Post your feedback about the website and the forum in this thread. The Sporepedia, the search engine, your Spore page and creation list etc.

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Please add a place specifically for Bug Reports, and divide the Feedback Forum into Positive/Negative/General for ease.

elliander wrote:
Please add a place specifically for Bug Reports, and divide the Feedback Forum into Positive/Negative/General for ease.

While a separate section for bug reports is a good idea and has been mentioned, I'm not sure that qualifying feedback as negative or positive would be useful. Hopefully, feedback can be critical, but positive at the same time.


For example, "I think this could be improved". Is that positive or negative?

sporemasternumerator wrote:
For example, "I think this could be improved". Is that positive or negative?

No, that would be general. So would saying, "I don't like this, but think it should be like this." But maybe positive and negative is a bit too sharp a way of putting it.

For example,

"I really loved the cell stage and think it should be expanded on." (and I really do!)

That is a positive statement with a feedback.

It could also be written as,

"I really hated how short the cell stage was and really wish there was more to it."

Same statement, written two different ways. It all depends on how the user's mood is. Did my experience put me in a good mood, or a bad mood? That will shape how I express my opinion. Usually negative experiences get repeated much more than positive and that is a good reason to put it into different sections howeever that is done.

What happened to the Multiverse reports about our creatures? I thought we'd be able to know whenever someone interacted with one of our creations, like befriended them or made them extinct. There is an events page on the my spore page but it has a very limited view of what different people are doing, like only 3 slots, with no history, and usually I just see what someone who I have favorited did with someone else's creature. I think everyone would like more tracking of just what's happening with their creations in other people's games.

1) I've noticed there seems to be a discrepancy between my most popular creature (Anubite) and the list of ALL the most popular creatures. When I look through the full list my 15th most popular creature (Space Chihuahua) is the first one I find which means the 14 more popular creatures are not being shown.

2) Loving the new search options but they sometimes give me the wrong results. If you want to look at the most popular new vehicles you need to click on the 'most popular new' first and THEN 'vehicles.' If you do it the other way round you just the 'most popular' vechicles instead and have to click 'most popular new' again. (Nothing major, just reporting it in case it was overlooked... I know you must be rushed off your feet right now!)

3) I'm sure you have this planned anyway but could we have more control over searches so you can chose to look for creation names, usernames or tags.

4) When I login it usually takes me to the public view of my profile so I have to click on my avatar to login properly and check comments.

5) Accepted comments on creatures don't seem to have a pic anymore

6) In 'Manage comments' could we have the usernames as links so you can check out their pages easily

7) Also in 'Manage comments,' it would be great if clicking on the creature pic would open a new browser tab/window so we could instantly respond.

8 ) Could we have the rating buttons in the ingame sporepedia so we can rate them without having to look up the creature again online.

9) I'd like to be able to say a little more on my profile page. The community has evolved a system of having a mailbox creature so everyone can have a little forum of sorts and report news in the creature description. It would be ideal if you could assign 1 creature as your mailbox that has its own cell on your profile. (Plus tagging it so they don't turn up in games)

10) Some (all? ) of the features in the firefox addon 'Sporescope' would be great for people who don't use firefox

11) More room in the sporecast descriptions please! 100 characters isn't enough, esp as that isn't even the whole box!

12) Comments on Sporecasts would be lovely!

On the whole though the website is great!
A few of things I wanted to mention so it isn't all negative!

- I am incredibly impressed with the way we can DL creatures via pngs! I have no idea how you did that... pat on the back for the genius that came up with that!

- I like how we can move the cells on our profile pages around now

- Loving the sharp new sporepedia pics!

- I can't thankyou enough for the extra comment space!

Does Spore automatically download content similar to what I have been making when I am logged on, like was announced a few years ago, or is that feature yet to be implemented? Or some way to subscribe to a user's content automatically downloading whatever they upload?

As far as content creation goes, I want to be able to restrict content appearing in my world to only one creature of the same name being generated. And then, if it runs out of alternatives, using as few of the same name as possible. Because when I went into the Tribal Stage 2 of the other tribes were previous versions of the creature I ended up with while another version was busy stealing my food. I liked the concept of previous evolved strains going on in their own direction, like different kinds of apes, but sometimes I want a bit more diversity of content.

This forum is not automatically saving credentials on firefox. I have to log in every time I visit. The other forum saved our credentials.

The forum's not set to allow automatic logins. It's on my list of features needed for the forum.

http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/177.page

I think that would also make a good sticky even if I did start it. Anyhow, everything there is what I would like to see in the forum.

I also want the events to show a LOT more than they do. The online events don't list everything the in-game events do and you're limited to seeing very few events in either location. Definitely needs changed.

I would love to see the ability to share the music we make in the music editor. I'm sure your composers worked hard on that tool and would love to see what we come up with using it.

I dunno if this has been fixed already but, as of a few days ago, the bug "accessing my spore page in-game results in the internet sporepedia avatar being changed to whatever the last building, vehicle etc you accessed in an editor" was still around

First off, bravo for getting off of EA's crappy, buggy web forum layout. Jforum is much superior. And thanks for finally letting us post pictures, movies, and even letting us use HTML again!


Now I really gotta say: the sporecast is an underdeveloped idea. We need more functionality: I was thinking a "search by buddylist" option and a comment box.


Sporecasts made on the website still have some problems. Tags do not seem to properly work.

Also, I really want a feature that lets you suggest a creation for a sporecast. I was thinking that users would be limited to 1 creation suggestion per sporecast per day, to prevent abuse. The creations would have to be approved by the sporecast creator before appearing. This would allow a lot more sharing of content and really lead to a widespread use for sporecasts, and also could be a great way to find new quality content.

Oh another thing; could we get a cell on our profile pages with our sporecasts (or highlights with a link to them all?)
Thankies!

It would be AWESOME, if when viewing a specific creation's sporepage, there was either a Flash or Silverlight control which actually loaded the creation up so you could spin it and rotate it to see it in 3D on the website!

Could we get a "Upcoming additions" thing for spore? I think you'd be able to quiet the (even I admit) annoyingly large amount of complainers by a "planned work" kind of thing.

People hate dark space and the unknown future is what is causing the most fire here methinks.

Oh I thought of another...!

The up/down arrows for the left hand menu in sporepedia feel like they're round the wrong way. When you want to see further down the list you have to scroll up the page and press the down button.