User talk:Michael von Preußen



Map software/Opera inquiry
Heya MvP. I was wondering if you know of any map software to adjust/ create boundaries/borders of countries on various political maps of the world. I thought I remembered that you've used one before, not sure why but I figure it's worth asking.

Also I messed around with Opera last week while looking for a new browser because Firefox is causing my computer to lag insanely bad when I open it. So.. back to Opera. I loved it minus when using google docs I noticed when I would select a cell it would show the selected box but it would encompass half of the actual cell I clicked on and half of the cell to the left. The further to the right in columns I go the worse the problem gets. A la column G is bad but column XX is insanely worse. Do you have any idea what could be causing that? I figure it's a shot in the dark but I saw you use Opera on your userbox and figured it is worth a shot. Thanks MvP!! &#32;  RogalDorn   talk     00:32, Friday, 13 April 2012


 * Shucks! Looks like i will have to do the same with adjusting borders on maps and stuff. Not a huge deal. The Opera issue is more of a deal breaker because i do use google docs to store information on various things and have accessibility from virtually anywhere (including my phone >.> because i love stats so much unfortunately). Looks like I will have to stay with the Iron web browser :3. Thanks for the hasty reply as usual MvP! &#32;   RogalDorn   talk     05:42, Friday, 13 April 2012

Re: Imagemaps
huzzah! thanks for letting me know MvP. &#32;  RogalDorn   talk     06:02, Friday, 13 April 2012

RE: Disparuean franc
Hi Meshy,

For the coins, I think I used, since it was similar to the font used on coins that I've seen, and I didn't want to use Times New Roman. :P Creating the coins themselves was pretty easy (more so than the banknotes): I just used the Emboss filter in Photoshop to get the 'raised' effect on the coins. You can probably do it in GIMP too, though as you can see here, that didn't really turn out well when I tried it.

My friend showed me that yesterday, thought he was just being random. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    16:58, Saturday, 14 April 2012 (ET)
 * Knowing your design skills, you definitely will. :D  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    17:28, Saturday, 14 April 2012 (ET)
 * Holy crap, that looks amazing! :D It's even better than the original. :P However, the circles along the edge don't blend in well with the rest of the coin; the rest of the coin looks really realistic though. Good work! :D  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    23:10, Saturday, 14 April 2012 (ET)
 * Now that I compare the two, my version looks more like a piece of cheese than an actual coin. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    23:13, Saturday, 14 April 2012 (ET)
 * Yeah, that was the effect I was trying to get. Now that you mention it though, the rivet design does look nice too.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    13:50, Sunday, 15 April 2012 (ET)
 * Don't worry, there's no need to; your version looks awesome as it is. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    14:21, Sunday, 15 April 2012 (ET)

I really like the stylized fleur-de-lis they used. Perhaps I should do something similar as well. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    00:06, Saturday, 21 April 2012 (ET)

Something weird
Hi Meshy,

I'm looking at the medal table at the 2010 Olympics article. For some reason, there are only 26 nations listed on that table, even though there were 46 participants. Was there any reason we excluded Andorra, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Chicago and many others from the table? (see User:Pikachurin/Sandbox for the medal count I used to make the table) O_o  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    17:38, Sunday, 15 April 2012 (ET)
 * Ah, alright then. Thanks for the clarification.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    17:49, Sunday, 15 April 2012 (ET)

RE: Fonts
yeah I was/am totally bored and I found a few fonts I like. I probably won't change my signature any time soon simply because I'm tired of messing with it haha. But thanks for the tips MvP. &#32;  RogalDorn   talk     06:46, Monday, 16 April 2012

Midwayan anthem
I have created a anthem for Midway that is not the International, and am trying to get it translated into as many nations as possible. If you know German, could you do a German translation for me? Here's a link to the lyrics I've thought of - Zabuza825 (talk &bull; contribs) 21:40, May 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * Whoops, I forgot that we closed much of our forums to the public after a group of Chinese people from the same place in China (yes, I tracked the IP's) tried to access it en-masse at the same time.


 * Well, here's the lyrics I have:


 * Long live Midway
 * Shining so brightly!
 * Midway, our fatherland.


 * Land of the brave,
 * Home of liberty.
 * Long live Midway!


