Vice Delegate's Desk

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October 19th, 2024
Vice Delegate's Weekly Report

It's Saturday! You know what that means! The Vice Delegate Report coming to you live from the Security Council Forum in Magicality City.
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As promised, this update is a day early, since I'll be in flight most of Sunday and I'm probably going to be exhausted by the time I get to the hotel.

Security Council Status Sheet
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Picairn gained a significant amount of endorsements this week, but didn't move up a place. Simone is in between Chipoli and Picairn, and I expect that to change for the next report. Could even be looking at P4 for Picairn by next week. I'd like to get to P2 by next Sunday, though there's an obvious excuse (see below) I could use if I fail. We'll see.

The Top-25
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@Halsoni, I see you! Grats on overtaking Corfad! Still a very healthy distance between Halsoni and the SC. @Prov continues to climb up the order. Nothing too concerning at the moment.

WADP and the Card Lotteries
It probably won't be this upcoming week, though there's a chance depending on how my schedule looks this week, but the Daily Card Lottery is set to return! When the program begins, we will be offering a Legendary card daily to all of the Keepers of the North. To qualify, you have to be in the WA, endorsing the Delegate (that's >> Picairn <<), the Vice Delegate (that's >> me <<), and the rest of the Security Council. So, if you aren't already doing that, ask yourself "why not", and please do so! Right now there are 386 keepers, so you'd have a 1 in 386 chance to win. That's better than Powerball!

Additionally, thanks to the works of @Kaschovia, the WADP Awards are back! We recently published Volume 106, which you can find here: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=2567571. Give it an upvote! And, if you want to see your name up there, go endorse everyone!

Absence
I will post notice of my impending absence along with who the acting chair will be separately, closer to when I fly out. This absence starts tomorrow, and lasts approximately a week.


Thanks!
-Sil
 
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October 28th, 2024
Vice Delegate's Weekly Report
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A day early last time, a day late this time. But, it will be done.

Security Council Status Sheet
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Picairn continues to gain endorsements and moved up two positions to P4 as predicted. I also moved up to P2 as I predicted. Tlomz had a significant bump after a recent endorsement run. The number of Keepers continues to climb, and I'm sure it'll climb again once the card lottery begins.

The Top-25
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@Prov made their 500 endorsement target. Other than that, not much changed.

Card Lottery
As I mentioned last week, the Daily Card Lottery is set to return. To qualify, you have to be in the WA, endorsing the Delegate (that's >> Picairn <<), the Vice Delegate (that's >> me <<), and the rest of the Security Council.

Currently, I have tested selecting a card from TNL's supply, selecting a random winner, delivering that card, and an automated RMB message. All of this was done separately, though, and they all have to be integrated into a single script that'll run automatically. That is my goal for this week.


Thanks!
-Sil
 
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November 4th, 2024
Vice Delegate's Weekly Report
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Security Council Status Sheet
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Picairn is now in striking distance of taking the Delegacy, moving up two spots and past me. All that's left is for Picairn to displace Pallaith, and then we'll discuss the rest of the transition business to make sure I'm at where I need to be at.

The Top-25
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@Prov is now on the verge of displacing Corfad, and @Aerilia joined the top-25 this week.

Card Lottery
As I mentioned before, the Daily Card Lottery is set to return. To qualify, you have to be in the WA, endorsing the Delegate (that's >> Picairn <<), the Vice Delegate (that's >> me <<), and the rest of the Security Council.

Unfortunately, I wasn't feeling well all last week and was not able to complete the scripting tasks as I wanted. I'll try for this week.


-Sil
 
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November 11th, 2024
Vice Delegate's Weekly Report
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The Transition
Once Picairn reached 700 endorsements, that was close enough that we could start bumping Pallaith out of the seat without too much damage to our WA voting power. This transition was completed at the Sunday 11/10 Minor update.

