March 2002

News for Thursday March 7, 2002 · cplayer / new feature
 
Dear Vga Planets Fans,

We are changing the computer-players on our hosting service. "The Q" was cheating too much while Dominate was a too poor oponent for human players. We will use from now on SpaceLord V3.06 by Soeren Andersen. This cplayer is the best known player-side cplayer known, and will therefore not cheat. We have already replaced the cplayers in all tourney games and will replace cplayers in all other games one by one.

Furthermore we have added a new feature to the website. People with TRN-Ratio below 75% will show up in a "beginner color" on the game-pages showing that they are known for submitting their TRN files unregulary. This shall help players who are angry about "game-droppers" and people who slow down "fast & rush games". If you move your mouse cursor above a player on the game-pages his player name, ID and TRN-Ratio will show up in your browser status-bar.

Please let us know what you think about these changes, more is in current progress.

 
by Black Shadow


News for Tuesday March 5, 2002 · scores update
 
Be greeted Galactic Traveller,

We have added a new feature on the gamescore-webpages. You can now see a customized version of the Vga Planets score.log showing the ingame scores like how many planets, ships, etc. a player owns.
We will add more features within the next days - prepare!

Our new games only miss a few players to start. Don't miss your starship - take a seat and start playing instantly!

 
by Black Shadow


News for Saturday March 2, 2002 · server speed enhancement / update
 
Dear Vga Planets Fans,

We have made adjustements to all web-templates of the hosting service pages. That way we were able to reduce the html-size of those pages by up to 70% !!!
E.g. the game-home pages have been reduced from >60k to <20k. This shall increase your surfing speed on our site. Have fun!

We have also updated several parts of the website like: Download Section, Links, FAQ. Check them out!

Bot Contest Participants should check out the Bot Contest Pages for some changes and the brand new PENCODER / PDECODER programmed by project master Dante which allows handling planets data very easy.

 
by Black Shadow


News for Friday March 1, 2002 · 4 new games
 
Be greeted Galactic Traveller,

We noticed our games fill up very quickly as new players sign up every day. We'd like to thank all players for there interest in our site and hosting service and welcome every single new player signing up!

So everybody has a chance to start playing instantly and our games fill up very quickly we have opened 4 brandnew games: Starship III, Starship IV, Warp 8 and Eagle Fire.

There new games are hosted every 48 hours till turn 20 and every 72 hours from then on. Have fun!

 
by Black Shadow