im tempted to take over the grox but after taking over 50 of their planets I dont think it's possible

I would like a suggestion.

3 x small plant, all different species
3 x medium plant, all different species
3 x large plant, all different species
6 herbivores, all different species
3 omnivore/carivore, all different species
monolith
Find a purple planet, prefereably, and with all the terraforming equipment that is available; terraform said purple planet to T3. Place all plants and animals on the planet and then place the monolith. Watch the planet like a hawk and when the planet just first turns to a space civilization, pounce on it with all guns blazing and take over all the species cities, careful not to destroy too many. I think this should work and you should have a planet that is producing 40 to 45 spcies.

Has anyone tried this?

If you even ATTEMPT to overtake the grox, they will DESTORY YOU.

Good guide man. But you might want to add that in Hard Difficulty, the maximum selling prices of spices are lower.

Red - 13497
Yellow - 17995
Blue - 20915
Green - 40490
Pink - 44957
Purple - 58485

5/5 Good Stuff

JohnnyPie wrote:

theogbubbalee wrote:I have a different best setting for colonies in the space phase.



Full happy faces w/ 144.00 an hour.

I tried your colony config and only got +96/hour. Not sure how you got +144/hour.

The config I have been using yields +132/hour with 2 Happiness:

Your setup doesn't mix up your buildings very well. I've found another set up that gets 144.0 and full happiness with no redlines as well. I found it on one of my colonies I set up early on in game. I'll try and find and post a picture.

Note - 5 houses, 3 factories, 3 entertainment. don't let any entertainment or factory sit next to another of its own type is first rule for more production. Only let 2 entertainment and factories share 1 connection. Make other factory and other entertainment have 2 houses on both connecting legs.

The other important point on production is connecting factories and entertainment to the city hall. This is probably where you loose points having the 2 entertainment places sharing a leg and only one of them shares a leg with city hall. You can get 160 w/ 2 happy faces if you play with my setup. You can get even more spice w/ no happy faces based off of my template in the photo. That's why i included the left side so you can clearly identify my buildings.

tip for layout: the spot to the right of the main courtyard (gold circle) has four connections. put a factory there! put a house on the other side of the courtyard (connecting to that factory). then put an entertainment in the next slot (also on other side of courtyard, working around clockwise) next to the city on the other side of the house. put a couple more factories on the leftover slots next to city hall. then just fill up the remaining empty slots with houses. so far, this has seemed to be the best setup, while still keeping some happiness. [i can put up a screenshot if anybody has trouble following this]

i think though that your game difficulty setting and your race's trait affects what that total number will be. haven't played as a trader, but I think they probably will produce more using the same layout.

since there doesn't seem to be celebration like in civ stage that doubles production, is there even any point to keeping them happy anymore? has anybody seen any direct impact of red faces? will they turn against you and start attacking your other colonies every 3 seconds?

charonbond wrote:I would like a suggestion.

3 x small plant, all different species
3 x medium plant, all different species
3 x large plant, all different species
6 herbivores, all different species
3 omnivore/carivore, all different species
monolith
Find a purple planet, prefereably, and with all the terraforming equipment that is available; terraform said purple planet to T3. Place all plants and animals on the planet and then place the monolith. Watch the planet like a hawk and when the planet just first turns to a space civilization, pounce on it with all guns blazing and take over all the species cities, careful not to destroy too many. I think this should work and you should have a planet that is producing 40 to 45 spcies.

Has anyone tried this?

Yes.
Check out The 100 Spice Planet thread:
http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/6902.page

For findapollo and TheOGBubbaLee,

If you get the economic bonus, then that gives you a 50% increase to the normal production rate.
For example: 132p/2h becomes 198p/2h.

There's a whole thread on the best city layouts.
PlasteredDragon has optimized the best designs for max production and happiness with least cost for all of the 10 city layouts you'll find out there.

Find it here:
http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/45/1475.page#92319

Happy building

Oh yeah, I almost forgot.

findapollo, the only thing that I've heard that happiness affects in the space stage is how quickly your cities will surrender when attacked.

There's also a happiness booster but I don't know if that's strong enough to compensate for massive unhappiness.

Well, I just followed this guide because I was struggling to pay for anything.
I never had more than 300k at any time.

My problem was I didn't realise there was a difference in price between the coloured spices.
So thanks to this guide (and my luck at starting next 3 purple spice planets), I'm now sitting on a tidy 28mil, with a fully upgraded spaceship.

So yeah, thanks!

Thanks so much for this guide, I'm a new player, and I only hit had over one million sporebucks once, hopefully using your tips, I'll have it more.
Kendra

I just got higher than the highest seen on blue = 26,140, unless u were rounding

You know lucas182 one day i decied to make a game that was DA BEST. so i did it on hard and because i wanted to make it the best game i used cheats like the money one you get 1,000,000 every time you type it in. so you don'thave to wrorry about all that spice!

NIce guide, this might help me!