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Belisarius

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  1. I'm currently at war with this nation. He had saved up 12 MAPs and did ground attacks. However, he did 5 attacks, whereas the maximum amount of attacks is 4. Here are the attacks on my notification screen: Further, the War Timeline reflects that something odd was going on: -3 maps lol. Anyway, ideally I would like the last attack on me to be negated as it should not have counted. Thank you for looking into this
  2. Earlier today I received a trade deal from a random nation. The notification was: 07/11 10:14 pm of sent your nation a trade offer. wants to buy 1 food in exchange for $0 each, or a total of $0. As you can see, there was neither a ruler nor nation name in the notification. My guess the player deleted their nation shortly after sending me the trade. However, the issue I'm facing is that the trade deal is showing as pending on the side menu like this: ...and on my nation page here: However, when I click it, I see no trade deal pending: ... As you can see, there is literally nothing showing here. So I'm not able to cancel this trade despite the game insisting I have a trade. It's not affecting my game play, but it is kinda annoying to look at. Just wondering if this trade can be cancelled by Alex or another admin. Thanks for looking into this!
  3. To celebrate this milestone, I'll fulfill my dream of going to the Grand Canyon 😌
  4. If only Rose can find another alliance to ally with, one that has historically used the color green as part of its motif. tbh I'm coming up blank 🤷‍♂️
  5. Good war everyone! Yay peace! Yay to a buyer's market!
  6. That @Kurdanak guy is really something, huh? Who knew a mantis shrimp can be a meanie? Oh well, at least his taste in flags is impeccable 👌
  7. How dare you?!?!?!?! There is no hope for anyone. We are all doom if you cannot recognize the majesty of The Immortals Holiday Flag 😭
  8. Alliance of the Year: Grumpy Most Improved Alliance: - Best Rookie Alliance: - Best Alliance for New Players: Rose Most Likely to Succeed in 2022: - Most Likely to be Rolled in 2022: - Most Honorable Alliance: - Most Immoral Alliance: - Best Fighting Alliance: - Worst Fighting Alliance: - Best Alliance Growth: - Best Foreign Affairs Team: - Best Foreign Affairs Move: - Worst Foreign Affairs Move: Oasis-Mystery MDP Alliance with Best Propaganda: - Most Missed Alliance: - Best Alliance Flag (please link): TKR Best Holiday Flag (please link): The Immortals Holiday Flag My totally sane thoughts here: Link I wrote a poem too (._. ) Oh the Immortals Holiday Flag! To honor you until I'm in rags! Some say my mind is kaput, But that's just gobbledygook! Vote for it because I'm such a nag!
  9. Thank you for that, @Kurdanak. Last year was a truly horrid year, one where the failures of society writ large were evident for all to see. No, I am not referring to the ongoing pandemic outside of Orbis or January 6th. Instead, I am referring to the gross injustice - a cataclysm, really - of this community’s failure to award the Best Holiday Flag award to The Immortals Holiday Flag. I had a dream (or was it a premonition?). I gazed the Louvre. I. M. Pei’s famed pyramid was shattered, with a dreary pall blanketing the sky overhead. In the distance, gun fire echoed through the streets of a city in the throes of death. The “City of Lights” was anything but. I enter. The halls are empty. Where the art of Delacroix and Rembrandt was stood, there was nothing but a sickening void. The Mughal art of Akbar was gone. The Winged Victory of Samothrace was shattered and profaned, an image I tremble to write out in more detail to save you from my terror. Titian’s art was missing, replaced by a graffito in an unknown script. I could not read it, but I sensed it was taunting in tone. With apprehension and dread, I entered the hall to see da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Where once throngs of people waited to take their selfies with “La Gioconda,” there was silence. The security guard’s stool stood empty as I rounded the corner. “Was it there?,” I thought. My heart was racing as I closed my eyes, not daring to look. Every footstep I took echoed through the hall like a thunderclap, matching, step by step, the chasm rending open my heart. Did Napoleon feel such dread when he knew Waterloo was lost? Whatever he felt was one one-thousandth of what I felt in that moment. When I opened my eyes, I did not see that mirthful smile, that bemused look from da Vinci’s subject. But instead of an unspeakable profanity that would have broken my spirit, I saw its antithesis. Not darkness, but light. I thought that whatever malevolence made its way through this hallowed museum was just that, a force of indescribable evil and villainy. I was wrong. When Saul made his way to Damascus, a sudden light paralyzed him, changing his heart and the world with him. Saul died, but Paul brought the good news to the far corners of civilization. But what greeted me was not malevolent, but something of sublime beauty. Then I realized that the destruction of the West’s patrimony was not a senseless destruction, but a rational decision. After all, what I saw made any preceding art superfluous. An apocryphal telling recounts the burning of the Library of Alexandria. When the kalifa Umar ibn al-Khattab entered into Alexandria, he was asked about what to do with the famed library. He is said to have remarked: Looking at what replaced the Mona Lisa, I knew that, whatever had destroyed the Louvre, was right to do so. Because when you gaze upon it, you realize this is it, that nothing can surpass the beauty and divinity of The Immortal Holiday Flag. I then woke up. And I smiled. The future was bright indeed. Open your hearts! The Immortals Holiday Flag is clearly the best holiday flag, the best anything. Whether Philistines had taken over last year's vote or the good and virtuous among you had been held captive, there is no excuse not to vote for this banner of light, love, and humanity. Submit to The Immortals Holiday Flag! Obey The Immortals Holiday Flag! VOTE FOR THE IMMORTALS HOLIDAY FLAG!!!
