What, are you guys busy playing Spore not to make a Spore thread? Fuck

[Nate]

You know, one time back when I worked for Ford, I cracked a joke to someone about Eugenics. I learnt then that in that environment you have to be careful about what comments you make; not that the guy was insulted by the concept of Eugenics, just that the average mechanic has absolutely no idea what Eugenics is and will look at me like I'm some elitist schmuck for using words he can't understand.

[Wil]

I was going to get Spore this week, but my hard drive turns out to have just a couple hundred megabytes of free space, so… not yet.

[Havoc]

Here's some of the stuff I've been making.

http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=...trm|2250780133

Post your usernames people I want to see the creativity flow!

[Strike Witch]

Already shared my critters.

Take pictures if you run into and destroy them, okay?

[Havoc]

I'll show you a picture of their planet just before I BLOW IT UP!! MWHAHA

[abe619]

well I am getting spore , through warez ofcourse .

[Munch's Master]

I bought Spore last Sunday. I've not uplaoded any creatures yet apart from the ones that are auto-shared when you evovle your creature through creature phase, but i've made several things, and tried a couple Oddworld things, namely a resurrection totem and a transformation shrine, as well as a piss-poor Elum.

I love the game, but have 1 major problem/question- in creature phase, I have only encountered Maxis creatures thus far, and 1 user created creature called a Carnivora . In the Sporepedia also, only Maxis stuff and a handful of other stuff appears under the Everything tab, racking up around 1600 creations total, and only a few different creations appear under the search tab (the newest actual uplaoded ones fro mwhat I can tell), and I can't seem to search as it says it can't connect. I've tried downloading PNGs via spore.com/sporepedia to upload, and the creatures don't appear. Also, from what I can tell in my settings, I haven't set it to Maxis-only (although to be honest, I don't know how you can see what you've regulated the Sporepedia as). So yeah, currently the massively multiplayer online sharing isn't coming into effect for me, can anybody shed some light as to why? I've online-activated my account as well, before anyone asks.

It's as though my game can't connect to the full Sporepedia, even though there is no reason for it not to be able to.

[Laser]

I hate the Maxis crap, it sucks compared to the other creations


I came across a Balrog which had Flareon as carnivores on the planet.

Pure Awesome

[metroixer]

I don't think the intense online stuff comes in until civ or space.

[Strike Witch]

Yeah, Maxis made way more creatures then they did Civs and Space stuff.

The game dowloads stuff over time, you just need to give it more. Also, adding people to your buddy list fasttracks their stuff to yours.

[metroixer]

BTW

http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=...xer|2264255068

Add me and stuffs if you all feel like.

I would also like to add during tribal phase I actually ran into a wild group of glukkons made by a guy I buddied. I promptly killed them and cooked them up. The irony was ASTOUNDING.

[Havoc]

Not really helping with the link there mate. That takes me to MY profile.

[Nate]

So. Are we listing names so that we can share animals and whatnot?
My username is 'thornate'.

[Munch's Master]

Well, I've not uploaded anything yet, but I intend to soon, as I have been designing a plethora of things based around a 2-race civilisation I have invented.

And I'll be sure to add y'alls to my buddy list.

[Havoc]

Space stage really sucks!

"HELP!!!! OMG WE'RE BEING ATTACKED AGAIN!!!!"

That every two fucking seconds. Drives me fucking crazy!

[Bullet Magnet]

I'm DarkBulletMagnet. Fear my birds and arthropods.

My old room mate encountered my scrab scaled up to a size towering above the trees. Frightened the life out of us.

[Munch's Master]

Space stage really sucks!

"HELP!!!! OMG WE'RE BEING ATTACKED AGAIN!!!!"

That every two fucking seconds. Drives me fucking crazy!

I've read around about this. From what i can tell it is in soem ways random as to when this happens, but the way you expand can also play a factor. Expand slowly, building good defences on all your colonies and fully colonising a solar system before moving on. Also, expanding away from the Gaalactic Core can also help. Taking missions may also provoke enemies too, depending on the mission.



But, nobody able to help me on why I can't seem to download creatures? In game search doesn't work, and saving PNGs from spore.com into the Creature folder in My Spore Creations doesn't work either (which the manual says you should do). No help at all?

