oh yeah. my buildings for my main race will be something like domes with spider-like spikes going up the sides. if you've ever seen the new cover for the forgotten realms series about drizzt's life in menzoberanzan then I got the idea from the cover of that.

for the society type I'll either go with religious or diplomatic.

http://g.photos.cx/CRE_Davonara-06890c77_sml-4c.jpg

"Davonara," thanks to the handy-dandy random namer thingy.

http://g.photos.cx/CRE_Davonara-06890c79_sml-1b.jpg

Again, in more normal lighting and angrier.

Nice Dragon! XD

Doob-doobee-doo!

"Krazkiraz" (behind)
"Krazkiraz" (in front, and yes it's eye is inside it's mouth)
"Mulky"
"Munchlo" (behind)
"Munchlo" (in front)

"NanUfo" (Glitchy as hell, it's hilarious!)
"Smichila" (mmm, kissy kissy!)
"Arbex"

So. The Spore Creature Creator is not available for purchase in Mexico. Tried on the Spore webpage, and trough fileplanet, and neither let me purchase it.

Assholes. :mad:

An alternate civilization idea of mine: The "Rukh" are diplomatic (or maybe religous) and they're all about digging and mining and crafting and shaping stone (Think of DF dwarves).
...Now if only you could make your cities inside mountains.

EDIT: My third civilization idea: "Aqira" religous type, so with the Rhyken, Rukh and Aqira together it means I have one civilisation of each society type.
The Aqira are very oriental ancient china themed. Their culture is all about the elements but they also have a technology element to them (think of the Tau from Warhammer 40k). The stuff protruding from the back of their head is meant to be thick hardened hairs.

Oh...and there's "Skitziel" as well.

EDIT2: "Tanglitch" ...my first completely non-serious creation. An attempt to make the glitchiest beast I could and then colour it in a really ugly colour scheme.
Go to my Spore page and Download it! (bottom of my sig)...as it stands it's "arms" flail about wildly all over the place...it's really weird. I can't quite show you how werid it is with this screenshot.

EDIT3: "Tanglitch 2"!!! With minor changes for added glitchyness! Check out the screenshot!

172 creatures so far, woo!

Also, if anyone's interested, they can design their own Asanit (http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=srch-asanit):
Download this creature (http://ll-769.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/000/769/500000769925.png). That should be your base:
Shape: You can alter the shape as you want, but don't change it too much, as it should at least partly resemble the original.
Colour: You can use any colours you want, but don't change any of the patterns!
Name: Just add a word in front of the name. Eg: Tame Asanitopis. Don't change or add anything else.


If you did design your own one, if you want you can expand on it by picking any other of the six base Asanits, shape it so that it shares something in common with your own design, keep the colour exactly the same as your own one and keep the word in front of the name the same.

"Scavine" (From two angles, inspired by the Ravager from World of Warcraft)
"Hawkstrider" (the Blood Elf mount in World of Warcraft)
"Wind Rider" (the Horde flying mount in World of Warcraft)

Just a heads up: I hate WoW!

But your creatures are truly awesome made.

Just a heads up: I hate WoW!

But your creatures are truly awesome made.

I don't mind if you hate WoW, just so long as your hate Runescape.

And thanks!

EDIT: "Popinee" (in the second picture she is sitting, her foot has seperated from her ankle!)

Hmm.. I hate Runescape much much more than WoW.

But let us not derail the thread. Your creatures are still going strong and looking good.

Hm. It would've been nice if I had found out you could drag the creature files directly into the game window to download them earlier.
Oh well. 181 creatures so far...

Yeah I made this weird creature, and I got it to walk around with its child.
The child walks really strangely, See for yourself! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyk-lMQZqkc)

The child walks really strangely, See for yourself! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyk-lMQZqkc)
That's because you made the child walk really fast. If you only use the arrow keys, and don't click the ground at all while the child is out, it'll walk normally.

That's because you made the child walk really fast. If you only use the arrow keys, and don't click the ground at all while the child is out, it'll walk normally.

Yeah but it looks like it's walking backwards or something...

http://ft.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/6c/6c422d8820281501c4b89991a81f53e35ce9a788.png

AAA real monsters

I STILL can't log into my account.....EA is bouncing me around with tons of reps for it, and none of them know what they're doing :-\

I STILL can't log into my account.....EA is bouncing me around with tons of reps for it, and none of them know what they're doing :-\

Just uninstall, reinstall, and make a new account.

Since it seems popular amoung some creature makers to create multiple species of the same creature, for different climates/elements, I've decided to try doing so myself.
I present to you: The "Mephrit" series!

Mephrit (it's pretty tiny!)
Predator Mephrit (adpapted for harsher climates where competition for food is high)
Forest Mephrit (adapted for swinging from trees)
Water Mephrit (adapted for swimming)
Strider Mephrit (adapted for running across plains and hills)

There is a rather complex story behind why I am unable to make a bigger screenshot of Strider Mephrit so ill just post the downloadable image. I'd apretiate if someone could download it and make a bigger picture of Strider mephrit for me.

...and of course, more Mephrits shall be made in the future, among other creatures.

Dun:
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/9162/crestridingmephrit06b19qa5.png

Also, Oft, I can't view your page, or anyone else's for that matter, because I keep getting a 500 Internal Service error whenever I try to view profiles. But I am still interested in your mephrits. So can you PM me whenever you make new ones?
And for anyone interested, the creatures are a lot more alike than as they look in the screenshots.

Side note: I love the way Maxis does their error messages:
http://www.spore.com/static/war/images/global/500_Error_sm.png

http://www.spore.com/static/war/images/global/404_Error_sm.png

I wonder if you could use them for captchas.

I wonder if you could use them for captchas.
Captchas (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/CAPTCHA)? What?

Anyway, I decided to try my hand at making a Mephrit myself. So I made a Flora Mephrit:
http://ll-713.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/006/713/500006713355_lrg.png (http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=srch-mephrit%3Asast-500006713355)
It's even smaller than the origional Mephrit.

Captchas (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/CAPTCHA)? What?

You know the little pictures with distorted letters and numbers they ask you to type in a box when registering for something? That's CAPTCHA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA


I don't know if a computer could work out the letters or numbers from these spore creations, but I wouldn't be suprised if they could.

Captchas (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/CAPTCHA)? What?

Anyway, I decided to try my hand at making a Mephrit myself. So I made a Flora Mephrit:
[img]http://ll-713.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/006/713/500006713355_lrg.png (http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=srch-mephrit%3Asast-500006713355)
It's even smaller than the origional Mephrit.

Try making your own Mephrits all you want. Just remember the general rules:
-Four limbs, evenly proportioned.
-Square-ish jaw with an underbite.
-Often standing sort of upright, or slightly slanted. Except for in special cases such as the Water mephrit who is bent right over.
-Two little "Ehwot" ears just behind the eyes.
-Two horns of some sort just above the ears.
-A very small thin tail of some sort.
-Stripes of some sort on at least one part of their body, often along their back.
-One not so important feature is that the head is often relatively thin, if you observe the other Mephrits that I've made so far.


EDIT: If you can't look at my page then try searching my name in Sporepedia search and you should, in theory, get a page full of everything I've made.

Right, I'll change it to fit in more with your rules when I get home (the nice thing about working in an IT department is that you get loads of free time in between work orders to browse the internet and such).

Also, turns out it was just a problem with Fireox, and IE works fine.

There are more creatures created in Spore than there are known living species on our planet :cool:

(link (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hkRb0z0xS4kYqr3MVgFN6_eOspsA))

Oh, Oft, forgot to ask: The Flora Mephrit has grass on its back with the intention of looking like a bush. Does that warrant it to be a special case of being positioned leaning over, or should I fix it to be more vertical?


Edit: also, I'll be making new types of Asanits now. Anyone got a suggestion for either a base Asanit (with 7 legs) or an Asanit modification (eg: Tame Asanit, Hidden Asanit)?

Oh, Oft, forgot to ask: The Flora Mephrit has grass on its back with the intention of looking like a bush. Does that warrant it to be a special case of being positioned leaning over, or should I fix it to be more vertical?


I would think so as a bush would be quite light, even for something so small. But it's you choice.


Just an idea: why don't you try making some sort of aquatic or amphibeous Asanit?

New Mephrit: "Boulder Mephrit" (adapted for rocky mountain environments and rolling down mountainsides.)

Just an idea: why don't you try making some sort of aquatic or amphibeous Asanit?
As a general rule, having amphibian mutations doesn't have a benefit for creatures that can't swim. And I suspect no creatures will be able to, especially as the aquatic creature stage has already been cut from the game.

As a general rule, having amphibian mutations doesn't have a benefit for creatures that can't swim. And I suspect no creatures will be able to, especially as the aquatic creature stage has already been cut from the game.

Even if it doesn't function in the game people make them anyway. It was only an idea. :)

Anyway: MOAR MEFRIT!
"Mole Mephrit" (adapted for living underground on little nutrition in harsh climates like deserts.)

Thud.

I was in a bad mood, so I manifested most of my inner demons into a sufficiently horrible outer demon. This thing is designed to hate everything simply for having been born, and preferably to maul everything it hates.

http://g.photos.cx/CRE_Agrajax-06d03d1b_sml-cb.jpg

I imagine that it's in a permanent state of annoyance because all of its heads want to bite each other.

http://g.photos.cx/CRE_Agrajax-06d03d16_sml-cc.jpg

I would have added more hideous stuff, and it was originally going to have a second pair of grossly misshapen arms, but I ran out of complexity pretty quick.

http://g.photos.cx/CRE_Agrajax-06d03d1c_sml-2e.jpg

http://g.photos.cx/CRE_Agrajax-06d03d19_sml-ca.jpg
It is actually advantaged in that its arms actually have a stupidly long reach -- and therefore it is able to rip things' living faces clean off before most of them can lay a hand on it -- and hey, I think it's the first creature I've made that's priveleged with a decent-looking sit.

That thing will be horrifying in Spore. I mean, here you are, evolving away and the Demon of Seven Souls comes along and pulls your brain out through your stomach.

http://g.photos.cx/CRE_Terralos-06d28b75_sml-73.jpg

Terralos: Land shark.

I was shooting for shiny skin, but I ended up with a positively metallic one, which I decided I liked even better and to keep.

Heh, cool. Has anybody checked out the prototypes they have on their site? It's really cool. Gives you a taste of the game.

Spore has gone Gold and the release dates are confirmed:
September 5 for Europe.
September 7 for America, Asia and pretty much everywhere else. (Except for Australia, I don't think the release date for there is announced yet. I heard somewhere that it releases there on 4 September but I don't know how true that is.)

Also there is a DS version of the game, which releases globaly on 7 September.

Spore has gone Gold and the release dates are confirmed:
September 5 for Europe.
September 7 for America, Asia and pretty much everywhere else. (Except for Australia, I don't think the release date for there is announced yet. I heard somewhere that it releases there on 4 September but I don't know how true that is.)

Also there is a DS version of the game, which releases globaly on 7 September.

This happened a little while back, didn't it? Good to know that delays are now a thing of the past!

New Rhyken that I made from scratch this morning.
It has a new colour, not so vibrant as the old one. It has a better pose, it's sleeker and it has much cooler hair.
The only gripe? It's alot smaller.

(the first two pics are the old Rhyken, the second two the new one)

So, is this vaporware yet?

So, is this vaporware yet?

Definately not.

Anyway: I had another stab at the Rhyken again, trying to take what made the second version cool but make it bigger. And this time, I think I've cracked it!

So, is this vaporware yet?
Gods no! I just stopped because I was on holiday.

Saay, these Spore prototypes are really fun!



Edit: Btw, Oft, you are still making Mephrits, right?

Woot, new patch is out, for both paid and free versions!
And one of the new features is that now all creature thumbnails look better now, and even have a shadow.

To celebrate, here's a new Asanit I cooked up:
http://ll-912.ea.com/spore/static/thumb/500/009/912/500009912496.png
I used the tips for flapping wings on this one. It didn't come out all too well though, but I don't really care that much.

Check out this forum thread over on sporesite.com: a bunch of folk from the Spore fan-sites got to go and play spore. The first post gives details on checking in, meeting up, etc. but the second one delivers the real juice: what it was like to play for 3 hours!


http://www.sporesite.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?16413

Xspore have written a huge article (http://www.xspore.com/news/648_spore-community-day-visit.html) about their day at the event mentioned above. It gives a great idea of what it was like

EDIT: The number of creatures submitted on the sporepedia has reached three million!

