May 2003

News for Wednesday May 14, 2003 · new games   Be greeted Galactic Traveller, some new games for waiting players. All games will start as soon as all races are in human control! Frogs in Space - beginner game - schedule: S_T_T__ (early host) standard universe - no addons - required rank: Space Cadet Under Control - profi game - schedule: S_T_T__ (early host) standard universe - no addons - required rank: Planetarry Buccaneer Breed - profi game - schedule: ___W__S (early host) standard universe - no addons - required rank: Planetarry Buccaneer Picard - beginner game - schedule: ___W__S (early host) standard universe - no addons - required rank: Space Cadet   by Black Shadow

News for Monday May 12, 2003 · server crash   Dear Vga Planets Fans, unfortunatly we had a serious server crash tonight. Thereforce the website was down for several hours as well as mail-receiving could cause troubles in this time. After replacing whole server-hardware this morning, everything is back to normal again and all games are back on schedule. Please excuse the troubles and have much fun in your games furthermore!   by Black Shadow

News for Thursday May 8, 2003 · new games   Be greeted Galactic Traveller, some new games for waiting players. All games will start as soon as all races are in human control! Domestic Disturbance · beginner game · schedule: S_T_T__ (early host) standard universe · no addons · required rank: Space Cadet Phoenix · profi game · schedule: S_T_T__ (early host) standard universe · no addons · required rank: Space Cadet Lifeforms · beginner game · schedule: ___W__S (early host) standard universe · no addons · required rank: Space Cadet Whispers · profi game · schedule: ___W__S (early host) standard universe · no addons · required rank: Space Cadet   by Black Shadow

News for Friday May 2, 2003 · NEW HOST & SITE FEATURES   Dear Vga Planets Fans, We have added plenty of new features to the host & site we cannot keep secret anymore. :) A. NEXT HOST COUNTDOWN We've added a countdown on all game pages, game list and player pages that shows you exactly how much time is left till next host run. Don't miss a turn anymore because of time-differences, be always aware of when the next host is due. We know this is a feature MANY of you were waiting for a long time and we are very proud to be able to realize it. B. TURN HISTORY On top of the players-table on the gamehome-pages you find a link called "turn history". By clicking it you open a new window that shows you which races were submitting turns in the last turns, did not or are controlled by our SpaceLord cplayer. This really nice addon was programmed by our player Nicholas Marriott aka NicM. Thanks buddy! :) C. SETUP/BREAK ALLIANCE This is one part of our new game options menu (link to in the menu, the gamehome-pages or playerhome-pages) you can activate/dectivate alliances with this option. Allies get your RST files automatically by host with each hostrun. NOTICE: If you activate an alliance on your side your ally does NOT show up in the confirmation mail as allied till he/she has setup the alliance with you as well! D. CONTACT PLAYER Also part of the new game options menu (and on the playerhome-page if email is set to hidden) you can use this option to contact players who set their email-adress to hidden and can't be reached directly because of this. The hosting programm does forward your message by email to the player without showing your email to him in the mail as well. This way both sides can decide if they want to reveal their private email adress or not. This option only works if you're in the same game as the player you want to contact and might help you out if you are trying to reach a player in your games urgently who set his/her address to hidden. E. EDIT PLAYER OPTIONS You can now edit all your player options from the site with just a few clicks. Nickname, name, password, email settings, portrait, language setting and an option to activate/disable receiving of new game-messages (new service) can be found here. You can i.e. Change your email address if you go on holidays to your alternative address or your replacement for that time easily trough this option. F. DETAILS-LINE ON PLAYERPAGES We added 1-2 lines for some short details to the playerpages. Those are currently NOT editable for players and contain mostly Joining Date or annotations by the host. If you would like to have something added to your players page for other players to see send us your suggestion in form of a line (max. 60 chars). We might enhance this to a bigger textfield as a private description for each player where you can write something about yourself, your hobbys, etc. eMail us what you think about it! And of course you can still join games, request RST resends, quit games and resend your password in case you forget trough the game options furthermore.   by Black Shadow