Right now, the gap between me and Picairn is 27, which is a bit close. Picairn is working on reaching Simone's previous endorsement levels, but we will likely need to continue pushing Pallaith down to finish my transition to the in-game VD seat without closing the gap between me and Picairn. Endorsement atrophy will eventually get that done.

Security Council Status Sheet
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The Top-25
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Staffing Update
Unfortunately, Tlomz didn't sign into the forum in 14 days, and vacated the office of Security Councilor. And then logged in a few hours later. Tlomz has indicated interest in reapplying for the council after some real-life events have concluded.

-Sil
 
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November 25th, 2024
Vice Delegate's Report
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Intermission
As you've noticed, there was no update last week. Call it an intermission. I was busy, not really feeling well, and a bit burned out. Mid-November is a stressful time at work as that's when we wrap up our projects for the year, and I needed a break. My apologies. I promise I have good news for you this time.

Security Council Status Sheet
I've been working on scripting the status sheet instead of having to go through a million different files on my server to collect the stats. This is what I have so far:
Code: 
WAs: 965 | Last Week: 976

Nation                              | Recvd   | Rcvd%   | Given   | Given%  | SPDR
------------------------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-----------
picairn                             | 716     | 74.2%   | 963     | 99.8%   | 116556.00
pallaith                            | 680     | 70.5%   | 855     | 88.6%   | 262202.00
sil_dorsett                         | 674     | 69.9%   | 953     | 98.8%   | 251888.00
ethnon                              | 651     | 67.5%   | 870     | 90.2%   | 244654.00
chipoli                             | 650     | 67.4%   | 960     | 99.5%   | 261022.00
great_bights_mum                    | 631     | 65.4%   | 952     | 98.7%   | 233466.00
former_english_colony               | 615     | 63.7%   | 927     | 96.1%   | 230601.00
xagill                              | 587     | 60.8%   | 826     | 85.6%   | 219558.00
potatofarmers                       | 574     | 59.5%   | 778     | 80.7%   | 219551.00

Keepers: 413 | Last Week: 415
You'll notice I haven't included the trends this time around, but that's because I haven't been collecting the trends of endorsements received for each SCer. So far, I only have the daily list of nations endorsing a particular SCer. I also don't have Last Activity statistics yet, but I should have them added on soon since that's exposed by the daily dump.

Once this is completed, I plan on making it available via a webpage so that whoever is VD can grab it quickly.

So, what is the trend? A bit of a mixed bag over the past two weeks. Pallaith, Ethnon, and I saw some losses. Chipoli gained big, and the rest were stable.

The Top-25
Code: 
RR   | Nation                               | WR    | Endos
-----+--------------------------------------+-------+-------
1.   | Picairn                              | 1st   | 712   
2.   | Pallaith                             | 2nd   | 676   
3.   | Sil Dorsett                          | 3rd   | 670   
4.   | Ethnon                               | 4th   | 647   
5.   | Chipoli                              | 5th   | 645
====================VD Minimum======================| =641=
6.   | Great Bights Mum                     | 6th   | 626   
7.   | Former English Colony                | 7th   | 610
====================85% Line========================| =605=   
8.   | Simone Republic                      | 8th   | 589   
9.   | Xagill                               | 9th   | 582   
10.  | Kranostav                            | 10th  | 573
====================80% Line========================| =570=   
11.  | PotatoFarmers                        | 11th  | 569   
12.  | Halsoni                              | 14th  | 532   
13.  | Corfad                               | 17th  | 511   
14.  | Kwaj                                 | 19th  | 495   
15.  | Frances Francis the First of France  | 21st  | 489   
16.  | Siwale                               | 23rd  | 482   
17.  | Varisland                            | 25th  | 480   
18.  | Laforeia                             | 26th  | 477   
19.  | Unimaginable Doom                    | 28th  | 475   
20.  | TheLandOfFunFunFun                   | 31st  | 473   
21.  | Petronellania                        | 33rd  | 471   
22.  | Aerilia                              | 37th  | 461   
23.  | New Lakemba                          | 38th  | 458   
24.  | Jeltronian WA Mission                | 39th  | 456   
25.  | Bagojo                               | 40th  | 455

Another work in progress to replace the excel sheet.
Notably, Prov (Ostonives) dropped out of the WA. Nobody is close to the SC, except a still tumbling Simone. Only thing is Ghost still needs to be brought down by just a handful of endorsements. The gap is small, and could easily be accomplished this week.

