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(GUIDE) Get Rich and Avoid Attacks in SPACE

lucas182 — GMT

This is a Guide for those who are having trouble getting rich in space stage. It also provides some strategy on how to avoid the constant annoying attacks.

Okay... to start off... KEYWORD (and quite an obvious one) = SPICE

LOTS AND LOTS OF SPICE

So how do you get them?

Exploration is key.
Fly around your neighboring star systems looking for a "CIVILIZATION" planet. That means a planet that has got a dominant species in the Civ stage. These planets will ALMOST ALWAYS be T3 (you want a T3 colony because it grants you 3 colony slots which mean more spice).

(Keep in mind, when selecting your new planet, the Spice price chart: It goes Red, Yellow, Blue, Pink, Green, and Purple, with Red being the cheapest and Purple the most expensive (and rarest))

[i]EDIT:
There is an "easy" abeit time-consuming way of getting a good colony, with good spice, close to your home planet. If you haven't visited a star system you can: 1) save your game, 2) visit the star system, 3) IF you believe the spices/planets within aren't that good, Exit to the Main Menu (without saving), 4) Reload your game, 5) Re-visit the star system again, 6) Repeat until you think you've got a good planet/spice configuration.
PS: Blue stars have the best spice (Blue, Green, Pink, Purple). Red stars usually only have Red and Yellow.

(credit: elavals)
(this has been confirmed by me... if only I knew this before...)[/i]

The objective here is to conquer this T3 planet and colonize it.

How?

If your ship has any set of "Bomb" ability (mini bomb and so on) this chore will be extremely easy.
If it doesn't, then I'm going to assume you at least have a "Laser" ability.

Hover over a city, any city, and start bombing or laser-ing that city's City Hall. Adjust your ships height so that the city's defenses can't touch you but you can keep firing down.

Sooner than later the city will turn into dust.

Keep doing this to the other cities in the planet until you have conquered everything. Take trips back to your home planet to refuel and repair between attacking one city and another if you feel it's necessary. And always try to take out cities that belong to different factions and not the same one.

Okay. So now that you've conquered your T3 planet and built 3 colonies in it with the optimum production/happiness setting (refer to screenshot), it's time to TRADE until you get amazingly bored (and/or rich). Your planet should be producing around 20 spice units – should be 30 with the spice storage upgrade.

[i]Optimal Setting:[/i]
EDIT: 132 Production, +2 Happiness
[img]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k238/johnnypie/Spore_2008-09-20_15-13-25.png[/img]
[i](credit: JohnnyPie)[/i]

Find a trading partner near your new planet.
Look around your galaxy for a group of star systems that do not have easy access to the spice you're producing. That's where your best chances of finding a great deal lies.
Establishing trade routes between your planets and your allies DOES NOT help this cause. You will only be providing your spices for free (and getting theirs in return, but the benefit is minimal).

When selling your spice, you should already have a basis on the difference between getting ripped off on a deal and hitting the jackpot.

If you don't, this might help you out:
[i]EDIT:[/i]
[b]Red Spice:[/b]
Jackpot >> Anything upwards of $10000/u
[i]Highest seen: $17000[/i]

[b]Yellow Spice:[/b]
Jackpot >> Anything upwards of $15000/u
[i]Highest seen: $22000[/i]

[b]Blue Spice:[/b]
Jackpot >> Anything upwards of $22000/u
[i]Highest seen: $26000[/i]

[b]Pink Spice:[/b]
Jackpot >> Anything upwards of $30000/u
Highest I've seen: $54000
[i]Highest seen: $56000[/i]

[b]Green Spice:[/b]
Jackpot >> Anything upwards of $37000/u
[i]Highest seen: $50600[/i]

[b]Purple Spice:[/b]
Jackpot >> Anything upwards of $45000/u
Highest I’ve seen: $64000
[i]Highest seen: $74500[/i]

[i](credit: defektiv, ryxeuclie, neunzehnisbest)[/i]

[i]The Amazing Purple Money:[/i]
[img]http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9904/guide4dd1.jpg[/img]

Now, I suggest selling in stacks of 99 always (that’s the max).
There’s a reason for this:
Your buyer won’t have the same demand for that color spice after you’ve sold a bunch of units, and so it’s best to sell in bunches of 99 to maximize profits and take advantage of his already high demand.
EDIT:
It has been reported by some players that selling in bunches of 30 or so is easier. Apparently it is easier to find buyers that will purchase your spice for more cash when you're selling in bunches of 30. That way you can sell 30, get 30 more, find another buyer easily, sell again, repeat.
I still believe though that selling in stacks of 99 is better; there may be less buyers out there with a good price, but once you find them it gets easier than selling in smaller stacks.

