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I would like to be idled Sorry folks—I’m travelling and can’t keep up with the game. Hopefully back soon. Excalabur 06/21/14 1 06/21/14
Excalabur?  I’m back! I unidle. Knights 8 -> Quorum 5. We’ll see how long I stick around—-I’ve just moved internationally and have some time before I start work. I forget how to add myself to the GNDT, though. I have been idle for years, which I’ll take as an excuse. Can someone add… Excalabur 05/20/14 3 05/21/14
Idle me, please I’ll just hold up the queue otherwise. Excalabur 02/28/10 2 02/28/10
Unidle I request to be unidled the next time a DoV passes. Excalabur 01/13/10 0
Unidling May an admin please unidle me? Excalabur 11/30/09 2 11/30/09
Voting icons Will very briefly be broken while I replace them. Excalabur 11/06/09 6 11/07/09
Idle me, svp I have hit the wall of caring this week, for some reason. I had a cool proposal or two all ready, waiting on another prop to enact, and then… couldn’t be bothered actually proposing it. That means it’s time to step away for a bit. I’ll try to get that… Excalabur 10/28/09 3 10/28/09
Election The first election under the new rules. This election closes at the start of the 22nd of October. Excalabur 10/20/09 34 10/22/09
I nominate everyone else I nominate, as leader of Blognomic, Oze I nominate, as leader of Blognomic, Qwazukee I nominate, as leader of Blognomic, Rodlen I nominate, as leader of Blognomic, Rune Master Xan I nominate, as leader of Blognomic, Shem I nominate, as leader of Blognomic, spikebrennan I nominate, as leader of Blognomic,… Excalabur 10/18/09 0
I nominate Oranjer I nominate, as leader of Blognomic, Oranjer Excalabur 10/18/09 0
I nominate Darth Cliche I nominate Darth Cliche to be the leader of Blognomic. Excalabur 10/18/09 1 10/18/09
I nominate Bucky I nominate Bucky to be the leader of Blognomic Excalabur 10/18/09 0
I nominate Arthexis I nominate Arthexis to be the leader of blognomic. Excalabur 10/18/09 0
I nominate Darknight I nominate Darknight to be the leader of blognomic. Excalabur 10/18/09 0
I nominate ais523 I nominate ais523 to be the Leader of Blognomic Excalabur 10/18/09 0
I nominate JeffSheets I nominate JeffSheets to be the Leader of Blognomic. Excalabur 10/18/09 0
I nominate Kevan I nominate Kevan as the new leader of Blognomic. He has my vote. Excalabur 10/18/09 0
Two potential new templates Now I remember why this template was a bunch of work: EE’s library on their site is actually quite small. We’d have to hack on either of these a bit to make them fit. As an alternative, going through our current templates and cleaning up may be just easier. Here’s… Excalabur 10/18/09 8 10/18/09
Queries and Notices I changed the Veto icon to the arrow, reversed. It looks better on the row of icons, at least. I also, while looking at the sidebar, moved it to the other side for a change of pace. If anyone seriously objects, it can go back. Kevan mentioned that he’d like… Excalabur 10/15/09 24 10/15/09
Administration Could admins please record the final vote total on proposals. You have to count them up anyway, and it’s approximately required (or was interpreted as such for a long time), and it’s handy to find out just how much people like or dislike a given proposal. Excalabur 10/08/09 5 10/11/09
Unidle me I request to be unidled. Excalabur 10/07/09 1 10/07/09
Expression Engine Upgrade The blog will go down at approximately 1PM AEST Saturday (3AM GMT, 11PM EST Friday) for a backend upgrade. Hopefully this will take less than an hour, at which point everything should work again. No predictions as to if that actually happens. Excalabur 08/28/09 3 08/28/09
Rockstar! My shell/ftp access is fixed. New veto icon uploaded. Old one archived, at /images/vote/veto/seal.gif.qwaz EE upgrade will hopefully happen this upcoming weekend, late friday night NA time, if we can get the backups to work right. (I’m in the AEST time zone now, GMT +10, so I’ll be working saturday… Excalabur 08/25/09 17 08/27/09