Please! No more hype! I can't take the 7.5 days waiting period left as it is!

EDIT: The number of creatures submitted on the sporepedia has reached three million!
Right, forgot to mention that. I tried to get the three millionth creature, but I was about 10 creatures too early.

I just finished pre-loading Spore but one thing I find strange is that the EA download manager says the game will release and unlock in 4 days and 11 hours, meaning it releases at 1 o'clock AM on thursday.
No, I don't get it either. :confused:

Then what are you complaining about? :D
I did hear that it was being released on 4th September somewhere, so that might actually be true.

But either way, Thursday's gonna be a long morning now... :rolleyes:

I did hear that it was being released on 4th September somewhere, so that might actually be true.


Australia, I believe.

Thursday's gonna be a long morning now

Yes, 2 hours heading into college isn't fun. Same thing for Firday too.

EA could have done a better job with the release dates.

Luckily I'm only going back to uni on the 15th so I should still have around a week to play with it.

Haha, University only starts on the 15th! I win!


Anyway, I'm skipping my '1 Asanit per 10 creatures' rule to finish off the set I'm working on now. When the game comes in, I want to have made exactly 32 Asanits and 250 creatures. Just in case there's something up with that creatures that existed when your game was made have a higher chance of appearing than creatures made after, which I suspect will be true, at least at the start of the game anyway.

Oh right, I meant 15th, 14th is a Sunday. :o

Australia, I believe.

God, so they get the New Year first, and now this?

What's the deal, EA? You're officially on crack now.

The Sims 3 will also come out first in Australia. Maybe they heard Yahtzee complaining. :p

Someone should make a worm.

Basti@n made a worm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WloRh3f32D8)

I'd like this game but i do not have a GPU, and i have a rubbish computer. I really hope to get a decent computer soon.

Only 5 days and a few hours to go in the UK.

Only 5 days and a few hours to go in the UK.

4 days and 3 hours for those who preordered it digitally from EA.
Can't wait!

Ooh!

PC Gamer (UK) did an 8-page review on it, giving it 91% and a Must Buy.
Now I'm gonna be a naughty tyke and give you scans of the review, because I can. :p

http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq118/CannibalPacman/

So it seems it's going to be a tad disappointing for us who thought of it to be the biggest, most controllable game ever (like me). I mean, they all think it's a great game, but they all think of it as fun and hilarious rather than giving you a vast sense of scale and control.
This won't really help seeing as everybody's still getting it and it's the most-hyped game of all time, ever. :(

I saw it for ten bucks at my local shop.

I can't remember if it was the creator or spore, but it was ten bucks.

I saw it for ten bucks at my local shop.

I can't remember if it was the creator or spore, but it was ten bucks.That would be the creator. Considering, you know, the game isn't out yet, and wouldn't possibly sell for 10 bucks. You know.

I still have to preorder mine. Even though I might not and just buy it from Wal-Mart.

Thanks WormGod for posting that, I enjoy reading it although I collect PC Gamer UK anyway so I would have seen it eventualy anyway.

One thing they mentioned which I find so annoying is that in the creature stage there is no way to import creatures you've already made in the Creature Creator, you can encounter them, sure but not play as them. So if you want to use your creature that you made in advance in Tribal stage then you'll have to quit, start the Tribal Stage manually where it will give you a choice of what creature to use in which you choose the one you want.

Also an interesting thing to quote is how PC Gamer described the Game/Toy balance of each of the stages:

Cell stage is an elegant mix of game and toy.
Creature stage is an awkward conflict between game and toy.
Tribal stage is all game and no toy.
Civilization stage is all toy and not enough game.
Space stage is a huge game sprinkled with lots of little toys incase you get bored.

In the final verdict, the describe the game as "Best. Acid trip. Ever." and say that it's Beautiful, Hilarious and Annoyingly adorable but say it's not easy enough on easy, not hard enough on hard and not normal.

That review is in all a good read even if it's so hard because of the bad image quality.

So it seems it's going to be a tad disappointing for us who thought of it to be the biggest, most controllable game ever (like me). I mean, they all think it's a great game, but they all think of it as fun and hilarious rather than giving you a vast sense of scale and control.
That's because I don't think the editor got far enough. You only get all the big customising abilities well into the Space stage, which is where the editor said he pretty much gave up on for ****ing off an empire several times bigger than his.
In fact, here's a link to unlockable UFO abilities you can get in the game. (http://spore.wikia.com/wiki/Badge#Badges_that_unlock_UFO_tools)

One thing they mentioned which I find so annoying is that in the creature stage there is no way to import creatures you've already made in the Creature Creator, you can encounter them, sure but not play as them. So if you want to use your creature that you made in advance in Tribal stage then you'll have to quit, start the Tribal Stage manually where it will give you a choice of what creature to use in which you choose the one you want.
I'd like to wonder why you'd get worked up about that, considering it takes about 10-15 minutes to make a creature, and you won't have to do it again for the rest of that mode.

Thanks WormGod for posting that, I enjoy reading it although I collect PC Gamer UK anyway so I would have seen it eventualy anyway.

Well, this is actually in the current issue which I'm getting today :p :D

But I think it's going to be a great game, just with so many big flaws we'll easily identify and get all crapped up about.

4 more days, people! (Unless you're Yahtzee. You lucky Briton. :p)

I'd like to wonder why you'd get worked up about that, considering it takes about 10-15 minutes to make a creature, and you won't have to do it again for the rest of that mode.

Because making a Rhykken and getting it just right (me being quite a perfectionist when it comes to issues like this) takes longer than 15-20 minutes. It takes ages of tweaking in fact, AND you have to unlock all the parts needed for it as well.
I think it'll be easier for me to just play through creature and cell as one creature and then quit and restart as Rhykken in Tribal and continue on from there as normal.

Basti@n made a worm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WloRh3f32D8)

I'd like this game but i do not have a GPU, and i have a rubbish computer. I really hope to get a decent computer soon.

So did I.

And wow, if you don't have a graphics processing unit, you really do have a bad computer.

We hope to get one soon.

My computer sucks.

Because making a Rhykken and getting it just right (me being quite a perfectionist when it comes to issues like this) takes longer than 15-20 minutes. It takes ages of tweaking in fact, AND you have to unlock all the parts needed for it as well.
I think it'll be easier for me to just play through creature and cell as one creature and then quit and restart as Rhykken in Tribal and continue on from there as normal.
Depends how attached to Rhykkens you are. Presuming you do intend to play for ages on this game, if I were you I'd play through normally with a non-Rhykken-based race, building the creatures as you get the parts normally, up until the start of the Space stage; then make a start with Rhykkens. For two reasons:
1: For the first go, it's much better to get a good feel of the game by not changing the starting planet. Switching mid-game will mean that the layout will be completely unfamiliar and you won't be able to come across a landmark and say "oh, I remember this place in Animal stage".
2: Having a full go before you use Rhykkens will mean that you'll have a better grasp of the game when you switch. I'm guessing you don't want your main race to be wiped out so easily because you didn't know how to not get your race destroyed. :p

Depends how attached to Rhykkens you are. Presuming you do intend to play for ages on this game, if I were you I'd play through normally with a non-Rhykken-based race, building the creatures as you get the parts normally, up until the start of the Space stage; then make a start with Rhykkens. For two reasons:
1: For the first go, it's much better to get a good feel of the game by not changing the starting planet. Switching mid-game will mean that the layout will be completely unfamiliar and you won't be able to come across a landmark and say "oh, I remember this place in Animal stage".
2: Having a full go before you use Rhykkens will mean that you'll have a better grasp of the game when you switch. I'm guessing you don't want your main race to be wiped out so easily because you didn't know how to not get your race destroyed. :p

You actualy have a really good point there you know. I can't decide really. I may play as Rhyken anyway, I may play as Rhyken but start again if things go wrong once i'm familiar with the game, or I may play as a different creature first. It depends how I feel when I play the game for the first time.

EDIT: Come to think of it I want to thank you for bringing that up. I didn't properly consider that sort of stuff.

Well, I might as well post the rest of MySpore page.

http://eu.spore.com/sporepedia/profile.cfm?sn=TimmyWing

And by 'rest' I mean MySpore page without Dougal (the worm), with a pen!s monster I'm trying very hard to delete in vain, and two different versions of the same monster (my jewel in the crown, ironically).

And for those of you more used to using the American site:
http://www.spore.com/view/profile/TimmyWing
Also, you might wanna try delete the pen-induced creature using that version instead, WormGod.


Oh, and Oft, you might wanna remove the older versions of the Rhyken and rename the one you're proud of. I don't think you wanna have your Rhyken race called "Alt2".

Wow.
EA UK sucks worse than the other countries. I'm sure patriotic, now.
Thanks, Plasma.

Oh, and Oft: which regional EA service did you use to download your 'early' copy of Spore?

Wow.
EA UK sucks worse than the other countries. I'm sure patriotic, now.
Thanks, Plasma.

Oh, and Oft: which regional EA service did you use to download your 'early' copy of Spore?

EA download manager. I think I downloaded it from the European EA site but it may still have been the American one.

And about the Rhyken thing, Plasma: I actually have another update version of Rhyken that I haven't submitted that i'll submit the day Spore releases, it'll be the the final version but it'll just be called "Rhyken" and it'll be the version I use in the game.
(when that happens i'll delete Rhyken alt2 because the final version is just and update of Rhyken alt2. I'll keep the original design and the "tiny" Rhyken Alt just so people can see the developement stages the Rhyken went through.)

There's some sort of weird release date thing going on:
http://www.sporesite.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?16559.last

Apparently, some countries are getting the date bumped to the 2nd of September. I only hope that the UK is included.

Papa Rhyken's got a brand new face!
I don't know which one I prefer, I can't decide, could you guys help me?
(first pic is the old head, second and third pics are the new one)

I think the third one is best.

Ooh!

PC Gamer (UK) did an 8-page review on it, giving it 91% and a Must Buy.
Now I'm gonna be a naughty tyke and give you scans of the review, because I can. :p

http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq118/CannibalPacman/

So it seems it's going to be a tad disappointing for us who thought of it to be the biggest, most controllable game ever (like me). I mean, they all think it's a great game, but they all think of it as fun and hilarious rather than giving you a vast sense of scale and control.
This won't really help seeing as everybody's still getting it and it's the most-hyped game of all time, ever. :(

Isn't copying the magazine contents in any form without prior written consent from the publisher considered copyright infringement?

Hay guyz, guess whose computer has officially conked out 4 days before Spore is released?


Hay guyz, guess who decided it was a good idea to combat that problem by formatting his computer before finding out he forgot that he lost the driver CDs?

Don't worry, I can get them online, my comp isn't totally useless yet! Although the backlight seems to have died out. I hope that's just a driver fault...

I think the third one is best.
Yup, that's Yauhui for ya. When he's given a choice between two head models, he'll go for the third one.

Anyway, I prefer the first head myself.

BLAGHSNUFARARCGKS

http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showthread.php?t=603042

Yup; surprisingly enough, EA actually did stick to the plan of introducing it in the countries that normally get it last, first, and vice versa.

Well folks, the day has come: EA finally did a selfless move! I wonder where all the souls go now that Hell has frozen over...

Well folks, the day has come: EA finally did a selfless move! I wonder where all the souls go now that Hell has frozen over...

Shouldn't that be days? :p
Because, Spore's release date is now officially all of the dates between 1st and 7th September.

EA might have made a selfless move, but they're being arses about it.

Well folks, the day has come: EA finally did a selfless move!...They did?

Yeah. They decided to release spore early in countries that normally get games last. And vice versa.

Yeah, if you download Spore from the European EA Store, no matter what they say about it being released on 5th September, you'll get it unlocked on Thursday.

Whoops. :D

Even i've got to make silly creatures sometimes.
Meet Springzag. his arms can go really long if he trys, watching him dance and do other emotions is funny.

(first pic is him doing the hey baby, second is him dancing, third is him scared, fourth is him normally.)

Yeah. They decided to release spore early in countries that normally get games last. And vice versa.
And how is that selfless?

Exactly. Disadvantaging people in a different order is selfless of them? What kind of great sacrifice did they make to help us?

Exactly. Disadvantaging people in a different order is selfless of them? What kind of great sacrifice did they make to help us?
Good point. I'm not sure what I was thinking anymore.