 * It goes to the tune of the Russian song (YouTube link), so if you could get it to that tune it would help cause I have  and a UTAUloid that supposedly can sing in German. - Zabuza825 (talk &bull; contribs) 07:32, May 13, 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks! You said the lyrics don't match the tune exactly, well it's because I originally made the song in Japanese then translated it into English, combined with the fact that I'm not much of a lyricist and the fact that the original song the tune was meant for is in Russian. And I actually don't mind you changing it up a bit, as a matter of fact I kinda expected it as a word-for-word translation doesn't always work. As for accuracy, as long as it's better than Google translate (which can sometimes give you BS translations) I'm happy.


 * Thank you very much! - Zabuza825 (talk &bull; contribs) 10:06, May 13, 2012 (UTC)

Re: Aid Slots
Aid Efficiency is a better name anyway imo, thanks for that. Yeah using up/down/same would break the auto-percenting, I thought about it but couldn't find any way around it, other than possibly using JS (only thing with string functions >_> there needs to be a mega-language that can do everything :P) which isn't really worth it and I can't do anyway :P. I think it's good to include number of slots, because 900/1000 = 90% is more impressive than 90/100 = 90%, for example. I mainly just put in the auto-percent to make it easier to update (though it's not that hard just to copy-paste it anyway), so it's probably better to include the whole thing when you want to use up/down/same. I was thinking it might be better to put the aid efficiency below the rest of the stats so that it wouldn't look so awkward without the indicators. I was also thinking that if one did want to exclude the percentage but also put in indicators, I could make a numbered parameter that could be put next to it, but again, not really worth saving eight characters :P. And still wouldn't solve the inconvenience of having to look back at the page. Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation &#32;23:13, Wednesday, 23 May 2012  &#32;

Re: fullurl
I'm cleaning out [ this], and believe it or not, putting it in lowercase does remove it from that page. Same for [ this] removing it from Special:WantedTemplates. It's weird but that's the current cleanup crusade I've decided to go on so I'm doing it :P. Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation &#32;03:43, Thursday, 14 June 2012  &#32;

Re: 100 reichsmark
Yeah, I think it was. Sorry for deleting before asking, wasn't sure if you wanted it since it wasn't linked to. Last time I tried to restore a file it didn't work so well, could you tell me how to make sure it goes right the first time? Non-admins aren't even allowed to view the file versions, dunno why that is >_> Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation &#32;14:49, Friday, 15 June 2012   &#32;
 * I swear I did just that a few days ago on some other file and it didn't work. Anyways, done. Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation &#32;14:57, Friday, 15 June 2012   &#32;
 * What about this one with the really long name, still using that? :P Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation &#32;15:18, Friday, 15 June 2012   &#32;

Maps
With the recent changes occurring in the Post-Dissolution Sphere, it is time for the world map to be updated again! :P Here are the changes that need to be made:


 * 1) The United States of JBR now comprises the all of the former US states of, , and (no more pesky counties to worry about :P ) and the Mexican states of  and . The South American possessions are unaffected and as such, should remain intact.
 * 2) The addition of Bowasia means that there should be a change in the United States/Canada region. If working with the western borders is inconvenient (since they do not correspond with the RL borders of the area it runs through), the western borders should be adjusted to be the western borders of, , , , , and . The rest of Bowasia should still be implemented (thereby wiping Quebec off the map :P ).
 * 3) The Pacific Empire has dissolved and as such, the sea borders should be scrapped as with the territory in Antarctica. The Indochinese states however, should remain the same (no need to get those borders back in).
 * 4) The addition of the Confederation of Greater Guinea requires the merging of the following countries:, , , , , , , , , , , , and.
 * 5) is recognized by several prominent PDS states so its borders should be added to the map.

Also, once you finish the new map, could you update the JBRican map by using the PDS map instead (instead of the North American-focused globe map) since it is considerably bigger now to be featured on it?

Again, you don't need to rush yourself so take your time. Thanks in advance! :)

&#32; JustinVuong | Talk | Nation  &#32; 06:05, June 19, 2012 (UTC)


 * Those "possessions" were more or less constituent states of the former Californian Union so when I did request that they would not appear on the world map--it's not a mistake. :D


 * Honestly, the roleplayer of Bowasia has not given enough information regarding its western boundaries and that map he made was a rough estimate. I would expect that the actual borders of Bowasia would be the one I made up (based off of the RL US/Canadian borders) or running roughly along the . However, since the territory between JBR and Bowasia is anyways, it doesn't matter (I guess Bowasia can have more land :P ) so it'll be alright I guess.