Three Queries 1. It was mooted at some point that implementing automatic daily/weekly adjustments on the GNDT would be a good idea. Did that ever get done? 2. Why do vetoed proposals get adminned out of sequence? This has several negative effects, primarily that it rewards making proposals so bad they get… Excalabur 08/25/09 6 08/26/09
An August solution Delete all dynastic rules from the ruleset. Declare the winner of the current dynasty to be 75th trombone, for his continual support of Blognomic; however, 75th trombone will not become the Phil, make an Ascension Address, nor start a new Dynasty. Start a new dynasty: The Augustinian Dynasty of Qwazukee… Excalabur 08/23/09 8 08/23/09
I’m back. Would anyone object to me upgrading EE? Is it still the case that only Kevan, 75th trombone and I have FTP access? Does anyone remember me? Excalabur 08/22/09 12 08/23/09
Hey you! Admins: First, if editing the templates, do so in a non-crufty-manner. We have a stylesheet for a reason. Use it. We have comments in the templates for a reason: don’t delete them. Second, if you’re going to leave a comment somewhere, bloody well sign the thing, and preferably date it.… Excalabur 02/03/07 6 02/05/07
Look changes Doremi: If you want to fiddle with the colour scheme/graphics, just let me know and I’ll get it sorted for you: sending an e-mail via the panel should work, or a private message. You may want to propose some stuff to get the theme rolling. You other people: propose some… Excalabur 02/03/07 0
Hey Coach Can we get the ‘upcoming event’s post back that the ruleset requires to exist? Excalabur 01/31/07 3 02/01/07
Notice: Vandalism Those here for a brief period may have noticed some vandalism on the front page. This has been deleted, will be deleted, and any further vandalism will result in bannination.—Excalabur. (Wow, here 20 minutes and I’m already throwing my weight around) Excalabur 01/29/07 1 01/29/07
Unidles I’m back. Can someone unidle me? Will finish reading the ruleset soon. Did you guys break anything important since I was here last. Also, does someone care to tell me why my Homeland from Chronos’ Dynasty is playing in the Olympics? Excalabur 01/29/07 1 01/29/07
Idles I’m at a regatta until Sunday, and request to be idled until then. Excalabur 07/12/06 0
Colour Scheming You may note wierdness with colours in the near future. It’s just hix playin’. Don’t mind. Excalabur 07/04/06 0
Vow of Pacifism I take a vow of Pacifism. Excalabur 06/27/06 0
NOTICE: weirdness over until midnight Greth’s script to autoupdate the GNDT is now implemented, assuming that I crontabbed it correctly. The revisions to Movement specified by Aha! attempt no. 2 have been executed. If wacky things happen at midnight(UTC) it’s my fault. Excalabur 06/23/06 0
NOTICE: there may be weirdness in the GNDT shortly I’m testing Greth’s new script for updating the GNDT on a test GNDT, but if that works it’s getting installed on the real GNDT. This probably won’t affect you, but just letting you know. Excalabur 06/23/06 0
The peace train I’m a gettin’ on the Pacifism train. I.e. I’m taking a vow of pacifism. Excalabur 06/20/06 0
I resemble that remark So i was strolling around map C too, and did the same kinda stuff. My fitness increases by one because of an Encrypted Rule? Excalabur 06/08/06 1 06/08/06
Vow of Pacifism An lo, for I have returned from a trip most bloody and foul—thus, to cleanse my soul, I take a Vow of Pacifism. Excalabur 06/07/06 0
For so, the prodigal sword returns! And so a Knight Templar enters the monastery.  I unidle. Excalabur 06/07/06 2 06/08/06
Wikification To admin: In the wiki, please don’t use “strong” tags. Use triple-quotes (’‘’), as it is much more readable. Similarly, double quotes (’‘) give italic, and five of ‘em give both. Excalabur 05/13/06 0
