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Introducing the

Introducing the "Giant Melee" game format

Thursday, February 09, 2012
We are proud to announce the beta release of an incredible new game format called the "Giant Melee" along with a host of other new features, fixes and improvements. We'd also like to welcome a new developer to our team: Zelrik.
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The official soundtrack of Planets Nu - Scifiology by Dependency Injection!

Wednesday, February 08, 2012
If you've got your speakers on when you open your turns this week you'll be greeted by a sudden rush of sound and music. Definitely not what you are used to from your normally near silent Planets playing experience. We have added sound effects and music to the game and want to shout out a big thank you to two main contributors. John Chernoff a player who has composed individual theme songs for every race and Cory Troxtell of Dependency Injection who generously contributed his album Scifiology to serve as th
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Blitz Tournament 0013!

Blitz Tournament 0013!

Sunday, January 29, 2012
ChallengeSpaceYard has begun the hosting of a new blitz tournament. The last tournament was held in 0008 and was a big success culminating in an incredible 60+ turn finale between Admiral_Thrain and Joshua. Now is your chance to prove your blitz skills. The winner of this tournament will receive one free month of Premium membership!
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Attention all Hackers! The fir...

Attention all Hackers! The first Planets Nu API has arrived.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011
There has been a significant amount of interest in being able to build additional tools and utilities for working with planets data and even some thoughts about building completely new clients for other platforms. To help empower our very creative community we have created a new application programming interface (API).
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Happy Holiday Features

Happy Holiday Features

Monday, December 19, 2011
Since it is the holiday season, our gift to you is a whole set of new features, just the ones you've been asking for on your list. We have also made one change to the default config and have now made "beginner" games available.
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The Scorpius War - Turn 25 - S...

The Scorpius War - Turn 25 - Ship Limit!

Friday, December 16, 2011
The best commanders in the Echo cluster are showing their prowess early on. Despite the early collapse of the Cyborg homeworld the ship limit of 500 has been reached in just 25 turns! As was loudly stated in by Thin Lizzy... we now enter the mid game. Commanders will have to make do with what they have and now carefully manage their current fleets as they engage in combat to earn priority points to get critical build rights.
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The oldest game on Nu - 1004: ...

The oldest game on Nu - 1004: Beta 3

Friday, December 02, 2011
Recently a number of very long running games have come to a close. It seems appropriate to highlight our current longest running game Beta 3. Beta 3 was the 7th full running game to launch here at Nu. It began in the Nu Year -0002 which is November 2010 Earth time and so it has been running now for more than a year and has seen 162 turns.
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The Strategic Information Shar...

The Strategic Information Sharing Act + Holiday Mode

Tuesday, November 08, 2011
In the Nu Year 2011, during a rare moment of diplomatic unity, the 11 races came to a new strategic information sharing agreement. The new agreement states that any race which has gained information through an alliance or strategic intelligence agreement will not share that information with other allies. A new Holiday Mode has also been created for Premium Members.
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The Scorpius War - 11 Turns De...

The Scorpius War - 11 Turns Deep - Cyborg Homeworld Falls!

Friday, October 28, 2011
News bulletin from The Scorpius War, battle for our future Emperor. Nearly 1 full Nu Year has passed since the war began and as expected the Race Champions are off to an incredible and adventurous start. The most notable news coming out are the reports of the destruction of the Cyborg homeworld!
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New Public User Feedback Syste...

New Public User Feedback System

Friday, October 07, 2011
We have implemented a new public user feedback system for tracking your suggestions and bug reports. The new system is powered by UserVoice which allows each participant to vote up the ideas or issues they think are most important. This will allow you, our fantastic community, to help with prioritizing and tracking our work.
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The Scorpius War Begins

The Scorpius War Begins

Thursday, September 29, 2011
A terrible war for complete control has broken out in the Echo Cluster. The 11 races, locked in an intense battle for dominance, have each named an elite military commander to lead their forces to win total control and power on behalf of their race and individually to rise to the ultimate seat of power and ascend to the throne as the Almighty Commander of the 11 races, his Excellency, The Emperor of the Echo Cluster. So begins, the Scorpius War.
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Tweaks to the Default Config

Tweaks to the Default Config

Sunday, September 11, 2011
After much discussion (particularly about the cloak failure rate) we have decided to modify the default config to correct 3 of the 4 differences from the original default configuration. This will affect new games created after today.
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Last week for the Early-Bird S...

