Review Detail of sinkingship in Global Descent: 100×Reward

Let me start by saying that I read to chapter 140~ before dropping this book. So it has good points, but also bad points. The overall premise is a little generic (I've seen quite a few other books here on Webnovel with this "Earthlings decent to another world and have to build bases" premise) but I feel like this one stands out from the crowd. In many similar novels, the MCs never seem to have any goals, and they go 100+ chapters without focusing on anything except base building. Often, it will be 100 chapters+ before they ever meet another human face to face. This novel is not like that. The MC, Lin Ye, is very driven. He wants to be king of this new world, and it only takes him a few chapters to start using his cheat to move out and conquer nearby territories and fight his fellow "players". Some of which he kills (although only in "self-defense") and most of which he drags back to work for him. So the MC quickly begins interacting with other characters very early in the story, which is nice since it isn't just a non-stop stream of internal monologues like in some books. And as MC expands his territory we, the readers and the MC both, slowly start learning some of the secrets of the world. It's clear that the author has put effort into creating a comprehensive background setting to be slowly unraveled and explored, which is obviously a huge plus for the book. (To put it briefly, the world MC has descended into has a cycle of other-world humans descending and fighting the zombies, but they lose every time. Meanwhile, there are natives who live underground to hide from the zombies that MC and the other players can summon to fight for them, but the loyalty of the natives is questionable. They obviously have their own goals despite fighting for the humans, and they can also betray or defect if their human "Lords" mistreat them badly enough or give them impossible tasks.) So the MC is motivated and actively uses his cheat to summon troops to expand and conquer, the setting is deep and has room to be explored, what's the problem? Why did I only give 3 stars? The answer is simple: The pace at which time passes in this book relative to the number of chapters is absolutely glacial. At chapter 140, it's still only been 3 days in-universe since the book began. It feels absurd and really strains credulity, especially when you factor in the loyalty system of the natives (by day 3, every single native in MCs camp has been won over to 100% loyalty? wat). And when his troops go through multiple upgrades in both equipment and personal power level in a single day, but each time there needs to be a whole chapter talking about how amazed they all are and how much more loyal they are now since MC gave them this "amazing gift"... these scenes are slightly undercut when you remember that this is the third, or fourth, or fifth, "amazing gift" the MC has given them THAT DAY. In short, it really feels like the author had some sort of plot outline written beforehand, and in that outline, it said "MC will accomplish 'X' before the first zombie wave at the 1-week mark" and then just religiously stuck to that - writing tens of chapters about base building, territory expansion, troop recruitment, etc... but not letting time advance at all for fear of breaking the pre-established outline. (Note: this is purely my guess. I just can't think of any other reason why three days would be split into 140 chapters, even when it clearly causes certain parts of the book to not make much sense.) And the final negative point: MCs cheat really pads the word count. Every time he gets a reward, he gets three options to choose from and many times all three options are described in detail despite MC only choosing one of them. Moreover, with the pacing of the book, some super-duper-amazing treasure that MC or his troops are drooling over will be worthless garbage in 30 chapters, which is actually only 2 hours later in-universe time, so again there's the issue where credulity is strained. I mean, how many times could MC and the troops realitically get worked up over a new sword or bow or whatever in a single day before it stopped being shocking or noteworthy? Maybe they can get excited but I, as the reader, really can't. There are entire chapters dedicated solely to MC opening chests and replacing his "Sword of +1" with a "Sword of +2", which will then be replaced with a "Sword of +3" a dozen chapters later... but each time a bunch of words are wasted talking about how amazing and impressive the loot is... and it's boring. I ended up skimming a lot. Still, despite those drawbacks, I think I would recommend this book overall. Of course, only if you like this power fantasy kingdom-builder genre.