Today, senior brother is too steady had 377 fans with top three contributing 316 each.
My disciples are all villains had 289 fans with top three contributing 172 each.

So how did disciples get selected over it? Even with 60% of fans, senior brother would get more coins(longer chap= more coin per chap), not to mention it had more fans by 100.

Don't get me wrong, I quite like the villain disciples novel but if the system ain't gonna be followed, why create it? Moreover, disciples would probably have gotten selected next wk at any rate

Last week too, senior brother is too steady had 260 fans with top three contributing 316 each.
MMORPG: Divine monster transmutator (last week) had 245 fans with top three contributing 164 each.

How did MMORPG get selected last week? Similar to disciples, senior brother would have more coins even with 60% of its fan, not to mention it had more fans by 15.

I'm actually getting hella anxious because of this. I really hope My senior brother is too steady gets picked but knowing Webnovel they're probably going to choose another or boot it from the trial read despite it being so fucking good.

@CKtalon

Sorry to bother you, but you are pretty much the only staff with knowledge that actually replies.

Is there a reason why senior brother was passed over two times despite having more number of fans (377 vs 289 and 260 vs 245)? or are the books chosen based on trendiness of fans/coins instead of number/amount?

    If they are just going to release what they want then they should just delete the trial read. This has happened In the past as well.

    Water0202020 Because translating this book will cost a lot. There's a lot of negotiations behind the scenes. The word counts are on average 5000 (2x the usual chapter size), and can go up to 10,000 Chinese characters.
    We do not want to translate it midway and then have to drop it.

        CKtalon if u look at the views and reviews. A lot of people like it and will most probably spend money to read its premium content. And if they had to think about money then why did they introduced trial read??? They should have just done what they did befor.

            1 ch/day would be great too as long as it could continue.
            It was technically the book to have highest number of fans in both weeks, yet it seems unlikely to be TLed. That pretty much makes the trial system of readers choosing novels untrue

              Water0202020 There's a reason why the book is still on Trial Reads while other books have already been removed. It will likely be translated.
              1/day will not earn much because people will just Fast Pass the chapter away. That affects earnings.

                binit They didn't think about money before Trial Reads was introduced, that's why books just appeared in the Voting Pool. Now, after a budget cut, money matters, so Trial Read is used to select profitable books.

                  So basically, the merit of longer chapters ended up being its curse ( ´•̥̥̥ω•̥̥̥` )

                  7 days later

                  Well, the same thing happened this week too I guess. Absolute Teacher had 241 fans (246 coins per person to unlock all) and senior Brother had 448 fans (316 coins per person to unlock all), yet Absolute Teacher got picked over senior brother.

                  I can understand the reason behind it now, but it still feels quite frustrating.

                    Like even if they didn’t want to choose “senior brother” then they should have choosen “pet dragon” or “ i am a baller” which has better stats. But webnovel has to be a cunt and wont follow the results. at this point they should just delete trial read and release what they want. At least readers wont have false hope of their preferred book being released.

                    I knew this would happen when WN introduced fast passes... Either do what fan translators do (release long chapters in parts) or just scrap the FP system, at least the old spirit stone system did not have this problem of just being able to unlock some 25 coin chapter with just one token.

                    Also if you are having cuts in the budget you really need to go cry to Tencent and show them you have a VIABLE ROADMAP to being succesfull but you need INVESTMENT.

                      Also lol at "Senior brother being steady" being skipped 3rd time in a row.

                      Trial read = Trash system

                      PjBaek

                      You could also make fastpass be only worth 9 coins. So you would have to use multiple fastpasses to unlock chapter costing over 9 coins.

                      If it really is such a huge problem that people use fastpasses on expensive chapters...

                          PjBaek Back to the original SS system! get free coins/SS daily instead of FPs if it's that bad for long chapters lol

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