Idles Please idle me, someone. I’ve just not been inspired the last few dynasties: i’ll stop being a deadweight. I’ll be back in a dynasty or two, when I’m ready for action again. Excalabur 02/12/06 0
I be limpin’ back to the crew quarters…. after a duel with Hix Which I won. Shock, horror. I turns my back for 10 minutes and I’m a standin’ on the quarterdeck minus some limbs. Yarg! Excalabur 02/02/06 0
I have determined my next move The Newest Crewmember seems to be too big for his britches. So I moves back aboard the Inquisitor, and inquire why that would be. He got a little sad, and tried to make some excuses, but you know that’s hardly piratical—I think he might be a spy from the Navy!… Excalabur 01/25/06 1 01/25/06
Movin’ ashore for PLUNDER As Predisastered just beat up one of the crew, we better teach ‘im a lesson! Unfortunately, I inflict no lasting injuries upon him to remind him of his foolishness. Now to ponder my next move.. Excalabur 01/25/06 0
Lootin’ the loot I hears people have been rummaging down in the holds. They better not have been rummaging in my stuff, or they’ll be plugging shot-holes with their ‘eads. In any event, I meanders down there, and who do I see? The pirate named after an insect. Ha! So I try bashing… Excalabur 01/23/06 0
I be moving I moves to the maindeck. And WHO do i see there? Igthorn. he’s bin stanin’ there fore days, ‘e ‘as. Must be up to no good. So I gives him a good pounding, I does! Like I dropped him from the yard, he goes down like a sack of bricks.… Excalabur 01/23/06 0
After that successfull bit o’ work… I be headin foreward to the crew’s quarters for a bit of a nap. Wake me when it’s my watch. Excalabur 01/22/06 0
Duel the second! Comin’ down the ladder from the foredeck, I sees Chronos Phaenon standin’ there. Now I owes him a ‘favour’, so I gets out me fid, and I pokeses him with it. Well, apparently i poked him too hard, because he went down in a heap. I hadn’t even started fighting… Excalabur 01/22/06 0
Headin’ to the Maindeck Having defeated two of my fellows in duels on the fo’c's’le, I be headin’ towards the stern. First stop: Maindeck. Excalabur 01/22/06 0
Going to the head I’m a headin’ to the bow for some..business.. Location now the fo’c's’le Excalabur 01/20/06 0
One minor nautical point Make that two: The crew’s quarters are /in/ the fo’c's’le Only whaling boats have a crow’s nest.  It’d be good to be able to be in the rigging for both masts, else we aren’t going to be able to change our sails very well. Ok, so it was three points. Excalabur 01/20/06 0
Stumbling to my hammock As I have been greviously wounded by Purplebeard’s swift actions, I stumble down the companionway to my hammock in the crew quarters and drink of the Devil Rum. Excalabur 01/19/06 0
Duel the first! In a fit of boredom, and as the crew of this pirate ship seems to have no duties, I decide that having some purple hair to make a scarf out of would be most excellent. I therefore grab my fid, and clonk Purplebeard upside the head as he is standing… Excalabur 01/19/06 3 01/19/06
Merry Christmas to all Well, those who celebrate it. In any event, Happy Holidays. For some of you, this is a bit late, for others, a bit early. But have fun anyhow. Excalabur 12/24/05 1 12/28/05
New protagonists AgentHH, Danopato, and Notafraud have all appeared. Hopefully they don’t get eaten by a grue. Quorum rises to 10. On a related note, do any of the oldtimers know if I just ran the shortest dyansty ever? Excalabur 12/14/05 12 12/15/05
Note to admins To whoever’s adminning things without writing who you are: add your name, or the administration is illegal. Thank you,—Excalabur. Excalabur 12/10/05 0
Note: The sandbox now has a complete sentence, which reads: Proposals must alter Proposals. If this grinds things to a halt, I’ll delete, but be warned. Excalabur 12/05/05 8 12/06/05
