imperial court, and has no intention of dividing, so it has not become an independent force.
But Liu Pet's problem was much more difficult to deal with than Duan Sheng's. As the King of Chen, Liu Pet clearly recorded in the historical records that he supported the army, and even participated in the discussion of Dong, and it was very contrary to him to become a military general in the wilderness, and it was difficult to make him a subordinate of a certain force except He Jin. And He Jin died too early, and dong Zhuo and Li Dai, who controlled the imperial court later, could not say that they could give orders to Liu Pet, so if they wanted to get out of Liu Pet, the best plan was to become an independent force.
So the question is, which city should Liu Pet's territory be placed in?
Liu Pet's feudal state of Chen Guo is the part I drew with a red line in the figure, with Pei Guo to the east, Yingchuan to the west, Runan to the south, and Chen Liu to the north. Ru Nan and Chen Liu both made cities in the game, and Pei Guo and Yingchuan appeared in the name of Xiao Pei and Xu Chang (of course, there will actually be some deviations, such as a part of Pei Guo counting Xu Chang's territory in the game).
The design of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms 14 mainly refers to the 9th and 11th dynasties, and the map is almost completely copied from the 11th generation, but on this basis, guangling and three southern cities are added. Whether it is the 9th generation or the 11th generation, chen guo has not been made, and the 14th generation has naturally not done it, the difference is that the territory of the 9th generation of Chen Guo belongs to Runan, the 14th generation belongs to Xuchang, and the 11th generation is Runan,Xuchang each accounts for half.
So is there a generation that has made this piece of land separately? Yes, 13 generations did it.
There are as many as 60 cities in the 13th generation, which is the crown of the past, and this generation has made a city between Runan, Xuchang, Chen Liu, and Xiao Pei, and the location basically overlaps with the Chen Kingdom, if the name of The Chen is changed to Chen or directly put the Liu Pet forces in the Chen, it is feasible to operate. In addition, the Huayin just mentioned has also been made into the territory of Hongnong in this generation, and if Duan Sheng appeared in the 13th generation, he could completely become the monarch of Hongnong.
Although the 13th generation has the most cities and the least geographical deformation, the maps of this generation are generally designed to be relatively unsuccessful, and those who have played this generation should have a lingering feeling about the Cao Wei forces in the later scripts. The Central Plains and Hebei were already flat, populous, and income-rich areas in the game, and now they have made the cities very dense, resulting in the south not having the conditions to compete with the north at all. Starting from the Sangu script, as long as the player chooses not the Cao Wei forces, almost as soon as the opening enters the countdown to the total attack of the Wei kingdom, they are not in the mood to make friends.
Therefore, the design of the map is not the more the better, to fully consider the gameplay, the 14th generation is about to learn the lessons of the 13th generation, and then return to the 11th generation of map design. And increasing the city itself also requires a considerable degree of workload, including city characteristics, urban parameters, the initial population of different scripts, and a bunch of research content, etc. For example, who can immediately say which military generals should be placed in Chen Guo, such as the 207 script, the 217 script, and the 227 script, and how many troops should be allocated? These are all things that need to be discussed in the book, and the model of the glorious company to make games determines its amazing amount of research. If you just want to add a Liu pet and design a map in its entirety or directly force a city, it must be extremely unreasonable.
Of course, there is a simpler way, that is, to directly put Liu Pet into the current map of the city of Lili as the monarch. In the cities adjacent to the State of Chen, Chen Liu, Xiao Pei, and Shouchun were the traditional territories of Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Yuan Shu, respectively, so there were still Ru Nan and Xu Chang left. However, these two cities are also difficult to use as Liu Pet's territory, Liu Pet's active time in the game is 184-197, and Xuchang in the Yellow Turban script belongs to Zhang Jiao's territory, because Yingchuan is the main area of activity of the Yellow Turban Army, and the war between Zhu Yu and Others with Bocai took place. The 188, 190, and 191 scripts of Runan belonged to Yuzhou Mu Huanghuan and Yuzhou Thorn Shi Kong Ling successively, especially Kong Ling was still one of the princes of the Eighteenth Road of Dong, rarely absent from the game, the 194 and 196 scripts of Runan belonged to Yuan Shu, the 196 script of Xu Chang belonged to Cao Cao, and it was also related to the trigger of the plot of the capital.