If you follow the aforementioned chart, you should be earning upwards of 1 million sporebucks per sale.

That’s in less than an hour of play if you’re selling Red spice and mere minutes if you’re selling Purple spice.

[i]Selling The Pink:[/i]
[img]http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/6277/guide5ot6.jpg[/img]

A couple of additional pointers:

1) Artifacts are dumb and worthless. Sell them. They take up too much space and don’t go up much in value when you find another that belongs to the same set. They aren’t worth trying to complete.
2) When conquering/colonizing an enemy Space-Stage T3 planet, NEVER bribe an ally to help you… UNLESS it’s absolutely necessary. Why? Because if you convert the planet’s cities instead of destroying them (you will see a white flag above the hall), you can end up with a planet that has a lot more than 3 colonies… which leads to a LOT more spice for you. If you send your allies to help you out, there’s a very high risk that THEY will colonize the planet (and its colonies) and keep the spice for themselves.

[i]Conquered Planet (40 Spice Capacity):[/i]
[img]http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/8996/guide3dx5.jpg[/img]

3) Your home planet is worthless. There, I said it. Now, let it rot, really. Who cares if it’s getting invaded? It gives you so little spice it’s almost not worth having. Go back in there when you feel like repairing your ONE colony (there’s no point in having more than one colony in your home planet… let the others die). Repairing your home planet is cheap anyway.
4) ALWAYS purchase spice from other species. They SELL FOR CHEAP. You can resell later for a lot more cash.

Avoiding getting raided every SECOND (my GOD how annoying this is):

First of all, I’m a carnivore, so I kill things right?
Well, yes, but oh… NOT IN SPACE.

Don’t make the same mistake I did when starting out.
I didn’t care about enemies, I wanted them dead.

Well, if you want to be attacked every second (okay, minute…) then that’s fine.
If you don’t however, you need to make ALLIES. Lots and lots of allies.

And creating alliances is easy. Just bribe them if you have the money, or complete missions for them if you’re poor.

If you already have enemies, the only way to get rid of the constant stupid attacks is to obliterate them.
It doesn’t matter if they only have one T0 planet in their empire, they will still bother you until you’ve dealt the finishing blow.

Killing them off though will be VERY HARD if you:
A) Don’t have money
B) Don’t have allies
C) Don’t have a good group of ships next to yours
D) Have a Starter’s spaceship with minimal upgrades.

However if the reasons above don’t apply to you, killing your enemies is easy.
Simply bribe your allies into attacking the enemies planets (avoid their capital… reason why was mentioned above).
Now take your small fleet to the planet you sent your allies to.
When you get there, ignore the enemy’s ships (they might be busy fighting your ally’s forces anyway) and focus on bombing the city’s hall. The enemy ships will flee when you destroy the city hall and the planet will be empty.
Do this to every small planet your enemy has, until you leave him with his capital. THEN attack the capital.

When you are left with no enemies, you will enjoy a time of PEACE (PAX ROMA-SPOREANA if you will…).
Well, mostly.
You will still need to save planets from eco disaster (but that happens like every half hour) and you’ll have some pirate raids (but they only steal some spice, so it’s okay not to care…) BUT you won’t have aliens attacking anything.

WHEN YOU GET RICH (and believe me, you will), invest in a little thing called UBER TURRET… It’s such an amazing thing… I love it, and always have like 7 or 8 of them with me.

Drop one of those on every planet you got a colony on and you will never have to defend it from anything EVER AGAIN. You won’t lose a SINGLE building.

Also, don’t buy those super Planet Bombs… You won’t need them. They’re expensive and by the time you unlock them, you’ll be powerful enough to colonize any enemy planet.