Run wild, run free I heartily encourage people to start coming up with suitably crazy rules for this dynasty, as well as dealing with the Hiatus fixes that were discussed. Possible additions: Creation of the ‘body’ of the crazy protagonist Ways to influence the way things work GNDT stuff Ways to reward creative craziness.… Excalabur 12/04/05 0
Ascension Address: Ascension Address All… all I wanted to do was design the perfect game. But the voices.. they wouldn’t be quiet and let me think. Why? Why must you constantly temper with my game? Why must you intrude into my carefully organised life? Why must you hurt me so? Could I strike a… Excalabur 12/04/05 2 12/04/05
New dynasty I’ll post an ascention address tomorrow, when I get all my thoughts in line. Until then, I’ll be fiddling with colour schema and graphics and so on, and coming up with that all-important first proposal. In the upcoming dynasty, I encourage the following: 1) Rules that contradict each other 2)… Excalabur 12/03/05 10 12/03/05
Hiatus The CfJ cannot be adminned until 08:38PM on the 3rd of December, unless it reaches quourm FOR. As such, we are in hiatus until tomorrow afternoon. And yes, we need to fix the CfJ/Hiatus rule, after this is over. Excalabur 12/02/05 0
Malevolent Doom A feeling of Doom rises over the gods, as they realise a new rival for power has arisen. Hix is among us. Fear. Oh, and quourm is 6. Excalabur 11/02/05 2 11/03/05
Mind Control: Smith at Smith Homeland My 3 take over 3 of smith’s people at smith homeland, of his 144. Cost: 3 petroleum, 1 metal. Excalabur 10/20/05 1 10/20/05
Market Position #031 The Hegemonist will Accept Buy Orders whose H$ XX value is equal to or greater than: * H$ 162 per unit of Grain * H$ 110 per unit of Metal * H$ 257 per unit of Petroleum * H$ 702 per unit of Natural Beauty The Hegemonist will Accept Sell… Excalabur 10/19/05 5 10/20/05
I now have the magic spreadsheet So we will be returning to Chronos Phaenon approvedTM economic values. That is all. Excalabur 10/19/05 4 10/20/05
This has /got/ to go. Repeal rule 1.1.2.2 (Breeding). I encourage people to come up with something better, but this this has GOT to go. (And I wrote it, I know. Didn’t seem like so much work when someone else did it.) Excalabur 10/18/05 0
Market Position #030 The Hegemonist will Accept Buy Orders whose H$ XX value is equal to or greater than: * H$ 182 per unit of Grain * H$ 296 per unit of Metal * H$ 320 per unit of Petroleum * H$ 628 per unit of Natural Beauty The Hegemonist will Accept Sell… Excalabur 10/18/05 0
Repel: Smith at Excalabur Homeland 27 metal sends Smith Lunaetic’s way. Excalabur 10/18/05 0
Er.  Notes on the new régime 1. Chronos has not sent me the algorithm he was using for the economy. Plus, I don’t have his resources, so the economy will be somewhat shaken up for the next few days 2. I don’t have that much time. . . I doubt I will be able to both… Excalabur 10/18/05 3 10/19/05
Question It might be worth CfJing this, but hey. Proposal: The Hegemonist is out of Service will make me the Hegemonist. However, it’s still not ‘my’ Dynasty, so would I be eligable to Win? Thoughts? Excalabur 10/17/05 3 10/17/05
Assault: Chronos Phaenon at Tekneek Homeland My 58 kill all 48 of chronos’ people, who strike back. cost: 20 metal. I shudder to think how much this invasion has cost me. Excalabur 10/14/05 0
Mind Control: Chronos Phaenon at Tekneek Homeland One. More. Time. My 50 people take control of 8 of chronos’ 56. Cost: 18 metal. That is all. Excalabur 10/13/05 0
Mind Control: Chronos Phaenon at Tekneek Homeland Again. my 43 take 7 of his 63, at a cost of 15 metal. I sense diminishing returns. That is all. Excalabur 10/13/05 0
Mind Control: Chronos Phaenon at Tekneek Homeland my 34 guys steal 9 of chronos’ 72 at a cost of 12 metal. Excalabur 10/11/05 0
