Download the winplan shareware or dos shareware version of vga planets find a new game and sign up download his first playerrst file from the host persons internet site, bbs or from an email attachment unpack the rst file play out the turn using winplan or planets. Better than ships, but there are still races collect planets liz, priv, borg faster than others. The time is in gmt greenwich mean time old designation, utc coordinated universal time new designation or zulu time used by aviators and many military organizations. Vga planets is designed to be able to handle from two to eleven players in a play by mail electronic mail game format. The debris disks are created by the host by randomly selecting planets, and converting them to debris disks. Use the correct username and download key from these instructions. This value must be between 0 and 30 with a default of 0. Wissemann continued the development of version 3 for more than ten years. Vga planets assistant vpa is an alternative vga planets client program for msdos. Planets nu is the new online browser based version designed as a fun and active social network. The tow mission and tow conflict resolution planets magazine. So i am in the process of making source and binaries available under the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation. Play in your browser or on your phone against thousands of other warriors in your bid to become emperor of the echo cluster. A porting to java of a popular vga planets host, phost 3.
Planets nu is the 21st century version of the fantastic space strategy game vga planets. Vga planets webring a collection of the best pages that. The host is needed if you plan to host games of vga planets for other people to play in. Plagerism circus maximus game hosting game hosting down since 2016, forums i play as james t. Turns are usually one a day, but could be more or less depending on the host and people playing. Planets command center or pcc for short is a complete client program for planets. Vga planets nu host order planets nu vga planets space. Peter ratschitzkys ufo4vpa latest edition for vpa 3. The host is needed if you plan to host games of vga planets for other. Go to my vga planets page my other player utilities my home page. Where each player can plot strategies more leisurely than real time strategy games. Download his first playerrst file from the host persons internet site, bbs or from an email attachment. The other programs are used to host games, which you can read about here. Pqboost written by heiko schlenker is a small tool for the vga planets host program phost version 3 and higher.
The same great dos version of vga planets with a quantity discount. Vga planets assistant vpa is a client program for vga planets pbem game. Vga planets is one of the more complex turnbased strategy games you might encounter, but its complexity allows for interesting tactical maneuvers and diplomatic armtwisting. Vga planets jhost free download vga planets jhost 1. Planets nu vga planets online edition web game mod db. A collection of the best pages that contain information, software and host s for vga planets. Vga planets official site you want version 3 vga planets nu web interface planets portable host project phost site. The game emphasizes mining, colonization and the construction of starships. The players compete against each other economically and militarily on a galactic scale. Download vga planets ai freeware this project serves two. The software is also compatible with host version 3. Its secondary function is to act as a computer ai player for an internet game, vga planets as implemented on vga planets nu.
The number of ion storms that can be present in the cluster at the beginning of each host run. Ahost is an addon to the vga planets host that, through the use of friendly codes, puts in several more planet and ship abilities. The whole 2 dimensional map is visible, but players have to fly to other planets to see what. The game is designed to be played as a net or bulletin board system bbs game as long as file transfers are permitted and available, although it. A collection of the best pages that contain information, software and hosts for vga planets. A powerful tool for manipulating vga planets host data. Play in your browser or on your phone against thousands of other warriors. Vga planets calculator planets, structures, defense. The game is designed to be played as a net or bulletin board system bbs game as long as file transfers are permitted and available, although it can be played solely on one computer. This vga planets addon is an effort to populate the vga planets landscape, a feature wished for in the planets newsgroup and elsewhere. The game simulates combat in space between galactic scale empires.
Vga planets is a multiplayer, space strategy war game originally released in 1992. If the goal is set on 125 planets for the next 5 turns, i believe, that is a good aim for a game. If you already know the basics of the game, the information section is a good place to visit no matter how experienced you are. Winplan is the windows based client for playing vga planets. Many people are having problems installing winplan on newer machines, the main cause of this problem is a program called setup1. Modded to the max with many original, never before seen programs ppes and games created by the sysop. Although this wiki is largely intended to serve as a supplement for vga planets nu, much information can also apply to vga planets host 3. A revived and revamped elite pcboard bbs from 1995, operating in the 604. Vga planets is a playbyemail space conquest strategy game, it can be played by 11 players max.