Have Fun

Additional pointless info:

[i]EDIT:
Apparently, there is a money cap set to $99,999,999
So... no becoming a Billionsporinaire oh well...
(credit: stilldamom)[/i]

I play Spore on Hard… don’t know how much that influences this guide... It only means my spaceship has 2250 HP maxed out (against 9000+ in easier difficulty settings)... but other then that I think it makes no difference.

The buildings and the Zebra/Bee/Dog/Bird creature called Plukmen, along with its vehicles (spaceship, water, land, air) were all created by me.

The Buildings are part of a Chess-Set inspired pack and are available for download at my spore page.

I stopped following this “guide” after reaching 60 million sporebucks because I got very bored and wanted to explore (plus, there’s no way you can burn that much money in this game unless you buy a million Planet Bombs or purchase a bunch of systems – which I don’t recommend).

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(GUIDE) Get Rich and Avoid Attacks in SPACE

TheAngelofDeath — GMT

Epci guide man, we should combine forces sometime with our guides, lol.
I love this guide though, awesome.

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Michlo — GMT

Unless one doesn't wish to be a warmonger.

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TheAngelofDeath — GMT

To be honest I didnt read the guide, I already make bank, lol.

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lucas182 — GMT

Thank you... I felt I needed to write this cause I (like many many others) was having so much trouble in Space with the attacks and the constant lack of money... only to realise just how easy this game really is. I mean, creature, tribe, cell and civ stage are, in a way, so easy that they don't prepare you for space.

Hopefully ppl will think twice before putting Spore on the shelf and waiting for a patch (I did)... the game is pretty fun

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TheAngelofDeath — GMT

Yes, you are one of those smart people.
We need people like you around, lol.

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elavals — GMT

There is an easy way to get good spice close to home. White stars tend to have a higer rate of having purple pink and blue. If u save then fly to one and it has nothing good just exit to main menu and reload. Most star systems have random planets the first time u visit, so u can just save and reload to rerandomize the star system. I did this to get 3 planets near my home planet which added to a total of 6 blue spice planets, 5 pink spice planets, and 3 purple spice planets. Same applies to a lot of things in space, if u lose a planet to pirates just reload and most likely they will never even visit that planet again.

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=elavals]There is an easy way to get good spice close to home. White stars tend to have a higer rate of having purple pink and blue. If u save then fly to one and it has nothing good just exit to main menu and reload. Most star systems have random planets the first time u visit, so u can just save and reload to rerandomize the star system. I did this to get 3 planets near my home planet which added to a total of 6 blue spice planets, 5 pink spice planets, and 3 purple spice planets. Same applies to a lot of things in space, if u lose a planet to pirates just reload and most likely they will never even visit that planet again.[/quote]

didn't know they were random.. lol

well, too little too late for me.
the 500 systems around my home planet, i have already visited so... yeah

i knew about the pirates thing though. i used that in the beginning

quite some observation skills you got

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StillDaMom — GMT

For the most part the guide is pretty good, however, I have done things a little bit differently and made a lot of money and a lot of friends.

I never fight with anyone, except pirates. I have 5 allied ships that follow me around and take out anything that bothers me. Biggest tip is make love, not war.

A few other tips, when setting up trade routes, try to make them with planets that have decent spices, ie; purple, green and pink. Then when they are tired of trading with you, you buy the system and voila! You have the perfect spice planet already set up. I don't usually care if it's T1 or not. It's not that hard to transform them once you get all the tools. Also, sometimes I even just do trade routes if I know they have a decent colot spice planet, whether transformed or not. Buying the system is always the best answer. If they get tired of trading with you and it's not a decent color spice, just end the trade route and make another with the same faction. Also, if you bid too low and want the system, end the trade route and start it back up, then buy it when they are tired, for a better offer.

Another thing I would suggest is NOT selling in batches of 99 as they tend to pay less for more. I usually sell in about 35-50 lots. The pay is higher and it's less work, more money, faster. I made over 60 mil in 2 days just goofing off and experimenting with terraforming.

Most important! Have fun! It's just a game...

Hope this helps!

