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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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• 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
• 16

  North Star 16 (#80)

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

  PList 3.2, PHost 4, always current version
• Lupus 2 (#81)

  A classic game with no alliances: standard ship list, Echo Cluster.

  Standard Ship List, PHost 4, always current version
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• 22

  27/Mar/2023 Titan 22

  Titan 22 now taking players.
• 21

  27/Mar/2023 Titan 21

  Titan 21 started.
• 20

  26/Mar/2023 Game Pause ??? (Titan 20)

  • speedy: Yep, let’s search Easter eggs
  • mondoshiva: Saw this new posting only by coincidence. No email by host on new update. Sure we can have a Easter freeze.
  • snouka: fine by me too!
  • Alfanio: Ok. Of course!! quote=snouka;4196] fine by me too![/quote]
  • at0mix: Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter on April 16
• 10

  25/Mar/2023 Game Pause (Phoenix 10)

  • at0mix: is it probably the school holidays? mine ended about 45 years ago.....
  • James T. Plagerism: I'm always fine with pausing whenever anyone needs it.
  • Dahoudaboudadoudawou: Same here
  • streu: If you want a private game to play with your grandchildren during spring break, no problem --Stefan
  • Knut Wuchtig: OK for me
• 24/Mar/2023 Future Game Plans (Planets)

  • Milko: As a TKF registered customer I would like to try a FLAK game, can it be added to the standard set of games? Or is FLAK still in testing? Giuseppe
  • streu: There will absolutely be more FLAK games. As I sketched in the first posting, probably in combination with Starbase Reloaded. Right now we have 6 games open, that take some time to fill. The "novelty ...Tequila War 1
  • Milko: Thanks for FLAK But when does a game start? Like Titan21, two people are missing, will the start take place when one more enters? Or do all the slots have to fill up?
  • streu: Games start when all slots are filled. If players wish to start earlier, I can also start a game manually. (I cannot un-start games, though. We tried that. Didn't work.)
• 21/Mar/2023 Server maintenance (News)

  • streu: Update complete. --Stefan
• 15/Mar/2023 PCC - Language (Talk)

  • Milko: Hi Does anyone know how to tell PCC to use the English language? In the configurations I have not found references. From me it always starts in Italian, but the translation is often not accurate and ...
  • streu: There is no configuration, because language needs to be known before the configuration file is even read. The official solution: uncheck the "Language Support" option in the installer.
  • Milko: Hi, I will use the second option to fix the problem. But I'm happy to help with translation (I've done similar things before). Could you give me some more info on how to do it? Thank you
  • streu: Right now, the tools I have for that are aimed at programmers familiar with a Linux console, so I don't know whether that would be anything for you: Download the PCC2 source code. The translations ...
• 12/Mar/2023 Server maintenance

  The ISP has announced maintenance in the night from March 20th to 21st. This should not affect host runs, but the server will be down for a few hours. If you have problems connecting, try again later ...
• 07/Mar/2023 Activation code -> regkey (Talk)

  • Milko: I recovered an old windows XP PC and I managed to run winplan. However, I think I understood that: 1) winplan is supplied with a "reg.key" which contains the serial number and is already valid 2) ...
• 14

  19/Feb/2023 North Star 14

  North Star 14 finished. snouka has won.
• 02/Feb/2023 Lupus 2

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

  Lupus 1 started.
• 18

  28/Jan/2023 Titan 18

  Titan 18 started.
• 16

  14/Jan/2023 North Star 16

  North Star 16 now taking players.
• 15

  14/Jan/2023 North Star 15

  North Star 15 started.
• 29/Dec/2022 FLAK 1

  FLAK 1 finished. Dahoudaboudadoudawou has won.