You people are so desperate for free content from Maxis that you take three lines of code and smile.

RocketGirl wrote:

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.

If you've seen pictures of Chris' head, you'd understand where Maxis got the idea.

Ooh, that was probably over the line... Where's the strikeout format in this forum?

There is none?

Okay, how about you all just imagine that sentence has a strikeout.

One good thing about cube planets... They were free. But would be nice if they were not also mandatory... Like customization keeps being a no-no... but free is cool. They shuck, all right...

all of you wannabe astronomers go read something about planet formation. there are plenty of planets out there which look like cubes (of course not as perfectly shaped as the planets in spore, but no planet out there looks as good as the perfectly round planets in spore eitehr). there are all kinds of shapes out there, even long strings. (most of the weird looking ones come from 2 massive objects colliding. we even have an "american" football in our solar system)

"That's no ordinary moon..."

Manage to form a cube from matter rotating in space and I'll give you Nobel prize.

Virakotxa wrote:"That's no ordinary moon..."

And that's when everyone's homeworld suddenly blew up - and then came a James Earl Jones voice over...

MadHeishe wrote:there are plenty of planets out there which look like cubes

All of the "oddly" shaped celestial objects are planetoid size or smaller, sa Phobos and Demios, which are potato shaped. There is a size limit, above which, an object will be more-or-less spherical. Granted, no planet is PERFECTLY spherical, due to rotational intertia and tidal effects, but there are no football-shaped planets.

(Edit: Oh, and astronomy was my minor and part of my work-program in college. Thx. )

MinionJoe wrote:

MadHeishe wrote:there are plenty of planets out there which look like cubes

All of the "oddly" shaped celestial objects are planetoid size or smaller, sa Phobos and Demios, which are potato shaped. There is a size limit, above which, an object will be more-or-less spherical. Granted, no planet is PERFECTLY spherical, due to rotational intertia and tidal effects, but there are no football-shaped planets.

(Edit: Oh, and astronomy was my minor and part of my work-program in college. Thx. )

Yet. Just give the Jets a few more months. :p

You know if they just advertised the game as a silly thing for kids instead of the ultimate science simulator, none of this backlash would be happening. But then they wouldn't have our $50 would they?

Next patch: Pyramid planets!

Cesar8002 wrote:You know if they just advertised the game as a silly thing for kids instead of the ultimate science simulator, none of this backlash would be happening. But then they wouldn't have our $50 would they?

Next patch: Pyramid planets!

AND CONES!

Now, what if they applied this to the creature, tribe, and civ stages? If you lived on a cube planet, would you fall of the edge if you went too far? Would gravity be weaker on edges and corners, enabling you to jump higher?

Oh, and I suppose next patch they'll have us dividing by zero as well.

Take that Pythagoras!

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This really is a stupid idea.

It would appear we have an image hater in our midst...my image has been disabled or something. (It was Earth in the shape of a cube)

Evolutiation wrote:Oh, and I suppose next patch they'll have us dividing by zero as well.

That and 2 equals 1

a = b
a^2 = a*b
a^2-b^2 = a*b-b^2
(a+b)(a-b) = b(a-b)
(a+b) = b
a+a = a
2a = a
2 = 1

a = b
a^2 = a*b
a^2-b^2 = a*b-b^2
(a+b)(a-b) = b(a-b)
(a+b) = b
a+a = a
2a = a
2 = 1

Error

a^2 = a*b
a^2-b^2 = a*b-b^2
(a+b)(a-b) = b(a-b)

Middle line would be a*b - a*b = a*b - a*b, since a = b, and a^2 = b*a = b^2. You get zero. The equation is still equal.

I have no idea how you're getting to the next line.