Planetarion is no longer a free game.
After a period where the game reset and The Triad (a powerful group of enemy alliances) teamed up to stack galaxies, the Creators got fed up and changed it. They had their members create multitudes of accounts and kept only the ones that were strategically beneficial. The Creators shuffled the locations around, which angered a lot of people who were in good positions and got that way without cheating. The game reset again later, and the Creaters charged money, because they had to try and keep their game out of the toilet. Many users were lost.