This chance is normally 20%, except when the friendly code was changed to one starting with mf universal minefield friendly code. This will in most cases cancel out the normal starship building on the starbase any turn that there is a starship with this code in orbit the starbases tech levels must be equal to or greater than the ship components being cloned. Its primary function is to help teach myself pyton. Planets nu cheats tips and tricks added by pro players, testers and other users like you. Planets software downloads download32 software archive. Vga planets assistant vpa is an alternative vga planets client program for msdos. The userfriendly metadata ufm tool functions as a filter. Bases on an astroids only make 116th the normail amount of noise. 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. You will get a version of host with these downloads but its not the latest. A new research project testing all of the major western astrological techniques used today,000 people in 80 categories were analyzed using. It was designed 3 years ago and used by the author and hundreds of players in numerous vgap games.
Vga planets assistant vpa is a client program for vga planets pbem game. All the other familiar data and options are also available. The nuk friendly code will cause a planet to fight all enemy ships in orbit, whether they have fuel or not. Planets software free download planets top 4 download. A whopping two years later, on september 5, 1995, vga planets 3 received its single biggest update in all of its history. This game simulates combat in space between galactic scale empires. You can also set friendly code and command codes to performace special base functions.
Sometimes, this term is also applied to playerside programs. Randomizing friendly codes, to prevent enemy passage through minefields. Blitz is a great way to learn the game for new players. It was created in 1991 and became the most popular play by email game ever created. 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. To run a mod, you first need to install greasemonkey or tampermonkey see. The java vga planets client is a java based client for the playbyemail game the java vga planets client is a java based client for the playbyemail game vga planets file. The friendly code you set can have a major impact on the game. In the vga planets universe, everything not written by tim wisseman. The attack friendly code will cause a planet to attack all enemy ships in orbit not if they have fuel. When the friendly code is changed successfully, and the planet has at least 30 defense posts, it can sacrifice 10 of them to pop all ships in orbit out of cloak.
It is compiled, edited, and partly written by roger burton west, with assistance from. Planets nu is the 21st century version of the fantastic space strategy game vga planets. One of the big efforts of nasa is the observation of planet earth from space. Planets att attack use of this friendly code will cause the defense posts on the planet to initiate combat with any fueled, decloaked enemy starship that enters orbit. Play in your browser or on your phone against thousands of other warriors. Unload freighters with matching friendly codes, can save a turn when delivering minerals to an allied starbase planet. Go to download page to get the latest version i am unable to fully support this project as i would like. In addition, matching friendly codes can be used for access control. Download the winplan shareware or dos shareware version of vga planets. The game emphasizes colonization of space and the development of the planets that you will find, colonize andor conquer. Descriptions of what the friendly codes do are very brief. Well, the dream of every vga planets player is to become a game host isnt it. The players compete against each other economically and militarily on a galactic scale.
Version 2 had the same eleven races we have today, but no distinct racial abilities. The host person is an experienced vga planets person that handles. In addition, if any planet belonging to the owner of the minefield has a friendly code of mfx universal minefield friendly code, that friendly code will provide safe passage through all the minefields belonging to that player. Privateer ships get 200% when it comes to scanning enemy ground bases. The attack friendly code will cause a planet to attack all enemy ships in orbit not if. By friendly i mean lets talk game strategy or to offer tips and tricks or to ask general questions about the game. Alle mit p markierten friendlycodes funktionieren nur unter phost. Various hyperlinks point to the proper part of the vga planets helppages as can be found on my site. This document contains a glossary of vga planets terms. Oct 12, 20 vga planets is a popular and long running turn based space strategy game. Bear in mind that any case combination of these codes will have the desired effect. Friendly codes that match exactly will prevent combat, however vga planets. 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.
The gsx friendly codes only work if the person giving the ship away has a registered version of vga planets. Blitz games will end when a player resigns, a player misses three turns in a row, or one player has 90% military score. Beams all the money from a starship to all allied and enemy starships at the same position btt. Use ship and planet ids when referring to any ship or planet. Even if we never get to leave earth and go to the other planets there is still a lot of things that we can discover.
