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Welcome to PlanetsCentral, a web site for playing VGA Planets, a classic turn-based space exploration strategy game. This site is home of the Planets­Central Automated Host, a fully-automated, reliable game hosting service, and PCC2 Web, a browser-based game client. Read more...

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  Phoenix 12 (#84)

  The standard game for everyone: PHost 4, PList 2.4.

  PList 2.4, PHost 4, always current version
• 24

  Titan 24 (#89)

  A classic game: standard ship list, standard Echo Cluster, standard score, standard rules.

  Standard Ship List, PHost 4, always current version
• Tequila War 2 (#91)

  Build and protect your cactuses for valuable tasty tequila! A Phoenix-style game using the Tequila War scoring system.

  PList 2.4, PHost 4, always current version
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Activity

• 28/Oct/2024 Assistance required (Talk)

  • Dahoudaboudadoudawou: Hey folks, is there any US resident who could do me a favor and send me a US post stamp by mail? All expenses to be reimbursed of course
• 16

  27/Oct/2024 North Star 16

  North Star 16 finished. Halvar has won.
• 27/Oct/2024 NotebookLM and VGA Planets (Talk)

  • Xhumeka: Have any of you guys played around with Google's "NotebookLM"? It's pretty cool - for a test, I created a new notebook with 7 sources; the links from Donovan's to the 7 "race guides" for the ...
  • mondoshiva: Wow!!! But also it’s pretty scary what is possible with AI these days.
• 25/Oct/2024 PCC2 Web Update

  Hi, I have uploaded an update to PCC2 Web. It now includes the Search Function. This is a useful way to inspect your turn, in particular, in combination with the Imperial Stats feature added earlier ...
• 24/Oct/2024 vacation (Lupus 4)

  • streu: done. Next scheduled turn on Oct 24, but host will run earlier if all turns are in. --Stefan
  • Xhumeka: I see host ran this morning at about 7:45am EST, and it's set to run again today at 4pm EST?? Two turns in one day?!? I'm not sure I'll be home in time to complete my turn, anyone else in this ...
  • Matt: Me too. I'm definetly not able to do my turn today.
  • streu: Host will NOT run again today. (If it does, that would be a severe bug.) Next event that will happen, today, is the schedule change, i.e. end of vacation mode.
  • Xhumeka: Oh, I see! Perfect, thanks for clarifying!
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  13/Oct/2024 How not to break the rules (North Star 16)

  • Halvar: Hi, I would like to make that a little more precise: between turns 19 and 28 we had border conflicts. from turn 28 onwards there was peace until I attacked you on turn 75. So we had peace for 47 ...
  • Tulgas: Amen to that. This was a fierce game and I enjoyed it vey much.
• 17

  10/Oct/2024 vacation (North Star 17)

  • Tulgas: No problem for me. Enjoy your time off!
  • Dahoudaboudadoudawou: Fine with me.
  • streu: pause activated.
• 10/Oct/2024 vacation (Lupus 3)

  • Terraner: Sure thing. Enjoy the trip.
  • Dahoudaboudadoudawou: Fine with me.
  • streu: Done. Next scheduled host on October 24. Whoa, that's only 2 month left till christmas. Dammit, need to get presents....
• 10/Oct/2024 vacation (Tequila War 1)

  • sm1: That works for me
  • streu: done. Next scheduled turn on Oct 24... maybe. Because this game is about to switch from 2/week to 3/week schedule, depends on whether a turn runs inbetween.
• 08/Oct/2024 Turn 18 (Tequila War 1)

  • Milko: In turn 18 the cactus score tells me I lost one. Indeed the fed conquered me a planet with a ship in ship-planet battle. In the same turn, however, I took a planet from the fed by unloading some ...
  • streu: Only if the planet had a cactus. Otherwise, capturing it has no effect on the cactus score. Basically, the gist of this setup is: you benefit if you build cactuses on planets that you intend to keep ...
• 22

  02/Sep/2024 Titan 22

  Titan 22 finished. vlk has won.
• 28/Aug/2024 Tequila War 2

  Tequila War 2 now taking players.
• 28/Aug/2024 Tequila War 1

  Tequila War 1 started.
• 16/Aug/2024 Lupus 5

  Lupus 5 now taking players.
• 16/Aug/2024 Lupus 4

  Lupus 4 started.
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  21/Jul/2024 Titan 24

  Titan 24 now taking players.
• 23

  21/Jul/2024 Titan 23

  Titan 23 started.
• 21/Jul/2024 Lupus 2

  Lupus 2 finished. Dahoudaboudadoudawou has won.