Armbyorg wrote:

Because THIS dog will eventually bite. And bite hard.

That's a nice metaphor, but really, what can you do about it?

Write a number of extremely rude letters and e-mails, send them and then sit back feeling smug, refusing to admit that in this regard, impotence is all-powerful.

Where do I sign up?

I'd like an aquatic stage, but I'd like it as an alternative to the creature stage. Instead of growing legs, you stay underwater and evolve there. Having an aquatic civ would be a nice change of pace.

i want aquatic syage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think they should make an expansion or even a separate game the tapps into the creations of Spore and Call it

Spore Safarii or Spore Planet.

Now this would be kinda like creature stage except the Planets would be Far bigger. It would have different environments and just hundreds or thousands of creatures.


Now as you Play as a creature you have to adapt you evolution to the environment you want to enter.

So for example you pick your creature to start out in a forest and then start exploring the forest.

You evolve by surviving and mating with members of your own species. You might even get to evolve new levels of social interaction and be allowed to form packs or herd depending on a few factors.

You could have new stats added in like Camouflage, which would be kinda like sneak but it would involve not only the typoe of feat you have but also your color and skin texture vs the general environment.

You would alos be given the ability to adapt internal organs like lungs,heart stomach,
The eyes , ears , tongue, Some eyes would allow you to see in color while others would not but would give other advantages. Having ears wouldallow you to hear but creatures without ears might be given another form of hearing like vibration.

You would be allowed to raise the scores on these parts to gove your creature better sight, hearing , smell , taste or sense of touch. Placement of parts would have effets like

Warning _ this ability would be like a natural instinct that inform you of when your in danger. Your creature gets this ability to start but dependi9ng on placemetn of parts and how high their score is your warning wouldbe higher or lower.

IF you warning score is less then a predators Camouflage score then you are likely to get ambushed.

So a basic list of stats would be

Camouflage
Warning
Olfactory
sight
hearing
touch
sense

Strength
Health
Speed
Dodge
Swim
Climb

etc I have lots more

These stats would be affected by how much you place into them and where on your creature you place them.
Now even though you would still have a creative influence over your creature you would have to choose between asthetic design and practical need of the creature.

But also what natural enemies you have in that environment.

So If your creature has bright coloring then it might have a higher chance to mate but standout and have a low Camouflage. But only vs creatures who can see things in color.

Then you could add stats or abilities like
Flight
litters or young as in how many your species has
Egg or live birth

Etc

There ar limitless combos hense they can avoid the ultimate design which was what trned them away form morphology.

I think as well that Spore should increase the creature gameplay alot more. I mean really, what kind of creature do you know goes around and dances for another one? There should be much more depth to the creature stage because it DESERVES better gameplay.

And the difference to Creature stage would be...?

Although this petition won't really affect Maxis in any way, I'll sign up. I want an aquatic stage.

guys, guys, you know about those animation essues they had? there probely trying to fix it. sure i would like a aquaic stage and make sea creatures, but give them TIME!!!!!! they get it done, but we have to wait

*Shrug* I'll sign, though I'd hope that Maxis would include it in a expansion pack whose focus is on making the creature stage more of a simulation and less of a primitive rpg.

I'll sign up.. Though I'd rather it be taht you could go in and out of the water, and evolve your creatue to adapt to it... that would be cool...

No, guys, as awsome as it would be to have a water stage by itself, trust me, you would get bored out of your mind eventually. At the end of cell stage you should get the option: water or land creature, then tribe and civ would be underwater too if you chose water creature. Plus it would make more of a variety of creatures. (Sighn me up)

me too. count me in. (although im sure they are already working on it-mainly because they already had it in beta)

I sign.

YEAH! i agree! I want a water stage after cell and before creature! just something to get you warmed up to the creature stage, maybe even though in some unique stuff. And as far as navigation problems go, just do it like the space stage.