When building new structures on a planet any colonists on any ship you own in orbit or in transit from the planet counts toward the building limit of the planet. Plagerism vga planets nu webbased v3 client and hosting interface i used to play as james t. This is a pdk version of qboost by stefan glasauer which is an addon to boost the build queue. Vga planets is a graphical multiplayer play by turn war game that simulates combat in space between galactic empires. If enabled, part of a planets overpopulation can survive the harsh climate by eating supplyunits. The order of the documented tasks is known, and was determined either through detailed experimentation or by the developers providing the information. Download32 is source for vga shareware, freeware download mobile jigsaw vga, vga sunset and sky themes, vga beach theme pack, ultimate vga theme pack for pocket pc, candy skin vga for resco keyboard pro, etc. Go to download page to get the latest version i am unable to fully support this project as i would like. Planets software downloads download32 software archive. Host will trim it for technical reasons, so you have to reset the waypoint.
If you are trying to break a tractor beam, you must satisfy all four fingers. Vga planets or vgap, or planets was released in 1992 as a bbs door game, and is now played over the internet via email or via web interface. His goal was to create a feature rich, turn based, strategy game that would allow players to compete against one another by exchanging small file ie under 100k via network, modem, or floppy. Host time this is the time that the host program will run. Vga planets calculator, tools and links by james heinrich.
If you are new or relatively new to vga planets, it is best to start at the very beginning in the newbie section. This documentation describes the order in which various tasks are performed in the host application on the server between turns. Vpa vga planets assistant vpa is a client program for vga planets pbem game. It was designed 3 years ago and used by the author and hundreds of players in numerous vgap games. If you are new or relatively new to vga planets, it is best to start at the very beginning in the newbiesection. Together we are working on updates the to the original winplan and the host to make them 32bitand 64bit windows compatible. Second column is min clans to grow with amorphous natives.
Vga planets was released as shareware in 1991, version 3. Downloads planets nu vga planets online edition mod db. The source for winplan have been upgraded to visual basic 6. We have over 900 door games, many of which are fully registered. Any planets the created debris disks intersect with are also. Feds 70 lizards 200 all others 100 due to their environmentallyaware nature, the federation mines planets at only 70% of the speed of most other races. Pqueueed a basic ship build queue editor for phost3 and greater. If you already know the basics of the game, the informationsection is a good place to visit no matter how experienced you are regardless of experience, skills or anything, it is highly recommended you. Search your windows directory for a file named setup1. This program allows you to buy and sell ships between all the races of the echo cluster. Files can be accessed from a download directory customizable for each game and. Echoview vga planets software free download echoview vga.
First, the host sends a file with the initial conditions to each player. The players start with a homeworld, and have to build spaceships, explore the galaxy, colonize planets, mine minerals, build up their industry. It can display information about all planets as well as keep an observer log that may be exported to your desktop computer star pilot technologies astronomy software for handheld devices the universe in your palm. Donovans vga planets super site the best and largest. Vga planets is a popular and long running turn based space strategy game. For older downloads, refer to the vpa directory index at sourceforge. A planets maximum population is based on its temperature. Planets central game hosting, forums, documentation, optional pcc2 web client i play as james t. User summary vga planets 3 is a turnbased, multiplayer pbem game for the pc, produced by tim wisseman. The game system allows players to construct their own starships. Vga planets 4 october 15, 2010 this is one of the most popular sites where you can play vga planets 4, go to help and information section to get the client and basic info. Hull details tech mass fuel cargo crew engines beams torps bays cost dur trit moly score. Host days this is a list of the days of the week that the host program will run.
It is a known fact, that the average distance between stars is about 34 light years ly. If the ship has at least 25kt of fuel, it satisfies the first finger. Planets nu functions significantly differently than host 3. Some races have special abilities to colonize extremetemperature planets. Welcome to your best and largest source of information for vga planets 3. These versions of host recognize a turn from a winplan user and send a more detailed results file to those users. This game is being played by strategy fanatics all over the world for some years now, is very addictive and there are several servers on the internet that host various kinds of this games. Vga planets is the brain child of computer science drop out and former californian lumberjack, tim wisseman.