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=stilldamom]Another thing I would suggest is NOT selling in batches of 99 as they tend to pay less for more. I usually sell in about 35-50 lots. The pay is higher and it's less work, more money, faster. I made over 60 mil in 2 days just goofing off and experimenting with terraforming.
[/quote]

hmmm
can you confirm this? cuz im pretty 110% sure that whenever you sell lets say 30 units of spice to a planet, its buying price will then significantly drop for that same color spice (when you try to sell it again).
Thus selling 99 at once while the price is still high would make sense.

I dunno, it's simple economics really.

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Ankhkasek — GMT

One other way to conquer a planet with a civ littered all over it is with planet creation tools. (Meteors/atmosphere tools) If you got the money, drop a few meteors on the planet, wait for it to go from T3 to T0 and everything dies. Then do the reverse to get it back to T3. Saves time having to go back and forth to home planet for repairs.

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blackfrost2 — GMT

Question if you play on hard how do you find allys with ships that will stand there ground in a fight so far for me all the ships i get are crap and die in a few sec unless im fighting pirates. At the moment if i wanted i can have 4 ships with me and if i take them to attack another planet or defend a planet they die after the first or sec group of ships i find.

So at the moment i never ask for ships since when they die there race dislikes that lol. plus i can attack planets no matter there t-score or citys they have and the only down side is if its a home planet i might have to respawn(which i think if i die there should be a bit more of a concequence but who am i to complain about that lol). So i would like to know if theres some trick other then maybe geting allied with a warlike race.

Also I think the... [quote]If u save then fly to one and it has nothing good just exit to main menu and reload.[/quote] is a form of cheating since it removes the difficulty level from easy/normal/hard to equal 'perfect for me' So shame on you

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=blackfrost2]Question if you play on hard how do you find allys with ships that will stand there ground in a fight so far for me all the ships i get are crap and die in a few sec unless im fighting pirates. At the moment if i wanted i can have 4 ships with me and if i take them to attack another planet or defend a planet they die after the first or sec group of ships i find.

So at the moment i never ask for ships since when they die there race dislikes that lol. plus i can attack planets no matter there t-score or citys they have and the only down side is if its a home planet i might have to respawn(which i think if i die there should be a bit more of a concequence but who am i to complain about that lol). So i would like to know if theres some trick other then maybe geting allied with a warlike race.

Also I think the... [quote]If u save then fly to one and it has nothing good just exit to main menu and reload.[/quote] is a form of cheating since it removes the difficulty level from easy/normal/hard to equal 'perfect for me' So shame on you [/quote]

You're right, the allied ships do suck. But they're not supposed to be that great, since they're so easily obtainable. Allied ships are meat shields really. If you think about it, your ship also sucks, especially in the beginning. The allied ships job is to take attention off you, so you dont die.

The biggest advantage of having allied ships, i think, is that when you go to a system zoomed out, enemy ships attack you, but you cant attack them. The allied ships take care of them for you. Also, when you're searching for an artifact on a yellow hue-ed planet, but get caught by pirates, the easiest way to kill them is to zoom back out and let your allies kill the pirate ships in the zoomed out view.

Also, losing your allies' ships wont lose you that much favor. just like abducting their citizens and stealing artifacts from their planets, it shouldn't stop you from using their services.

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=ankhkasek]One other way to conquer a planet with a civ littered all over it is with planet creation tools. (Meteors/atmosphere tools) If you got the money, drop a few meteors on the planet, wait for it to go from T3 to T0 and everything dies. Then do the reverse to get it back to T3. Saves time having to go back and forth to home planet for repairs.[/quote]

thats an alternate way. but if you think about it, by the time you get the advanced tools, you may have probably already unlocked the Mega Bomb (upgraded Mini Bomb). 3 drops on the city hall destroys a city. It may be less time consuming (although more dangerous) than terra forming a planet from T3 to T0 and back up again.

Also, I wouldnt recommend that if you want to convert a planet with more than 3 colonies.

