I agree with the OP as far as it goes, but it doesn't touch much on the lack of any game depth or real emergent systems and gameplay.

This is very powerful writing, and this would be very interesting!

This is a magnificant thread. However, i would like to add an idea for "simple" and "complex" modes instead of easy, hard, etc. The simple mode would be the same it has now, with the ideas that OP said. Complex mode would be more like the 2005 demo, having more realistic graphics, more realistic physics, procedural attacks and animations, and have blood.

There is another gripe that I have, and thats the fact that morphology doesn't matter at all!!! I really am pissed at the fact that i can build some really heavy and huge creature, yet it can go really fast just because it has the right feet! WTF!?! Also, when i build a dude with a mace tail, HE DOESN'T BOTHER WITH IT! If he has no arms, then he trys to beat his enemy to death with his shoulders! I would like the feature for the morphology of your creature to actually fail, like constantly fall down as he struggles with the weight of his front. That would be hilarious, and provide an opportunity for Sim sadists to have fun. Those are my contributions to the board.

Etimos said it all for me, I have nothing to add. I've stopped playing spore, because just for the fun of it, I claimed all the planets in two full arms of the galaxy...... the left side of my screen is an endless parade of ignored eco disaster fixes, planet attacks, and allies "losing interest".... BTW... when an ally loses interest, they lose their entire empire..... I have no patience for having to constantly babysit empires.


please please PLEASE fix the game! it's awesome!! but it's still in it's infancy.....

Great job fixing the bugs! Keep up the good work! and please make the cells swim normally again, they go nuts every time they move

Peace! (or war! raWR!)
~hotlittlelissus~

Most of my peeves are covered by the OP. There are others though, having to do with the Sporepedia and my personal Spore page. Why, if I wish to remain connected online every time I play, do I have to upload every single stage of the creature I am playing? Then I have to go to my spore page and manually delete them all one by one? I loved the little elephant named Cheeky that Green did, and wanted to use him in a game so I chose him in creature stage using the evoadvantage cheat. Due to the previously mentioned limitations on parts as far as your progression goes, I had to stick unwanted parts on him temporarily in order to complete the creature stage. I noticed afterwards that it had added not only the original Cheeky to MY creations, but also every stage that I stuck temp parts on. So then I have to go in and manually delete.. and not only does it add them to my Sporepedia, it adds them to my personal spore page.. so they have to be manually removed in multiple places. It's annoying and ridiculous that we have no more control over what we upload. And even after I go thru and delete every instance I can find of it, it still shows up in subsequent games? This just clutters the Sporepedia with a TON of worthless, horrible and often ugly crap.

I really wish people would stop complaining that there's no fish stage. We were told long before the game came out that there would be no fish stage. So there's nothing to complain about. Since we knew it would not be included, it's not like the we consumers were deceived or misled on this point.

However, there are other ways in which we were misled, in my opinion. I was expecting much, much more out of the creature stage. I was expecting to be able to design creatures with abilities specifically suited to their environment, and that could interact in a significant way with their environment, instead of what we have now. I knew that each stage was designed to be like a mini-game, but I still expected more. Especially since they were bragging about how players could do so much with the game.

I didn't buy the game for the space stage; I bought it for the creature stage, because of its supposed focus on evolution and adaptation. I thought it was a fantastic idea to continually alter your creature to better survive in a constantly changing world. Oh well.

IMO I think they should focus their expansions on improving the creature stage, and make it an evolution game. The other stages don't matter that much to me.

I agree totally!! I also like the idea of changing your home planet. We should also be able to walk around any planet and interact with the colonies. I dont think EA/Maxis will let this game get OLD before creating 5 or so expansion packs. I cant wait!!

Worst of all most of the space stage problems could be solved in a simple way cople of new buildings and reuse of code.
First spice sale agency, then planetary inventory is full the rest is sold at standard price 4.300 for red and 9-10.000 for pink.
The two eco tools eliminate eco disasters for me, but my stupid allies use them. They sell them why can they not get them to? Option is to let you place it on their planet.

Uberturret works great, it will stop attacks even then you are not present unlike that some says. Why are my colonies still bothering me about pirates?
A major invasion I can understand, at least tell me that it is.
Actually the uberturret is overpowered, I would prefer a fighter base who gave you ships like your enemies have and better city turrets. The fighter base could be part of the cities, a separate building or a space station; the ships would respawn like enemy ships.
If you upgrade the ships to maximum, they would also attack enemies in transit between stars like enemies do to you. This will keep your center free but give a strong attack the possibility to take out the fighter base and the cities. Perhaps add a weaker uberturret and give the option to stack this on a T3 planet like cities.
And colony templates for buildings, one click to build everything.
And a planet overview on the contact screen, city status; have you lost any building or not build out, are people happy in all cities and have they eco building.