Card Lottery
I'm happy to announce that the Card Lottery script has been completed and sent its first card out today! It's not automated yet. I'm still doing reviewing the code to make sure everything will be okay once it's in cron, but every day, someone is getting a legendary card. Want one? You know what to do. Be in the WA, endorse the Delegate (that's >> Picairn <<), the Vice Delegate (that's >> me <<), and the rest of the Security Council.


-Sil
 
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December 2nd, 2024
Vice Delegate's Report

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WADP Awards
The 108th Edition of the WADP Awards was released yesterday, covering the month of November. You can find the dispatch for that here: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=2587448. Please give it an upvote!.

Security Council Status Sheet
With the creation of the new Sinkers and our All-Call deployment to The Outback, our WA numbers took an absolute nosedive. Hopefully those will recover once the situation there is under control.

Code: 
WAs: 944 | Last Week: 965

Nation                              | Recvd   | Rcvd%   | Given   | Given%  | SPDR
------------------------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-----------
picairn                             | 686     | 72.7%   | 932     | 98.8%   | 126254.00
pallaith                            | 653     | 69.2%   | 813     | 86.2%   | 261422.00
sil_dorsett                         | 650     | 68.9%   | 932     | 98.8%   | 251445.00
ethnon                              | 631     | 66.9%   | 855     | 90.6%   | 244199.00
chipoli                             | 624     | 66.1%   | 924     | 97.9%   | 259626.00
great_bights_mum                    | 609     | 64.5%   | 932     | 98.8%   | 233120.00
former_english_colony               | 591     | 62.6%   | 932     | 98.8%   | 229586.00
xagill                              | 568     | 60.2%   | 827     | 87.6%   | 219163.00
potatofarmers                       | 550     | 58.3%   | 739     | 78.3%   | 217837.00

Keepers: 401 | Last Week: 413


The Top-25
Code: 
RR   | Nation                               | Endos
-----+--------------------------------------+-------
1    | picairn                              | 688
2    | pallaith                             | 653
3    | sil_dorsett                          | 653
4    | ethnon                               | 633
5    | chipoli                              | 625
====================VD Minimum==============|======== 620 =
6    | great_bights_mum                     | 611
7    | former_english_colony                | 593
====================85% Line================|======== 585 =
8    | simone_republic                      | 571
9    | xagill                               | 569
10   | kranostav                            | 557
====================80% Line================|======== 551 =
11   | potatofarmers                        | 550
12   | halsoni                              | 526
13   | corfad                               | 500
14   | kwaj                                 | 481
15   | frances_francis_the_first_of_france  | 477
16   | siwale                               | 470
17   | petronellania                        | 468
18   | thelandoffunfunfun                   | 468
19   | unimaginable_doom                    | 467
20   | varisland                            | 467
21   | laforeia                             | 457
22   | ardok                                | 447
23   | jeltronian_wa_mission                | 446
24   | aerilia                              | 445
25   | north_bratislava                     | 444

Card Lottery
The Card Lottery is going smoothly. It is automated, every day at 11:50 AM Eastern Time, someone gets a card. Want one? You know what to do. Be in the WA, endorse the Delegate (that's >> Picairn <<), the Vice Delegate (that's >> me <<), and the rest of the Security Council.

Also, there have been some instances where my scripts don't properly download the list of Security Council members, leading to all sorts of problems. Today was one of those days. Thankfully, the card lottery was designed to be resilient and just use the previous day's keeper list if that happens. That got tested today, and it worked just fine.




