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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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Titan 21 (#76)
A classic game: standard ship list, standard Echo Cluster, standard score, standard rules.
Standard Ship List, PHost 4, always current version
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Phoenix 11 (#77)
The standard game for everyone: PHost 4, PList 2.4.
PList 2.4, PHost 4, always current version
Tequila War 1 (#79)
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

02/Feb/2023 Planetscentral API (Bugs)
- Quapla: Hi Stefan, do you have some kind of API / script to get RTS and send TRN files from a batch? Thank you!
02/Feb/2023 Lupus 2

Lupus 2 now taking players.
02/Feb/2023 Lupus 1

Lupus 1 started.
30/Jan/2023 Future Game Plans (Planets)
- Ranadar: As an old player that hasn't played for a LONG time (>15 years), I am interested in mostly classic style games until I can get back into the swing of things. My favorite addon from the old days was ...
- Dahoudaboudadoudawou: Check out FLAK
29/Jan/2023 PCC2 / PCC2ng very small (Bugs)
- Quapla: Hi Stefan, good to see that you are still around and improving your PCC. WOW!
- streu: Both PCC2 and PCC2ng accept a "-fullscreen" option (edit the shortcut/menu item you're using to start it). This is intended to scale up the window to full screen size. However, many of the graphics ...
- Quapla: Wow, worked perfectly, thank you. Yes I was aware of that, need to install perl and all the other stuff to play with VPA again. Well, maybe I have the time.
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29/Jan/2023 Pirate (North Star 15)
- streu: I have removed the user. (Haven't I removed that one before?) If you know a Pirate candidate, now is your time. I turned off host acceleration for now, so host will not run early.
- Dahoudaboudadoudawou: C'mon folks! I can hardly believe that there is nobody willing to take over the Privateer in turn 2? Anybody?
- streu: ok, I'll give it a try. Beware, I haven't played Pirates in a while. But maybe we'll get a few new PCC features out of it
- Dahoudaboudadoudawou: This could be set back to normal I guess
- streu: Done. Thanks for the heads-up.
28/Jan/2023 Thost hosts? (Planets)
- Ranadar: AutoTroll had a trn checker. Besides NAVGAP, I mostly played on AutoTroll sites so I know I'd always get a message saying my turn was good.
- streu: As far as I know, AutoTroll uses chktrn.exe, which basically only checks that your turn file actually is a turn file that belongs to the current turn. So it will tell you when your turn is stale, but ...
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28/Jan/2023 Titan 18

Titan 18 started.
26/Jan/2023 T-host games? (Talk)
- Bones: G'day, this is Matthias, former host of High Command. It's bee a while. Any T-Host planeteers are still outside there? Problem with T-Host was to keep it running on Win 64 bit systems and that ...
23/Jan/2023 PCC2 2.0.14 (News)
- DonQ: 100% Thank you Stefan!!!
- streu: Thanks, I appreciate that you appreciate it
20/Jan/2023 "Unnatural Selection" game? (Talk)
- SFDRAKE: this note is almost a year old but it is never too late to agree that natural selection was a fun game. I loved using meteors combined with the robot 4x mines ability. I remember a game ...
- vlk: Did not play it, but it sounds like fun!
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14/Jan/2023 North Star 16

North Star 16 now taking players.
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14/Jan/2023 North Star 15

North Star 15 started.
11/Jan/2023 Evil Empire (Planets)
- DonQ: In our group of friends we have played with and discussed this issue quite a lot. We have decided to change the settings to 50 free fighters per base per turn (the minerals still have to be paid).
11/Jan/2023 Remarks on FLAK? (FLAK 1)
- Dahoudaboudadoudawou: Hey Now that the game is over I'm throwing in my two cents...
- streu: Hi, I don't think that is vastly different from 1:1 combat; even there, the cloaker race could have many more ships at the end of the battle order. The difference with fleet combat is that you ...
- Dahoudaboudadoudawou: Hey I agree, this I did not take into account. It's true that a scout is able to trigger and unveil the entire fleet - unless not all cloakers join the battle in order to avoid being scouted
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01/Jan/2023 I'm asking you to stop the game (North Star 14)
- at0mix: I'm asking you to stop the game I got a message
- streu: Hi, this is the starbase "Recycle" action, not the "Colonize" mission. Recycling happens after mine laying, so this is no contradiction with the ship laying mines. You gave a Recycle action in your ...
29/Dec/2022 FLAK 1

FLAK 1 finished. Dahoudaboudadoudawou has won.
18/Dec/2022 PCC2 2.0.14

Hi there, I have uploaded PCC2 2.0.14.
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04/Dec/2022 Titan 19

Titan 19 finished. Kobrov has won.
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12/Nov/2022 Phoenix 11

Phoenix 11 now taking players.
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12/Nov/2022 Phoenix 10

Phoenix 10 started.

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