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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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• 18

  Titan 18 (#67)

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

  Standard Ship List, PHost 4, always current version
• 18

  Pleiades 18 (#70)

  Advanced PList game: PHost 4, PList 3.2, and all features enabled. Fun for experienced players.

  PList 3.2, PHost 4, always current version
• 14

  North Star 14 (#71)

  No-alliances/no-cooperation game. Everyone plays for themselves. Otherwise, similar to the Pleiades series.

  PList 3.2, PHost 4, always current version
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Activity

• 19

  28/Jan/2022 Excited to play! One small bug report... (Titan 19)

  • Xhumeka: Hi guys - excited to play with you... hopefully I don't make too much of a fool of myself, I'm an intermediate player only recently having discovered PCII. Before that, I played exclusively with DOS ...
  • streu: This is a bug (typo) in the upload process. It's actually the same bug as in PlanetsCentral new layout br..., and I wonder how I missed it back then. As a workaround, just use the regular file upload function.
  • Tulgas: Hi Xhum, Welcome to PlanetsCentral. Best of luck. There are some very good players in the house, you'll see. Lots to learn from them indeed. Have fun and see you around the Echo Cluster!
• 27/Jan/2022 PHost 4.1h Install Assistance (Talk)

  • Xhumeka: Thanks so much for keeping VGA Planets alive! I would love to try hosting a game using PHost (Win32) but I'm running into a few difficulties and am hoping for some assistance. So far I have -used a ...
  • streu: I'm surprised that you do not have that, it is supposed to come with the original VGAP files. Anyway, it's also contained in hstsup32.zip (Tim's HOST 3.2 support files), a copy of which is still ...http://space-port.de/VGAP/host/host.htm
  • Xhumeka: That fixed it of course, working great now! I can't wait to play around with this more, after playing 6 or 7 very quick test rounds, my inital reactions are:
  • streu: Spontaneous intuition: if you have PCC2, you also have the specification files, no need to dig into old archives. Under Windows, they are installed in "C:\Program Files (x86)\PCC2\specs". Under ...
• 13

  26/Jan/2022 Vacation pause Jan 23-29, Feb 6-12 (North Star 13)

  • streu: Hi, I guess the easiest will be to set the game to "all turns in" until Feb 13th?
  • aduggan2: Fine with a pause.
  • Tulgas: Fine here too. Better the "all turns in" option than a pause, yes. I guess this applies after tonight's turn, doesn't it?
  • streu: Yep. For games with good turn submission rate - like this one - I would hope that you get your turns on your own authority, without a ticking clock behind you, even when there's no pause
  • Halvar: oh, didn't realize that a break was being discussed here. private matters should always have priority.
• 26/Jan/2022 Evil Empire (Planets)

  • Tulgas: Hi all, I noticed that the Evil Empire is usually the last race to get picked, and many times it's dropped early in the game.
• 17

  19/Jan/2022 Pause (Pleiades 17)

  • streu: I got an emergency pause request for this game. I have paused this game until 30/Jan. --Stefan
• 19/Jan/2022 Pause (FLAK 1)

  • streu: I got an emergency pause request for this game. I will pause this game until 30/Jan after the current host run. --Stefan
• 12/Jan/2022 Site Update (News)

  • at0mix: https://planetscentral.com/host/shiplist.cgi/plist-3.2 what is missing in the documentation. there is a table of ships. but in this table there are no special features of these ships, for example
  • Dahoudaboudadoudawou: Good point. In addition to this and if possible I suggest to also add the standard XP levels when certain features become available, for example: B'Rel - C (L0)
  • streu: This is actually the reason why this feature doesn't yet exist. Writing "Alchemy" behind hull 105 would be pretty trivial, but those PList 3.2 abilities can be pretty complex and ...
• 10/Jan/2022 Let's talk about cactuses... (Planets)

  • Siba: Here's config from one of G-List games ; ; Ini-file of "Tequila Wars" add-on for Vga Planets ; ; ; Place the following string to AUXHOST2.INI : ; CACTUS.EXE <game-dir> ; ;
• 17

  06/Jan/2022 Titan 17

  Titan 17 finished. Kobrov has won.
• 21/Dec/2021 Site Update

  Hi everyone, to finish this year, here's some updates.
• 25/Nov/2021 FLAK 1

  FLAK 1 started.
• 16

  28/Oct/2021 Pleiades 16

  Pleiades 16 finished. Knut Wuchtig has won.
• 12

  14/Oct/2021 North Star 12

  North Star 12 finished. Siba has won.
• 9

  10/Oct/2021 Phoenix 9

  Phoenix 9 finished. Dahoudaboudadoudawou has won.
• 14

  07/Oct/2021 North Star 14

  North Star 14 now taking players.
• 13

  07/Oct/2021 North Star 13

  North Star 13 started.
• 03/Oct/2021 PCC 2.0.12

  Hi everyone, I have uploaded PCC 2.0.12.
• 18

  24/Sep/2021 Pleiades 18

  Pleiades 18 now taking players.