Yeah, if you download Spore from the European EA Store, no matter what they say about it being released on 5th September, you'll get it unlocked on Thursday.

Whoops. :D
You need to visit their site more often. They announced that five days ago.

You mean you already knew what he just told us for the last five days?
Wow, Im really impressed

The European EA site says you can pre-load it from 28th August, and it will be available to play on 5th September.

My download manager says the game will be released in 1 day and 10 hours. That takes you to very early Thursday morning - 4th September.
Now explain where it says that on the EA website.

I spy with my little eye, something starting with a 4 (http://eu.spore.com/whatisspore/platforms.cfm)

Well, wouldja look at that. Released on 4.09.2008. Well well.

Man, I ruddy hate EA.
I mean, this is seriously messed up. It's been delayed a year forward and now they've pulled back the release date one day early? What is the point?
Granted, it's nice to have it early, but jeez, make up your minds and don't confuse us.
Now I've spent £40 at EA because apparently you'd play it one day early, but GAME and everyone else are selling it for £30, and for the same changed release date.
DAARRGH :(

Does it hit shelves on the 4th too? I want one with a CD not a Digital copy. And I don't want to wait for shipping.

This would be my sad attempt at a headcrab from half life.

http://i38.tinypic.com/2liuctu.jpg

You're missing a pair of legs.
Headcrabs have 4 legs and 2 arms. One pair of these legs are quite well hidden though.

Does it hit shelves on the 4th too? I want one with a CD not a Digital copy. And I don't want to wait for shipping.
It hits shelves on the 7th for you. The 4th is only for those who pre-ordered from EA, it comes out in Europe on the 5th otherwise.

Acording to the EA download manager, they've added a day onto the release/unlock date.

DAMN IT EA, MAKE YOUR MIND UP!!

Yeah, I was gonna say that. :(
So what does the Spore website say now, guys? :p

Also, I had to re-install Download Manager because it got itself in an updating paradox. :mad:

FINISHED! (click the pic for full-size 1280x800 picture)
http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/fs37/300W/f/2008/247/b/e/The_32_Asanits_by_MechPlasma.png (http://mechplasma.deviantart.com/art/The-32-Asanits-96930288)
All 32 Asanits! Four per colour and type, except for the base ones. I'll still be doing more later, but not for a while.


Edit: bollocks to DA again! Just a sec.

You'll go around in space and you'll like, find planets of spikedy Asanits all over it!

EDIT: Gotta love Sam & Max comic.
http://www.2pstart.com/2008/06/18/not-much-of-a-stretch/

My copy of Spore has just been delivered! AHHHHHHHHHHHH! :D

My copy of Spore has just been delivered! AHHHHHHHHHHHH! :D
I refuse to believe that!

Also, they've now added in the feature to add people as buddies now, so I guess it's time once again for everyone to post their Spore Pages.
http://www.spore.com/view/profile/Plasma

Well, here's proof. I ran into an EPIC Creepycrapper! One of my own creations

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/4764/epiccreepycrappervl9.jpg

You lucky *******, Splapp.

My Spore page link is in my sig, I think.

You can quote me on saying that so far, this game is made of INCREDIBLE AMOUNTS OF AWESOME. And probably the first game to be available in Portuguese in ages. :p
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Spore/sporesome.jpg
Nineth generation of my Munchom. He's been with me since a cell and I'm having fun slowly tweaking him every generation as if it was actual evolution.

Oh and they've brought back the silly loading messages. :cool:

Oh and they've brought back the silly loading messages. :cool:

Woot for Maxis. Looks like we'll be reticulating spleens once again.

Wasn't it "Reticulating Splines" ?

Gaargh, EA. You buggers. :(
You've made me so low. I've still got 6 hours to kill, and now I've got to do it by looking at other people in my own country post pictures proving they've already got it.
Squirminator, can you get that trophy of yours over here?

Mine is coming tomorrow with the post. Yipee! Shame I'll be at school when it arrives...

Stuck for ideas for a Speech I must write this year for my english lessons, I actually wrote one about Spore. Big, but interesting, it even has a moral at the end. I may even quote it in here if you guys want me to.

Hmm... Well, I should have my 250 creatures finished and uploaded, but since yesterday ...something's been a bast and won't upload any of my latest Asanits. I've got all of them up save for two, but it won't even let me re-put up any older ones either. I suspect it's because the game keeps thinking that it exceeds the complexity, for some reason.

So can someone do me a favour and try to upload these two using their own accounts? I'd really appreciate it.
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1471/giantasanitiopausxk8.png
http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/8710/graspingasanitiopausgv2.png

Edit: I've got simpler versions up, with a lot of detail missing from them, but I still want to see if anyone else can host these ones.


Also, Oft, go ahead if you want then.

I am the early bird! :p

It's nearly finished extracting now, and all that's next is to install and finally play!
Oh, man; after three years of waiting, this feels so good. :D

Seriously? You've actually bought it already? Dude, I haven't even gone to sleep yet.
I've been too busy with a game very similar to Advance Wars. And that last battle I did, which was apparently the hardest, took about 1.5 - 2 hours! Fun game.

What's the name of the game?

Also, my Spore comes in about 3 hours, but I will be at school...have to wait until 4pm before I can get home, install, and play it.

What's the name of the game?
Battalion: Nemesis (http://www.kongregate.com/games/urbansquall/battalion-nemesis).
Also, made a mistake. It wasn't the hardest level, because both sides start off with precisely equal forces; but it was the longest level.


Also, I am up again now, so I'll be going into town soon to get it!



Edit: Galactic Edition for just €5 more? HELL YEAH! Now I'm glad I got it this way instead of pre-ordering!
Edit again: Goddam CD case! What's wrong with the Yin-Yang push-button-receive-baconCD case?

THE HELL?!
"The code for this installation is invalid and cannot be used to link this product to your account."
"You do not have the proper Spore.com privileges to use this product's online features."
Well, this looks like it'll be... dissapointing...

welcome to my world. I'm not sure if I'm even going to buy spore because of how many problems I had doing anything at all in the creature creator.

It will keep doing the code installation invalid thing until the 7th of Speptember, I think. Well, that's what the Creature creator did to me.

Yeah, the Sporepedia's down for maintenance it said.
Nice one, EA.
At least now I know I'm not the only one. :(

I didn't have many problems with the Creature Creator.
Then again, I got it in July and not its release date, so this could be what you're on about.
That means no 100-foot walking chair... :mad:

This
Game
Is
AWESOME!

So far, I'm in the middle of the creature stage. I've come across quite a few of my own creations, including three sets of Asanits. Two of which I have as my ally. (in fact, the first meal I had as a creature was on a Giant Asanit carcass, which made me sorta sad...) Oh, and just so you know, the size of creatures varies. For example, my Tame Asanit, which is supposed to be tiny, ended up even bigger than my own creature.

Oh, funny story: at one point in the game, I was trying to ally with one species, a teddybear species actually. Well, I knew I wasn't in their good books for eating one of their guys, but normally that'll only cause them to roar at you. This time, all of the guys started running away from me, screaming! Which was annoying, considering I was trying to charm them and all.
Well, let's just say that running after them, I turned around just in time to see the huge jaws of a freakin' Epic Water Mephrit! BOLLOCKS TO YOU, OFT!

It will keep doing the code installation invalid thing until the 7th of Speptember, I think. Well, that's what the Creature creator did to me.
No, this ones a problem with the server not recognising some of the codes, says EA. They're trying to fix it now. Also, it'll work for some but not for others.

No matter though! Maxis already made 1,600 creatures. And I'm rather glad now that I made 250 myself. So I'm content with waiting it out.
Remember that you can still download creatures directly from the site itself into your game though. And if anyone wants, I'llpack all my creatures into a .zip file for sharing.

Waaah! I forgot I chose super saver delivery (free postage) from Amazon so it'll only arrive on Saturday now...ah well, I can wait. :)

Waaah! I forgot I chose super saver delivery (free postage) from Amazon so it'll only arrive on Saturday now...ah well, I can wait. :)

is the shipping date september 6th? (usa)

So am I the only one that didn't pre-order it?
And am I the only one here who is somewhat worried and disgusted at the game's pointless and disruptive inclusion of SecuROM?

Right guys, I've reached city stage now, and taking a break. So here's some tips:
1: The creature creator said that wings allowed you to glide. In the full game, they allow you to fly properly. The more wingpower you have, the longer you can stay in the air.
2: No matter how much of a good idea it might seem like at the time, do NOT stop and admire the Epics!
3: By the time you've gotten a good bit into the Tribal Stage, you'll probably be feeling a little worried that the game isn't as customisable as it was hyped to be. Well don't worry, because after that stage you've got a LOT of designing to do in the next two!
4: Don't think "I'll just finish this Tribal stage and then take a break", because right after the Tribal stage, you have to fully design both a main hall and an economic vehicle. And unlike the three stages before, you have all pieces already unlocked. In other words, you'll be spending some time in the transition between Tribal and Civilisation.

In more stories, I came across only one more Epic after Oft's one. This time it was my green Hidden Asanit. Now, I designed that creature with the intention that it would look something like a shrub. But really, in epic form, it looks much more like a hill!
Also, Oft, your Forest Mephrit turned out to be one of the five opponents in the tribe stage. Their colour was *smirk* pink!

So am I the only one that didn't pre-order it?
No, you're just the one that didn't go out of his way to buy it as soon as he could.

And am I the only one here who is somewhat worried and disgusted at the game's pointless and disruptive inclusion of SecuROM?
Yes. The rest of us know from the experience of Worms4 that it's unlikely to matter.

Dang, after half-way through, the Creature stage is getting on my nerves.

So here I am, trying to make this creature join my pack, and then a great lumping epic treads on me, and returns me to my nest about half a mile away. That happens thrice more. Then when I get the creature, we walk about and find this enlarged ravenous Tweety creature (which I'm sure I've seen them do a cartoon of with her in this state, actually). We try to make friends but it turns out it's rather hostile. So I clear the area of them, and find this green cool dude, who has low enough social levels for me to make allies with him, so I start, but am interupted by another Tweety. He gets the chops, and I retry the friendship stuff, but it seems that green creature was suddenly too hostile by then. I had about 4 health points left, and I couldn't eat all the dead Tweetys because other live and dangerous Tweetys were in the vicinity, so I walk around for a bit. I discover the rest of the pack of those aforementioned green guys, and these ones seemed friendly, so I tried again. Then that hostile one charges in and forces me to run - oh, and there's another epic behind him. So I think I'd get away with crossing the strait between the coastlines to escape the epic, but then I get eaten by a sea monster, and for the first time I am told I can't go even three metres from the shore.


:mad:

I love how people get a real bug up their **** about anti-piracy measures. I find it amusing. It makes me laugh.

I love how people get a real bug up their **** about anti-piracy measures. I find it amusing. It makes me laugh.

I can just forsee myself having problems with the install limit. That's the only thing I can't see the point with.
It didn't stop me ordering it though.

So I think I'd get away with crossing the strait between the coastlines to escape the epic, but then I get eaten by a sea monster, and for the first time I am told I can't go even three metres from the shore.


:mad:I think that was mentioned before in this thread.

I kinda reached a stalemate in my Creature stage, all the other creatures outlevel me so I can't get any more ADN points. If I try being social, their skills are much more levelled up so they increase the bar much faster than me. If I try being hostile (and I'm a carnivore so I have to) they all gang up on me and there's no way I can handle it, specially when other species or Epics get in the way. (and they're everywhere)

So I just jumped over to Tribe stage in a different planet with a different creature, so I missed out on those "awards" you get for completing previous stages. It was all going well until I found out that while the AI can still create more creatures after they're all dead, I can't, and had to start over. :mad:

By looking at a few reviews on the web, it doesn't sound that amazing at all.

So what do the Spore owners here think of the game, was it worth the big hype at all?

The failure to login problem has been solved! Just so you people who still have to get the game know that.

I got to Space stage last night. Meaning I completed all four first stages in a day (11 hours, actually)

I laugh at you two! I had no problems in mine, I never got attacked by anything other than the Mephrit Epic and went pretty much all the way across the continent too. And I was a carnivore too.
It does help once you get the four socialising abilities though.

Edit: Wait, Sup, what do you mean 'increase the bar much faster than me'? You do know that you socialise by filling it up together, right; and that it doesn't matter who fills more?

