Talk:VGA Planets

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Not sure why the Planets 4 link was removed. I think it is important to have at leat one link to a VGA Planet 4 information site. Since that is the current version dispite it still being called beta. It is a fully functional product you can buy afterall. 206.126.161.75

Probably because the link was to an old version; Tim lost access to what was his main planets 4 site and moved it to a different server. Jon 18:01, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

The New Official site of TIM (Game creator) for both version 3 and 4 is http://www.planets4.com/
Somewhere in 2006, Tim lost access to his old site he can not even redirect it to his new site or change anything. Read Version 4 newsgroup for more detail and source.

Lord Lancelot

Removed from main page

Some players opinion that it has an excessive amount of micro-management and despair of it ever reaching the popularity of Version 3, particularly as the pace of development has slowed after Tim Wisseman's marriage.

Many players think quite the opposite, V4 is far superior to V3, and Tim is still working actively on V4, you can read the V4 newsgroup to see post by Tim, he his curently working on the next HOST 198 ( we are at host 197 when typing this).Read Version 4 newsgroup for more detail and source. Lord Lancelot

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VGA Planets 5 link doesn't work and the page says that the game was supposed to be released 2011. Anybody have any news on that?

→ Added info about Starcube being put on hold indefinitely since 2012.

Play by E-Mail not play by mail

VGA planets initially a BBS game that migrated to the internet via email. It was never a snail mail game as suggested in the description.

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https://vgaplanets.org/index.php/Main_Page 2601:281:D881:15D0:B036:DEA:EE52:7CE8 (talk) 04:49, 3 August 2025 (UTC)