The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5548

Chapter 5548 Monopolistic Temptations

For a moment, Ves felt awfully tempted.

Every entrepreneur dreamt of securing a monopoly on the market.

Becoming the sole provider of a good or service meant that Ves did not have to bow down to anyone!

He could dictate the price levels to earn the maximum possible revenue. There were no pesky competitors who threatened to undercut his prices.

Ves also did not have to invest as much time and effort into increasing the competitiveness and value proposition of his good or serve. He could choose to spend his time on much more important pursuits while continuing to rake in a lot of money.

More importantly than that, becoming the sole provider of an essential product granted him a lot of power.

His identity became a lot more important as people would not dare to affront the sole owner and developer of the most realistic simulation program that currently existed.

Losing access to the MSTS when there were no viable alternatives in place meant that thousands, millions or even billions of mech pilots would lose access to an essential training tool!

If this denial of access lasted long enough, then the overall skills and proficiencies of those deprived mech pilots would definitely fall behind compared to rivals who still retained access to the MSTS!

As such, whatever decisions that Ves made in relation to the MSTS could change the fate of entire states and large organizations!

Wielding so much direct power was both tempting and scary.

Ves was not sure whether it was a good idea for him to obtain so much strategic power over human society!

"Have none of the simulation program developers managed to create an improved physics model after all of this time?" He questioned.

His personal assistant shook his head. "If there is, then everyone is doing a good job at keeping their mouths shut. I think it is safe to assume that no one has cracked the code. In fact, if you are willing to believe in the rumors on the galactic net, then none of the companies have made much progress beyond the basics. The properties of E-technology are too deep, complex and more importantly mutable. How can you simulate a new energy type that can actually undergo perplexing changes based on what people think at the moment?"

Ves shrugged his shoulders. "lam sure that a lot of clever people are working on the problem at the moment. I think it will get solved in 4 or 5 years. It can even be solved sooner if a Star Designer takes action."

A prolific inventor like the Polymath would definitely be able to come up with her own new simulation program after spending a bit of effort!

She was much more suited to this sort of work as her domain was practically tailor-made for this purpose!

Figuring out new phenomena and deriving universal rules from them was a clear expression of discovering the truth of how reality worked.

The only reason why the Polymath had yet to turn her formidable intellect to this issue was because she needed to direct all of her effort into reverse engineering and converting the greater beyonder gate.

If no other Star Designer was willing to address this increasingly more pressing issue, then adopting the MSTS in the immediate future sounded like an increasingly more attractive prospect!

However... was the MSTS able to keep up with the massive expansion of usage?

Currently, Vulcan essentially acted the server of the MSTS. He was able to maintain the current level of use without much issue, but if he had to simulate a thousand times more training scenarios at a time, then even he would explode from overworking!

Ves would have to develop a more sophisticated solution in order to scale up the MSTS to a level where mech pilots across human-occupied space could make use of it, possibly with moderate restrictions in order to reduce the total load.

He may even have to create a new design spirit that was designed to act as a server from the very beginning!

Even though Vulcan was doing a decent job so far, his lack of specialization in this area resulted in a lot of inefficiencies.

"I will talk to Jovy Armalon about this next time we meet." Ves eventually decided. "If I decide to make the MSTS available to the wider public, I will likely have to do so through the channels of the Red Association."

This was not unusual. There were many different people and companies who wanted to sell their goods and services to a wider audience but lacked the scale or infrastructure to reach every market.

Many of the items listed on the Association's Merit Exchange consisted of highly prized specialty products that were difficult to obtain through other channels.

In any case, Ves did not have to worry too much about distribution, dirty tricks, unfair treatment and so on if he relied on the Red Association to manage the MSTS.

The downside was that he would have to give up a lot of control over it. Ves might not have much choice in the matter if other simulation program developers failed to make enough progress.

"The urgency shouldn't be too much for the time being." Ves surmised. "Many mechs only apply hyper technology to a shallow degree. It is easy enough to manually simulate the phenomena they can produce. Mech pilots can still gain a lot from training with regular virtual mechs."

This was not ideal, though. A solution had to be found to prevent mech pilots from backsliding in the new age.

Ves temporarily set this matter aside and focused on preparing for the next big event.

He went through another wardrobe change. He did not wear the same exaggerated getup as yesterday.

Instead, he wore a more martial ensemble that resembled a military uniform. This granted him a more combative vibe that fit the occasion a lot better.

Lucky dispensed with a cape as it wasn't necessary for the archemetal cat to dress up this time.

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