In general, the Yuzhou area from the Yellow Turban to Guandu period was a concentrated place for various major events, and it coincided with Liu Pet's active period, so it was difficult for Liu Pet to obtain spare cities to use as territory. And if Liu Pet is designed as the monarch of Xuchang, more troublesome situations will occur. Xun Yu, Guo Jia, Xu Chu and others in the 190 script are xuchang's wild warriors, if Xuchang is occupied by Liu Pet, then Cao Cao, who controls the script, cannot directly recruit this group of people, and the sense of experience is greatly reduced. 207 Liu Bei, 190 Cao Cao, 194 Sun Ce are the three most popular and representative scripts in the series, almost old players must play, if the 190 script of Cao Cao can not even recruit Xun Yu after the opening, you can imagine what will happen among the players.
So, how did the three countries solve this problem?
There were 70 cities in the Three Kingdoms of the War, including Chen County, Liu Pet's territory.
In order to ensure gameplay, the designers did not concentrate a large number of cities in the north like 313, but divided the number of cities for the north and south, with six cities in Guangjiaozhou and four cities in Fujian. The Fujian region was a barbaric land until the early Tang Dynasty, and no famous person from the Three Kingdoms period came from Fujian, and if the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series also made a bunch of cities here, the consequence was that it was impossible to find a military general in the field, then it was almost impossible to play. But the selling point of the Three Kingdoms itself is not history, there are a lot of auto-generated random warriors in the game, and there is no need to worry too much about the problem of no one being available.
In short, it is this difference in design ideas that makes it easy for the Three Kingdoms of the War to stuff a Liu pet to Yuzhou, but it is difficult to replace it with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series. Including Zhang Chao, who did not appear in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series for many years, in large part because he was the Taishou of Guangling, and there was no Guangling in the series 9 to 12. Wang Yi, who once greeted the emperor in Hedong, did not appear in the game, because there was no Hedong in the game. Like the Eighteenth Route princes of the Eastern County Taishou Qiao Mao, Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang, Shanyang Taishou Yuan Yi, Jibei Xiang Baoxin also had no independent forces for many years, respectively to Liu Dai, Zhang Yang, Cao Cao and other people to work, when there are not too many forces in the local market, they can only choose one of the most important forces and abandon others.
The reason why Zhang Chun, Huang Wan, and Ou Xing can become independent forces in the game is that in addition to the corresponding empty city, it is also because the active time is short. Zhang Chun rebelled in 187 and was killed in 189, Huang Huan became the pastor of Yuzhou in 188, returned to the imperial court in 189, and Ou Xing rebelled for only a month before sun Jian put it down. Even if these people become monarchs in one script, they will have no influence on other scripts, so the cost of rectification is very low. The situation of Yan Baihu is slightly more special, in fact, Wu's monarch designed as Wu Juntai Shou Xugong is more reasonable, but because Yan Baihu has more drama in the acting, and the game is weaker and more personality (only two brothers waste wood), but it has gained high popularity among players, and even in the 13th generation of power enhanced version, it has obtained the exclusive prestige of "Eastern Wu Dewang", and if this power player is deleted one day, he will definitely protest.
In contrast, Liu Pet has no way to work for his neighbors, and second, he has been active for too long, and he also occupies a very important territory, which makes it difficult to integrate into the current mechanism of the game. If you want to join Liu Pet, you can either significantly upgrade the game (such as increasing the number of martial cities, improving the way of recruiting talents, etc.), or directly overthrow the current mechanism (such as the establishment of the emperor's power, the princes do not use the city as an activity unit, etc.). If you do not directly join Liu Pet under the premise of meeting the above conditions, the final effect will definitely be far less than the player expects, and it will become very simple and chicken ribs.
Liu Pet in the game Total War: Three Kingdoms
Another problem reflected in this is that the evolution of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series is too slow, the number of warriors will increase significantly in several generations, a set of mechanics will be used for decades, and there is no money to upgrade the game. I don't know how many years it will take to make up for it, and it will take many years for the change to occur.
Incidentally, Luo Jun's failure to appear in the 14th generation may also be dragged down by the boss Liu Pet, and the 14th generation actually adds a lot of fathers who have already appeared in the game, such as Wu Kuang, Quan Rou, Sun He, Yu Qiuxing and so on. However, Luo Jun's appearance is still much simpler than Liu Pet's, and it is not a big problem to become a martial artist in the wild, if which generation can make Cao Song also interesting.