PlanetsCentral

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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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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
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Titan 20 (#72)
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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North Star 15 (#73)
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

24/May/2022 Thost hosts? (Planets)
- Ozzy Mandias: Does anyone know of any active Thost sites anymore?
- streu: I don't, but may I ask what part of THost is it you wish to play? Adding THost support is very low priority for me currently (but not zero priority!). Actually, running it isn't so much of a problem, ...
- Xhumeka: There are still BBSs kickin' about that run TimHost games, but they aren't very active. There's only one active game on the BBS I connect to; it's running the "Tantalus Machine" REF mode and ...
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12/May/2022 Short break (Titan 19)
- Tulgas: Thanks guys!
- Terraner: Man, I'd love to go camping now, but work... Enjoy!
- streu: done. Terraner: try cycling to work
- Tulgas: Thanks everyone! Yeah, with the weather improving and after two years of lock downs, spending time outdoors is a blessing from the Heavens... Enjoy the camping Ozzy (BTW cool nickname).
- Ozzy Mandias: After 5 years experience I can highly recommend retirement!
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10/May/2022 Short break (North Star 13)
- aduggan2: No problem here. Enjoy the ride. Lizard
- streu: done.
- Tulgas: Thanks a lot. I'm half dead in Mallorca after the first day on the bike. Plenty of friendly Germans here. Cheers!
- at0mix: May 9 - VICTORY DAY. Holy to us.
- Dahoudaboudadoudawou: I'm not sure how to relate this meaningfully with any of the previous posts...?
16/Apr/2022 Welcome to FLAK! (FLAK 1)
- streu: Sorry, I cannot reproduce such a restriction. I have used
- Dahoudaboudadoudawou: My ally confirmed the alliance with "+" for all parameters from the very beginning. I confirmed the alliance with "~" for all parameters and we did not see each other's battles until I changed to "+" ...
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14/Apr/2022 To get this started... (North Star 14)
- DarkAngel: Will be starteed?
- Ozzy Mandias: Only if we get an Empire player.
- snouka: Ok, I joined Please be gentle
- Ozzy Mandias: YAY! Thanks Snouka! Yes, I need some gentle handling in this too. I'm in it to get my feet wetter in the Phost world than the Titan games offer. Not sure how this will go, could be a quick ...
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14/Apr/2022 North Star 15

North Star 15 now taking players.
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14/Apr/2022 North Star 14

North Star 14 started.
13/Apr/2022 PCC 2.0.13

Hello, I have uploaded PCC2 2.0.13.
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11/Apr/2022 Pause (Titan 19)
- streu: Next regular host run will be on 21st. Host runs earlier when all turns are in. --Stefan
21/Mar/2022 Server maintenance

Hi, I plan to upgrade some software components this Friday, March 25th (after the Thursday host runs). Unlike most upgrades, this one will take a few minutes, so the server will be down for a while.
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30/Jan/2022 Titan 20

Titan 20 now taking players.
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30/Jan/2022 Titan 19

Titan 19 started.
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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.
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28/Oct/2021 Pleiades 16

Pleiades 16 finished. Knut Wuchtig has won.

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