 * And as for the Senegal issue, I think it was left out on accident (I copied all the countries the roleplayer claimed on his application) and I'd assume it is part of Guinea. If there's anymore issues, let me know! :P &#32; JustinVuong | Talk | Nation  &#32; 00:06, June 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks a bunch! :D &#32; JustinVuong | Talk | Nation  &#32; 20:02, June 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. Bowasia has since ceded it's Canadian territories in a OOC change. Could you update the PDS world map to reflect this? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Bowwow828 (talk &bull; contribs) 12:20, August 15, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello this is Bowwow from PDS. Since the re-boot we finally got our borders in order (hey that rhymes) and we need a map to illustrate it and you're the man for the job. Here are the details: The United States of JBR's borders are just the U.S. states of California, Nevada, and Arizona merged. Bowasia's borders are all the states up to the plus the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana. The country of Antioquia includes Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela merged into one. And finally the Union of Midway includes the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands,Hawaii, and the Johnston Atoll (although no real changes have to be made to illustrate that.) We are extremely grateful for your work and we'd like to let you know that there is no rush, take as much time as you need. If you have any questions, feel free to ask Justin or I. Again thank you very much. Bowwow828 (talk &bull; contribs) 02:32, September 9, 2012 (UTC)

Wiki award
I felt a simple "thank you" wasn't quite enough and you deserved more MvP :)

The olympics!
So... I just discovered Talk:XXI Olympic Winter Games, well, Special:Randompage actually took me to XXI Olympic Winter Games but I clicked the talk page and this is very nifty MvP! and... apparently I felt it necessary to stop by and tell you xD

MvP! savior extraordinaire!
hahaha, i saw that and was like "ugh, son of a bitch, well... looks like time to make an Ambox2 variant." :p But thank you for checking it out MvP! I grabbed them straight off WP if that helps, all original template names.

Good alliance pages
Heya MvP! I was hoping to get your input/participation on identifying some Good alliance pages (the alliance version of Good Nation Pages). I put some initial nominations on the category talk page and if you want to vote/comment on those and/or add more nominations that would be much appreciated! :)   Rogal   talk    03:59,9/11/2012 (UTC)

RE: Image loading problems
Rogal  talk    09:17,9/11/2012 (UTC)

war markers
Hey MvP, is there an "unknown result" type marker of this style,   ? Just curious.. :p&#32;   Rogal  talk     12:31,9/24/2012 (UTC)  12:31, September 24, 2012 (UTC)

Mike
hello there, chao101 talking obviously, are you actually part of the Post-Dissolution Sphere, or did you just draw that map as a job? Chao101 (talk &bull; contribs) 12:32, September 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * ahh okay, which map program did you use? if you don't tell me, could you please do make an Axis map? if you don't want to, please locate me to other map makers, please respond, Cheers, Chao101 (talk &bull; contribs) 15:56, September 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * lol thanks, but this might be hard, here it is: no borders, except for China, which has Korea and Japan, Russia, European Union, Brazil Occupied with Uruguay (That's my nation) and the USA. Thanks, feel free to tell me you don't want to do it if you don't want to :D, Cheers Chao101 (talk &bull; contribs) 16:28, September 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * hmm, brazil and Uruguay are combined together, which make the Hispanic Republic, also, most of the world is unclaimed, because it is in anarchy. so yes i highly suggest you color the countries for no confusion, and put the Anarchied territories into red. the USA includes the Lower 48, Alaska, Hawaii, and the U.S territories of Puerto Rico. this is kinda like the PDS map, where there are no names showing the countries. if you need anymore questions let me know :D Chao101 (talk &bull; contribs) 16:45, September 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * all right thanks mike Chao101 (talk &bull; contribs) 16:50, September 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * lol mike, the EU has all of europe (except for russia obviously), and yes european territories such as French Guiana are included.

opps sorry mike, forgot one thing, please put india, which includes Pkaistan, India, Bhutan, Indochina, Borneo, and Indonesia