Welcome worthy visitor,
welcome here on my VGA planets host!
I am glad that you have found me after your long travels through the web.
Now you are on a secured place where you may reside as long as you want to give me
the honor to be my guest.
Let me tell you that the place you have found is an automated PHCc/32 VGA planets host.
Please let me guide you through my hosting site (because this message is a little long, you may decide to print it out and read offline).
As you know, VGA planets is a pbem game 11 against 11 with a neutral person - the game host.
Tim Wisseman has created this game and with the years it has become the most played
science fiction pbem game of the world.
With only a small fee you can get the registered Winplan version (the Windows client
of VGA planets) and from this point you are able to meet thousands of players around
the world and fight your conquests.
Unfortunately, places of great light sources do have big shadows also. So we have to make sure that
your mail client is compatible to my host mail system because all your
turn file sendings are processed automatically. If this automated feature fails to
work because our mailers are not fully compatible, you will miss turns and your
race is without your protection for this turns.
To deal with this, you have to play one turn in a "test game". Please do not misunderstand
this, the test game should not proof YOUR skill, but our mailing system ones.
Well, if you are ready to play on my hosting site, you may logon at one
of the test games defined for new commanders.
To identify you, you have to
fill out a form with your name (please use your real name, not a nickname because
we want to know your worthy name), and the country you come from as well as your email address.
If you send this data form via email to my address, MailRobo (my mail bot) will add
you to the players databases, set your rank to "Spaceman" and assign you to a test game.
Because you are playing only for one turn in this game, it does not matter which
race you will control - the first free unassigned race will stay with you.
After sending your join request to my host, you should receive your confirmation
message and the game files within the next 24 hours... if not, you may have mistyped
your email address so MailRobo is not able to contact you. In this case please
send a mail to me - the host master.
Within this assignment messages you will find informations when the host is
running next for the test game. Please do your turn and send your RST file back
as soon as possible. Please think about that mails
sent over the internet are routed and need additional time to reach the recipient.
Well, if things run good and MailRobo processes your sending without errors, you
will be noticed that you have successfully played your test turn if the HOST runs
next. After this host run your rank will be raised to an "Ensign" and from this time
you are a fully accepted official race commander on my VGA planets host.
With the rank of an ensign you are allowed to join nearly all defined "real" games.
Well, i think it is the time to talk about the ranking on this PHCc host.
New players always start with the rank of a "Spaceman". If they have successfully
played their test turn, the rank will be raised to an "Ensign" automatically.
But you are right, this is only the first level of ranks you may gain while
fighting your conquests on my host.
Like at the other PHCc hosts, ranking is directly bound on
playing turns and winning games.
Player ranks consists of two parts. The promotion and the decoration part.
The promotion range is based onto your played turns on the host and goes from
"Spaceman" to "Admiral". Every turn you play on this host will raise
your ranking points by one (if you miss to play your turn, your ranking points
are decreased by one naturally).
The decoration part is based on the number of games you made it to survive and
gain one of the first three places. It runs from none to "System".
So if you have played 200 turns, missed 4 turns and won 1 game, your rank
should be "Group Captain".
Here you will see the detailed ranking information table:
| Promotion ranks |
 | Spaceman
0-0 points |
 | Ensign
1-9 points |
 | Lieutenant
10-24 points |
 | Lieut.Cmdr
25-49 points |
 | Commander
50-99 points |
 | Captain
100-199 points |
 | Rear Admiral
200-350 points |
 | Vice Admiral
351-499 points |
 | Admiral
500-9999 points |
| Decoration ranks |
 | Group
1 game won |
 | Battle
2 games won |
 | Fleet
3 games won |
 | System
4 games won |
 | Cluster
5 games won |
 | Galaxy
6 games won |
 | Universe
7 and more games won |
Well, with this informations you now may be well prepared to survive here on
my host and gain the honor of all other players.
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