Other Useful Websites

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These external websites may have useful articles or tools. Planets.nu is, of course, not responsible for anything you see there.

• http://www.planetsmagazine.com — The Planets Magazine has many current articles and strategies, mixed in with older VGAP articles. See NOTE.
• http://www.donovansvgap.com — Donovans is outdated but still extremely valuable.
• http://www.phost.de/~stefan/articles.html — Stefan Reuther has created some very detailed articles on various complex VGAP algorithms, most of which are still accurate at Planets.nu.
• https://planets.nu/_library/whisperer-scripts/index.html — Whisperer has created several useful web pages and services.

In addition, there exist several specific web pages that are very useful.

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeYUwB2Yhybrdyccsx83Uw — Planets.nu player Commander Koski's YouTube channel, where he discusses various tactics and strategies.
• http://www.vgaplanets.ca/vgapcalc.php — Planets Calculator does a lot of math for you.
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_CRHUQrNwCrNnZHS216d3pxblk/view?usp=sharing — Qinic created a tool to extract all the messages from a completed game and display them as a spreadsheet.
• There used to be a nice graphical web interface at "http://thales.math.uqam.ca/~tremblayj/planets.nu/minefields.html" that showed the chances of surviving a run through a minefield. Unfortunately, this is no longer available. As a stop-gap replacement, an Excel spreadsheet was created. It can be found here.
• http://markdepot.com/intercept.html — Marklein has created a spreadsheet to help you to avoid interception.
• http://onebit.ca/cgi-bin/vgaplanets.py/Shipyard — This is a spreadsheet to help players to determine the military score of a starship.
• http://planetscentral.com/play/sim.cgi?shiplist=stdlist — This simulator is an extended version of the Planets.nu VCR, and is intended to simulate battles. Most Campaign starships can't be used in this simulator. NOTE: By default, this simulator uses VGAP4 (PHOST) combat rules, which are different from Planets.nu combat rules, so be sure to select Options -> Mode -> NuHost to get the correct combat rules.
• Gnerphk hosts a series of classes on the science underlying Planets Nu. If you've ever wondered why each player can only launch nineteen fighters at a time, this explains it. Useful for maintaining your suspension of disbelief.
• https://sites.google.com/site/csplanets/nu-replayer — Nu Replayer is a specialist client desktop app, allowing for the ability to quickly view turns from a "spectator" perspective. It can also interact with Nu's servers (via API) to download additional turns. Nu Replayer is currently in Beta.

Finally, you'll find more links in our Guides section and scattered throughout the documentation.

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