My Idea to go back phases.

not a bad idea

This is a great idea! Now, if only they're writing all these down...

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Seems sound to me. Was thinking along those lines myself but your idea is better.
Though I'd say make it cheaper and not re-usable.

5 milll one shot. Call it a gooey string asteroid or something.
Drop it on a T2+ in systems that are unclaimed.

Boom cell-tribe phase with a new race at current difficulty. Does not use up a system slot in the galaxy menu. If you back out before tribe is finished, the planet reverts due to a string instability (reason below). Now the system is claimed with your creation and populated with creatures & plants that you saw in your stages.

Pretty much what Spore needs right now, as others have stated.

Difficulties are that it could prolly not be saved without serious game engine changes. You'd have to let the game idle on pause if you wanted a break. Otherwise you just eat the cost spent in time and sporebucks and bail out. Think of it as a voluntary Ironman of a sort.

Even with this limitation it sounds -great-
No different result than beaming down critters onto a planet now,
with the exception that the BMOC (BCOP?) is one you made.

Bump.

Bump.

Tomanomanous wrote:I just had this idea for space stage, I will try to simplify it.

You could buy a certain thing that can be used over for I say about 15 million sporebucks. I haven't decided on a name but this is used on a planet that is T1+ which is empty or in creature phase and you are sent to the ocean to start as a cell or to and as a creature depending on your preference. You have to do what you did in the past, make a creature, play it. You go around with other creatures. You can exit this and enter your space game any time but the planet could have a wormhole to it or such as it is easier to teleport to monitor. Once you've decided to take it to tribal they gain more control over themselves. You could transform your spaceship as the creature on that planet and control the tribe. Once it is Civilization on that planet you started on you can no longer control it.

You can decide to stop at any phase and the planet will remain to normal. If it is Cell it will not be seen around. If it is Creature it will be in the eco-system. If it is tribe it will remain a tribe unless you use a monolith. There should be achievements or badges for doing this a number of times.

Thank you for reading and enjoy posting.

this is freaky i was thinking something similar while using the creature creator tool earlier :O

CommanderT wrote:

Tomanomanous wrote:I just had this idea for space stage, I will try to simplify it.

You could buy a certain thing that can be used over for I say about 15 million sporebucks. I haven't decided on a name but this is used on a planet that is T1+ which is empty or in creature phase and you are sent to the ocean to start as a cell or to and as a creature depending on your preference. You have to do what you did in the past, make a creature, play it. You go around with other creatures. You can exit this and enter your space game any time but the planet could have a wormhole to it or such as it is easier to teleport to monitor. Once you've decided to take it to tribal they gain more control over themselves. You could transform your spaceship as the creature on that planet and control the tribe. Once it is Civilization on that planet you started on you can no longer control it.

You can decide to stop at any phase and the planet will remain to normal. If it is Cell it will not be seen around. If it is Creature it will be in the eco-system. If it is tribe it will remain a tribe unless you use a monolith. There should be achievements or badges for doing this a number of times.

Thank you for reading and enjoy posting.

this is freaky i was thinking something similar while using the creature creator tool earlier :O

Coincidence?