Edit again: And you did remember to actually put on good socialising parts (determined by level: having more parts won't increase stats like in the creature creator)? And you did read the part about how you're supposed to mimic the other creature's Socialising actions?

So what do the Spore owners here think of the game, was it worth the big hype at all?
YES! And that's even without being able to connect online yet!

YES! And that's even without being able to connect online yet!I understand the amazing amounts of novelty involved in the game, but can anyone give me their opinions of the game based solely on the gameplay? how good of an RTS is the game?

Edit: Wait, Sup, what do you mean 'increase the bar much faster than me'? You do know that you socialise by filling it up together, right; and that it doesn't matter who fills more?

Edit again: And you did remember to actually put on good socialising parts (determined by level: having more parts won't increase stats like in the creature creator)? And you did read the part about how you're supposed to mimic the other creature's Socialising actions?Thank you Captain Obvious.

If the other creature gets to the middle of bar before you do the whole thing fails, and even if you do mimic him, if he has Sing Level 4 while you only have Sing Level 3 he'll quickly outrun you, and so on.

Also here's one of those History things for the curious:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Spore/th_spore_history.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Spore/spore_history.jpg)

I hate you all :(

I'll get the game on the 11th, when I finish my last exam.

EDIT: This reminds me: Can you have something like a friend list to share creatures and stuff?

I hate you all :(

I'll get the game on the 11th, when I finish my last exam.

EDIT: This reminds me: Can you have something like a friend list to share creatures and stuff?Yeah you get a friends list for easy sharing and you can also block any cratures that you find... unfit. :p

Also here's one of those History things for the curious:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Spore/th_spore_history.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Spore/spore_history.jpg)Going in the opposite direction, fun fun fun:
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/5931/historyxw8.th.jpg (http://img187.imageshack.us/my.php?image=historyxw8.jpg)

Here's my stuff. I would've taken in-game pictures, but the game doesn't have a screenshot button; not that I know of anyway.

My main character:
http://ll-321.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/017/321/500017321560_lrg.png

My Town Hall:
http://ll-333.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/017/333/500017333224_lrg.png

My Spaceship:
http://ll-531.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/017/531/500017531673_lrg.png
Actually, because the Spaceship is so flat, you can't see it properly in that pic. For anyone that's already added me to their buddies list, you might wanna check it out in the editor.

Also, Sup and Paul, I don't have your Spore usernames.

If the other creature gets to the middle of bar before you do the whole thing fails, and even if you do mimic him, if he has Sing Level 4 while you only have Sing Level 3 he'll quickly outrun you, and so on.
Are you sure? I remember it as being that you have about three or so tries to get the bar fileld between you, regardless of how fast or how much his side goes up.

In any case, why didn't you just go hunt for more parts then? Remember, the bigger bone carcasses (which I think will be near epics) give the level 5 parts.

I understand the amazing amounts of novelty involved in the game, but can anyone give me their opinions of the game based solely on the gameplay? how good of an RTS is the game?
The Tribe stage was too easy, I rarely got attacked and could defeat an opponent in one go. That might've been because I was playing on Easy though, and playing as a friendly race.
As for Civilisation, I didn't get attacked at all. Probably because I was playing as an Economic civ and only attacked twice.
And Space stage, I haven't been attacked at all except by pirates.

So, in short: I don't know, ask someone who played it as an RTS.

So, in short: I don't know, ask someone who played it as an RTS.lol, was kinda just asking in general here. :p

Well, I had a go at the Civ stage on hard as a military force, and yeah, I'd say it's a good but basic RTS. You do get to choose the specific speed/health/attack ratio on your units, but you can only have one standard vehicle. You can't make one tank that's fast and one tank that's tough.
But you can still make your ground units tough and your air or sea units fast though, for example.

Also, remember in that review that was posted here, the author said that hard mode wasn't hard enough?
Yeah.
He's an ass! I got wiped out very early on!

good but basic is fine for me given the level of customization and the fact that it's fun for other reasons on top of the RTS gameplay. guess I'll go ahead and pick it up at some point.

I heard someone in my town got it already from Wal-mart. I will be checking this. Then I don't have to wait until the 11th!

I heard someone in my town got it already from Wal-mart. I will be checking this. Then I don't have to wait until the 11th!
Please tell me you didn't forget that it came out the 7th again...

I got from Cell to Space in about 10 hours (split across two days).
Summary;

Difficulty: Normal
Current Race: Goroks
Brief description: The theme of the Goroks is uninteligence and brutality. The Goroks in general are inspired by the Orks from Warhammer 40k. Their buildings are inspired by the orcs from Warcraft.



From left to right: (I made em' all myself :) )

Gorok (Civ stage)
Gorok Arena (Entertainment Building)
Gorok Forge (Factory Building)
Gorok Hut Cluster (House Building)
Gorok Stone Hall (Town Hall)

The Entertainment building is actually an arena and you can see a stage inside if you look from above.
In the little picture of the house building there is alot you can't see like the extra mud hut house behind.

And the vehicles:
From left to right:

Gorok Warbugga (Militairy land)
Gorok Sharkboat (Militairy sea)
Gorok Bomba (Militairy air)
Gorok Swordfish (Religous sea)
Gorok Preachin' Truck (Religous land)

As you can see, I've made them all look like angry faces with teeth.
The only one missing is the Gorok Storma, the Religous Air which looks very similair to the Bomba, for those who are wondering, I may put it up for download in my next post.
There are no Economic vehicles because there were no economic cities in the Civ stage! :(

Last lot of Gorok stuff now:

From Left to right:

Gorok Storma (Religous Air)
Gorok Space Zepp (UFO)
New Gorok Arena (new roof colour to make it look more like the other buildings)
New Gorok Forge (modified to look a little bit more like the other buildings)
New Gorok Hut Cluster (new roof colour to make it look like the other buildings)

Well, my dudes are progressing along okay, although I did die for the first time when some GIANT PIRANHA PLANT wandered casually into my nest and ate me and several colleagues. And when I left off, some UFO was trying to abduct me. But other than that, things are going pretty well, and I'm up to Level 4 in singing and... was it dancing or posing? One of 'em. Helps that I'm playing on Easy, I guess.

Any final votes to help me decide which Rhyken to use?
Please see post 327 (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=667289&postcount=327).
My personal vote is with the new one, not the old one.

Any final votes to help me decide which Rhyken to use?
Please see post 327 (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=667289&postcount=327).
My personal vote is with the new one, not the old one.well if you've decided on one why are you asking us?

Robowurmz, I'm still waiting for your account username so I can add you to my watchlist.

Edit: wait, Robowurmz, you're the thread starter. Why not put everyone's usernames on the first page for easy access?

Any final votes to help me decide which Rhyken to use?
Please see post 327 (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=667289&postcount=327).
My personal vote is with the new one, not the old one.
I'd say the old one; but you'll be the one playing as it, so you should decide.

Welp, I've hit the tribal stage.

Also, Sup and Paul, I don't have your Spore usernames.Shouldn't be hard to figure either one out :p.

Shouldn't be hard to figure either one out :p.
Yeah, I got it now.
It's annoying the way spore.com profile sites are case sensitive.


In any case, I'm pretty much sorted in my game. I've got about 3,000,000 sporebucks, which is about 30 times the amount necessary to buy a solar system or make an ally. If you look hard enough, you'll find an empire that's willing to give 40,000 per spice pack.

Even though my personal vote lies with the new one, I just wanted to ask to see if anyone disagrees.

Also: about the no more Gorok stuff thing...I lied.

Gorok Spacebugga (Colony land)
Gorok Blitza (Colony Air)
And the last one is of the Rhyken City Hall. I decided to make it in adance because the Rhyken building composition was the only thing I felt I needed "practice" on.

10/11 hours to get to space?? My brother did it in about 4 and he SUCKS at it :p Ditto at the 'hard is too hard' comment


Anyway, I really didnt expect too much from this game (not as much as you lot at any rate) but nonetheless it still managed to dissapoint me. For a start its not a game. Its a collection of three or four games. Except (unlike in most collections) you cant choose which game to play and when. And there is NO blending between gametypes whatsoever. do this... do this... do THAT... do that... On top of this the gameplay itself is nothing special, fairly dull though the first couple of stages are fun. Character creation I really cant get excited over... most changes feel cosmetic and even flying is of limited use. Of course none of that matter because as soon as you pass that stage you never use your abilities or whatever again. Im not saying this game is bad, it just couldnt be much more vanilla. Oh, and forced migrations: :(

Gotta admit the gameplay of the stages is hardly brilliant and only gets really imaginative and inovative at the space stage. The place where this game shines is the editors. They're just so amazing, I find! The sheer level of customization cosmetic or not is huge and it's fun to just make stuff and maybe try one or two bits out for real in one of the game's stages.
I give the editors a huge thumbs up.
The gameplay stages get a thumbs up as well but there is room for improvement. The cell and creature stages are pretty solid yet fun so not much to say. The tribe stage could do with maybe the tiniest bit more depth but otherwise good. The Civ stage could do with being longer but at the same time more varied in challenge and with more depth. The space stage is awesome but has one or two major flaws. They really need to fix some of the stuff like the aggressive empires constantly attacking because you didn't have enough money at the right time, and they should ask money out of you at less frequent intervals. Maybe the devs should consider coding the game to make the surrounding small stretch of galaxy arround your homeworld "easy" with smaller empires and less aggressive ones than everywhere else.

forced migrations: :("Right, I've just made friends with all the neighbours"
"That's great, honey! By the way, we're moving house."

To be fair, I can see the point: the game wants to move you on to new locations with creatures that are more challenging to befriend/resist against/hunt, in order to encourage you to keep evolving more sophisticated means of communication/defence/attack. But it is a dirty trick.

Ditto at the 'hard is too hard' comment

If I could do Hard Mode after playing a game for a couple days, I would be seriously disappointed.
Unless it's a basic FPS or something so similar to another game where I could do HM, but that's different.

As people seem to be putting it, correct me if I'm wrong, you have all pieces for the editors except on the creature stage. And you can only use the skills on your creature in the creature stage...

From my point of view, I think the game would have been better if:
-You started with few pieces on the civilization stage for buildings, and had to develope the new ones in the most classic AoE style: researching, and stuff.
-You could use the creature skills on the rest of the game, even if it's used in an alternate way. Including walking around outside the ufo in space stage, to do additional stuff, like entering an alien city to do trades, or talk with their leader, or something.

The game still looks fantastic, though, considering I love the customize/explore kind of games.

If I could do Hard Mode after playing a game for a couple days, I would be seriously disappointed.
Unless it's a basic FPS or something so similar to another game where I could do HM, but that's different.

I THINK you're agreeing with me... ? :p

Basically it took 4 hours to reach space. Then he started again because space (to begin with at least) is mind-numbingly dull. This time was on hard and the game was STILL stupidly easy, getting to tribal stage in about an hour and restarting AGAIN as only the beginning is any good :p

Gaaah, I thought this would happen.

I have just returned from a weekend-filling festival, with no time for a shower and Spore, no access to my PC anyway, and I have school in the morning/afternoon.

I tried the Tribal stage once, but my longest continuous run lasted until the events in my last post. :(

Please tell me you didn't forget that it came out the 7th again...

You told me that it came out on the 11th. I don't get it until tomorrow because my town is BEHIND.

Hoh man, have I got a story to tell!
...but I don't have time. I'll tell you tomorrow. All you need to know is that I started a second race on normal difficulty, and I found out that C was the screenshot button.

The Civ stage could do with being longer but at the same time more varied in challenge and with more depth.
That's because you've been playing easy. On the harder difficulties, you do have to play strategically or else you'll fail.

From my point of view, I think the game would have been better if:
-You started with few pieces on the civilization stage for buildings, and had to develope the new ones in the most classic AoE style: researching, and stuff.
Bad idea. Unlike the first three stages where there was only one thing that needed customisation, there's now 13 things. Having an unlock-the-parts system for that would be hectic, especially as it would mean you couldn't use pre-made models, which would be really bad if you just wanted a quick game.


-You could use the creature skills on the rest of the game, even if it's used in an alternate way. Including walking around outside the ufo in space stage,
1: Creature skills are still used in the tribal stage, albeit not as effective (although they do fly if they have wings)
2: You can walk on planets like in creature mode in the space stage, once you get sufficiently far enough in the game. I can't remember what badge unlocks it exactly. And I don't know if your skills are still in use (well, the abilities ones would be anyway)

You told me that it came out on the 11th.
No, I said 7th.

