Welcome to The War Room!
VGA Planets(tm)(c) Tim Wisseman.
VGA Planets v3.x is a play by email strategy wargame in which 11 players
fight for supremacy.
I believe the real reason that VGA Planets has been around for so long
is that it is mechanically simplistic and strategically complex.
The mechanical simplicity of the game allows any new to the game to
easily figure out what is needed to do to run a turn. Ships have very
few things that they can do. You can load and transfer cargo, set ship
destinations, and set ship missions. Planets can build structures
(factories, mines and defenses), and tax. Starbases can build defense,
build fighters, build ships, and upgrade technology. This allows
a new player to quickly determine their actions without a lot of
unnecessary extras.
Even with this simplicity, there is an extreme complexity of strategy.
Since you only have total information on your forces, and not any of
the other races, you must make specific decisions that will affect
your forces today, while providing sufficient support in the
future.
The combinations of possible moves is nearly endless. One must
balance the building of warships against building of support ships or
using those materials to build more bases. The varying racial
abilities means you must prepare against those near you, while still
planning against your other opponents and their tactics too, since you
may defeat your closest enemies and then need to deal with the others.
Also, the most important of the strategic necessities, moving ships to
and from battles and supplying them creates a whole set of
possibilities and problems.
I have made many addons for VGA Planets. I have posted all of the
ones I have done testing and released in the My Addons section. I have
a few others that haven't been tested or completely implemented. Most
of this is due to low or non-existant feedback on the ones I have made.
A few of these have even been done as requests.
The Addons Archive will be restricted to addons only due to space, I won't
have all the host and client programs there, however, I hope to have
all the addons I can find.
I have also made a page for the current projects I am working on.
Though I probably won't list all of them here, I will list the ones
that are most likely to be completed when I get enough time to work on
them.
Projects
If you have any question or comments,feel free to send email to the
following address.
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