It is one of the first four x games to become successful and is even still played today despite its age. I dont like the original ship pictures supplied with vga planets. By the end of 1993 there were four special friendly codes. Capture enemy ldsfs use ntp friendly code to disable torps turns 35. How can i reach the author of vpa and download the latest version. This addon is designed to speed up and improve the quality of your vga planets turns by catching and displaying common mistakes on the planet list view and highlighting important information.
The biggest change is the addition of the scroll buttons, and at long last a thermometer. Many players would use their initials for their friendly codes, and if you. The build menu is now accessed with an icon that looks like a factory. Vga planets is a graphical, multiplayer, play by electronic mail, space war game. One such game was vga planets, a play by email game for dos released in 1991.
Time saving missions and friendly codes posted on march 25, 2014 by dtolman in part 1 of the vga turns in 30 minutes or less series, we focused on three of the most powerful time saving techniques ready checkboxes, waypoints, and automating planet builds. As notoriously complicated and difficult as vga planets is, one of the major. If one of your planets friendly code is set to mfk then all your minefields will have the universal friendly code of mfk. If the birdmen attempt to change a planet s friendly code into a universal. Second column is min clans to grow with amorphous natives. The new way to jump to another planet is to double click on the planet you. Vga planets calculator planets, structures, defense. Its a great introduction to the game for new players, but also an. It can give problems especially when used in battles where both your and your allys ships are set to fight the enemy in a certain order. Vga planets wiki this wiki is intended to serve as a repository for information about the game vga planets, by tim wisseman.
Codea software framework for control and observation in distributed. Numeric friendly codes and ordering battle as explained above, you can use numeric friendly codes to finetune the order in which you want your ships to fight. If a ship is damaged it might be unabled to cloak, this is the damage that prevents cloak level that is. Three or more ships over an enemy base stops them from launching any pods blockade having one friendly ship over the planet after movement breaks the blockade. For the remaining planets, the maximum population can be calculated as follows. Play in your browser or on your phone against thousands of other warriors in your bid to become emperor of the echo cluster. Using warez version, crack, warez passwords, patches, serial numbers, registration codes, key generator, pirate key, keymaker or keygen for planets license key is illegal. Space study engages our minds because we can imagine being an astronaut and heading off in a space ship to explore new worlds. The ship can use the local friendly code or the universal friendly code.
Note that friendly codes below 100 do not always work correctly. Cloaked ships can attack primary enemy ships while cloaked. Vga planets is a multiplayer, space strategy war game originally released in 1992. 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. For example, a ship with a friendly code of 147 will fight before one with a code of 783. Top 4 download periodically updates software information of planets full versions from the publishers, but some information may be slightly outofdate. Vga planets is a graphical multiplayer play by turn war game that simulates combat in space between galactic empires.
Vga planets is designed to be able to handle from two to eleven players in a play by mail electronic mail game format. If there are multiple universal minefield friendly codes set, only the one on the planet with the highest id is used. Numerical friendly codes can give a battlevalue from 1 friendly code of 001 to 999 friendly code of 999. All of the original code was written and compiled in basic. Blitz is a 1 on 1 short game average 1530 turns, with 16 planets instead of the usual 500. A ship can use rule 1 or rule 2 to safely pass through a minefield. Suddenly the echo cluster was covered in ion storms. The imperial federation theimperialfederation the lizard guide to the echo cluster thelizardsguidetotheechocluster the birdmen strategy thebirdmanstrategy juniper guide to the fascists junipersguidetofascists classic privateer tactics classicprivateertactics cutters guide to the cyborg cuttersguidetothecyborg. Tfcx detects specified planet or ship fcs and changes them to random numbers. This vga planets addon is an effort to populate the vga planets landscape, a feature wished for in the planets newsgroup and elsewhere. A planet has a 20% chance of pulling this off when it is the victim of a super spy mission. Rebels on planets less than 30, or 60 to 70 temp range are harder to detect. Tfcx is linked with the vga planets toolkit software library written by roger burton west. Planets nu vga planets online edition web game mod db.
