Wires for Himes West

[Wires]

Wires For Himes West:
I will be running as an Independent, with no party affiliation.

Who Am I?
Im Wires, Current Deputy Minister of Immigration and Education, as well as a TITO member.

How active am I in ATA?
I am one of the most active members and have been for a long time, I joined ATA and XKI at around the same time in January, and ever since then I've fallen in love with the region as a whole.

Once in Office, Are you willing to have a deputy? If so, how will you determine which candidate to pick?
I am most likely going to have two deputies which will assist me in the forum and discord RPs. The reason I do this is to focus on the main source of RP in the region, ATA. This does'nt mean I wont be involved in discord and forum RP, it just means there's less for me to do in the broad position of Himes West senator.

What do you hope to achieve in office?
I wish to boost the activity/fun in the forum and ATA, as well as how fun they can be. I'm going to do this in a few simple ways:
1- Encouraging Roleplay in the forum for XKI members, the forum rp is one of the least active areas in the entirety of the forum, mostly because people who love forum rps don't know about it, so I'm planning to do a small ad campaign to XKI members about the forum to see anyone who'd be interested, hopefully this will achieve something that the past senators haven't been focused on.

2- Changing ATA Stats: Stats in ATA have always been a huge problem, a controversial one as well. But I've asked a dozen or so of its members on these things and I've found that, changing the defense budget to defense forces would be one of the easiest changes, as most roleplayers want this, even people who benefit from it like me.
Another way id change stats is lowering ship sizes, making the Scientific Advancement even broader for more lore and roleplay flexibility, as well as changing manpower requirements for ships.

3- Adding Events and Megastructures: You may be thinking this has been done, but not to the extent I'm planning to go with it. I'm planning to add multiple events which can occur at any time to cause more RP, these events will be random and would range from Alien interaction to discovery of special materials to pirates raiding cities, no matter the event, most ATA players have told me they loved the idea, and would want to see said things in ATA. Now megastructures are simpler, they're merely a way to tax gigantic structures in ATA, that means you can have large behemoth sized objects, but they wouldn't be too OP. Theres lots more on these ideas on megastructures and events, and I can go even more in depth on them if asked.

4- Replacing Inactive Moderators- Currently there are only two active moderators on ATA, Krystalveil and Axecapital, I plan to add 2 or one more moderators to help ease the large amount of members that need to be moderated, as well as possibly having them in different time zones to make things as 24/7 as possible.

What do you admire about ATA/XKI?
I admire a lot about XKI, its friendliness, its willingness to defend smaller regions via TITO (Being a TITO member myself.), and just what a nice community it is, there's always someone on the RMB who wants to talk to you, always someone willing to answer any question you could have about the region, just the amount of self responsibility in every member is amazing, XKI is one of if not the most welcoming communities I've ever been in. ATA is also an amazing community, its in the same manner of XKI where people will help you with rules, teach you how to RP, and more. ATA is also extremely friendly, nearly every older member of ATA is friends with another, including me, having made a dozen friends from it, I have a lot to thank for them.

Thank you for reading my campaign.
These are my many plans on how to improve the roleplay in the region, I hope you can see how well I could do if id be elected, if not, I hope I could convince you again.
I really do wish to be elected to help ATA and XKI rp grow steadily, as well as making it more fun for the average roleplayer.

A vote for Wires is A vote for fun.

[Zaberaz Hapang]

Hi Wires, I have a few questions for you

1) You say you want to change the defense forces stat on A Taco Archipelago to the budget instead of the government spenditure, however, are you aware that this change was made to act as a counteracting force to Scientific advancement and provide smaller nations a chance to triumph over bigger nations with gigantic amount of Scientific advancement, do you not consider this would disproportionally harm smaller nations?

2) About the events: Do you have any plan for them not to become annoying or repetitive after a while? You also say they would be random, what would be your method for this, something like Random.org?

3) Please do go more in-depth about your ideas on megastructures

4) What do you mean by "lowering ship sizes"?

5) What are your plans for the changes in mapower?

6) Do you have any specific plans for the Discord RP?

7) Do you have some more specific plans for the Forum RP?

[Wires]

Jul 6, 2022 7:59:28 GMT -5 Zaberaz Hapang said:

Hi Wires, I have a few questions for you

1) You say you want to change the defense forces stat on A Taco Archipelago to the budget instead of the government spenditure, however, are you aware that this change was made to act as a counteracting force to Scientific advancement and provide smaller nations a chance to triumph over bigger nations with gigantic amount of Scientific advancement, do you not consider this would disproportionally harm smaller nations?

2) About the events: Do you have any plan for them not to become annoying or repetitive after a while? You also say they would be random, what would be your method for this, something like Random.org?

3) Please do go more in-depth about your ideas on megastructures

4) What do you mean by "lowering ship sizes"?

5) What are your plans for the changes in mapower?

6) Do you have any specific plans for the Discord RP?

7) Do you have some more specific plans for the Forum RP?

1) I do understand that, but the fact that defense budget is easily shareable and exploitable, as well as extremely hard to get this stat up as it is never mentioned in any nation states issue answering website. I understand the intention, but there are better ways to do it than having the defense budget stat. I don't have a definitive one currently, but I guarantee that most nations aren't benefitting benefit from this stat, especially small younger ones.

