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Introduction

Who am I?


Hello, I am SichiRonoa , a not so old player of e-sim who started playing in Suna after clicking an ad somewhere on facebook. I started here on maxima to get a fresh start of what it feels like to be able to compete back to square one where everyone was on equal footing when this server first started.

My goals for this server at first was to have fun, compete from square one, gain experience on e-sim while at the same time get stronger individually so that by the end of the merge I'd have something to bring along after transferring to a server with lots of strong players.

When the server started there was a contest going on as to who would be the first CP of each country and all it took was to invite players here to the server, I did my best to invite as many as I could, I shouted, I created an article, I created posts, I even messaged my friends in facebook one by one to try out the game and at least get to level 7 to help me out as well as try to win the competition to experience what being a CP is like.

Luckily, after days of campaigning, I actually managed to become the first CP and was very excited to begin my first day of work as CP. I had not much clue what to do except that I had control over Philippines Org and had powers to do specific laws like starting wars.

To become a good CP, I had to learn first and what better way to learn than to experience it firsthand as well as ask for opinions from people who had gone through the same experience. Of course not all opinions were accepted and I also made my own choices which led to their own ups and downs.

Here are my achievements thus far from the beginning up to now.

My Achievements



1.) Economy

Able to create all the necessary raw materials and product companies that each country should have which you can see in our State MU and the 2 other companies in our ORG.

This includes the following companies we were able to create:

a.) Q3 Grain and Q5 Food
(Made possible by continuous loans from me with no interest that is one of the reasons why our ORG has debt all the time, do not worry as the gold is from me and I will never ask for any interest, my gold is shared equally with our ORG to make faster advancement of our country.)

b.) Q5 Oil, Q1 Tickets, Q5 Tickets
(The Q4 Ticket and 2nd Q1 Ticket Company in our state mu was a donation made by Zidmal )

c.) Q3 Iron and 2 Q1 Weapons
(The 2nd Iron and 3rd Q1 Weapons Company belongs to me which I donated to our MU to help our country, I believe it was better that way than to selfishly controls the npc's myself in one of our regions. P.S, those are not donations but I won't be asking for a refund for it, I guess it's like a lend but maybe soon I will consider it a donation since you can't give back companies to players.)
(The Q1 Iron Company was a donation made by Balanar )

d.) Q4 Diamond and Q5 Gift Company
(Made possible thanks to the loan made by Tleety with no interest required, a good friend of mine from Sweden and yes, he's the guy who buys all of the q1 helmets from the item vendor)

That is a total of 15 Companies, 13 are in the State MU and 2 are in our ORG.

The reason why it is in our MU is because NPC's cannot work for ORG owned companies but will if it is in a Military Unit as long as the Leader is not a National Organization.

Another is that the MU gives access to players to a mass salary donation otherwise known as a commune system. This is when a player works for a company in a Military Unit and instead of currency, they get supplies like food, weapons, gifts, this depends on the MU how many and what they want to give.

You can see that we only have access to oil and grain as raws here in our country thus have access to creating tickets and food only. We do not have diamonds and iron to create weapons and gifts both necessary to have a supply ready for our market and our citizens.

To have access to those, we made the commune system for citizens to work abroad for those raws for us to be able to create the basic supplies we need.



2.) Politics

After our congress elections, it was a great success as everyone contributed the 5g they had from their congress medals to the national treasury though I know I had forced the runners to pay up in front before they were even congress and I am terribly sorry for that. My aim was to get the 100g start-up gold for our treasury for use for our country. Next election I will no longer force to pay runners up front but I will post who had donated their 5g.

So far our congress has been great as we have unity in voting which makes it easier for law proposals except for that one time I was impeached and some congress tried out their law proposals. We still need a bit of communication to make full efficiency of our laws and congress but hopefully that will be solved.

Our current stand with other countries is that PH is still neutral and has not joined any alliance yet though there were offers from countries but if I to have accepted it immediately, some would have disagreed which was why I decided to not take one.

We may not have an alliance as of writing this but we do have some connections with other countries though joining an alliance would mean cutting the connection for some which I hope will not lead to hate for this is all for fun and is a game, nothing personal, we just want to make it interesting for all of us.

Truth be told I never liked politics but here it is good experience as politics will always affect us even if we don't want to participate in it.



3.) Wars


All I can say is that because of our neutrality I cannot really say much regarding this.

One thing I did learn is that PH citizens if working together, we can achieved many things like our first war , we managed to win the rounds through coordination and communication even with the little population we had, I say that's a lot coming from our underpopulated country.


4.) Monetary Market

We have managed to make our monetary market stable again. 1 php at 0.05g ratio but for gold-php, there are not quite a lot of offers but me and org will make sure to put offers to keep it from going up too high.

We have based our product prices to MM value of 1php-0.05 g and will not increase it even if the MM value decreases, this is not our loss but instead this will attract more people to buy php in our MM and buy products at cheaper rates.

As long as the ORG is not the one offering the php in lowered prices, we will not lose value as the php will rotate from player to player and after a while people will start to sell php at higher prices as our market grows because they will be losing money.

There was a time where our market died for a while because I wanted to observe first what happens thus the value of php currency lowered up to 0.03.

To recover it and all excess PHP, I lowered the Value even more up to 0.02----. This was to compete with everyone selling php in market in bulks and once they lowered it to that rate, I bought it all and did it until only few php was left.

That was how we managed to reset MM again and after it stabilized to 0.05, we were able to put products at that rate with no one buying excessive amounts of it because they had too much php stacked.

Wasn't easy refreshing every 5minutes or hour to make sure that mm kept on lowering till desired price but it was worth it in the end.



5.) Job Salaries

We have recently increased our job salaries once more to attract citizens working in other countries to come back to ph to work for companies here and be able to buy products with php which our org is supplying daily at reasonable rates. Considering how many you can buy right now with our PHP, it is quite better than when it started where even weapons alone were expensive.

I'd still like to here opinions regarding this and your ideas as well about job salaries.

We can offer more job offers in other companies which we really do need more workers but can't make it permanent due to the npc's. When we will overflow with workers in one company, i will send a message telling other citizens to transfer jobs where we will open slots at same salaries as previous job of course.



Conclusion

I also had my fair share of failures like the first war, our MM at the beginning having such a high currency value, decisions and many more but because of this I was able to grow and learn and will continue to do so.

I won't make promises as to what I should do in my next month as we can never predict the future and I can only hope it gets better, if not, we arise stronger from it and learn.

I didn't expect we'd make it thus far but we did as a country and I am happy about it.

The late nights in IRC, the continuous posting of trade offers in #mxtrade every 5 minutes to sell our tickets at first were all worth it for our accomplishments.

I am not as active as I was last week right now because of wifi problems but next week, I'll be back to my usual almost 24/7 activity where you can find in IRC almost anytime.

-SichiRonoa, First President of the Republic of the Philippines


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