Or magic-using borg beavers that live inside volcanoes!

Or Crab People.

Must say, crab people are vicious.
I can see them do it.
With their cube shaping claws...

The Fab Five?

cube worlds are Unicron poo.

i think weird shape planets add more apeal to them game.

Agreed, Pugnap.

More variety in space stage is always a plus.

111uminate wrote:Ask any physicist about gravity, and they'll tell you they still can't explain it. It's common knowledge.

At what page did you stop reading your science textbook? =p

Planets form by debris falling into the growing gravity well in a protoplanetary disk. Since the material falling onto the growing body is coming pretty much from random directions in 360 degrees it falls into a fairly even spherical pattern. Not quite perfect, but planets arn't perfect spheres.

As the structure gets bigger and the gravity it holds gets stronger it tends to pull the higher points downhill; ie. under gravity. (Imagine a ball of water the size of a planet, gravity would ensure it's a *perfect* sphere since it has no structural cohesion). Inside, planets are mostly liquid thus there is a physical limit to how tall a mountain can be before it sinks back into the planet's lithosphere.

A cubic planet could be made artifically with a lot of difficulty, but that's getting away from the original point =p

Next up "harts and clovers" and lets not forget the horse shoes.
while their at it. how bout a marshmallow or 2. Come on maxis your
dropping the ball here, lets do it right, and where is the the noodle galaxy.

Pugnap00 wrote:i think weird shape planets add more apeal to them game.

I'm glad that you like them

yurusei wrote:Reminds me of that scene in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy.

When Arthur Dent entered that planet creation company, and there were models of different planets in different shapes. I remember i saw a diamond shaped one too

Uggh. That movie was a bigger disappointment than EA's release of Spore.

Sikyanakotik wrote:I don't see why none of the "Spore is Anti-Science!" zealots have complained about them, since these things do not form naturally in our universe.

Primarily because we've stopped playing at this point. I didn't even know about these abominations until I ran across someone mentioning them in another discussion. I'd seen this thread, but I thought it was someone brainstorming.

Have to admit, I AM thoroughly disgusted at the idea.

Will there be a menu option to turn them off?

If not, I need to bring up a long-standing quote:

"Heuer's Law: Any feature is a bug unless it can be turned off."

I have not seen one yet but they do look pretty cool. I think it is a nice little addition for a free patch.

Worldbreaker276 wrote:I would have prefered having a ton of cube planets than the issues with this new patch...


I personally have lost all water on my planets (they are now land), except when i use a terraforming tool, which magically makes it come back, but when I reload, it goes away again! The patch should have fixed this...

I've observed the opposite. A lot of my planets have been really "interesting" to place colonies on since the patch. They're about 80% water! I'll have to take a screenshot of one of my waterworlds.