VGAPHost von Alexander Gessinger Documentation

Here is a way to make first steps learning VGAP4

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Most things are learned by doing it but you have to read a lot of guides, manuals and tips to learn such a complex game like planets. The WWW offers some useful sites where players have build up a very good "database" on how to play planets. But it´s not one database but several manuals, tips and guides which leads you through the world of VGAP4.

So you have to read not only on one site but on many sites to get your informations. The following overview should help you what you have to read and in which order.

• IMPORTANT: Doug´n Marie´s webiste is offline. When they will go online again is not clear! P4-Guide from Doug īnīMarie offers a detailed desciption of the use of the planets interface (Setup-Options, HQ, Using Main StarMap, Data Pad + -Grid, Notepad, Hotsheets, Base Command Screen, Ship Command Screen, Space Command Panel, Messages, Pod Command, Wing Command, Other Icons
  
  
• The german-english V4 Datenbank of the Saarland Outpost is intended for newbies as well as for the advanced planeteers.
  Here you can find following informations:
  • Tips for playing the first three turns
  • Rules in a Nutshell
  • Special Ship Devices
  • Tips for colonization, materials, defense, ship weapons and analyzing
  • Analyizing the strength of the large weapons
  • races, ships, bases, planets, scoring system
    
    
• Very helpful and therefore just an obligation to read too is the English Planets Guide of Paul Honigman
  Here you can find:
  • english Planets-Guide "How to play the first few turns"
  • How to interpret the race-Stats (in this e.g. : Feds)



• Tim Wisseman (programmer)s Online Help is necessary to read
  
  

Learning more

• How to play a special race?
  • P.Honigman´s race strategies
  • IMPORTANT: Doug´n Marie´s webiste is offline. When they will go online again is not clear! Doug īnīMarie´s "Jump to Playing the Fed, Borg..."
• Combat Tips by P.Honigman
• Several further tips on contraband, spying, ...
• IMPORTANT: Doug´n Marie´s webiste is offline. When they will go online again is not clear! Glossary by Doug´n `Marie
• Alway a very helpful recource is the english mailinglist by Tim Wisseman [Be Aware: about 20-30 mails/day]
• Here you find the german mailinglist [less mails]

further links

• Main website of Tim offers the new porgram files and updates and the online/offline helpfile, which you should read
  
  
• Saarland Outpost



• You get a good overview on ships and races with Andreas Benne´s ShipCalculator.
. You can also use Tim´s "raceview.exe", downloadable on his website.


• Get the one and only combat simulator on Paul Honigmans site



• IMPORTANT: Doug´n Marie´s webiste is offline. When they will go online again is not clear! Doug´n `Marie NuQonoS



• Paul Honigman´s mainplanets site
with other very good links


• Sidewinder´s Site with actual bug lists, tables for ship devices and functions ,...

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