They really need to fix some of the stuff like the aggressive empires constantly attacking because you didn't have enough money at the right time, and they should ask money out of you at less frequent intervals. Maybe the devs should consider coding the game to make the surrounding small stretch of galaxy arround your homeworld "easy" with smaller empires and less aggressive ones than everywhere else.
That's just a fancy way of saying "I don't want to go to war". Besides, conquoring planets is easy. First destroy the ships on the planet, then go low down and take out city turrets from a distance with your lazer (the laser turrets have a range roughly equal to your own lazer so you can take them out one at a time, and the flak turrets can't get you if you're low down) and then use the mini-bomb on the city center (destroy entertainment buildings first, it makes it faster).
And they did make the surrounding ones smaller too. You don't want to know what the Grox empire is like!

Right, yes, story. This probably merits a separate post from that last one (damn you people, you need to post after me more).


First of all, I started a new game just to play on normal, and mabye see if I could get the two empires to meet; and to play a game using a very aggressive creature. I found normal more fun because there was actually a challenge to it. But the thing about this game is that I set the theme to Oft, meaning that his creations get a priority chance in appearing (on that note, I plan on making an Asanit sporecast, just so that I can play an Asanit-themed game at some point).

The tide pool phase went off without interest. Eat eat eat.
But it wasn't long into the creature phase that I came across my first two points of interest:
1: I found a relic! considering there's only a very small percentage of planets with one of these, I think that's quite an achievement.
2: I also heard explosions near the relic, along with falling wreckage. Perhaps I wasn't the only one who found it...
Actually, I was quite nicely able to capture a pic of both these things together:
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7897/spore20080907220911hp3.th.png (http://img233.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080907220911hp3.png)
For fun, I flew through one of those hoops too.

So a little bit later and I came across another point of interest:
A Gorok spaceship:
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8300/spore20080907223108pv8.th.png (http://img145.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080907223108pv8.png)
...Oft, what are you doing in my galay? Get out of my galaxy, Oft! DAMNIT OFT!
Actually, that spaceship was a pain in the ass! At one point, I was trying to charm a creature, and halfway through the guy get's friggin' abducted!

Oh, which reminds me: regardless of what resolution you're using, pictures will always be taken in 1600x1200 pixels size! Quite a nifty feature if you ask me.

Also, here's something I didn't come across in my other game: rogue creatures!
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/4402/spore20080907231806vf8.th.png (http://img233.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080907231806vf8.png)
They're essentially a creature that's larger, tougher and harder to charm than they're supposed to be. They also had 250 health each, meaning that they're really powerful! I was lucky enough to get two of them!

...and then I had a run-in with a few epics.
Literally.
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6013/spore20080907232701qo6.th.png (http://img145.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080907232701qo6.png)
That is rarely a good thing.
Actually, I did manage to survive that. He threw me away, and because I had wings, I survived.
But the rogues didn't. Just because they've got a quarter of the health of an epic doesn't mean they stand a chance against one.

Also, Oft, y'know that Rhyken vote you had? Yeah, I changed my mind, go for the new version. And delete the old version ASAP. So that this doesn't ever come up again:
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/548/spore20080907233312zt0.th.png (http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080907233312zt0.png)
That is just not right! I feel like a Spatulon...
I believe I met four epics in total. The Epic Aurbus was the most impressive one.


...and then I progressed to tribal stage, where I've just started.
And again, Mephrits take over the role of the pink tribe, water mephrits this time.
I think the game is trying to suggest something there Oft. =P

Plasma started a game themed entirely arround me!?
I feel...special. Some time in the future I may return the favor and take pictures of it like you did. :)
Sounds like some pretty funny stuff happened to you there. EPIC RHYKEN OWNAGE.

A few other things though:
I wasn't playing the game on easy, I was playing it on normal.
And no, that was not a fancy way of saying I don't want a war, I just don't think the game should throw you into wars without you wanting it at such an early point in the stage. At the first parts of the space stage it should give you the choice and if you want a war you just start them yourself. It should only throw you into them like it does later on.

As for that battle tactic of yours: thanks, I'll try that some time soon.

I'll try to make an army of Rayman-based creatures...

Let's see if those reach your games when I get the game

I never played the creature creator. During the grow stage of spore can you do EVERYTHING that could with it? Or was that a lot more flexible?

I never played the creature creator. During the grow stage of spore can you do EVERYTHING that could with it? Or was that a lot more flexible?

Apparently, you have to unlock each piece for the creature creator during the creature stage. However, the stand-alone creator has everything unlocked, and ready to use. The only limit seemed the complexity meter.

By the way, are the creatures made with the creature creator shared? Or even able to be brought to your planet/game?

If you start any of the creators from the main galaxy menu instead of from the game, you have all parts unlocked anyway.

Woo, I've only one master badge left to get in the Space stage!
Oh, and I unlocked the tool allowing you to walk on planets on the space stage. Turns out you can't use any abilities and you can't enter cities. But it is still fun to watch as you get attacked by aggressive animals and then watch them panic and run because they can't hit you.

Also, I've now started colonising on the opposite side of the galaxy, after finding a wormhole that brought me to a place vacant of intelligent life, meaning it would be pretty safe to set up camp there. That's closer to the center of the galaxy than my own home planet, so I plan to start heading to the center from there.

Now.

Plasma started a game themed entirely arround me!?
I feel...special. Some time in the future I may return the favor and take pictures of it like you did. :)
Well, I did feel like trying out the Themed games, and you're the most frequent poster here after me and you made the most creatures after me, so I decided to use yours.

I just don't think the game should throw you into wars without you wanting it at such an early point in the stage. At the first parts of the space stage it should give you the choice and if you want a war you just start them yourself. It should only throw you into them like it does later on.
Well, wars are a major part of the game,

I'll try to make an army of Rayman-based creatures...
I came across your Dark Raymanoid in both my games, actually. And, like I promised, I made them extinct.
Speaking of which, why didn't you upload the Dark and Rock Raymanoids online?

Apparently, you have to unlock each piece for the creature creator during the creature stage. However, the stand-alone creator has everything unlocked, and ready to use. The only limit seemed the complexity meter.
If you use the creature creator from the main menu rather than in the creature stage, you have all the parts unlocked and enough DNA points as the stand-alone one.
The one big difference is that the full game's one has a different system for stats.

By the way, are the creatures made with the creature creator shared?
As long as you put them online, yes.

Speaking of which, why didn't you upload the Dark and Rock Raymanoids online?

oops... I forgot D: And since I'm not using the laptop for now, I'll put them when I get back.

The winged one is still there, though, for sure.

Also, how's the animation when they are running around and stuff? :) Before they died, anyways :p

I DO like how its blurry and black and white if you dont have eyes :p There are some nice touches

I DO like how its blurry and black and white if you dont have eyes :p There are some nice touches

I've heard a few, like if you are a tribe getting allies and that, they spend their time talking around a warm fire, but if you are an aggresive tribe, they simply start punching each other.

Or leaving a creature on a planet without athmosphere... The poor thing blows up.

I DO like how its blurry and black and white if you dont have eyes :p There are some nice touches
On a related note, one of the console commands (ctrl + shift + C to open the console, type 'help' to get a list of commands) adds a style filter to the game, allowing you to see everyting as black and white, or as an oil painting, for example. You should check it out.
Also, for those of you who want to stay away from the Joker badge, it doesn't count as a cheat. Only commands that actually effect the game count as cheats.

Also, how's the animation when they are running around and stuff? :) Before they died, anyways :p
Dunno, I wasn't watching properly. But considering how it doesn't have any limbs, I don't think there'll be a problem with animations!
Actually, the animating in this game is effing amazing! Even the cut-scenes are perfect!

As you can imagine, I've been playing around a lot with Spore. Oh, and look what I found in space!


...uh....



Oh, woops. I deleted the screenshot. Anyway, I found a planet inhabited by Striding Mephrits!

Okay, new tip:

Do not attempt to explore to the centre of the galaxy until you're completely ready. The Grox are there, and they'll declare war on you if you go too many planets in (although, AFAIK, you can go to one of their outer planets just fine). Plus, you'll need an Interstellar Drive 5 to even make it to the center, thanks to gravity wells.

The Grox visited when I was a creature.

Freakin' scary.

This game makes me smile C:

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/3412/spatulondancehq3.jpg

Spatulons... SPATULOOOONS. With tribal helmets! :D

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/778/spatulontribemu6.jpg

Also, my Spore name is SPLAPP for anyone who wants to add meh!

Pretty soon i'll be having spore.

I'm getting a vista desktop, with Geforce 8400 graphics.

Splapp: The spatulon's look awesome.:cool:

So I was planning to start a new game with my Arcana but I decided to give it the theme of Plasma just because I could. Hence why I shall chonicle it's progress. It will be a very short game, starting from tribe stage, going through civilization stage and I plan to spend little to no time at all in space stage. Here's the dirt:

Race: Arcana
Planet Name: Cyrel
Starting stage: Tribe
Theme: DarkPlasma
Difficulty: Normal
Description: The Arcana are themed on spiritualism and peace. They are meant to be blessed with divine and/or psychic powers and they can read and harness people's aura and stuff. I started this game to see what it's like to play the later half of the game entirely as 100% friendly and relgious.

Here are the events of the entire tribe stage, as played out last night. After I finish writing this I shall start the Civ Stage.

Meet the Arcana Tribe.
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3074/arcanatribe1xm3.th.png (http://img300.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arcanatribe1xm3.png)

The moment gameplay started the first thing I did was gather some food and domesticate an animal. In this case, it was a Manamari.
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/3356/arcanatribe2manamarira1.th.png (http://img65.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arcanatribe2manamarira1.png)

After that I also domesticated another animal but I didn't check it's name. It is shown in the background to the left of the hut in the first picture.
Anyway... EDIT: Oh wait, it looks like i'm going to have to cut this short because Imageshack is acting retarded on me. :mad:
I'll try again a little while later.

Whoo! I guess I'm the first one here to both get all 10 Master Badges and reach the center of the galaxy! I'm not gonna spoil it for ya...

Now there's just two major things I want to do:
1: Meet up with the race I made using Oft's Theme; or at least see if it's possible.

2: Destroy The Grox. Completely. And that's gonna take a looong time! (but I do know they have one fatal weakness...)


Edit: Ah yes, Manamari. I came across them quite a bit in my game.
Don't know what the other creature is, it's too hard to make out.

Also, nice work on the Spatulon Splapp!

Now there's just two major things I want to do:
1: Meet up with the race I made using Oft's Theme; or at least see if it's possible.

2: Destroy The Grox. Completely. And that's gonna take a looong time! (but I do know they have one fatal weakness...)


Aren't you going to try and find our own solar system? (Yes, it IS in the game, all of the planets represented acurately. Will Wright visits it in a conference video you can see on Xspore.com. To find it you have to go to the EXACTLY correct point in the galaxy (the same place it is in IRL))

Anyway, Imageshack seems to be working ok to a degree again. I think it's my bad interent conenction that is causing the problem.

...after taming two creatures and collecting more food, my tribe sets out armed with maracas to befriend the brown tribe. Like any first tribe you interact with, all is sucessfull. My 10 rating from them is well deserved. Throughout the rest of the stage the browns keep giving me gifts.
(In the following pic you get a good view of the other creature I tamed.)
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/176/arcanatribe6cyansraidxq9.th.png (http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arcanatribe6cyansraidxq9.png)
Eep. Just as I return to my own village the cyans appear and raid me! I switch to combat stance and defend (this is the only time I do this and ever will with the Arcana). Once they're down, the lime greens come! And just as I barely suceed and defend against them: the pinks come after that! But all is not lost...
The pinks happened to attack near where my animal pen was. When they got a little closer the tamed animals joined the fight. Hilarity unfolded...
(I do have a picture of this but imageshack is being gay again... eurghh...)

EDIT: I give up! Imageshack is claiming that the file type of these pictures are not supported, despite being PNGs. The rest of this story shall be told without pictures.

...It was a close one, By the end of it all of my tribe members were hurt and hungry. One of my two tamed creatures were dead (the one that wasn't the Mamamari) and all three tribes, Cyan, Lime green and Pink hated me. Such a problem was fixable, however.
I gathered up resources and trained up some new tribe members before sending out gifts to the three other remaining tribes. Upon recieving them my reputation instantly went from hated to neutral.