Mind Control: Chronos Phaenon at Tekneek Homeland my 28 people steal 10 of his 82 into my camp. That is all. Excalabur 10/11/05 1 10/11/05
Invade: Chronos Phaenon at Tekneek Homeland my 28 people invade and overthrow Chronos’ 82 folks at Tekneek homeland. Excalabur 10/10/05 3 10/12/05
Mind Control: Chronos Phaenon at Tekneek Homeland My 18 forces control 10 of his 91 forces, at a cost of 90 petroleum and 6 metal. That is all. Excalabur 10/09/05 0
Mind Control: Chronos Phaenon at Tekneek Homeland I was hoping to complete this invasion before Tekeneek went idle.. ah well. 9 more people to me. Excalabur 10/08/05 0
Mind Control: Tekneek at Tekneek Homeland I take over sqrt(76)+1 = 10 of tekneek’s people. Excalabur 10/07/05 2 10/08/05
Forming an alliance: Overdog Free Trade Association (OFTA) Jamuraa and Purplebeard are invited, as they were the first time around. Excalabur 10/04/05 2 10/05/05
Hostile Takeover of Death’s Valley A much more stylish name than ‘Your Mother’ Excalabur 10/04/05 0
Hostile Takeover of Shangri-La The incongruity of these territory names is… incongruous. Excalabur 09/30/05 0
Quick Reference Page I just created the Quick Reference Page. If everyone could check their own entries and make sure I didn’t screw up, I’d appreciate it. Excalabur 09/30/05 0
Mind Control: Smith at Shangri-La I get sqrt(3)+1 = 3 of Smith’s people at Shangri-La Excalabur 09/28/05 0
Mind Control: Smith at Area 51 I’ll have my sqrt(5)+1 = 4 guys back, please. Excalabur 09/26/05 0
Let me make an offer I will accept any BUY orders made for my grain at the average of the Hegemonist’s BUY and SELL prices, so long as this does not take me below 5 grain. This is a standing offer until such time as I post otherwise. That is all, Your Friendly Neighbour, Excalabur Excalabur 09/26/05 0
Hostile Takeover of Area 51 I moved 8 (6) robots from Devil’s Hole to Area 51, giving me more thatn 1/4 native pop., and Take Over. Excalabur 09/26/05 0
Pillage: Smith at Devil’s Hole I take one of Smith’s Metal, and he then has 0 grain. I take control of Devil’s Hole. On a side note, i think Chronos calculated by Food consuption wrong in the most recent consumption… note that i’m now country full a Robots. I still have enough Petroleum to pull… Excalabur 09/24/05 2 09/25/05
Hostile Takeover of Scotland Take 2! I just moved a whole gaggle of my population at great expense. Sigh. Excalabur 09/23/05 1 09/26/05
_____________________________________________ Any Hostile takeovers below this line are null and void. That is all. Excalabur 09/23/05 0
Call for…. thinking Question: what happens if my population type changes while i’m constructing a building? Excalabur 09/18/05 2 09/19/05
De-idling I’m ba-ack. But i have no idea how much money i should have. Anybody? Quorum is 4 Excalabur 09/03/05 6 09/04/05
Idle Can someone mark me as idle? I’ve been caught up in moving stuff for the last week, and have no idea what’s going on anymore. I’ll unidle after i’ve had a chance to read the ruleset. Excalabur 08/29/05 0
Excalabur is claiming the throne! rodney’s reign is thus short-lived Excalabur 08/23/05 2 08/23/05
Moving players I’ve added all the players who are registered here that were active at blogspot to the active players list. (I.E. Paladin, Cayvie and Josh) Those of you who are not yet registered here, please register, and we’ll get you in the sidebar lickety split. (That’s TrumanCapote and Brendan) Quorum is… Excalabur 08/22/05 2 08/22/05
Where did it go? Let’s see if this works? Excalabur 08/20/05 0
Excalabur is claiming the throne! And thus endeth Gazebo_Dude’s reign. Excalabur 08/20/05 0
Or Not KnightKing voted when i wasn’t looking… So i’ll unidle him again. Quorum is 7 again. Or not. KnightKing was testing some code, not actually voting, so he’s Idle and quorum is 6, and this never happened. Excalabur 08/19/05 3 08/20/05
Jumping for the hands! one more time! I even left a window for someone else to try. Excalabur 08/18/05 0