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blackfrost2 — GMT

[quote]Also, losing your allies' ships wont lose you that much favor. just like abducting their citizens and stealing artifacts from their planets, it shouldn't stop you from using their services. [/quote]

LOL but my goal is to make and keep friends i dont like to cheat my friends lol

But for now i still wont use them since i dont need them and if i die its cause i was to lazy to warp home and repair lol (shamon)

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userboo7 — GMT

I will use this optimal setup when I get back from work today. I have a nice system with two planets in the green and T3 terraform score. I've got 120 on the colonies but am intensely greedy and destructive (I've wiped out my first empire that kept attacking that system).

Anyhow, thanks for the setup on the colonies.

Oh while I'm at it, I took over a planet with about 5 or so cities on it when I only had the first bomb you could purchase. I would fly over cities pause, drop a couple fly to the next drop a couple of bombs then fly to another one and another one while keeping the fighters at bay. Took a bit of time to do but in the end I had won the day and got myself a nice new colony with lots of cities on it, T3 score and yellow spice.

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fresh72 — GMT

i've been getting hussled all this time aaugh
time to restart

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Quira — GMT

Hm.... on a side note, could you intentionally create this type of cities using monolith? (monolith a pink/purple spice world, wait until civ stage, then go in and steal their cities?)

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DoYouReadThis — GMT

[quote=quira]Hm.... on a side note, could you intentionally create this type of cities using monolith? (monolith a pink/purple spice world, wait until civ stage, then go in and steal their cities?)[/quote]

Yes.

I have about 5 purple spice farms which have 90 capacity (that's 45 + spice storage), and a Spice production rate of ~600. Basically the best outcome you can get, but you can only get one per solar system.

Edit: Just to clarify, you can't "purchase" a T3 system and receive more than 3 colonies, you need to take it with force.

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TwinHelix — GMT

If the game is supposed to work according to your guide, then my game is gimped. It's impossible to do what you've described, and I too play on hard.

When I obliterate enemies in ANY sector of the galaxy I'm in, as soon as I kill the last of my enemy's planets, the game IMMEDIATELY spontaneously creates a new enemy empire in the same sector as me. I did this in the middle of an arm of the galaxy, at the tip, and near the centre, and no matter where I go, it always plays out the same way. I even cheated to buy my way into every ally I can possibly get, and the game just takes every opportunity it can to screw me out of them, or to just make new enemies to attack my allies.

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Spacemonkey — GMT

Another good way of making allies is terrforming their planets.

It's cheap if you have some terrforming tools that only use energy.

Changing a T1 planet to a T3 planet will make them love you.

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=TwinHelix]If the game is supposed to work according to your guide, then my game is gimped. It's impossible to do what you've described, and I too play on hard.

When I obliterate enemies in ANY sector of the galaxy I'm in, as soon as I kill the last of my enemy's planets, the game IMMEDIATELY spontaneously creates a new enemy empire in the same sector as me. I did this in the middle of an arm of the galaxy, at the tip, and near the centre, and no matter where I go, it always plays out the same way. I even cheated to buy my way into every ally I can possibly get, and the game just takes every opportunity it can to screw me out of them, or to just make new enemies to attack my allies.[/quote]

hmmm not sure why this is happening for you...

ive had no enemies in spore for over 20 hours as i explored every planet i laid my eyes on.

all i get are pirate attacks and eco disasters.

after getting bored and setting out towards the center, the grox began attacking me. but until reaching them i must have encountered at least 5 "angry" races which i quickly befriended, and must have allied with another 4 on the way there.

right now the grow are my only enemies in space stage.

....not for long

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lucas182 — GMT

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Miravlix — GMT

Incorrect information in the guide:

Civ/Tribal planets is NOT always T3's, I've seen them as T1's and T2's too.

The guides way of killing a Civ planet is NOT the optimal way of doing this.

Drop a Monolith, uplift the planet to space and take it over, then you get a HOME PLANET with 8+ cities. That means a 50+ Spice planet instead of just 30.

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aldente — GMT

[quote=TwinHelix]
When I obliterate enemies in ANY sector of the galaxy I'm in, as soon as I kill the last of my enemy's planets, the game IMMEDIATELY spontaneously creates a new enemy empire in the same sector as me. I did this in the middle of an arm of the galaxy, at the tip, and near the centre, and no matter where I go, it always plays out the same way. I even cheated to buy my way into every ally I can possibly get, and the game just takes every opportunity it can to screw me out of them, or to just make new enemies to attack my allies.[/quote]

What is your philosophy? Did you start your game in Cell and play through to Space, or start at a later stage?