  10. Welcome! With the Immortal's unrivaled talent for visual arts (as typified by their magnificent and sublime holiday flag), the future is bright for Hollywood Productions 😎
  11. Have fun! Make sure to doubly nuke @Don Juan!
  12. Congrats on being the new Emperor of Rose, @Lucianus! Congrats on finally not being Emperor, @Valkorion Baratheon. Enjoy your retirement
  13. Glad that’s over Good war everybody! 🎇
  14. The term originally referred to one player, @Oblige. I don’t know when it first entered in PW parlance, but it is clear that it carried over from Oblige’s time playing eRepublik. A TechCruch article from 2012 even cites Oblige: https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/16/conversations-with-whales-the-erepublik-2012-summit/ Relevant quote: Emphasis mine. For the longest time, I would have argued that defining who a whale was not dependent on a set number of cities. Rather, my definition was based on whether a person had an equal or greater number of cities than Oblige. If so, you were a whale. If not, you were not. Why? Oblige was the original whale, that’s why. Given that Oblige is no longer playing PW (as far as I know), I think that given that the average number of cities per nation is most likely increasing over time, that it’s useful to think of percentiles than a set number of cities. So say, if someone is at the 10-15% of number of cities they should be classified as a “whale.” If not, then no. Maybe that means that 33 cities makes one a whale in 2021. But in 2022 it may be 36 or something. Who knows? It’s a sliding scale than any set number 🐋
  15. I would second Kurdanak’s nomination for Best Holiday Flag belonging to The Immortals. Look at it! Look at it! In the history of vexillology I do not think there has been a flag as awe inspiring as this. We throw around the word “awesome” too frequently, to denote a good thing like a tasty cheeseburger. But this flag, this thing, is awesome in the traditional sense: it is to behold the face of an uncaring diety as we watch the Earth crumble under the weight of a ravenous Sun. If one were to imagine a contemporary take on Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias,” we would not behold the decaying monument to a forgotten Pharaoh. No, it would be The Immortals Holiday Flag. Pablo Picasso is to have once said: "The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.” Is this not true with the Immortal’s Holiday Flag? A cretin, on first blush, will remark that the Immortal Holiday Flag has no good sense, no redeeming quality. Is the field supposed to be a pixelated simulacrum of wrapping paper? Are we supposed to see the Santa jumping out of the ankh as a friend, ushering in the bacchanalian merriment of the holidays, or a threat about our transient place in the universe? And why the unnaturally large snowflakes? But these incongruities, the inherent heterogeneities found within the Immortals Holiday Flag are the literal embodiment of the adage: "The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” Individually, each aspect is a betrayal to all good sense. But as Picasso knew full well, the Immortals Holiday flag, in bravely subverting the good senses of existence, has made the most creative of creative endeavors. When I first witnessed this flag, I knew I was looking at a work of sublime genius. If there is any evidence for the existence of a benevolent God, is this not it? Thomas Aquinas had nothing on the Immortals Holiday Flag. Indeed, one wonders if art is at an end. Once the summit of the highest peak has been surmounted, what else is there to do? Indeed, once perfection has been reached, why bother? Was Fukuyama right that the end of history is at hand? Maybe not with regards to the fall of Soviet communism, but certainly with the Immortals Holiday Flag. I feel a melancholy that we will never see anything like this ever again. I grieve for us as this flag is both a culmination of human achievement, but also a clarion call that there is no better future out there. But yeah, totally best holiday flag for 2020 👌
  16. I feel that the latest change was done in haste and without the consultation of the PW community. That is, it seems that the report of one individual has disrupted the design of many player pages that have remained static for years. While I am no longer in Rose, I also have the half-column medals from my time there. Having that “hidden” is bad enough. What makes it worse is that Alex’s latest changes have also hidden my older nation design that I have had for years. Even if I deleted that half-column of medals, my nation description has nonetheless been degraded by this change. And for what? To satiate the wishes of a single player? Especially as the core functionality of warring/spying nations was not affected by the use of half-column designs? I would like to see a reversal of this change. Given that players have the ability to avoid seeing player-made advertisements in-game, I would hope that this could be done for nation descriptions. That is, if someone wants to opt-out of seeing custom nation descriptions, they can do so. But that this allows for other players to continue customizing their nations as they see fit, without stifling or restricting their creativity.
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