BM, have you subscribed to any Sporecasts, added any buddies with OW content etc.? As I want to experience similar stuff but right now I'm only seeing endless Maxis stuff.

[Anonyman!]

Anonyman

Yeah, I'm creative.

Most of the buildings I've used have been slight edits to the Maxis buildings, but I'll start building some good uns.

[Strike Witch]

Uh, server is apparently down right now.

[metroixer]

Not really helping with the link there mate. That takes me to MY profile.

My bad, made a (Hopefully) better link.

I've heard you can search for a mod around gamefaqs to put down the random attacks in space. Although I dunno if it actually works or not :/.

Also, I call bull on the galactic code. How was I supposed to know that testing out a weapon of mass destruction on a barren planet would make people hate me? D:

[Havoc]

Spore, as far as I've seen, is very complicated to begin with. The player doesn't seem to get any kind of tutorial a lot of the time and is expected to read the manual or the Spore-guide to understand what the hell you have to do at certain times.

Even some of the missions are extremely vague. You are sent out to collect some stuff, at some planet which you have to SEARCH FOR FIRST and when you find it you suddenly get ambushed by enemy ships. I mean come on, that's just frustrating for any kind of player.

Also my home planet easily just sent me to one of the most fortified planets in the universe which they expected me to level with just my mini-laser since I couldn't afford anything else at that point, and who would expect the player to have money to have high tech weapons... those were TUTORIAL missions.

I think Space Stage was rushed out because there are a LOT of things broken there. I hope they patch stuff like this at some point because Space Stage is just not fun this way.

[Strike Witch]

Anonyman, you fucker!

You killed one of my species!

[Nate]

GAH! Ever since my creatures moved on from their first nest, I have been hopelessly outclassed. I'm not strong enough to befriend any creatures and I'm not strong enough to defend myself from the rampaging schmucks. Also, I end up starving because I'm carnivorous and I can't kill anything to eat it. I think I'm going to end up backtracking quite far to find some weak creatures to add to my pack to help me out. As long as they don't get killed on the way.

[Bullet Magnet]

Have you tried socialising with your own species? They can join you in your pack and assist in combat.

Also, you can breed before you starve.

BM, have you subscribed to any Sporecasts, added any buddies with OW content etc.? As I want to experience similar stuff but right now I'm only seeing endless Maxis stuff.

I don't have the game, I'm afraid. I lack the hardware, and the funds to acquire the hardware, so it's just the Creature Creator for me.

The Maxis stuff will peter out when you download more content.

[Nate]

Does it automatically download content, or do I need to tell it to do that?

[Havoc]

Should do it by default unless you told it not to .

[Ollyabe]

Whoops know I'm a bit late but my username is gigiddy!!

Bought it 2 thursdays ago for $100

I don't like civ stage becuase I sucked at it and just made friends with everyone, tried to make war and lost...so I got my bud to kill em!! Space stage is pretty good, I love killing helpless creatures in tribal then running away after realising they're stronger, cell was okay and Creature was awesome, killing every creature possible and adding the really strong ones to my pack! Haven't added any online content but I will soon when my internet on the PC with spore on it starts to work!!

[Nate]

Wow, BM. I just checked out your gallery and you have some awesome creatures. Makes me wish I'd designed for aesthetics rather than tactics.

I now have more or less the strongest creature possible. He also looks like arse. I think I'll redesign before evolving to Tribal. Does the creature strength affect gameplay in Tribal?

[Anonyman!]

Wow, BM. I just checked out your gallery and you have some awesome creatures. Makes me wish I'd designed for aesthetics rather than tactics.

I now have more or less the strongest creature possible. He also looks like arse. I think I'll redesign before evolving to Tribal. Does the creature strength affect gameplay in Tribal?

No. Creature stage is pretty much all stats, but once you get to tribal, just unleash the creativity and make something pretty.
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I've added Ghost and BM as "buddies" so your creatures are everywhere, including an epic creature from BM that trolled me throughout the Creature stage.

[Strike Witch]

I demand pictures.

Also, you know how C is camera? V is video apparently.