Message text Dear Resisti,
as your own name say... you have to resist for a while. 
There is alot of work to be done that is almost invisible to the players, but it is necessary in order to change many part of the games to be compliant with a standardization that we introduced while developing the new version of Blue Max.
This standardization process will lead us to a system in which all the games can be managed in the same way, using the same procedures and same database tables.
In this very moment we are working on scenarios. We have defined a way to handle scenarios for all the games in the same way. This mean that we will be able to handle scenarios for Blue Max, Wooden Ship and other future game using a common group of functions and database table. As you can imagine, this involve many functionality of the site.
We also have almost ready a tournament system. This will allow every one to create a tournamnet just like now you create a game: select the game type, the scenario or other game options and click the Create button. The tournament manager will organize all the games, subscribe all the users and manage the scoring. This is a very nice feature, but before this we have to finish the standardization process.
As a side effect of the tournament, you'll be able to define the timeout for each game for the Auto Move to start: not 30 days like today, but a set of timeout from 48 hours to 30 days.
Regarding WS&IM specifically, once we have changed the scenarios management, we will move the game to the main site, closing the test sub site. We will develope the missing functionality for the basic game: drifting, grappling and boarding. We will also add other scenarios. We have no other plan for future development, right now.
This is, for us, a long term plan. We cannot predict any schedule since some areas are still not completely defined and time to dedicate to the site is never enough.
Have fun, your Webmasters.
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