2) I do understand they could be boring, which is why they'll be decently rare, but not as uncommon as under other campaigns. And by random, I mean id have a list id go through and see which event could be appropriate for the current timing in ATA, if I feel none are needed, I wont do them. Think of it as a way to spark rp when ATA is slightly burnt out.

3) My idea on megastructures would be to create a term for the already large structures in ATA, anything larger than 400kmx400km400km would be considered a megastructure. The way they'd be taxed is that they could be giant weapons, housing districts, and storage facilities, but, they'd have to be overseen by a commission member or me to make sure they stand fair and don't break rules, a way to do this is to make them take longer the bigger they get, or make them immovable unless they move at around 1 AU a year, and that would be costly, as well as be too big to enter hyperlanes.
The reason I propose this is so people can be happy while I still remove their large ships.

4) I mean lowering limit the size of a fast movable ship, infinite is too big for such an object, this goes in hand with he megastructures, as theyll act as the replacement for these large useless objects, and give them a use.

5) Im planning to make small fighters and drones cost 0 manpower, as it would make sense for ATA, with automation being used everywhere but where, which confuses me. This wont require any DF or SA stat, it'll just be a rule. Megastructures will cost some manpower, but it wont be too costly for nations able to build such things. Another thing is to lower the amount of manpower required for larger ships, again as how automation does so much.

6) Not too much, I just wish to continue the very successful way of discord with a deputy who can help manage it for me, possibly a commission member with experience as a discord mod for an RP.

7) I would like to see at first how many people would be interested in the discord style of monthly rps on the forum, if enough wish to do this, I'm willing to create a monthly RP on the forum, like the discord.

Thanks for the question

[Wires]

Reminder that questions on the Campaign are very welcome!

[Hashari Darussalam]

Hello there Wires, i have a few question regarding Interstellar Travel.

1. Do you have a plan to allow FTL (Faster-Than-Light) travel outside of Hyperlanes/Stargate? If yes, What are the conditions for a ship to travel at FTL speed outside a Hyperlane/Stargate?

2. Do you have a plan to make the maximum FTL speed inside a Hyperlane/Stargate faster? As it is quite slow even for a FTL speed as it would take at least 200 minutes or more than 3 hours to reach the other end of a Hyperlane/Stargate if the the Hyperlane/Stargate were connecting a Star System 50 Light Year away from the Solar System. This would lead to Roleplay to be either delayed immensely or would take a long time to complete.

3. Will you still allow nations to Colonize other Galaxy? As the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest galaxy to the Milky Way is 2,5 Million Light Years away from the Milky Way, it would take 2,5 Million Days to reach by Light Speed with the current rules and seemed unrealistic.

[Wires]

Jul 10, 2022 7:08:21 GMT -5 Hashari Darussalam said:

Hello there Wires, i have a few question regarding Interstellar Travel.

1. Do you have a plan to allow FTL (Faster-Than-Light) travel outside of Hyperlanes/Stargate? If yes, What are the conditions for a ship to travel at FTL speed outside a Hyperlane/Stargate?

2. Do you have a plan to make the maximum FTL speed inside a Hyperlane/Stargate faster? As it is quite slow even for a FTL speed as it would take at least 200 minutes or more than 3 hours to reach the other end of a Hyperlane/Stargate if the the Hyperlane/Stargate were connecting a Star System 50 Light Year away from the Solar System. This would lead to Roleplay to be either delayed immensely or would take a long time to complete.

3. Will you still allow nations to Colonize other Galaxy? As the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest galaxy to the Milky Way is 2,5 Million Light Years away from the Milky Way, it would take 2,5 Million Days to reach by Light Speed with the current rules and seemed unrealistic.

1- Yes, But the ship can’t be big, I’d say anything bigger than 10 km^3 would be too big to move FTL outside a hyperlane.
2- Definitely, I’ll be introducing some special items and materials which will immensely speed up travel in hyperlanes.
3- I’ll create a system for colonization that will make it “realistic” and possible for nations to colonize.

Thank you very much for your question
Remember to Vote Wires, and that a vote for wires is a vote for fun!

[Wille-Harlia]

One question: Do you want to/intend to codify the RP Commission into law if elected?

[Wires]

Nope. The commission should not be codified into law. It should be a choice of the senator to have one or to not have one, in my belief, codifying the commission is just limiting what a Senator can do.
Plus, the commission can simply be replaced by a deputy or a complaints box for citizens to give their ideas and feedback.

[Astrobolt]

Wires

I have two questions for you.

1) Will you consider the creation of character-based RPs (individual participants control a single character instead of an entire country) in order to appeal to those who find country-based RPs to be too overwhelming?

2) Often times, RPs in XKI seem to be focused on competition and fighting against each other (invading other participants land for example). What will you do, if anything, to appeal to those who want less emphasis on wars and competition, and more emphasis on collaboration?

Thank you for your time, and best of luck!

[Wires]

1) One new nation has been experimenting with single character RPs and I would be interested in exploring it with them. Currently ATA is very country centered so it’d be hard but I’m not entirely closer to the idea.

2) One of my events will force nations to unite together. I won’t reveal the event, but many of them will force nations to work together, and the main one I’m planning will definitely make people unite.

[Paffnia]

Congrats Wires!