Transfers all the fighters from a ship to allied and enemy carriers at the same position. This are allows developers to experiment with planets code and to share ideas. Transfers all the torpedoes from a ship to allied and enemy starships btf. Friendly codes containing one ore more of such characters will be reset to aaa. If you set a friendly code from 001 to 999, the ships will fight in the order of the numbers specified, lowest first. Winplan is designed to allow for an easier and more powerful interface for the players of vga planets. The game simulates combat in space between galactic scale empires. A ground base can attack other ground bases belonging to enemies on the same planet, if they win they will gain all the enemies goods for their own base.
Here are the special friendly codes used at planets. An ai player for vga planets, utilizing the planets. Either will fight before a ship with a nonnumeric friendly code. The table is broken up into two groups newer mods that should work with the standard interface on play. Ion pulse if a planet detects that it is a victim of a super spy deluxe mission and it has more than 30 defense outposts, it can burn 10 of the defense outposts to emit an ionic pulse that will uncloak all cloaked ships in orbit. 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. Even if you take a bit of damage fighting a planet or a series of small ships, you need to be able to travel at full speed, recloak, or at least fight at full effectiveness. My brothers and i didnt have access to bbs or the internet at the time so we had to play amongst ourselves, and like most of the shareware games we could not. Even at this defense level, what youre hoping for is that the ship runs out of torps needs 2024 torps, or is light enough that one round of fire with the 7 phasers is. Vga planets is a very flexible game, especially with phost as the host. Planets nu is the 21st century reincarnation of the fantastic turnbased space strategy game vga pl. Download32 is source for planets shareware, freeware download aw planets of the solar system pocket pc, aw planets of the solar system palm os, planets.
Tells the starbase that you own and are in orbit with to make an exact copy of the ship with this code. In order for a planet to attack an enemy ship via the nuk friendly code, it must have planetary defenseposts. Planets screen the planets screen also is very familiar in appearance. Wissemans fighting planets an intelligence briefing on racial characteristics in vga planets tactics by ted foster each race requires a very different style of play.
Even if the planet has a fully loaded starbase to defend it, if it has no planetary. Friendly codes are three character codes that you can set on each starship and planet. This tells the starbase that you own and are in orbit with to make an exact copy of the ship with this code. Causes a ship to beam down all the money it has onboard to the planet it is orbiting btm. Some races have special abilities to colonize extremetemperature planets. Vga planets ist ein online mehrspieler weltraumstrategiespiel. The friendly code cln in vga planets friendly code cln cln clone. In host, offering an alliance by means of the ffx friendly code immediately grants.
Here you can discuss strategies, plan games and anything else vga planets related. For instance, all small transports get a probability jump device, allowing them to transport to a random point in the cluster. Vga planets was released as shareware in 1991, version 3. Hull details tech mass fuel cargo crew engines beams torps bays cost dur trit moly score.
The friendly code can be changed by clicking on the friendly code field. Starbases have the same friendly code as the planet they orbit. Planets nu is the new online browser based version designed as a fun and active social network. The game emphasizes mining, colonization and the construction of starships. This is a friendly place to talk about all things vga planets. This wiki is intended to serve as a repository for information about the game vga planets, by tim wisseman. It is a known fact, that the average distance between stars is about 34 light years ly. Vga planets 4 quake ii quake iii arena ultima online. This is a place where developers can get involved in the planets community and develop preservation services and workflows away from the core services in planets suite. The players start with a homeworld, and have to build spaceships, explore the galaxy, colonize planets, mine minerals, build up their industry. For the ship to switch ownership, it has to be in the same position as a ship of the intended new owner, and the receiving ship must have at least one clan onboard. Minefields are also a big reason to carry supplies. The tropical zodiacs signs, quadrants, elements, and modes, the 9th harmonic of the zodiac, planetary aspects, planets on the axis points, planetary motion, midpoints, and more. Vga planets is a popular and long running turn based space strategy game.
The order in which ships fight is based first on their friendly codes if numeric, then on their mission and set enemy, and finally on their ship id number. Vga planets cheats, video game cheats, online video game cheats. The planets in our solar system can be a very interesting thing to study. Planet still loses, but damages most 42 mark 4 ships past 50%. Special friendly codes there are special friendly codes that do various things in the game. Highlights planets with dangerous friendly codes such as mfx or bumcolor codes planets with colonists or natives that are at low happiness levels.
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