Re: Owls and Voles

Thank you Thorin for the kind words.

Vole_001 and Vole_002 are both up and running, and I'm looking for a replacement Germany in Vole_003 - the player felt that he was overcommitted to other games and asked to bow out right at the start. Anyone want to take over a pristine, 1901, Germany then TAKEOVER gvole_003 is your friend!

In other news, I'm working on building a ranking system based on Microsoft Research's TrueSkill system - it's essentially a multiplayer extension of the Elo system used in Chess and other 2-player games. I'm hoping that this will lead to some interesting ranking tables for Voles and well matched games in the future.

Happy New Year and Happy Stabbing,

Ed

PS - Vole_004 is looking for players!

--- In [email protected], "thorinmunro" <thorinmunro@...> wrote:
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> Great stuff Ed....
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> Wish you well playing with burrowing rodents! For any Owls players wanting a reference, Ed Rustin was one of the earliest and most active players in the league.
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> All the best,
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> Thorin
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> --- In [email protected], "elemental0125" <ed@> wrote:
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> > With Thorin's announcement that he's taking an indefinite break from running the Owls games a hole is left in our hobby. For much of the last seven years the Owls games have formed the bedrock of the games I've played, from owls_08 back in 2005 all the way to the current tournament, and have developed a great community and some of the toughest opponents I've had the pleasure of playing against.
> > 
> > Not wanting to see that community die, I've decided to step up to the plate and start a new series of games, in the hope of keeping the Owls spirt alive. The first game in the series vole_001 is already up and running and looks like it's going to turn out to be a great game if the volume of press is anything to judge by.
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> > I've just created vole_002 and, optimistically, vole_003, and I'm hoping that I'll see some you in them, both Owls old, and Voles new.
> > 
> > Happy Holidays
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> > Ed
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