Friendly codes are three character codes that you can set on each starship and planet. Vga planets is a popular and long running turn based space strategy game. Descriptions of what the friendly codes do are very brief. Bases on an astroids only make 116th the normail amount of noise. One such game was vga planets, a play by email game for dos released in 1991. Many players would use their initials for their friendly codes, and if you. Blitz games will end when a player resigns, a player misses three turns in a row, or one player has 90% military score. Its a great introduction to the game for new players, but also an. How can i reach the author of vpa and download the latest version. Numerical friendly codes can give a battlevalue from 1 friendly code of 001 to 999 friendly code of 999. The players start with a homeworld, and have to build spaceships, explore the galaxy, colonize planets, mine minerals, build up their industry.
For instance, all small transports get a probability jump device, allowing them to transport to a random point in the cluster. Planets nu is the new online browser based version designed as a fun and active social network. Bear in mind that any case combination of these codes will have the desired effect. It was created in 1991 and became the most popular play by email game ever created.
In order for a planet to attack an enemy ship via the nuk friendly code, it must have planetary defenseposts. Pln is public and can be downloaded from the vga planets home web page at. A new research project testing all of the major western astrological techniques used today,000 people in 80 categories were analyzed using. Planets nu cheats tips and tricks added by pro players, testers and other users like you. For the remaining planets, the maximum population can be calculated as follows. Some races have special abilities to colonize extremetemperature planets.
The attack friendly code will cause a planet to attack all enemy ships in orbit not if. Planets nu vga planets online edition web game mod db. 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. 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. Tells the starbase that you own and are in orbit with to make an exact copy of the ship with this code. This vga planets addon is an effort to populate the vga planets landscape, a feature wished for in the planets newsgroup and elsewhere. Even if the planet has a fully loaded starbase to defend it, if it has no planetary. Here are the special friendly codes used at planets. The players compete against each other economically and militarily on a galactic scale. Friendly codes that match exactly will prevent combat, however vga planets. This are allows developers to experiment with planets code and to share ideas.
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. Vga planets was released as shareware in 1991, version 3. Capture enemy ldsfs use ntp friendly code to disable torps turns 35. This game simulates combat in space between galactic scale empires. Note that friendly codes below 100 do not always work correctly. 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. Winplan is designed to allow for an easier and more powerful interface for the players of vga planets. Randomizing friendly codes, to prevent enemy passage through minefields. The game simulates combat in space between galactic scale empires.
An ai player for vga planets, utilizing the planets. This tells the starbase that you own and are in orbit with to make an exact copy of the ship with this code. If the birdmen attempt to change a planet s friendly code into a universal. Privateer ships get 200% when it comes to scanning enemy ground bases. The biggest change is the addition of the scroll buttons, and at long last a thermometer. I dont like the original ship pictures supplied with vga planets. 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. Planets nu is the 21st century version of the fantastic space strategy game vga planets. It is one of the first four x games to become successful and is even still played today despite its age. The build menu is now accessed with an icon that looks like a factory. 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. Planets nu is the 21st century reincarnation of the fantastic turnbased space strategy game vga pl. The friendly code can be changed by clicking on the friendly code field.
Planets software downloads download32 software archive. Planet still loses, but damages most 42 mark 4 ships past 50%. Vga planets is a graphical, multiplayer, play by electronic mail, space war game. Unload freighters with matching friendly codes, can save a turn when delivering minerals to an allied starbase planet. Oct 12, 20 vga planets is a popular and long running turn based space strategy game. If you set a friendly code from 001 to 999, the ships will fight in the order of the numbers specified, lowest first. 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. Top 4 download periodically updates software information of planets full versions from the publishers, but some information may be slightly outofdate. Vga planets calculator planets, structures, defense.
A whopping two years later, on september 5, 1995, vga planets 3 received its single biggest update in all of its history. 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. By friendly i mean lets talk game strategy or to offer tips and tricks or to ask general questions about the game. 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. Vga planets ist ein online mehrspieler weltraumstrategiespiel.
If there are multiple universal minefield friendly codes set, only the one on the planet with the highest id is used. If one of your planets friendly code is set to mfk then all your minefields will have the universal friendly code of mfk. 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. 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 attack friendly code will cause a planet to attack all enemy ships in orbit not if they have fuel. Tfcx is linked with the vga planets toolkit software library written by roger burton west. 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. Well, the dream of every vga planets player is to become a game host isnt it. Its primary function is to help teach myself pyton. Suddenly the echo cluster was covered in ion storms. Codea software framework for control and observation in distributed. Vga planets wiki this wiki is intended to serve as a repository for information about the game vga planets, by tim wisseman. In the vga planets universe, everything not written by tim wisseman. 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.