Also, I know the guide author above mentioned a high price he's seen for Purple... Not sure I saw this from someone else above as I scanned, but I've seen Purple Spice offers right now from several of my allies get as high as 73-74k... hold it longer and try to buy up as much Purple Spice as you can.

Not sure if the game works this way, but it might continue to go up as you claim more Purple planets. I haven't verified this yet..I am hoping though..

L8r...

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=userboo7]I will use this optimal setup when I get back from work today. I have a nice system with two planets in the green and T3 terraform score. I've got 120 on the colonies but am intensely greedy and destructive (I've wiped out my first empire that kept attacking that system).

Anyhow, thanks for the setup on the colonies.

Oh while I'm at it, I took over a planet with about 5 or so cities on it when I only had the first bomb you could purchase. I would fly over cities pause, drop a couple fly to the next drop a couple of bombs then fly to another one and another one while keeping the fighters at bay. Took a bit of time to do but in the end I had won the day and got myself a nice new colony with lots of cities on it, T3 score and yellow spice.[/quote]

i used to have 120 also... but im greedy too so i figured i'd fool around with the layout a little.
the best i got was 132 with 0 happiness. i havent had a single revolt in 30+ planets so its worked for me.

yeah the mini bomb makes things easy...
when you get mega bomb though, taking over a civ planet will become ridiculous...

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=miravlix]Incorrect information in the guide:

Civ/Tribal planets is NOT always T3's, I've seen them as T1's and T2's too.

[/quote]

ive rarely actually seen a T3 tribal planet, but ive never seen a civ planet that wasnt T3..

ill edit the guide though if youve actually seen a civ planet under T3

thx

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Miravlix — GMT

[quote=lucas182][quote=miravlix]Incorrect information in the guide:

Civ/Tribal planets is NOT always T3's, I've seen them as T1's and T2's too.

[/quote]

ive rarely actually seen a T3 tribal planet, but ive seen a civ planet that wasnt T3..

ill edit the guide though if youve actually seen a civ planet under T3

thx[/quote]

My monitor burned out and Spore just GPF's when I try to run it with my backup monitor., but thats besides the point, your ASSUMING things from a statically unsafe amount of date.

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=miravlix]The guides way of killing a Civ planet is NOT the optimal way of doing this.

Drop a Monolith, uplift the planet to space and take it over, then you get a HOME PLANET with 8+ cities. That means a 50+ Spice planet instead of just 30.

[/quote]

im assuming that if you're reading that part of the guide, this is your FIRST attempt to take over a civ planet. seeing as how monoliths unlock later on, many players may not have it yet.

you'd also have to deal with space-stage defenses, which also implies that by using this method you're pretty advanced in the game.

the guide isnt for advanced players, its for those who are having trouble financially in space stage.

monoliths alone cost 200000+ sporebucks. if you can easily purchase those then this guide doesnt apply to you.

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Hawkian — GMT

Not at all how I played! But nice guide!

I will forever defend my homeworld's 3 remaining cities. I love my home planet! But it can really take care of itself now. I haven't visited in a long time..

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userboo7 — GMT

[quote=miravlix]Incorrect information in the guide:

Civ/Tribal planets is NOT always T3's, I've seen them as T1's and T2's too.

The guides way of killing a Civ planet is NOT the optimal way of doing this.

Drop a Monolith, uplift the planet to space and take it over, then you get a HOME PLANET with 8+ cities. That means a 50+ Spice planet instead of just 30.

[/quote]

Right now I am eyeing a juicey system that has blue, green and pink spice in it, unfortunately for some reason it won't let me drop a monolith on it. On another note, I have a system that has three blue spice planets, 1 green spice and 1 pink spice. I'm making a killing on it since I have terraformed the planets into all T3 planets with spice crates on them with optimal spice production, I never have to leave the system and I am clipping nearly 5mill sporebux just sitting around and collecting spice by orbiting the planets then trading once I have enough spice to warrant trading.