-Sil
 
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January 1st, 2025
Vice Delegate's Report

New Year's Special: December's Month in Review

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Burnout
It's pretty obvious December was one of those months where I just fell apart. I think it was Chipoli that mentioned in his election campaign that there were signs of burnout amongst the staff, and I was no exception. So, the weekly reports were a promise I ended up not keeping. But, burnout didn't stop me from doing what I felt was right to keep the region safe, even if not everyone agreed with my decision or my approach.

Being continuously threatened, extorted and blackmailed, though, is not fun. I play NationStates because the community around me is fun to be around. But, when things stop being fun, even if the cause is an external factor, I simply lose interest, and that's what happened. Should I have resigned? Maybe. I'm sure there's a Security Councilor around that could have taken over for me. Maybe why I didn't resign was pride.

None of this, though, is why I'm not running for Vice Delegate again. I know it would be a tough sell to run again now, but it was always my plan to just keep the seat warm for a term with the expectation that someone would declare candidacy for it early the following term. Whoever the next Vice Delegate is, I'll continue my work in support of them. If there's anything I can do to make things easier for them, I'll do my best to make that happen.

Anyways, enough of that. Let's talk numbers.

December Endorsement Trend
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To bring the region up to speed, here's a chart for SC/VD/WAD endorsements over the course of December. Picairn did lose a little bit of ground, more significantly than the rest of the SC. Pallaith also had a considerable drop, but that is understandable given him and I were neck and neck for the first half of the month before finally giving way. Ethnon and I had slight drops, but the rest of the council was either steady or gaining, especially in the latter half of the month.

However, as you'll see in the current status sheet below and compare it to last month, we all have a bigger share of endorsements compared to a month ago. We're losing WA membership, but we're not losing endorsements as fast. We lost 40 WAs since December 2nd, while only losing 10 to 15 in endorsements for those who did lose.

Encouraging WA membership needs to be a focus in the next term, not just endorsement exchange. I don't think the Card Lottery is enough incentive.

Delegate and Vice Delegate candidates take notice.

Security Council Status Sheet
Code: 
WAs: 904 | Last Week: 915

Nation                              | Recvd   | Rcvd%   | Given   | Given%  | SPDR
------------------------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-----------
picairn                             | 675     | 74.7%   | 901     | 99.7%   | 167080.00
sil_dorsett                         | 642     | 71.0%   | 803     | 88.9%   | 248907.00
pallaith                            | 634     | 70.2%   | 771     | 85.3%   | 257296.00
ethnon                              | 623     | 68.9%   | 857     | 94.9%   | 241698.00
chipoli                             | 622     | 68.8%   | 901     | 99.7%   | 253744.00
great_bights_mum                    | 611     | 67.6%   | 896     | 99.2%   | 231325.00
former_english_colony               | 596     | 66.0%   | 873     | 96.6%   | 225330.00
xagill                              | 576     | 63.7%   | 830     | 91.9%   | 217257.00
potatofarmers                       | 567     | 62.7%   | 831     | 92.0%   | 210594.00

Keepers: 423 | Last Week: 421

The Top-25
Code: 
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1  | picairn                             | 675
2  | sil_dorsett                         | 641
3  | pallaith                            | 633
4  | ethnon                              | 622
5  | chipoli                             | 622
6  | great_bights_mum                    | 612
=================VD Minimum==============|======== 607
7  | former_english_colony               | 596
8  | xagill                              | 576
==================85% Line===============|======== 573
9  | potatofarmers                       | 567
==================80% Line===============|======== 540
10 | simone_republic                     | 538
11 | kranostav                           | 533
12 | halsoni                             | 516
13 | corfad                              | 497
14 | kwaj                                | 477
15 | petronellania                       | 475
16 | unimaginable_doom                   | 471
17 | frances_francis_the_first_of_france | 471
18 | varisland                           | 466
19 | laforeia                            | 462
20 | jeltronian_wa_mission               | 462
21 | ardok                               | 462
22 | siwale                              | 459
23 | new_lakemba                         | 458
24 | thelandoffunfunfun                  | 453
25 | loutsland                           | 451
 
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