Vga planets is a very flexible game, especially with phost as the host. It was designed 3 years ago and used by the author and hundreds of players in numerous vgap games. All of the original code was written and compiled in basic. The new way to jump to another planet is to double click on the planet you. You will get a version of host with these downloads but its not the latest. Blitz is a 1 on 1 short game average 1530 turns, with 16 planets instead of the usual 500. Download the winplan shareware or dos shareware version of vga planets. The friendly code cln in vga planets friendly code cln cln clone. Various hyperlinks point to the proper part of the vga planets helppages as can be found on my site. It is compiled, edited, and partly written by roger burton west, with assistance from.
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. Either will fight before a ship with a nonnumeric friendly code. The nuk friendly code will cause a planet to fight all enemy ships in orbit, whether they have fuel or not. Transfers all the fighters from a ship to allied and enemy carriers at the same position. In addition, matching friendly codes can be used for access control. 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. In host, offering an alliance by means of the ffx friendly code immediately grants. Rebels on planets less than 30, or 60 to 70 temp range are harder to detect. The game emphasizes colonization of space and the development of the planets that you will find, colonize andor conquer. Sometimes, this term is also applied to playerside programs. Cloaked ships can attack primary enemy ships while cloaked.
Starbases have the same friendly code as the planet they orbit. 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. One of the big efforts of nasa is the observation of planet earth from space. 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. Using warez version, crack, warez passwords, patches, serial numbers, registration codes, key generator, pirate key, keymaker or keygen for planets license key is illegal. For example, a ship with a friendly code of 147 will fight before one with a code of 783. It is a known fact, that the average distance between stars is about 34 light years ly. 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. Vga planets is a graphical multiplayer play by turn war game that simulates combat in space between galactic empires. This chance is normally 20%, except when the friendly code was changed to one starting with mf universal minefield friendly code. 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. 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. Tfcx detects specified planet or ship fcs and changes them to random numbers. The game emphasizes mining, colonization and the construction of starships.
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. By the end of 1993 there were four special friendly codes. Blitz is a great way to learn the game for new players. All the other familiar data and options are also available. Planets software free download planets top 4 download. Here you can discuss strategies, plan games and anything else vga planets related. This wiki is intended to serve as a repository for information about the game vga planets, by tim wisseman. 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. The friendly code you set can have a major impact on the game. Version 2 had the same eleven races we have today, but no distinct racial abilities. This is a friendly place to talk about all things vga planets. 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.
Colonies, fascists and robots on hot planets, the maximum population for the colonies, fascists and robots wont fall below 60 clans. The gsx friendly codes only work if the person giving the ship away has a registered version of vga planets. 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. The host person is an experienced vga planets person that handles. To run a mod, you first need to install greasemonkey or tampermonkey see. Second column is min clans to grow with amorphous natives. A planet has a 20% chance of pulling this off when it is the victim of a super spy mission. The ship can use the local friendly code or the universal friendly code. Use ship and planet ids when referring to any ship or planet.
Alle mit p markierten friendlycodes funktionieren nur unter phost. Vga planets assistant vpa is a client program for vga planets pbem game. Friendly codes containing one ore more of such characters will be reset to aaa. 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. Vga planets is designed to be able to handle from two to eleven players in a play by mail electronic mail game format.
Vga planets cheats, video game cheats, online video game cheats. If a ship is damaged it might be unabled to cloak, this is the damage that prevents cloak level that is. Beams all the money from a starship to all allied and enemy starships at the same position btt. 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.
Go to download page to get the latest version i am unable to fully support this project as i would like. Hull details tech mass fuel cargo crew engines beams torps bays cost dur trit moly score. Causes a ship to beam down all the money it has onboard to the planet it is orbiting btm. A ship can use rule 1 or rule 2 to safely pass through a minefield. Vga planets assistant vpa is an alternative vga planets client program for msdos. 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. 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 4 quake ii quake iii arena ultima online. Play in your browser or on your phone against thousands of other warriors in your bid to become emperor of the echo cluster. Planets screen the planets screen also is very familiar in appearance. You can also set friendly code and command codes to performace special base functions. Version 2 was a simpler version of the current game.
Minefields are also a big reason to carry supplies. Donovans vga planets information, strategy and much more. The planets in our solar system can be a very interesting thing to study. Vga planets was created by an american avocational shareware programmer by the name of tim wisseman. This document contains a glossary of vga planets terms. The userfriendly metadata ufm tool functions as a filter. The table is broken up into two groups newer mods that should work with the standard interface on play.
66 467 1426 611 593 1076 1108 1263 733 1409 392 719 1047 392 394 651 1287 710 103 1424 1353 459 294 1421 1383 529 44 472 504