Please do not let Spore auto populate and change planet/colony decorations. Is there really a reason for this? Is there any way to disable this feature? What is the point of having themed planets if I can't control how they look? Maybe I want a lush green colony or a city of fire it should be up to me not the game. Especially when I detail my colony and come back to see it completely changed. Either disable auto decorations or let the user control decide if they want the option on or off. It could also be linked to individual planets if you really must have the random decoration factor.

Now with that said why not have a decoration creator? Should tie in nicely with the flora creator and allow users to make much more unique and themed cities.

Decoration? What kind of decoration?

During civilization and space era you can add beautification to your cities and colonies by adding decorations like gardens and fountains. However the game does this on it's own and overwrites your decorations with it's own in a random selection every time you enter or leave the planet.

I wonder if this can be toggled in a cfg or ini file or something. I know it's minor and trivial really but in a game built around creating everything it seems a bit odd they would want to control the decorations.

Really? That's strange. I decorated one of my own cities (maybe my only one... I admit I don't do it much XD), and nothing had changed when I visited it again. Because I would think that if the game really did randomly change things when you weren't watching, then even buildings would be changed around (but they aren't). Perhaps you flew to a different city without realizing it? Sorry I can't offer more advice, though, as I'm not much of a decorator myself.

I only wish that was true. I mean you can even turn buildings to make it look good but alas the game does change the decorations when you enter or leave the planet. It might not change that city right away but eventually it will get to it. It only seems to change so much each time.

Heck, I never really try to make my cities look nice (though I applaud you for doing so), I just dump buildings in the most efficient possible layout.

I did try decorating a city once, but my game froze later and I had to restart it, and having not saved my progress for some time, the decorating (and the city) were lost. D:

It just baffles me how in a game that is based almost entirely on creation, why it would want to randomly place decorations. Most don't decorate because when they come back the game has changed what they have done. Granted there is not really any reason to do this unless you want to control the look of your cities but this is Spore did I miss something here? =)

Seems the old homeworld crash bug hasn't been completely fixed. Decorations had a direct relation to this bug. I wonder if on the third attempt to fix this they will finally let the user control decorations.

oooohhhhhh a decoration editor *drools*