I played the whole game and never saw a DROP of blood! WTF? What happened to "Animated Blood"? The only "blood" I saw was in cell stage and that was the same color as poison! Also, What happened to realistic fighting? Instead of actually dodging each other's attacks people sit there taking turns biting and striking eack other!

What happened to the planets? In creature Stage it took like 45 minutes to know every species on the planet, and now in Tribe and Civ. stage you can walk across a continent in less than 2 minutes and the Tribes? forget about the tribes. Theres like 20 nests in creature stage and only 5 villages in Tribe. Honestly, Something must've happened. Maybe it was rushed or there wasn't enough room for bigger planets but this game is not finished.

Space Stage? honestly,I'm the only ship in my species' empire and I get to babysit all of the colonies I create. Usually,once I get to the end of Civ., I start a new game

I agree with everyone here. I especially support the creature, aquatic, and space listings. I would like to add some ideas and list others that I have seen in other places. we need drivable vehicles in GA. also I think there should be an optional interior editor to go with buildings and vehicles(it could be used with creatures if you really wanted but that could get disgusting) that would use your previose creations exterior as the exterior walls of your interior. stuff like doors and windows would already be there and you would have special interior peaces. I think it would be a good idea to combine this with another idea I saw for advanced vehicles 'designating parts of a ship for special tasks the number of parts with the same task would increase the vehicles ability to perform it". however i think this could be stretched to buildings too. an area with a spesific task might come with special parts i.e. an engine room would have engine parts. this could allow for specialization in fleets. I also think its really stupid that a carrier ship has to be the same general size as a small dron fighter. mabe there shuold be different classes of ship. I have had the idea of an equipment editor for awhile. equipment would include armor weapons battle suits etc. equipment would exist in adventures but ounce aquired could be permanently kept/outfited to a captain. this could go really well with difficulty levels and nonlinear story in adventures(the best stuff would only be found in a hard to get to ending on hard mode). i also fully suport night parts and wanderer super weapons/ parts(wanderers might have gear that allowed underwater/ space mobility/travel. unlimited captain levels would be good too. also the fact that captain parts replace each other is really lame. space stations for captain hubs (provide missions and other cool captain related functions)a setup wheremedals of specific types from different types of missions that can be reedeemed for cool stuff would be another idea to go with this. some other uses for space stations also include(hosting fleets, full star system entertainment/spice production/ecoprotection seem great) this would be based off of perpose selection and the stations would have interiors you could enter if you had GA. you should also be able to beem down onto any planet in your spore universe in space fase and visit/interact with everything there. to expand on peoples ideas of a playable creature in all fases why not have the direct decendant of your creature in creature fase become the chieftan(who you give a first and last name to), whose decendant becomes the goverment/military leader of your contry(given a first name but retaining last name), whose decendant becomes your captain(same as with gov. leader)(although the naming thing would probably be better optional), anyway they would all be played like GA captains. if you wanted them to be the same person(optional) they might keep any equipment or experience gained(equipment in both).an example of something the civ captain might do(while leading an aireal assault his plain is shot down so he activates his parashute and leads an awsome special forces assault on the enemy city while it is destracted by the areal assault). hope my ideas and support are appreciated. sorry for the length. also one last thing all the smaller groups like this all over the place should get together and form one giant group which will have more power to change things.

i think you should stop complaining. spore is the best game ever in my oppinon and it took years to make it cant be absoultly perfect. but i agrre in the space age you should be able to have more then one ship other then you alies. sorry for missspelling some stuff.

Zippy0723 wrote:i think you should stop complaining. spore is the best game ever in my oppinon and it took years to make it cant be absoultly perfect. but i agrre in the space age you should be able to have more then one ship other then you alies. sorry for missspelling some stuff.

What games have you played recently?

yoshii wrote:

Zippy0723 wrote:i think you should stop complaining. spore is the best game ever in my oppinon and it took years to make it cant be absoultly perfect. but i agrre in the space age you should be able to have more then one ship other then you alies. sorry for missspelling some stuff.

What games have you played recently?

Probably games that does not allow as much freedom and creativity as Spore does! Remember that the editors available from the main menu are part of the game too.

This thread was necroed. But it needed it. I couldn't read the whole thing, but I know Spore needs this.

You cannot approve spore, Its allready too awesome. Deal with it.