Planets Nu League 2021 Starts Now!

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Games for the new league season are now being created and available to join.

There are some notable changes for the new season:

- All of the new standard settings will be used in league games. Additionally, the new small game format settings will be used for the blitz and dogfight games.

- Standard, High Standard, and Very High Standard games will now have Top Advance 5 instead of 6.

- Team and melee games will have no longer restrict the number of players that can choose a race, and race choices will be hidden until the game begins.

- To prevent players from holding up team games from starting, teams have 48 hours after their first player joins to finish filling the rest of the slots for the team. If they do not, their players will be cleared out to open up the game for others.

- For all games, players will not be allowed to view or play the game until it has filled. This allows a player to resign before a game starts (or get removed, as mentioned above), and allows us to unlock the slot, without risking players getting a peek at a starting position.

The event dates for this season are:

  • May 1st - Long format game cutoff. Unfilled games deleted, except for melee games (Melee madness week begins)
  • May 8th - Melee madness week ends. No more melee games created. Current game will start if at least 20 players.
  • Sept 15th - Accelerated Fight or Fail becomes active for any long format games still running.
  • Nov 1st - Short format games stop being created.
  • Dec 1st - Hard end date. Any still running games will end on the next host run after this date.

Most of the game offerings are the same, other than some minor point adjustments to reward placing 1st/2nd (marked in bold below). The one significant change is that the Teams of 3 game has been expanded to 6 teams. The number of games each player can join are also the same: 1 long format and 4 short format per player.

Long game formats:

Very High Standard - Min-Rank Rear-Admiral - Races randomly assigned
Game will end when 6 players are eliminated.
Max team joins: 1
Points by rank: 39, 33, 27, 24, 21, 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, 3

High Standard - Min-Rank Captain - Races randomly assigned
Game will end when 6 players are eliminated.
Max Team Joins: 2
Points by rank: 26, 22, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2

Standard - Min Rank Commander - Races randomly assigned
Game will end when 6 players are eliminated.
Max Team Joins: 3
Points by rank: 13, 11, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Beginner Standard - Max Rank Commander - Races randomly assigned - Beginner ruleset - 8 players
Game will end when 4 players are eliminated.
Max team joins: Unlimited
Points by rank: 9, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

6 Teams of Three
Game ends when 3 teams are eliminated
Max team joins: 1
Points by rank: 39, 27, 21, 15, 9, 3

6 Teams of Two
Game ends when 3 teams are eliminated
Max team joins: 1
Points by rank: 26, 18, 14, 10, 6, 2

Giant Campaign Melee - Including Horwasp
Game ends when 24 players are eliminated.  
Max team joins: Unlimited
Points by rank: 30, 24, 19, 15, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 for all remaining participants.
Special: If multiple players from the same team are in the same melee then a team will only receive one set of points equal to the average of the points scored by all team members in the melee. 

Short format games:

1 v 1 Blitz - 3 Points for a win
2 v 2 Blitz - 6 Points for a win
8 Player Dogfight - Points by rank: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0