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When I posted my comment there were no coins, spirit stones (ss) were what readers had to pay to open locked chapters. [BTW when coins were introduced I had enough ss to open over a dozen chapters. But they were all deleted and I received just one coin as replacement. I wonder how long it will be before coins are replaced. ]

That's otherwise called "championing' an idea, which is one of the meanings I identified. However in the context of the thread "practising" or "exemplifying" are what's relevant.

Here I am offering sensible advice and people are laughing at me... how disappointing [img=faceslap] A life essence suppository seems like a reasonable idea, though it might be a little uncomfortable, after all 'no pain - no gain.' If I recall correctly the Golden Lion's life essence was about 3 feet in diameter. So he should get a lot of gains, even if it doesn't dissolve. [img=recommend]

You can IRL too, but it's a good idea to wear a cup if you do.

As a research ship it is more likely to be visiting planets with unknown gravity levels. Astronauts who spend 5-11 days in space lose about 20% of their muscle mass, they can barely walk when they get back. Landing on a planet with 20% more gravity than you are acclimatised to would be the same. On long flights on the ISS they do 2.5 hours per day of exercise, 6 days a week, to offset this. Any of the '80' crew who planned to land on such a planet would have to do the same. Soldiers would need even more exercise each day. One training room is nowhere near enough.

My question was rhetorical. The need for artificial gravity training is obvious, only having it in one training room is incredibly stupid... unless you have plot armour to rely on.

If course I am right, we're arguing over a comment on Chapter 12 that I made 10 months ago... did you think I stopped reading back then? Yes the 'real' world is very far from perfect, despite all the laws and religious teachings there's still a lot of injustice in it. So what's your suggestion; "let's all go to a virtual world where there is no attempt to have any justice!" Potential Spoiler As for your VR mates, I suggest you go ask them: "Would you like to play a VR game where large corporations can drag you physically to their headquarters and force you to sign a contract which requires you to work for them grinding the same kinds of monsters dad after day, with all the loot going to the company? "Or how about one where 100,000 company soldiers can surround your 300 person team, lock you in a battlefield you can't even get out of by dying, nor can you logout of the game, while they kill you repeatedly until you have lost everything you earned in the game. Oh, but you might be kicked out of the game, if the damage is life threatening IRL, but if you recover and log back in you'll find yourself back in the battlefield?" "What's more, 1000 people can wirk together to kill you and still be considered 'good citizens', but if you kill 30 of them while they are doing it you will be considered a criminal and sent to gaol in the game, even if you delete your account and create a new account, to escape the ongoing torture." Does that sound like fun to you? BTW I never said that I would outlaw theft, killing or other inter-personal crimes of violence from the game. All I objected too was the allowance of Unbalanced crime, especially where corporations were being allowed to pay professional criminals to attack independent players.

Spite - no, lack of respect - yes. The Author has clearly stated that the company that created the game promoted it to major companies which made significant money out of similar games. He also has written that it becomes the only source of income / employment for millions of people and a primary, sometimes sole, source of income for many major companies. This clearly indicates that this 'game' is, and was always intended to be about making money. He also wrote that, while the game makers did provide cheap access for students during the introductory period, game equipment and the nutrients needed for playing long term are extremely expensive. In which case the permitting of crimes that have the potential to destroy players, and companies ability to recover their operating costs, let alone make profits, is inexcusable. As for it being a world domination game, that in itself is a problem in the circumstances. The author has previously indicated God's Domain becomes an 'alternative world' for millions of people. With many people's whole lives being lived out inside it. As the creators of this world the company, Main God System , is effectively the world government. What kind of world government abdicates any responsibility for even attempting to make the world a just place? BTW - yes I have played MMOs, moreover I have designed and tested MMOs. I am a Principal Systems and Test & Evaluation Engineer with over 45 years computer systems experience. So I'm fully aware of what exists within games and of what can be built into a game, without spoiling the experience of the players. Which allows me to state, with a very high degree of confidence, that there is no reason why a game cannot include different elements for teams vs individuals without anyone playing the game even noticing. Equally it's possible for you to implement any number of rules / laws and matching levels of law enforcement into a game seamlessly. Indeed, given that everything anyone does inside a virtual world can be monitored by the system, policing within a game is simple. Oh, and if you read further, you'll find that the level of monetary entanglement and basic injustice in this so-called 'game' is endemic.

Are you even reading this book. The author has clearly written that the game is a major source of money for companies all around the world. As for preventing unbalanced combat in a computer game any competent programmer can encode monitoring to detect that and apply penalties to make it non-profitable. Equally you can easily separate teams by size, applying coding to prevent interaction. Like stopping them from seeing each other and having separate quests and rewards. As for it being an individual players fault fir being robbed by teams of thieves, pure BS. What are they supposed to do, play to loose? Should they just throw away their winnings every time they defeat a powerful beast or open a chest? I suggest you try thinking before you post.

Actually I dropped this novel months ago.

The error is that he said 'it' was incredulous, not 'he' was incredulous. In the context 'it' could only be referring to the turtle, so he was saying that the turtle didn't believe in itself.

No, not correct, incredulous was used in the wrong context. Not the only time the author has done that.

Not quite. If he'd written "it was so fast 'he' was incredulous" that would be correct. In the context of saying 'it' the correct word is 'incredible'. I seriously doubt that the turtle doubted it's own abilities.