Now to befriend them, Starting with the pinks.
It took a few tries despite my ensemble now being equiped with digeridoos. After one performance they rated me at 6, after another, 8. I had to return home and come back with a different group composition before I could put up a performance enough to impress them into allying with me.
After the alliance was made I left for home just in time for an epic Clefthoof to trample them as I left! On that subject, epic Clefthooves are the size that normal clefthooves SHOULD be in my opinion. Because in WoW Clefthooves are quite big.

After allying with the limes and the cyans as well, the fifth and final tribe spawned; the oranges.
Bloody tough bunch they were. They started at hated reputation with me and even after I sent a gift to them, they went neutral for a minute or so and then imediately started disliking my tribe again. It took a second gift and alot of my precious currency to even the fields again.
It took only two performances to ally with them though. And this is as far as I have got... I am now ready to start the Civ stage. My hopes are high for a noble Arcana, soon to become a prosperous civilization of religion, tanks and...um...pie.
http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/8472/arcanaciv1piezs3.th.jpg (http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arcanaciv1piezs3.jpg)

(That pic could be submited because it was a Jpeg instead of a PNG. Also, PS: I &@!$ing hate ImageShack.)

EDIT: I turned some of the best pics into Jpegs so I can now submit them:

VS....The Pink Tribe!
Ally --> Farm animals
http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/4195/arcanatribe7pinksraidcove6.th.jpg (http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arcanatribe7pinksraidcove6.jpg)

Left just in time...
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/5200/arcanatribe9leftjustintrh1.th.jpg (http://img390.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arcanatribe9leftjustintrh1.jpg)

Finale.
http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/1711/arcanatribe12finalejpegjf0.th.jpg (http://img54.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arcanatribe12finalejpegjf0.jpg)

Grechinos was the other tame creature. That one actually had full everything except bite and spit in the creature creator system.
And Rhaseterus is the pink tribe species there. Normally, that stripe down their front and back is green.

Also, you should really get MSNmessenger or something.

Also also, I should visit Earth, especially as I have some... business to do there. Problem is, I don't know how to find it.

I'm going to give preference to Splapp's creatures. FOR SURE.

Also, my spore name is Metal Alex on the Creator... Dunno if it'll be the same account.

Also, my spore name is Metal Alex on the Creator... Dunno if it'll be the same account.
www.spore.com/view/profile/MetalAlex
And it will be the same, as long as you register your game on that account.

Oh hey, someone found earth out in spore. The real earth. It had the lands looking like stuff too.

He made a colonisation on Australia.

Too bad i don't have the pictures.

Center of the Galaxy is made of much win. Those who have been there, did you spot Will's trademark?

Oh hey, someone found earth out in spore. The real earth. It had the lands looking like stuff too.

He made a colonisation on Australia.

Too bad i don't have the pictures.
A lot of people found it. In fact, it's:
1: Part of a mission.
2: Part of the centre of the galaxy ending (not quite an end per se, but it's the Space stage's main goal)
3: Part of an achievement.

Center of the Galaxy is made of much win. Those who have been there, did you spot Will's trademark?
Yyyyy-no. Not quite. I did spot the reference to being able to share creatures online though, which was a pretty nice touch come to think of it.
I also found the Collectables entry for the center of the galaxy funny too...

Don't know about you, but I want this creature (http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=sast-500002636196) in my game, as an epic.

Ahahah, oh man something epic happened. I heard a spaceship above, so i had a look and... OH HAY LOOK :cool:

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/9098/invadersga3.jpg

It was bound to happen at some point... someone's made a COCKSHIP. Oh how I lolled, then cried when it proceeded to abduct both of my domesticated creatures. :mad:

HAHA! I'm so getting this game tomorrow.

My screen name is globefish, should anyone want to add me to their buddy list.

BTW, does anyone have Spore Origins (http://spore.eamobile.com) for mobile phones or iPod/iPhone?
That game must be the best mobile title ever made.
Although limited, you can still create an immense amount of different spores from the cell stage in the evolution mode.

In arcade mode you can use your spores DNA code enter it on a web form and fight against others' creatures.
The fights are presented in nicely made Flash environments. Complete with leaderboard and achievements.

You can also download DNA codes from the net and let them fight on your mobile phone for fun.

As a bonus, if you finish the 18 evolution levels, you get a survival mode, which is a spore-ified Snake-clone.

I've heard a few, like if you are a tribe getting allies and that, they spend their time talking around a warm fire, but if you are an aggresive tribe, they simply start punching each other.

Or leaving a creature on a planet without athmosphere... The poor thing blows up.

Yeah I decided to kill everyone (I played on Normal first btw, and the hardest part was the creature stage, until I figured out how to make packs :p). Anyway, instead of sitting around the campfire my guys usually punched each other then laughed. Though I have to say, during the creature stage, the ones that killed me the most happened to be two of the ones I made attacking in about groups of 5. They all could fly so it was pretty hard to get away.
Anyone else get the Galactic Edition? I still have yet to watch the bonus features.

Oh, and Plasma I killed one of your Epic Asanits, one with butterfly wings or something like that. He tried to eat one of my buildings so I gathered my massive army and 'gang raped' him.

Yyyyy-no. Not quite. I did spot the reference to being able to share creatures online though, which was a pretty nice touch come to think of it.
I also found the Collectables entry for the center of the galaxy funny too...

Will has a tendancy to put llamas in his games.

EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot about this.

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s258/Robowurmz/spatulons.png


EDIT2: And this.

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s258/Robowurmz/ponkspore.png

FOUND IT!
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/2853/spore20080909232401yn6.th.png (http://img229.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080909232401yn6.png)
I mean I found my tribe in OftGame (as I'm now calling it)

So I take a closer look:
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/1205/spore20080909232111dv1.th.png (http://img229.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080909232111dv1.png)

Unfortunately I came in the night, so everyone's asleep:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1866/spore20080909232038ys9.th.png (http://img228.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080909232038ys9.png)

Well, everyone except this guy:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/2840/spore20080909231901bt5.th.png (http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080909231901bt5.png)
Who's completely scared out of his wits from me!
And in case you're wondering, yes, the Hologram does make your creature bigger than it normally is.


Edit: On an unrelated matter, I found out that the reason I couldn't add all the Asanits to the Sporepedia is because some were apparently removed from the server. So I've re-uploaded them now:
http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=ssc-500029414918
That's the Sporecast with all 32 Asanits! I made it so that anyone will be able to use them as the theme for a savegame. When I've had enough with OftGame, I'll be starting one with those and using the Golden Asanit as my race.


Also, one of my creatures (http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=srch-darkplasma%3Asast-500000787663%3Apg-240) from Magic: The Gathering has spawned two (http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=srch-darkplasma%3Asast-500002177521) others (http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=srch-darkplasma%3Asast-500004649224%3Apg-240) made by another person.

BTW, does anyone have Spore Origins (http://spore.eamobile.com) for mobile phones or iPod/iPhone?
That game must be the best mobile title ever made.
I plan on getting it today, after finding out it's one of the few worldwide mobile games that actually sells in Ireland.

Anyone else get the Galactic Edition? I still have yet to watch the bonus features.
I did (it was only €5 more here), but I didn't watch them either. I've been too busy actually playing the game.

Oh, and Plasma I killed one of your Epic Asanits, one with butterfly wings or something like that. He tried to eat one of my buildings so I gathered my massive army and 'gang raped' him.
I have four Flying Asanits. You can identify which Asanit is which by the first two letters after the 'it', or just by the number of legs if you can see them clearly.
Also, that pretty much makes things even after I killed off an Epic Themesis with rockets.

My copy came today.
If anyone's interested, my ID is Xenomortis.

My copy came today.
If anyone's interested, my ID is Xenomortis.

Done and done. My ID is "DoctorMelon".

Can't find this game in my country DURRRRRR. No credit card available at the moment so no online purchase DOUBLE DURRRRR.

Ooh, it gets real cool after the niggles with the Creature stage.
Currently I am civilised. Inadvertantly I named him Gotham earlier on, so now he resides in Gotham City.

I still need to make a theatre and a ruddy anthem... :cool:

I bought my copy today and hm.. Oh yeah it's awesome! If anyone wants to add me as a buddy then my ID is "diablo-vt"

I've reached Civ stage now, so I'll continue my OftGame story once Imageshack cops on!

My copy came today.
If anyone's interested, my ID is Xenomortis.
Added.

If anyone wants to add me as a buddy then my ID is "diablo-vt"
Added. (I doubt you'll be looking back at the thread, so my ID is 'DarkPlasma')

Done and done. My ID is "DoctorMelon".
Bout time! Also, added.

and a ruddy anthem... :cool:
I can't get my own one out of my head! The anthem is the only thing that stays constant throughout all your colonies!

Mine's this sort of "beep-boop-doot diddy do" that I can't get rid of. Who's going to be the first to do the Mario Theme?

Added. (I doubt you'll be looking back at the thread, so my ID is 'DarkPlasma')

I check back to the thread, I just don't post much in it. ;)

I hate Space mode. :mad: It's buggy, it's needlessly restrictive and incredibly difficult to work with.

First of all, while the scale has grown tremendously, your control has shrunk. Sure you've got an entire empire to take care of, but all you've got is one measley spaceship that has to be able to do everything. There's no chance of focusing your efforts because everyone leads you off into a different direction. You need all the money you can get so you need to keep on making allies to trade all that precious spice you have to keep picking up from every single colony while carrying on various missions from analyzing to killing while expanding your empire through colonizing and terraforming and always be ready to head back and protect all your colonies from attack (because they're helpless and turrets are never enough) until you actually manage to exterminate the attackers and let's not forget all those silly plagues your allies keep fussing about. It's impossible to get anything done without having to get more stuff done that keeps popping up randomly so you can't really do anything you want unless you completely ignore your empire and pay the price for it.

To add to the increased scale, everything is tiny. If you try to analyze or pick up anything you'll probably end up picking up a lot of other things that happened to be in your way, and you often have to get to things that are hopelessly covered by foliage. Combat is a game of pixel-precision point-n-click as you try to keep your ship moving to dodge all incoming fire while still being within the range of your weapons so you can keep madly clicking your cursor at enemies to attack them hoping you don't click on the wrong thing and hit one of your cities.

Second, diplomacy is crap. It's Civ diplomacy at its worse. Every race is purely white/black so it doesn't matter what you do. Evil races will always be evil and no matter how much you try to befriend them and pay them off they'll always end up hating you and stabbing you in the back. Every other race is nice and you can easily trade with them and become allies with little effort, but there's no point in alliances anyways, your allies will never come to your rescue or help you expand unless you pay them gazillions.

That's another thing, everything in the Space stage costs tons. If you wanna expand your empire, you need to spend tons buying colonization and terraforming tools while still building up your cities to their maximum efficiency. And you still need to keep on improving your ship with various costly upgrades because it's pretty useless at the start. Allies are much the same, charging you if you ever need their help waging war or if one of your commercial routes has finally paid off. You end up spending as much as you would if they were your enemies that you keep paying off to not bug you, or instead spend tons fixing all their damage on your cities because they sure don't fix themselves. Even your own empire

Third, it's buggy. It's not just minor glitches or flaws, it's annoying bugs. Whenever you're leaving a planet, there's a 50/50 chance that the game will jam. Sure the rest of the game still works, it's just your ship's stuck and you're not out in space so you can't save, just quit. Sometimes the game will forgot the improvements you built on some planet's city, throwing all the spent money down the drain. Other times it decides to forget about some objective you've accomplished or screw up entirely because you had already accomplished it before you even got the mission.

Honestly, I was pretty happy with the game so far, but given this was supposed to be the gloriously promised sandbox, it's a huge letdown. :(

Well, I've worked out the trick to tribal mode (at least, if you're a herbivorous social type like me :p). Took me a while to work out that they wanted me to play those instruments when the speech bubble came up. Also, fireworks are awesome - turning angry red people into happy blue people in an instant (and then you social them into allies :p).

... and then my game crashed. Run-time error or something. Still, now I know the trick.

@ Sup: Owch. Weren't we promised a giant sandbox for the Space stage? What's with all this stuff?

I did find out that it is a good thing to manually save. I didn't then I had to re-kill a tribe. I am currently in the Space Stage and I don't find it that bad. But I've only just reached.

