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November 30th 2007: Maintenance weekend
Dear youplayers,
during this weekend (1st and 2nd of december), we have planned to install some system updates.
If you get an error message like 'Service unavailable' or something similar... don't worry, we are working on the server.
Have fun,
your webmasters.
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October 15th 2007: Wooden Ship and Iron Men almost completed
Dear youplayers,
we are almost ready to move the long awaited Wooden Ship and Iron Men game from the beta testing site to the main one.
We'll move it when the league system will be available also for this game.
When we will be ready, the beta site will remain open only to allow players to finish the active games, but no new games we'll be created on the beta site.
Statistics will be restarted from scratch.
Have fun,
your webmasters.
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September 11th 2007: 2007 budged reached !!
Dear youplayers,
with the donation coming from Maurizio, we have reached the 2007 budget!
This year, for the first time, thanks to all the contributors, the housing and hosting costs are completey covered. Other donations will help us improved the server hardware and bandwitdh, to give you a faster service.
Contributions came from 173 different players, from 21 different countries. Here's the list of donors grouped by countries:
59 United States
46 Italy
17 United Kingdom
8 Spain
7 Germany
7 France
5 Canada
3 Australia
3 Hungary
3 Holland
2 Mexico
2 Taiwan
2 Not specified
1 Sweden
1 Singapore
1 Turks and Caicos Islands
1 Finland
1 Liechtenstein
1 Ireland
1 Isle of Man
1 Iceland
1 Denmark
Thanks to everybody !!!
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June 25th 2007: Statistics after 300,000 games played
As we turned the 300,000 mark, here some stats about the site usage:
Games played in the last 365 days: 106,311
Divided by game type:
Game Type stand alone tournament total
Blue Max 36,292 32,065 68,357
Cartagena 13,675 18,842 32,517
Vampiring 1,006 1,736 2,742
King Me! 679 2,016 2,695
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Totals 51,652 54,659 106,311
Moves processed by the system, divided by game type:
Game Type move processed
Blue Max 4,088,404
Cartagena 2,098,200
Vampiring 33,278
King Me! 105,910
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Totals 6,325,792
For an average of 291 games played and 17,330 moves processed each day (more than one move every 5 seconds).
Players involved in these games: 352,140. These games were played by 2,452 different users.
We turned the 200,000 on Aug 11th, 2006 when, in the last 365 were played only 92,000 games. This means a gaming grow of around 16%.
Have fun,
your Webmaster.
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April 26th 2007: Major Wooden Ships and Iron Men update
We updated the Wooden Ships and Iron Men game engine. It is still in beta, but a lot of new features are now available:
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Added History. You can now backtrack in time and see the situation of the game in every turn, for finished and active games.
- Added smoke icons to show which broadside had fired (black smoke) and which one you are going to reload (grey smoke).
- Changed the statistic page, now similar to the main site ones.
- Added icons in the events log.
We also have a restricted beta testing for the Basic rules version of the game.
Here's the list of Basic rules that are not in the simplified version:
- Drifting: Whenever the bow hex of a ship does not change or is not plotted to change
for two consecutive movement execution phases, during the second phase the ship
will drift one hex in the direction the wind is blowing.
- Grappling: any ship that occupies a hex adjacent
to a hex occupied by another ship, friendly or unfriendly, fouled or unfouled,
may attempt to grapple. Grappled ships can start melee.
- Boarding parties: Ships which have been fouled or successfully grappled may form boarding parties
if desired. These parties may attempt to take over an enemy ship or defend against
a take-over in the melee phase. Or they can be moved between two friendly ships.
- Melee: boarding parties may attempt to capture opposing ships, or defend
themselves.
- Ship Capture: ships that lose in the melee phase or does not have defending crew can be captured by enemy boarding parties.
Try it and tell us what you think,
your Webmasters.
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