I think this is a bug, but I'm not sure.

I have a country pacted to me that is dead, but I can't remove the pact until the full 72 hours expires (which is just 7 hours from now so it's no big deal at this point -- but for the future).

Is this supposed to be the case? Why can't we cancel pacts from dead countries within the 72 hour initial period?

hm i don't think it cancelled them in e2025....

it's not very convenient to stick that sort of code into the attacking routine, but i suppose it could be done...

Earth was changed in the early-mid 2000s iirc such that you could cancel dead allies.

Edit: and I am pretty sure that included new ones

they never cancelled but dead countries were automatically removed at a certain point, first 24 hours then two weeks i believe, unless the country number was reused, no one ive talked to is really sure when dead countries are removed currently

edit:
yes i think your right that once they were dead you could always cancel them, but they were never auto cancelled

you can cancel dead allies currently; it just doesn't happen automatically

The issue is newly added in the past 72 hours allies who have died.

Edit: and now thinking about it... clearly the change was exactly to newly adedd ones... since clearly you could remove old ones anytime you wanted before.

You can cancel them now, you just have to wait for a scores update.

Awesome! Thanks Slagpit!

Slag, what about removing allies automatically when the country dies.

because farming someone who has a dead ally .. sucks when their dead allies sends them defense

Dead allies don't provide any type of support. Why do you think we allow removing them early in the first place?

Well it doesn't explain why I bounced a hit earlier in the reset then.

Other then being Pang'ed.