PlanetKing wrote:

piePIEpie wrote:i wasn't finished that last post read it again i uploaded early by accident

got them, I PM'ed you your screenshots so it wouldn't take up anymore space on here

saw them but i think those creatures have a nest nearby or are migrating
I've seen some creatures hunting but have you seen them attack your nest?
still lots of stuff was removed

Looks cool! Whomever gets to go will have a great time. Maxis studios are top notch and have very friendly people.

Well if you ever hold a thing in texas which you probley wont, I would love to hear about it

SpoMax21 wrote:I have 1 and 2, but not 3. And I'm not near Emeryville. I want to get a job with Maxis some day.

Me Too! I will always want to.

Man, I wish I lived in CA because I would love to get invovled with something like this and give my input.

If only...I'm not too far away, but I think it's physically impossible for me to ever go to California at this time of year. That would be an amazing birthday present, though, since my b-day is on the 15th...

Ah, well, I'll just have to live with creating until the expansion comes out.

~Bookmagician

Dang im gonna be there during February Vaca, and this not my real account.

I can't see how anyone can call civ stage fine. you would have had to literally never played any RTS or strategy game ever to call it fine. The worst part is that this is such an established genre that they really have no excuse to have made something this shoddy.

I'm not against them simplifying it for players unfamiliar with the genre but you have 3 units and the religious, economic, military thing plays very similarly. The only difference at all between religious and military is that religious is slower and doesn't destroy buildings. Economic is kind of different but still just boils down to build a bunch of vehicles and click on a city (with the catch you have to be friendly.


Just hear me out on this.

I don't think there should have been city types and I think there should only have been military vehicles. all cities can perform all functions possibly modified by the buildings in them. Now I thought alot more could have been done with city design and the economy is very simple (adding functionality to buildings in the editor had alot of possibilities) but since you clearly wanted to simplify things I'll let that slide.

ok on to military. I thought you should have had more units, 3 is a joke. keeping things simple lets say there are 8

Land

Tanks: heavy armor, heavy firepower.

Artillery: heavy firepower, light armor, outrange everything else.

Infantry: cheap, low armor, low firepower, equipped with guns and rockets and are the only ground unit that can fire at aircraft.

Air

fighters and bombers, this should be self explanatory

Sea

Battleships: high armor, strong guns, bombard targets at long range

Subs: stealth, extremely potent anti ship weapons, don't attack surface targets.

Destroyer: well rounded ship that can hunt subs, has a weaker deck gun and lower armor than a battleship with much less range, can fire on air targets.

possibly transport ship, these may not be needed.


ok there you go, a very small relatively simple selection of units by RTS standards, the roles of these units should be easy enough for a novice to grasp. They would be functionally editable to an extent except infantry which would just be your citizens with guns. the vehicle editors are already split into nine parts so I don't think it would have been too hard.

everyone probably needs to maintain at least a token military for defense and military means would be the quickest way to get more territory (as well as the most dangerous.

I don't like the religious path and it was probably dumb to include (spore portrays religion as entirely one note and in a fairly offensive way and this is coming from an atheist) it really should have been cultural. Anyway I think cultural and economic should have been less direct instead of just knockoffs of military. Just take some simplified mechanics from civ (you hired the a major guy that worked on that franchise, what on earth did you have him do?). Those would need their own win conditions of course. throw some diplomatic options in there and maybe a small tech tree.

I don't imagine they will ever do this now but this is how I imagined in, as a sort of civilization for kids with some RTS elements and a touch of sim city. Instead i got something that I finish in 20 minutes by doing 3 things over and over.

cant go i have collage

i wish i was close buy there too

Call me when you guys decide to do something in SoCal.

hattrickster wrote:Cool idea, wish I was in that area

I wish that i lived there i live in tasmania australia

Aww, if only it wasn't the 13-14th.

HHMMMM sounds tempting especially since I work in the area, it wouldnt be too hard to get over there.......

i live in canada so thats really far from me.