Ok, if you ask me the five stages in spore simply don't cover the history of a race if you ask me. Do they think that cells suddenly sprouted leggs and started walking around as creatures a thousand times their size? No. Do they think that these creatures discover tools and immeadiatly start building villages in moments? No. Do they think that these villages suddenly started waging advanced warfare with nothing but vehicles? No. If you ask me, we need new stages and perhaps a sub-stage or two. Allow me to list my ideas(Please note that they require worlds much bigger).

1. We need a stage between cell and creature: The Begining stage. This and creature stage would have the most impact upon the rest of the game. Why? Because in beginngs stage you not only chose red, blue, or green, but you choose land, sky, or sea (Or underground). You see, in The Begining stage you chose to become an aquatic creature, one that walks the earth, one the flys for a living, or one that spends it's time underground(AKA: Fish like creature, small mammal/reptile, small bird, or mole like creature). In creture stage you choice would continue and for a high amount of DNA points you could become a diffrent type of being. Whatever you chose in The Begining (Or creature) will affect the rest of the game. For instance, cities/colonies on land for an aquatic race will be highly expensive because they have to be giant bubbles filled with water. Or Underground creatures which can't survive above ground without a bubble of dark glass to block out the burning sunlight. The list goes on.

2. Inbetween tribe and civ should be another stage: Fortress stage and Development stage. Fortress would cover time from the egyptions to the end of the middle ages. Development would cover from the rennesciounce through modern times untill only vehicles and not ground troups are used in warfare. Simple enough concept.

3. Another stage that would be nice to have would be one were you must conquer the other types of beings that you did not chose to be in The Begining and Creature. So land civilizations, once they rule over all ground under the sun, must conquer the civilizations beneath them in the earth, surrounding them in the deapths of the ocean, and obove them in the floating cities of the sky(Don't ask me how that last one works).

4. Finaly, there should be a tenth stage unlocked during space in which you develop the ability to send creatures to nearby galaxies. However, none of the diffrent players home galaxies are near enough each other to find one another, however there are galaxies that multiple players can reach. To be clear: this tenth phase would be you traveling to multiplayer galaxies and competing with other selected players for control of them. You are never able to go to another players galaxy unless that player is your freind and you are invited there. If so, you will not be able to attack that players worlds and they can send you out at any time.

Good ideas? Feel free to add your own.

1. It exists, or existed. It was the aquatic stage before you reach landfall.

The rest, all interesting ideas but I feel it would add too much to the "mini-game" aspect that the current phases suffer from. They're not complex and engaging enough. Adding more phases would only make that worse. I would rather see the current phases enhanced.

Okay, your ideas are good, Maxis had 3 of them before EA destroyed them.

1. Fish Stage, ( Development )
2. Underwater biology.
3. Fortress Stage.

I like your idea.

I guess to EA/Maxis...you can't be sentient beings without being able to walk on land and only breath air. Such a shame...that's really thinking inside the box there EA & Maxis.

I understand why you'd want additional stages in Spore. It is, indeed, very spread out. However, only a few stages are necessary. The 'Beginning' Stage, or Aquatic Stage, was developed, but Maxis (or EA) took it out for unknown reasons. The Fortress Stage is unneeded, for some in-depth reasons I'm to lazy to type. The Development stage is a good idea, but would be hard to execute, for it'd be a whole Age of Empires game in Spore. The additional stage of defeating underwater, land, underground creatures is not needed. MAYBE your last idea could work, if you'd be able to go to other peoples galaxies, only if they allowed you. Like a friend-code system, like Nintendo's.

Bottom Line: Great ideas, but would be hard to execute, for Spore is already complicated, and is screwing up, so Maxis would have to fix those before adding whole stages. To bad they wont add anymore stages ...





...Most Likely...

I would just mainly like the see the Aquatic and the Galatic Stages

Ahh, very nice ideas.

I particularly like Fortress and Development stage. I'm envisioning it as one of those "defend your castle" games.

However, with all these features, Spore would need an adequate story line to go with it. Think about it: there was no overall plot until Space stage, when you encounter the Grox. The goal was to evolve in a controlled creator. A neat idea would to have a rival race, from cell scale to universal scale, always competing with you. Have a boss battle, business meeting, debate, or whatever floats your archetype against that race.

Also, since Will Wright is the famous Sims creator, I demand a Spore Sim mini-stage. The mini-stage would be available around Civ, where you could control a specific Sporian; let's name him Bob. Bob can go out on dates, raise a family, check out the town, go clubbing... Anything. =3

/twocents