EDIT: Link to Spore page in my sig if anyone wants my creatures and crappy vehicles.

I was actually a bit disappointed with Space too. Well, with what i've seen so far. :c It's just not how I was expecting it, I suppose.

Hmm... I did not know about this feature yet: Spore automatically saves gifs of your creations as they were being built!
For example:
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/483/sporegif20080907115806sw3.gif

@ Dan: Owch. Weren't we promised a giant sandbox for the Space stage? What's with all this stuff?
At the start of the space stage, it's not quite a sandbox yet, and you still have to do all these missions to raise enough cash. But as you play on and get a proper foothold, you're safe to ignore all those missions and emergencies, because you get enough money from the spice trade alone and because actually losing a colony or alliance is a very small deal.
Of course, if you didn't think things through, you'd probably still be doing what a few people I know do and continue trying to hunt down every pirate you're warned about, regardless of the fact that you probably don't even collect spice from that colony. Showing that Maxis made the mistake of, like many others did, thinking that the average person has common sense.

First we were Stargazing...

http://i37.tinypic.com/1fckjr.png

Then it was a meteor shower...

http://i37.tinypic.com/mx25ad.png

And now Plasma you're a bum. I was trying to make friends and look what kind of Epic came along.

http://i33.tinypic.com/246t20o.png

I have time now, so I'm going back over points I missed.

To add to the increased scle, everything is tiny. If you try to analyze or pick up anything you'll probably end up picking up a lot of other things that happened to be in your way, and you often have to get to things that are hopelessly covered by foliage. Combat is a game of pixel-precision point-n-click as you try to keep your ship moving to dodge all incoming fire while still being within the range of your weapons so you can keep madly clicking your cursor at enemies to attack them hoping you don't click on the wrong thing and hit one of your cities.
I didn't really mind everything being tiny because it didn't matter if I picked up random plants. They are free to collect and jettison from your cargo.
As for combat, I didn't bother trying to dodge missiles, so I wouldn't know.

Second, diplomacy is crap. It's Civ diplomacy at its worse. Every race is purely white/black so it doesn't matter what you do. Evil races will always be evil and no matter how much you try to befriend them and pay them off they'll always end up hating you and stabbing you in the back. Every other race is nice and you can easily trade with them and become allies with little effort,
Who-wha? No, that's not how it works at all. Each race has a certain amount of trust/distrust with strangers, but there's no race that just won't ally with you if you try hard enough. Heck, it's even possible to ally with the huge, hates-everyone-else-and-wants-them-dead race!
Although actually doing that makes every other race automatically declare war on you.

Also, so you know, you can only buy friendship with another race to a certain point (+50), after which you'll need to do missions or use Happy Rays.

but there's no point in alliances anyways, your allies will never come to your rescue or help you expand unless you pay them gazillions.
Not entirely true. Yes, its annoying that they don't rescue your planets, but they do help you fight if the opponent is enough of a threat and is close enough.
In fact, one strategy for defeating The Grox is to put Monoliths on planets just outside their borders and ally with the resulting Space races. They'll then go out and start fighting the Grox for you.

Third, it's buggy. It's not just minor glitches or flaws, it's annoying bugs. Whenever you're leaving a planet, there's a 50/50 chance that the game will jam. Sure the rest of the game still works, it's just your ship's stuck and you're not out in space so you can't save, just quit. Sometimes the game will forgot the improvements you built on some planet's city, throwing all the spent money down the drain. Other times it decides to forget about some objective you've accomplished or screw up entirely because you had already accomplished it before you even got the mission.
You're on your own there. It never jammed for me and only crashed twice: both times right after I loaded up the game, so I never lost progress. And I only had one problem with missions screwing up, and that was that in the 'Find an Artefact' mission, the game kept forgetting I had already done it if I stop by on too many planets on my way back.

Took me a while to work out that they wanted me to play those instruments when the speech bubble came up.
Wow, you really are bad at spotting obvious patterns! :o

And now Plasma you're a bum. I was trying to make friends and look what kind of Epic came along.
Umm... it's an Epic Giant Asanit, I can tell you that, but I can't tell what kind it is.
Also, I do wish you'd stop calling me a bum.

I didn't really mind everything being tiny because it didn't matter if I picked up random plants. They are free to collect and jettison from your cargo.Allies don't fancy such mistakes though. I assume most people around here play it in Easy anyways. :p

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Spore/Spore_GIF_2008-09-05_03-47-31.gif

I love this little guy.

Those who are totally annoyed with constant lack of money in the space stage: If you think you just can't take the frustration any more, or if you are just too lazy to try, you'd be suprised how much cheating can make the whole space stage funner.
Press Ctrl+Alt+C, then type in "moremoney" for a million sproebucks at any time.
I often use this cheat at the start of the space stage until I get a good foothold and then stop.

I cheated just to get the Joker badge. Then regretted it because, if you cheat, you can't unlock achievements in that savegame.
Then I just used the cheats to switch to Scientist anyway, since I already cheated.

Saay, what other particularly useful cheats are there? The 'help' command doesn't fully explain them.

Damn this game's great. I finally got to the Tribal stage last night and came across some epic creature of some sort.

Edit: I was going to destroy a tribe but came at the wrong time, because that creature was destroying things and started chasing me. Nice.

I haven't had any crashes or mission screw-ups yet. Also, I manually save a lot.

The only draw-back I see in space stage is the lack of customisable keys. I'd really like to have a more FPS-like keyboard layout to steer my ship.

Also, I's like to have a button to go all the way up or down on a planet at once, not scrolling 10 times with my mouse wheel to reach an orbit or a planet surface. What will you do in the space between anyway?

Other than that, I really like the space stage.
I think I will abstain from cheating and get all the money and badges the hard way (on 'easy' difficulty that is ;)).

Also, I's like to have a button to go all the way up or down on a planet at once, not scrolling 10 times with my mouse wheel to reach an orbit or a planet surface. What will you do in the space between anyway?
Heh, I didn't think of that. Because of the way Laptop mouse-pad-square-..things are made, you only have to hold your finger on the scroller to have it constantly scroll.

I haven't had any crashes or mission screw-ups yet. Also, I manually save a lot.

The only draw-back I see in space stage is the lack of customisable keys. I'd really like to have a more FPS-like keyboard layout to steer my ship.

Also, I's like to have a button to go all the way up or down on a planet at once, not scrolling 10 times with my mouse wheel to reach an orbit or a planet surface. What will you do in the space between anyway?

Other than that, I really like the space stage.
I think I will abstain from cheating and get all the money and badges the hard way (on 'easy' difficulty that is ;)).

You can hold + or - instead of scrolling.

Well so far everything is good. Got the space stage yesterday but havn't progressed far.
In the tribal stage I found it was much easier to socialise with other species by playing music over and over again.
In the Civ stage, I found the best bet was simple to murder everybody else with tanks, boats and eventually my Star Destroyer aircraft.
Don't know much about space travel yet. Is there an indication on where a planet you need to go to is located?

Whee, Civ stage.

So my first vehicle blows up randomly while it tries to convert a city.

My second vehicle gets EATEN by some giant winged thing pretty much as soon as it's built.

My third vehicle's still alive though.

Make lots and lots of vehicles and STORM the place.

And I mean LOTS of vehicles. Like about 15.


"Pay 1,245,123 Sporebucks to Spode!"
*PlanetBuster*

I have three questions to ask:

How do I go about getting the planet buster?

Any "general tips" anyone can give my on reaching the galactic centre?

More specificaly, is it at all possible to "do a runner" to the centre or do you have to be a bit more organised than that?

Just found out: the Scientist has the best ability I've come across:
Completely destroy all colonies on a planet!
It's like the PlanetBuster, only free, infinite and doesn't remove the planets themselves. But it does take some time to recharge.
For those non-cheaters of you, you can change to a Scientist if you're lucky enough to get a 'change archetype' mission from a Science-faring race.

Also, I've decided to make my current Empire the big one, by cheats, and play all other Empires normally: to be more precise, using the money cheat and unlock-all-creative-tools cheat (anyone who is cheating their way into sandbox, I strongly suggest using that one: it'll unlock all the planet and creature customising tools). To make things fair, I'm not going to use any purchased weapons against the Grox with this Empire, I'm gonna do it fair and square with the others.

How do I go about getting the planet buster?
Either conquor (defeat or capture) 40 planets or put down 200 buildings. But it's not an ability, in other words you have to buy each missile individually.


Any "general tips" anyone can give my on reaching the galactic centre?

More specificaly, is it at all possible to "do a runner" to the centre or do you have to be a bit more organised than that?
Doing a runner is the best way to do it, at least the first time. Buy about 20 full health recharges (depending on your health, but you'll use them later on anyway) and about three full energy recharges. Don't take any allies and turn off your autoblaster: shooting down a Grox ship instantly makes them declare war on you (and let me tell you, you don't want to get a war on your hands here!). Keep on moving forward as fast as you can.
The way back is easier. Just grab the closest warphole you can find, then just keep warphole-hopping until you find your way back home.

Killing the Grox is amazingly easy, once you know their weakness.

I wonder if it is possible to completely eliminate the Grox? That would keep you playing for a LOOONG time.

I wonder if it is possible to completely eliminate the Grox? That would keep you playing for a LOOONG time.
You remember when Will said of a secret ultimate ending that only 'hardcore' gamers could reach?

I'm settling better into Space phase now. The bug (http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-technical-support/335122-crashing-when-moving-planet-galaxy.html) still persists but lots of saving and random luck get around it.

I pretty much ignore any calls and just pop around my planets before they get captured, and spend all my money on pimping my ride since buying solar systems costs absurd amounts. And no I'm not cheating. :p

I'm no envious of your computers with your non pci only slots and non radion 9250 card.

Well, I use AGP. Believe it or not, AGP is actually a faster bus than PCI-E.

Since when?

Folks at Xspore have made a mod which lessens the frequency of attacks and bio-disasters in the space stage. (http://www.xspore.com/news/698_spore-mod-reduce-rate.html)

It is very untested right now so they don't know if it causes any side effects.
I'll wait to see how it works for you guys before I try it myself.

Is anyone having trouble logging into Spore? I believe there's a server error. Or is it just me?

Edit: Never mind It's working now.

Folks at Xspore have made a mod which lessens the frequency of attacks and bio-disasters in the space stage. (http://www.xspore.com/news/698_spore-mod-reduce-rate.html)
Aw man, but that ruins all the fun of knowing that your citizens are doomed while you enjoy a holiday with spatulas at the other side of the universe!

In any case, attacks at the beginning of the space stage are actually pretty good for income. And bio-disasters... I never knew what's so bad about that. Just go to your nearest inhabited planet, pick up one of everything, and drop it off at the now-dead place. Problem solved!

Plasma, i'm getting sick of seeing your bloody Asanit things in game. WHY SO MANY! :(

Aw man, but that ruins all the fun of knowing that your citizens are doomed while you enjoy a holiday with spatulas at the other side of the universe!

In any case, attacks at the beginning of the space stage are actually pretty good for income. And bio-disasters... I never knew what's so bad about that. Just go to your nearest inhabited planet, pick up one of everything, and drop it off at the now-dead place. Problem solved!

I can see where you're coming from and I agree with you: but others may not and just find the call-backs annoying.
In my next post I'll post all Arcana stuff. Also, I've put all Gorok stuff in a Sporecast a while ago.

Plasma, i'm getting sick of seeing your bloody Asanit things in game. WHY SO MANY! :(
It's only 11.6% of all my creations and decreasing. I've only come across about 6 of them myself.


Also Oft, there's not much point making a Sporecast for your Gorok stuff, considering it can't really be used for a Theme Game and considering that anyone who has you on their watchlist can just search 'Gorok'.

Arcana AKA DarkPlasmaGame update:
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/6969/arcanaciv2plansjpegfn0.th.jpg (http://img183.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arcanaciv2plansjpegfn0.jpg)

Civilisation stage started smoothly. After naming my capital Arcaven, I had my ground vehicles flatten one city while it was still a tribe at the start. When the first city rose (Crimson nation) I swiftly converted them. 5 minutes in and I already had two cities!
There was only one other large civilization sharing my island with me, the Militairy Yellow nation. Those annoying buggers kept attacking my cities and stealing my spice nodes, they had two cities before I could mount my first attack on one of their cities; that attack was a failure.
My second attack, however, was on their other city, the one by the sea and hence why I used sea vehicles for it, the city was eventually destoyed.
The second yellow nation city, the one I tried to attack first, was harder to take down...

