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Introduction

This page introduces the way of Tencent who uses to employ game inequalities in order to earn money from players in an unethical practice. Additionally, the page also documents information of Zhihuese's use in the game.

Methodology

Similar to other online games developed by Tencent, Tiantian Xiangqi, a game that provides players with interface to start tournaments of the pure Chinese Chess as well as one another variant of the most popular play, also has ineuqalities which treat frequent, non-paid customers with more failures in Jieqi tournaments. Jieqi, a varient in addition to the official Chinese Chess play, intents to enhance experiences of players by gaining uncertainties of uncovered pieces and adding abilities of additional functionalities of particular types of pieces where their moves in tranditional games are limited to the particular fields; however, players who do not cater Tencent with money would suffer increased failures of Jieqi tournaments which may gain added bad experiences in addition to game looses, and as a result, probably expediting the process of purchasing more in-game currencies as players may expect for winning back and advancing to new ranking levels that classified by the game. Similar money harvesting practices can be seen on other games designed by Tencent, for example, Honour of Kings, CrossFire China, Expacts of Peace, etc.

Because of the uncertainty of initial draw of Jieqi games, possible type for unrevealed pieces remains unknown to the both paties, unless they have been captured by one party which then makes available to that person. However, with careful measurements and strict determinations of this online game, Li Ao has determined that the initial draw of Jieqi matches on Tiantian Xiangqi isn't always randomised. To clarify, for new players whose game accounts are recently created and haven't played Jieqi for a certain degree of times, Tencent's system always tunes the tone to allow more advantages of getting powerful pieces at places to dominate the match, and to produce more negative influences to the opponents. Meanwhile, players who use old accounts that have no active purchase activities would face more game looses, as the system tunes the tone to allow more disadvantages of situation to happen.

The following section outlines those secret cheat behaviours in detail, but first, introduces the game rules of Jieqi which provides a quick overview of possible situations where computers involved in randomization that may happen.

Gamerule of Jieqi

Jieqi is a distinct variant from the regular Chinese Chess game play. It introduces a randomised draw of Chinese Chess except for Generals, where they are placed in their initial positions as Chinese Chess defines.