In the Cell and Creature stages, from what I've seen, you always play as a female. The actual fertilization of the egg by the male happens off-camera while you're in the creator.

I suppose, though, that it's easy enough to claim that your own race is parthenogenic, hermaphroditic, or mates in a manner completely incomprehensible to modern biologists.

sikyanakotik wrote:In the Cell and Creature stages, from what I've seen, you always play as a female. The actual fertilization of the egg by the male happens off-camera while you're in the creator.

I suppose, though, that it's easy enough to claim that your own race is parthenogenic, hermaphroditic, or mates in a manner completely incomprehensible to modern biologists.

I hope this topic doesn't get too smart. I'm trying to get a topic into the hottest topics section that ends up being a discussion of the most ridiculous ideas involving mating to ever grace an EA forum.

Here's to hope .

XD!

The Xutro Empire wishes to remind the Chelkan that all species in the Galaxy are in fact asexual, and therefore as there is no Female, she cannot possibly incubate an egg for 90:00:00 sectons, as this is ridiculous. One would be nine-tenths of the way to the ATS Achievement before entering the Second Generation.

ya, I really don't like how you either have to be a female, or your neither. If the make a spore update, they need to make it so you can change your gender

During the space stage...well, all that I could stomach of it...my first race had both a mixture of male and female comm operators. It was actually a pretty even split between the two genders. I'm not sure if that's significant, but it was nice to see.

delraxaxen wrote:The Xutro Empire wishes to remind the Chelkan that all species in the Galaxy are in fact asexual, and therefore as there is no Female, she cannot possibly incubate an egg for 90:00:00 sectons, as this is ridiculous. One would be nine-tenths of the way to the ATS Achievement before entering the Second Generation.

Asexuals are just creatures that haven't made up their mind yet.

We are at war here folks, pick a side.

/me hopes Stephen Colbert doesn't read the Sporum >_> <_<

Plus I don't see why an Asexual creature needs a friend to party. I'm pretty sure germs don't run around looking for mates before they split.

theultimateend wrote:

delraxaxen wrote:The Xutro Empire wishes to remind the Chelkan that all species in the Galaxy are in fact asexual, and therefore as there is no Female, she cannot possibly incubate an egg for 90:00:00 sectons, as this is ridiculous. One would be nine-tenths of the way to the ATS Achievement before entering the Second Generation.

Asexuals are just creatures that haven't made up their mind yet.

We are at war here folks, pick a side.

/me hopes Stephen Colbert doesn't read the Sporum >_> <_<

Plus I don't see why an Asexual creature needs a friend to party. I'm pretty sure germs don't run around looking for mates before they split.

The difference is that partying allows your creature to evolve for some reason. Once the partying stops, your creature is fixed for form permanently.

Quira wrote:Of course, this doesn't quite answer how tribe child-bearing works, but it's my opinion that by that time, the creature has figured how to induce egg-laying by themselves, though this has the unfortunate side effect of halting all further DNA mutations; pure asexual reproduction in the sense that all future generations are genetic clones of the original. On that note, that does mean that there's a slave-"queen" in every main hut, and every time we burn down a main hut, we're burning a creature alive...

No the tribe members are just holding a male and female of their own species hostage in the hut. The hut actually has no door. The creatures are not allowed to stop mating ever, and to make sure they don't escape, they're tied together in a position that makes babies. Once your creatures reach that intelligence level, the mating dance in creature stage is a criminal act punishable by sacrifice. So tribe members kidnap a male and female of their own species, tie them into that baby creating position, and seal them into the hut. The other tribes mate in the same way, but mating is entirely optional for all tribe members. Anyway, give up on trying to see what happens in there, your tribe's chief did a great job of concealing it.

Why not just have your creatures go somewhere where you can't see them, like a cave, and then come out with an egg?
Or just get really big then split in half like a cell.

Actually the best discription of races in SPORE would be A sexual reproduction.

Often creatures that do this are Egg layers, and every generation is nearly exactly a clone of the last. However this often makes the population weak to viral infection as they will all have nearly the exact same resistance to it.

Which would explain why a eco disaster can wipe out an entire population of creatures.

I lay eggs and am no female
That's prejudice

CopperWolf wrote:
Or just get really big then split in half like a cell.

lol. binary fission. lol.

Yes, I demand a genital expansion pack ….that came out wrong.

Does it matter? Once I hatch I'm no longer playing as one of the parent creatures any way.

battery1979 wrote:Does it matter? Once I hatch I'm no longer playing as one of the parent creatures any way.

You're still female since you're the one going to lay the egg on the next mating... and the next one... and the next one... and so forth... and so on...

One could claim that in their species the male is the one who lays the eggs, but it doesn't matter to biology. By definition, the female is always the one who produces the egg.