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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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• 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
• 19

  Pleiades 19 (#93)

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

  PList 3.2, PHost 4, always current version
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Activity

• 18

  20/Jul/2025 "Wait until all turns are in"-Mode (Pleiades 18)

  • Terraner: What happened? Did I miss an announcement? At least until recently players informed upfront when a game pause was needed. Seems different now. However, while we are at it, please continue this mode ...
  • James T. Plagerism: I was about to post that I'm going on vacation until mid-August myself, so pausing until Aug-20 would work perfectly for me too.
  • Dahoudaboudadoudawou: It seems you have missed
• 18

  19/Jul/2025 Vacation pause (North Star 18)

  • James T. Plagerism: I'm away on vacation July 23-Aug 15, if we could pause the hosting during that time please?
• 18/Jul/2025 Holiday break (Talk)

  • at0mix: so there are only 3 active games...
  • snouka: going through the currently running games and additionally those that are open and waiting for players I counted 18 different player names, the active VGA Planets player base
  • Dahoudaboudadoudawou: I have to admit that the value of 75% was only a rough estimate. But if we count in only running games then it's just 14 different players. 11 / 14 = 0,786 so I was not that far away Sad enough that ...
  • streu: Pause activated for Phoenix 12, Pleiades 18 (next scheduled host run on July 31, after your return); will activate pause for North Star 18 after the upcoming host (next scheduled host on 28th).
  • snouka: Thank you very much! If the turn for North Star 18 comes in a bit eralier today I'll upload my next trn quickly and set all the games on green, trying to keep the break as short for everyone as ...
• 11/Jul/2025 I did not submit the turn but host ran as if I did (Bugs)

  • Zergio: There was no ships orders, no buildings therefore no turn data accepted but host ran in advance. How this might be happened?
  • streu: As far as I can tell, host did NOT run early, it ran on time. At host run time, you had not submitted a turn. Therefore, the host went into your game directory and found a matching (but empty) turn ...
  • snouka: The game is North Star 18. I can confirm that Zergio's status was on red around 5 minutes before the regular hostrun that day, I've been sitting at home waiting for the hostrun. So to me, it seemed as ...
  • Zergio: It seems I really missed the host run, that's my own fault. But I simply wander that my status of that turn is green in the game history.
  • streu: You probably looked at your turn with PCC2 Web and then closed your browser window. Normally, you should exit PCC2 Web using the regular "exit" function which would explicitly submit a (possibly ...
• 18

  09/Jul/2025 North Star 18 playing (North Star 18)

  • Zergio: Welcome aboard! One small but essential remark: nationality does not matter but fair play does!
  • at0mix: I'm not a racist - I hate everyone equally
  • Emisit: Hahahah, I too
• 12

  09/Jul/2025 I'm a little surprised... (Phoenix 12)

  • Dahoudaboudadoudawou: I suppose that if you ask 5 players you will receive 5 different opinions. Therefore I suggest that it should be Stefan to determine the rules for diplomatic games (Titan, Pleiades and Phoenix ...
  • snouka: From my side, there's no need to change anything. More rules = greater need of checks and controls = greater need of punishment in case of breaking the rules. And how to do that? I have no clue. The ...
  • streu: If you want a "maximum number of alliances" add-on (such as POneAlly, CMLimit) we can give that a try. Otherwise, alliances are not limited. However, only one player can win. In that case, it doesn't ...
  • Dahoudaboudadoudawou: Personally I would always prefer a gentlemen's agreement instead of enforcing it by some kind of add-on. But if this is a possible solution I'd take it. According to what at0mix wrote it is apparently ...
  • at0mix: Everyone has their own cockroaches in their head. Some people don't like super unions.
• 02/Jul/2025 Lupus 4

  Lupus 4 finished. Dahoudaboudadoudawou has won.
• 19

  10/Jun/2025 North Star 19

  North Star 19 now taking players.
• 18

  10/Jun/2025 North Star 18

  North Star 18 started.
• 23

  08/May/2025 Titan 23

  Titan 23 finished. mondoshiva has won.
• 04/May/2025 Update PCC2 2.0.17, 2.41.3

  Hi there, I have uploaded new versions of PCC2 and PCC2 NG:
• 19

  27/Apr/2025 Pleiades 19

  Pleiades 19 now taking players.
• 18

  27/Apr/2025 Pleiades 18

  Pleiades 18 started.
• 17

  16/Mar/2025 North Star 17

  North Star 17 finished. Dahoudaboudadoudawou has won.
• 16/Mar/2025 Tequila War 1

  Tequila War 1 finished. darkclow has won.
• 13

  19/Jan/2025 Phoenix 13

  Phoenix 13 now taking players.