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Contents 1 General 2 Hosting Sites 2.1 Ranking Systems 3 Player Tools/Utilities 3.1 Simulations 4 Host Tools/Utilities 4.1 Maps 4.2 Scripting 5 Reference Tables

[edit] General

• Official VGA Planets Version 4 site
  Visit the official site to download the latest updates or to look at the documentation
• Klingon Kommand VGAP4 Resources
  Information, links, and tools. A wealth of knowledge about learning to play the game, strategies, etc...
• VGAP-93 (completely FREE!)
  THE mailinglist for all versions of Planets (VGAP4DOS, Winplan, Planets4) and the archives of "VGAP4", "VGAP-93" and so on. Contains the free daily digest of The VGAP4 Newsgroup !
• The VGAP4 Newsgroup
  THE Newsgroup for VGAP4.
• VGAP4 International
  Multilanguage(!) Great Newbie Guide, Open Source VGAP4 Graphics site and more...
• The P4 League
  Home of the first (?) international VGA Planets 4 league (founded in 2005).

[edit] Hosting Sites

• Drewhead's VGAP Hosting site
  Join VGAP 4 games or host your own from Drewhead's
• RCworld UniverseVGAP 3 games on RCworld Now it only hosting VGAP 3 games since beginning of 2009.

[edit] Ranking Systems

• P4League The goal of the P4League is to create a competitive soccer-league-like environment for Planets 4 games. Every season several games will be hosted at different tiers.
• Ranked Game Series A ranked is a game just like any other. Anyone is welcome. The only difference is that when you are done you will receive a rank.

[edit] Player Tools/Utilities

• ShipCalc VGAP4 Player Utility
  Perform various calculations, such as fleet costs, tax income, etc...
• VidiVici
  VidiVici uses the CSV files exported by Planets4 in order to present the user with a customizable viewing interface. A must have to any serious planets4 player (Similar to V3 Echoview)
• V4Hist NEW
  The VGA Planets 4 Game Data History Viewer is a flexible viewer application for game data exported by the VGA Planets 4 client.
• Raceview2 NEW
  A replacement for the normal Raceview included in the Planets 4 package that features better handling, support for race picture replacements and links to the wiki.
• VGAP4Assistant Tool
  Performs various functions against CSV files, including creating a host script to run sims against a hosted game.
• Tools on GRGZone
  Online calculation like range of Gun Zeros and much more.
• MinePlacer.xls
  Utility to know where to place your minefields from Sir Prized of Ten. Latest is version 2 updated 11 January 2007.
• Insectoid Nest ranges
  A nice Excel-Sheet showing Insectoid Nest ranges (by Sir Prized of Ten)
• VGA Planets 4 Management Console
  This tool is in development, but Magik is stealing a page here since he doesn't have a Web server.
• VGA Planets 4 Ship Group Editor
  This tool can be used to modify your ship groups outside of the VGA Planets 4 client.

[edit] Simulations

• Diplomat VGAP4 Combat Simulator 3.12 NEW April 2008
  Simulate battles using Diplomat and experiment with different ship loadouts.
• VGASim
  Jeff Alkire's VGASim is web-based. Check it out...
• Scriptz0r (see at Host Tools/Utilities)
• eXtrodamus
  Planetmasters eXtrodamus is a nice little utility to create a v4 script from a running game.
• Ground Assault Simulator 1.03
  Gabor Toro's Ground Assault Simulator. This is an Excel file requiring Excel 2000 to work (it requires Macro functions not available in Excel 97).
  Tim sent Gabor the latest Host code concerning Ground Combat, and Gabor replicated this in an Excel spreadsheet (v.1.03 Released 16 July 2007 with IMT support by Sphere).
  Learn how to use it here.
• Boarding Simulator 1.5 NEW
  This is the latest improved version of the boarding.xls which is probably the best tool to sim ship boarding (and is included in Diplomat (see above)). Besides a streamlined interface it now also includes an updated version of the Boarding Laser Damage Calculator by Sir Prized of Ten.

[edit] Host Tools/Utilities

• HConfig2 NEW
  A replacement for the normal HConfig included in the Planets 4 package.
• PHCc
  PlanetMasters Host Control Center (Host games yourself).
• VGA_Tech.exe Allow to change the starting Tech Level of all player (without scripting).
• CHKV4.EXE Tests TRN files for errors

[edit] Maps

• Custom Maps
  Looking to make your own custom made maps, here is a good place to start.
• VGAP4 Mapper
  A tool to look at, edit, and print maps.

[edit] Scripting

• Scriptz0r NEW
  ScriptZ0r is a program created by Roger Norris that allows you to create your own scenarios in the form of script files.
• ScriptPolisher
  ScriptPolisher by Roger Norris helps VGA Planets game hosts by making it easier to fine-tune scripts.
  It is designed to be used in conjunction with another fully-featured script creator, such as ScriptZ0r.

[edit] Reference Tables

• [1] Ship Device Matrix by Michael Richardson.
• [2] Which tax setting to choose, a table by Michael Richardson
• [3]Special structures, organised by race, a table by Michael Richardson