Last week for the Early-Bird Special

Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The early-bird special offer of 3 months of free premium membership when you purchase a 3 month, 1 year or 2 year subscription ends on September 1st. Sign up this week to take advantage of this offer.
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Stellar Cartography - An all N...

Stellar Cartography - An all Nu Addon

Saturday, August 20, 2011
Planets Nu is proud to present - Stellar Cartography, an all new add-on to VGA Planets unlike any add-on which has been seen before. Stellar Cartography is a deeply integrated add-on which brings greater depth to the star map in Planets by adding Star Clusters, Nebulas, Cloudy Ion Storms and Debris Disks (Interstellar asteroid fields) to the map.
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100 more planets by Matt

100 more planets by Matt

Wednesday, August 17, 2011
We'd like to send out a big thank you to Matthias Kuehl (aka Madinson) who has created an another set of 100 planet images to complement the 100 he's already made.
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Talk from the community

33665: 1 on 1 Blitz isn't ending

Thursday, February 23, 2012
I have a similar problem in http://planets.nu/games/33440 where the opponent is dead. Best wishes, JoeSnoffy

Reunion

Thursday, February 23, 2012
HeiJeg er helt klart med på en runde til.Dette var stas selv og jeg har fått "my ass handed to me".

Blitz Tournament 0013

Thursday, February 23, 2012
Crackpot and I started, but it is taking longer than planned. Crackpot refuses to die like a good robot :( http://planets.nu/games/34754 But he is...

Replacements needed: Feds (2), Robots (3), Rebels(6)

Thursday, February 23, 2012
We got a robot replacement! :) Still open: Feds(2) and Rebels (6)

Fornax System

Thursday, February 23, 2012
such a small little voice.  Cat got your forked tongue?

Sif System

Thursday, February 23, 2012
I sent a message to our two missing comrades instead they missed the conversation in the other system thread.  Hopefully they still want to play. I...

Memphis System

Thursday, February 23, 2012
Hi Emork, I highly doubt the game will last as long as you think it will last, but I will try to keep you amused for a while longer. Your pace of...

Weird Bug in Euro Disney

Thursday, February 23, 2012
Ah thanks - missed that.

Why are these mines not being swept?

Thursday, February 23, 2012
Freighters (or any other ships without beams) get a slightly different message when trying to sweep.

Stuff on my desk

Thursday, February 23, 2012
funny story about vince being in the worst position ever: to his north he has Colonies, itching to kill somebody; to his south and east he has the...

You Make the Call

Thursday, February 23, 2012
Yeah I know, but neither answer is correct: 1. Begin rerouting the Lokis to prevent the Privateers from doubling your troubles and engage the...

Ship list needs to specify special functions

Thursday, February 23, 2012
I see one Special Function column, but we have special functions that only apply to the cartagrophy game or whatever it is... These Special ship...

Championship Match 0010

Thursday, February 23, 2012
Lol at dungeonmaster and Juuso, made me laugh when i woke up just now. Actually if you want the real truth I can now reveal why my tactical planning...

Gorath System

Thursday, February 23, 2012
Thanks for the  fun and  i will return better ....stronger ....Faster ... now that i got my account see all of you in the future.....licked to death...

Borg Probe Questions

Thursday, February 23, 2012
I thought he Privys turns took a long time, they are a cake walk compared to the Borg. OMG, keep track of your chunneling operations is absoultely...

Alliance victory conditions

Thursday, February 23, 2012
1. both players should receive 4x. You do not win, you win as a team!  2. Definately NOT correct. A Privateer or Crystal can decide the outcome of a...

Feedback for the new ingame sounds

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Think there is an option in settings in each game

Kandru System

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Joshua fell free to delete the game every is gone. Thanks! ;-)

API down?