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/3131/arcanaciv4lastyellowcitae4.th.jpg (http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arcanaciv4lastyellowcitae4.jpg)

It appeared that all the funds the yellow nation had saved up they now spent on deploying tanks, lots of them. I had to plough through them before I could get another shot at the city. I lost a lot of vehicles in the process, after building a few more the final yellow city was mine!

Four cities under control and air vehicles at my disposal I took a look arround the second island of the planet Cyrel where the other remaining nations fought among themselves. The moment I approached, the Economic Brown nation who had just a single city across the water from my capital requested to start a trade root between us, I accepted.
Unfortunately, no sooner had this trade root begun than the Brown Nation got destroyed. They were in a rather sticky situation as it was, being attacked by both the Green Nation and an epic creature.

The Militairy Blue nation contacted me and requested for an alliance if I declare war on their enemy, the Religious Red nation, I accepted. I began to attack the nearest Red city, I also donated money to the Green Nation to make them like me and then asked them to attack the same Red city with me.

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2355/arcanaciv5allybluewarregt9.th.jpg (http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arcanaciv5allybluewarregt9.jpg)

The Green reinforncements didn't arrive until after I had converted the Red City though, they attacked anyway! Confused, I ended up turning on my Green friends.

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/2/arcanaciv6confusionjpegev7.th.jpg (http://img389.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arcanaciv6confusionjpegev7.jpg)

The Green Nation one other city, after building LOTS of behicles of all three types, my forces and those of my Blue nation allies attacked both at once! The Greens were destroyed swiftly. In the aftermath of the fight the Blue nation contacted me expressingg their happiness at our victory and requested to merge with my nation.
Total control of the planet now belonged to the Arcaven nation!

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/3973/arcanaciv8bluesmergetotxq3.th.jpg (http://img110.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arcanaciv8bluesmergetotxq3.jpg)

My time in the space stage with the Arcana was brief, I met four other empires (all creatures of my own creation) I allied with one, made trade routes with another and colonized, painted and terraformed a planet.
I don't remember the creatures I used to populate the planet's ecosystem, I remember one was a Giant asanit and that's all.

It looks like here is where I shall leave the Arcana I'm afraid. The next game I start will be with the Rhyken and that will be the one I will use the most, I'm quite excited. My little four armed babies will soon be given life.

Finally: here's an in editor picture of the Arcana space ship: The Eternal Light.
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8628/theeternallightwd2.th.jpg (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=theeternallightwd2.jpg)

(I used Ctrl+H to make the interface dissapear, you can do this at any time during gameplay or in the editors.)

Well then: here's all the Arcana stuff... I'm off to start the Rhyken!

From left to right:

Arcana (as they appear in Space Stage)
Arcana Chorus (Religious Sea)
Arcana Ensemble (Religious Land)
Arcana Hummingbird (Religious Air)

Arcana Alcoves (House)
Arcana Lab (Factory)
Arcana Monastry (Entertainment building)
Arcana Nexus Spire (Town Hall)
The Eternal Light (UFO)

I'll try again to upload my Tribal pics in a minute...

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/3131/arcanaciv4lastyellowcitae4.th.jpg (http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arcanaciv4lastyellowcitae4.jpg)
Hey, I remember that creature in the corner! That was my 2nd last one with the stand-alone Creature Creator (#249), which I made with two identical heads and two identical pairs of legs! I liked that one...

It looks like here is where I shall leave the Arcana I'm afraid. The next game I start will be with the Rhyken and that will be the one I will use the most, I'm quite excited. My little four armed babies will soon be given life.
Good show.
I might use either one of those two races in a game myself at one point, if that's fine by you. Not anytime soon though, Golden Asanitopis is next on my list, which I plan on making my biggest non-cheating empire.

(I used Ctrl+H to make the interface dissapear, you can do this at any time during gameplay or in the editors.)
Note that the in-game screenshot function (by pressing C) is default set not to include the interface in the pictures, and can be set otherwise using the console commands (IIRC, 'hideUI'). Like most commands, it doesn't count as a cheat.

Right, OftGame Tribal time! I decided to play completely aggressively and wipe 'em out by force. So first step was to destroy the Pink Tribe of Water Mephrit.
And I wasn't kidding about it being a step:
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/9899/spore20080910173211hj0.th.png (http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080910173211hj0.png)
Geez, talk about a walkover!

As I razed their tribe to the ground, I found the Cyan tribe starting a fight on the way back. Not with me though...
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5189/spore20080910173806du9.th.png (http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080910173806du9.png)
They didn't stay long, and the rest of the Fisticuff guys learned that it's probably not a good idea to poke an Epic with a stick. (poor guy)

Point of interest: Tanglitches!
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/9124/spore20080910174952lz7.th.png (http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080910174952lz7.png)
Interest!

Right, next tribe: a bunch of Twiloc!
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8994/spore20080910175315ys4.th.png (http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080910175315ys4.png)
This one went fairly well. Lost a few, but won in the end, and I gained some nice Pointy Sticks as a reward. Now where's that Epic?

-On the way back, however, I got in a bit of an incident as the green tribe decided to send out a raiding party while I was gone!
Fortunately for me, I still had a pet here, and it did not like intruders:
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1117/spore20080910175621nk2.th.png (http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080910175621nk2.png)
That little bugger never stood a chance!

Along with my Pet Rockfoot, I also managed to tame a Wind Rider.
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/2807/spore20080910180517ta4.th.png (http://img149.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080910180517ta4.png)
As you can see, he's not very good at posing for the camera... *ugh*

Meet the orange tribe. I don't know what type of creature this one is, all I know is they decided to pick my tribal nest as a spot for raiding.
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/3617/spore20080910181401iv1.th.png (http://img149.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080910181401iv1.png)
They were dispatched of easily. I was tempted to clear out the rest of their tribe since they were now with fewer numbers, but I decided to wait and rest.
Also, look in the backround: It's a Twiloc! Not the ones I defeated, this is a non-tribal one. Fancy that for a coincidence.


Well, the Wind Rider didn't stay long:
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3836/spore20080910181723lj9.th.png (http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080910181723lj9.png)
They always were magnificent fliers...

Next tribe to kill is the greens:
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6314/spore20080910182146ai0.th.png (http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080910182146ai0.png)
There's no story to go with this. My new fancy spears took them out quickly. (I wanted to try get a pic of one impaled with spears, but I couldn't. At least the Monkey Epic had some in him)
Some of you might remember whose tail that is in the backround, considering that was the first Epic I came across in the Animal stage.

Going to war with the Cyans after that was easy. What do you expect from the guys who thought it would be a good idea to take on a creature several times bigger than they are?

Speaking of which, look what I found when I went to take on the Orange guys:
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7213/spore20080910183024pr3.th.png (http://img84.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spore20080910183024pr3.png)
Man, they'll have food for days with that thing!
-Or, at least, they would if I didn't kill them all. They were the hardest tribe to beat, as they had more guys than I did, but I still gottem down.

And so concludes the Tribal stage of OftGame. I wanted to post pic of a guy doing a dance performance with two Shamans as support, but that would be overtaking the ten-pic limit of double posting. Mabye some other time.
I won't be posting the story of the Civ phase, because there wasn't anything interesting in it. I basically took a running start at the whole thing, conquored the two surrounding cities, and then kept picking on the nations that were growing the fastest to make sure I'd be in the lead. The only thing worth pointing is that after I killed off everyone else, and was going for the 'Capture Every Spice Node' achievement, I got attacked! By an Epic Asanitopis (the very first Asanit I made)! That was fun...

So as for now, I think I'll start a Cell game on Hard for the achievement, then go back to do some Space-Faring with my new race (along with try and find the near-by colonies planted by my normal Empire, and constantly remind myself that the nearest Warphole there leads directly into The Grox Empire), and then make a start on my handless Golden Asanitopis tribe.

Is there an easy way to traverse round the Galaxy. Because continously clicking on dots and trying to remember where the hell wormholes come out is a bit of a pain.

And how is it your empire is the only one that has only got 1 spaceship?

Is there an easy way to traverse round the Galaxy. Because continously clicking on dots and trying to remember where the hell wormholes come out is a bit of a pain.
Don't wander too far from your wormholes, or you'll have a heck of a journey back!
Also, consider changing to Shaman, their ability is that they can instantly teleport back to the homeworld.

And how is it your empire is the only one that has only got 1 spaceship?
That was my biggest gripe with the Space stage, you weren't able to command other ships than your own.

Also, consider changing to Shaman, their ability is that they can instantly teleport back to the homeworld.


Which reminds me: Shaman was the class that Arcana turned out to be when I reached the space stage with them. It's cool because it means whenever I talk to my own colony they have a really snazzy background behind them. (I have a theory that the background when you talk to your colonies depends on your first class.)

Which reminds me: Shaman was the class that Arcana turned out to be when I reached the space stage with them.
Yeah, I'd say Shaman would be the most suited class. Next would be Zealot, but they're not really a worshipping race.
Shaman, Trader and Warrior are the three easiest classes to get (aside from Wanderer, of course, which you get by starting a stage straight in Space), as you just have to be mostly peaceful (Shaman), mostly neutral (Trader) or mostly aggressive (Warrior). The other six depend on having a mix of traits.

(I have a theory that the background when you talk to your colonies depends on your first class.)
No. The background to your colonies depends on your current class, not your first. I know from having switched to Scientist.

Well my main game species have the Warrior card.
I have one with Zealot and another with the Shaman class.

I have to say, it's quite funny being able to kill the Grox on a planet without actually having to fight them, but I don't think it would be sensible to try and clear my way to the galaxy centre like that.

Alright, so I'm going to buy this game one of these days, and I have a very n00b question.:o

The creature creator. They offer a "trial version" that you can download free, and then a version you have to pay for. And then there's the game itself. If you buy the game, does it come with the full creature creator, or only the trial?

It would make the most sense if it came with the full creator, but then why would they bother offering the paid editor if it only really applied to people who wanted to make creatures but not buy the game? And that's why I'm confused.

edit: and I'm sorry if this has been answered before - I didn't want to read the whole thread for fear of spoiling something. Not that there's terribly much to spoil, but still.

Full game has the creature creator implemented in it. There's no point in buying the full CC.

Yes, the full game has the full creature creator in it, not forgetting all of the other creators in the full game as well like vehicles and buildings.

It would make the most sense if it came with the full creator, but then why would they bother offering the paid editor if it only really applied to people who wanted to make creatures but not buy the game? And that's why I'm confused.
It was released a while before Spore, and EA haven't decided to take it down yet in case there are a few who do want to get it, so it stays.

edit: and I'm sorry if this has been answered before - I didn't want to read the whole thread for fear of spoiling something. Not that there's terribly much to spoil, but still.
SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!

SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE!BUT IT TURNS OUT IT WAS ALL PART OF DUMBLEDORE'S MASTER PLAN!

(hope that's not too soon)

Haven't played Spore for a while: I've been distracted by getting a GBA emulator (because I want to be able to play Advance Wars and Sonic Advance and stuff online with Sup) and playing through AW2's campaign again to get all the COs back. But I don't mind, because it's still as awesome as ever.

Space stage is finally coming together for me now that I've pimped up my spaceship enough to actually pose a threat with the MEGA LASER HELL YEAH (which, although the description claims it's only for land units, it works EVERYWHERE) and took down some annoying enemies while allying with others.

So with things settled down, I decided to venture out and go explore the system. Found some wormholes (can't use them yet), made a ton of alliances and found out travelling actually spends energy and your ship slowly deteriorates without it. (luckily there's plenty of empires to keep you loaded) So I decided to check out my previous savegame, which is conveniently marked on the map.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Spore/th_spore_savegame1.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Spore/spore_savegame1.jpg)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Spore/th_spore_savegame2.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Spore/spore_savegame2.jpg)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Spore/th_spore_savegame3.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Spore/spore_savegame3.jpg)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Spore/th_spore_savegame4.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/Spore/spore_savegame4.jpg)
Sadly, once you actually get there, it's a bit of a kick in the knickers. While you can explore to your heart's content, you're not allowed to interact or change the system in any way. And because ecosystems have much less creatures than the actual Creature stage, I couldn't find my creature. :(

Btw, just how much money does it take to buy a star system, because my allies keep calling me a cheapskate.