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Gate.io AMA with Placewar- Gamified Internet Culture Metaverse, P2E Social Gamefi Strategic Artillery Game Ecosystem

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**<font size=4>Time: Nov 19th, 2021, 13:00 UTC
[Gate.io](https://www.gate.io "Gate.io") hosted an AMA (Ask-Me-Anything) session with Myrtle Anne Ramos,Co-founder of PlaceWar in the [Gate.io Exchange Community](https://t.me/gateio "Gate.io Exchange Community").
Official Website: https://placewar.io/#/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/placewar_game
Follow PlaceWar on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/placewar_game "Twitter") and [Telegram](https://t.me/placewarANN "Telegram")
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**Myrtle Anne Ramos — Co-founder of PlaceWar**
## Q&A from Gate.io
### Q1: Can you please do a self-introduction and introduce PlaceWar as well?
**Myrtle**: Thank you and good afternoon everyone, my name is Myrtle and I’m the founder of PlaceWar. Before PlaceWar, I created Block Tides, an award-winning PR firm in the Philippines. I've helped hundreds of companies to benefit and transform their businesses to disrupt, adjust or scale utilizing the latest technological tools, products or help to build from scratch. Beyond that, I’m also an official influencer of Coinmarketcap, and the VP of growth & partnership of Gokumarket.

I also run one of the largest scholarship programs in the Philippines. To combine with my other partners, we are one of the largest in SouthEast Asia, along with MetaGaming Guild.

### Q2: There have been many Metaverse and GameFi projects and even more to come. The competition is getting more fierce. What are PlaceWar's edge over other games?
**Myrtle**: PlaceWar is a strategic play-to-earn social game universe deployed on a multi-chain with highly engaging artillery gameplay. The philosophy behind the design is that we want a simple, fun, and socially binding game universe to keep users coming back while enabling them to have the chance to share profit while the ecosystem grows.

We're already a metaverse before Mark announced that they're Meta.

I think Metaverse is an inflated title. If you are referring to Ready Player One, then we are far from that world. I think GameFi is the most solid first step of all for Metaverse attempts, more so than any other big corporations have done: GameFi is suggesting a philosophy that in a metaverse, the universe should be owned, governed by players and therefore the profits should be shared by players, too.

We are fully aware that many gamefi projects are hitting the market.

What most of them are doing is to add NFT and tokenomics to existing games. This is a good way of transition for traditional gamers to switch blockchain. However, this pattern may get players to become too focused on the token rewards part to create the actual in-game economy.

What we do instead, is to create the social bonds and differentiation between players so everyone will find his own way to enjoy and earn, not necessarily just solely interact with smart contracts but with each other.

We do have a core mechanism which is inspired by Worms.

Simple artillery shooting is fun, addictive, and nostalgic. Play-2-earn players can enjoy rewards through winning battles, which is a way they have been familiar with through <a href="/price/axie-infinity-axs" target="_blank" class="blog_inner_link">Axie Infinity</a>. They can also earn through social interaction in the Pixel system that I will explain how we do that later.

### Q3: As a P2E metaverse game, would you please introduce the gaming system of PlaceWar and how users can play to earn?
**Myrtle**: PlaceWar has two systems:

Battle system and Pixel system. In the Battle system, you need 3 tank NFTs to start a PVE challenge taking on NPCs, or a PVP battle against a random player. You can win a token and other rewards by winning. This is the play-to-earn element most players are familiar with. We have a Guild War too which is an arena that allows users to bet on themselves using our $PLACE or $GEAR tokens in a 10 VS 10 tank battle. Winner will take it all.

PVE and PVP will be available in V1 and V1.5 which will be launched separately in December.

A demo will be available in November after launch.

When we launch V2, which is the Pixel system, we will have Placedonia, a canvas map divided into 90k small pixel lands, where players are able to park their tanks, collect resources, construct buildings, and choose a color to represent their land on the world map.

As I mentioned, it’s a canvas map, so the goal is to get users to create their own paintings but how? We allow users to attack each other. (If you know clash of clans, that's pretty much the same ideology)

You can invade other pixels by challenging their defenders in a tank battle. Upon winning you will be able to loot their unharvested resources and force change their color – make their pixel to join your painting territory. To create a massive painting will take a lot of effort and eventually collaboration, so you have to work with other players.
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That means mini DAOs inside the game. We will encourage this to happen via setting a creator reward and inviting other crypto communities into the game and putting bounties to encourage players to create their logos in the game.  NFT is definitely the core of our asset system. We don’t just have tanks as NFT, but equipment (the wearables), tech, and pixel, building, and defender in the pixel system too. You will be able to customize your own best tanks and strategies to take on your enemies.

### Q4: For a GameFi project, tokenomics design is crucial. Please introduce the tokenomics in PlaceWar.
**Myrtle**: PlaceWar is on a dual token system.

$PLACE is our governance token which allows external parties to participate in the game on a meta level like voting.

Another one big utility of $PLACE is for the spending on Crafting.

Crafting is the process of minting all NFTs in our game.

$PLACE will have more spending cases.

The $PLACE token is capped at 1B. $GEAR is our in-game currency which is uncapped and 100% generated through gameplay. You can use $GEAR to pay for literally everything inside the game, including Crafting.

There is also a mechanism to slow down the inflation of $GEAR which is the Fuel Tank.

You will need to spend $GEAR to get back to PVE games otherwise you have to wait for hours until the next PVE game.

### Q5: Does PlaceWar have partners? Would you please introduce the partnership of PlaceWar?
**Myrtle**: Although the first version will be deployed on Binance Chain, we are working with multiple blockchains to deploy our versions, including <a href="/price/iotex-iotx" target="_blank" class="blog_inner_link">IoTeX</a>, Conflux, <a href="/price/polygon-matic" target="_blank" class="blog_inner_link">Polygon</a>. We have actually received investments from Polygon China and IoTeX too. To facilitate the NFT transfer, we are working with BoringDAO to build the NFT bridge.

Guilds are one essential faction in the GameFi industry, and we have Pixelchaser the Axie Infinity official community guild, MGG, JRN, ExNetwork, Woodson, and Terabyte(led by Hydra the Starcrafts world champion) directly investing in us.
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We will be working with them to kickstart our own NFT sale and scholarship program. We will also work closely with our guild partners to roll out our own scholarship programs. We will be providing a limited number of free tanks to expand our user base.

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<div>Author:** Rio Fu.**, Gate.io Community
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