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
FYI, the methods are back up, thanks to whomever fixed them!

Host is running = game status: hold?

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
How long does hosting take? I got a game running host for two hours. Also when I view the game stats screen it gives "status: hold". Is this the...

Kojak City System

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
I joined because of the twice a week. Nice that things are moving quickly at the moment, but I play a many games and pick them on run date and time...

Beta 20

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
yeh thought the two of them would have a good fight now that im not the filling in the sandwich. I am good for ending it but i pass my vote to doc as...

Android Issues

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
I had a look at the Android app today in hopes that I could do turns on my tablet when I travel. It seems to have the messages, starmaps etc all...

Cheeseball System

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Interesting that alliances are being shown :o 2/22/2012 3:38:49 AM Turn 13An alliance has formed between The Lizard Alliance (darvster) and The...

Orkney World System

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
so many players... very brutal. 
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Player Events
odysseus has been promoted to Sub-Lieutenant for The Lizard Alliance.2 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
ejensen has been promoted to Sub-Lieutenant for The Solar Federation.2 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
curtistheiii has completed the training scenario "Eco Burst" in 19 turns as The Robotic Imperium. 19 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
curtistheiii has been promoted to Ensign for The Robotic Imperium.19 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
star72066 has completed the training scenario "Computer Blitz" in 29 turns as The Crystal Confederation. 3 hours, 2 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
star72066 has been promoted to Ensign for The Crystal Confederation.3 hours, 2 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
The battle for the Madonna System has begun. Good luck to all commanders!3 hours, 26 minutes agoView Game
jomamasfat has completed the training scenario "Computer Blitz" in 20 turns as The Robotic Imperium. 4 hours, 9 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
jomamasfat has been promoted to Ensign for The Robotic Imperium.4 hours, 9 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
edward ean has completed the training scenario "Computer Blitz" in 21 turns as The Solar Federation. 6 hours, 3 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
pobs has been promoted to Lieutenant-Commander for The Fascist Empire.6 hours, 17 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
lone starr has completed the training scenario "Computer Blitz" in 14 turns as The Empire of the Birds. 7 hours, 34 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
lone starr has been promoted to Ensign for The Empire of the Birds.7 hours, 34 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
ropeney has been promoted to Sub-Lieutenant for The Cyborg.7 hours, 45 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
legurion has been promoted to Ensign for The Robotic Imperium.7 hours, 54 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
h_ender has been promoted to Ensign for The Crystal Confederation.7 hours, 54 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
zap brannigan has been promoted to Ensign for The Empire of the Birds.7 hours, 54 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
corsair has been promoted to Lieutenant-Commander for The Missing Colonies of Man.8 hours, 24 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
cptspiff has been promoted to Lieutenant for The Rebel Confederation.8 hours, 40 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
noah has been promoted to Lieutenant for The Fascist Empire.8 hours, 40 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
blacknite3d has been promoted to Lieutenant for The Robotic Imperium.8 hours, 49 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
qatarkid has been promoted to Sub-Lieutenant for The Evil Empire.10 hours, 39 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
skye88 has been promoted to Ensign for The Crystal Confederation.11 hours, 15 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
The battle for the jlpecard's Game has begun. Good luck to all commanders!11 hours, 31 minutes agoView Game
tom n has been promoted to Lieutenant-Commander for The Fascist Empire.12 hours, 20 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
seaward has completed the training scenario "Eco Burst" in 18 turns as The Evil Empire. 13 hours, 15 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
curtistheiii has completed the training scenario "Computer Blitz" in 21 turns as The Missing Colonies of Man. 13 hours, 21 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
kukala has completed the training scenario "Computer Blitz" in 27 turns as The Fascist Empire. 15 hours, 46 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
ian charlton has been promoted to Lieutenant for The Fascist Empire.16 hours, 9 minutes agoView the Leaderboard
jwest has been promoted to Lieutenant for The Fascist Empire.17 hours, 27 minutes agoView the Leaderboard

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