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jenden — GMT

[quote=doyoureadthis][quote=quira]
Edit: Just to clarify, you can't "purchase" a T3 system and receive more than 3 colonies, you need to take it with force.[/quote]

Not entirely true. I've bought out a number of homeworlds like this. I managed to get a T3 purple spice planet with 80 storage by raising up a civilization, terraforming their world, and then buying them out. I have noticed that if their ecosystem is not sufficiently filled out (the entire T1 row at least must be filled out) they won't actually have any spice production and will just have a single city which you can't improve.

However, from what I hear the spice production for a bought homeworld is halved. I can't confirm this, but its still fast enough that I have more money than I know what to do with.

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defektiv — GMT

Red - 17,000
Yellow - 22,000
Blue - 26,000
Green - 50,000
Pink - 56,000
Purple - 73,000

Prices per unit, max I've seen. If you set up 3 colonies with a 120+ production cycle and a spice storage, you can come pick up 30 purple units ever couple of minutes. I've got 5 purple spice planets right now and seriously wondering why I need any more empire. With just these selling at 73k/u I rarely ever have under 25,000,000 and usually have at least 10 of every expendable module on board at any given time, including planet busters.

You can't really plan fixed routes, though. The prices fluctuate more than a little over time. It's not hard finding someone selling at max, though. I just keep letting the spices build up in my cargo and sell whenever I happen by someone with a good buying price.

[url=http://xb3.xanga.com/558f0a74c3134211496384/w164999798.jpg]This is why purple spice rocks[/url].

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rekit — GMT

Just a few things to add.

TRADE, i find it very usefull. Once you have diplomatic standings with an race, increse standings with trade in diplomatic relations with them. Trade with usefull planets, eg once that have PINK spice, or Their Capitol. Once you have some cash flow, this system will be your for the purcase. You have now increased standings, gained a useful planet, and expanded your empire without combat, and very little effort.

STANDINGS with HOSTILES. You need to get a hostile race on your side. Go to a T0 planet of theirs, and make it T3, they will love you after. A very quick way of incresing standings. Do this to a couple of planets, the go from -100 -> 100 in a very short time. If you have the abilities, this is also a very cheap way to do it.

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MrRogersHasAGun — GMT

I use a mega-laser.

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StillDaMom — GMT

Just for the record, you can't get more than 99,999,999 spore bucks. The only thing left for me to do is keep buying stuffz.

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userboo7 — GMT

[quote=stilldamom]Just for the record, you can't get more than 99,999,999 spore bucks. The only thing left for me to do is keep buying stuffz. [/quote]

I'm at 50 mill right now.

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xlapin — GMT

(Didn't read all the comments)

That guide looks quite nice, thanks for writing it

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Aznparker — GMT

After getting the mini bomb, I'd get the shield. You are basically immune to attacks (long enough to destroy 3-5 cities on a T3) and you can click AoE heal (cheap, high heal for your fleet) afterwards to finish the job.

I had a question though, while attacking the cities don't the other ship come in to attack you? That is why I usually wait until I get the shield to start fighting.

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defektiv — GMT

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Radioactiwe — GMT

my strategy on making more starsystem is to just take minibomb or better if i have and just destroy that 1 city. planets with more cities i just destroy 2-3 and die and gome back to destroy few. its good cuz when u get that system still with about 6-5 citys and they can product as many spice as normal "citys" do (i dont know english name). they make spice so fast and in one game that planet was pink =D

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=aznparker]After getting the mini bomb, I'd get the shield. You are basically immune to attacks (long enough to destroy 3-5 cities on a T3) and you can click AoE heal (cheap, high heal for your fleet) afterwards to finish the job.

I had a question though, while attacking the cities don't the other ship come in to attack you? That is why I usually wait until I get the shield to start fighting.[/quote]

1) shield definately helps. some people may look at it and think "bah.. just a shield... itll probably take like 100 damage and go away.. like in all those MMO's and stuff"... but this shield is EXTREMELY POWERFUL... it can last MINUTES... under heavy fire... so getting the shield is a bonus.

2) yes. but thats why you take allied ships. they will take the attention off you. you can also bribe your allies into attacking that planet, that way the enemy ships will probably be too busy defending against your allies' fleet to even come near yours. i usually do this when i wanna take over T0, T1, T2 planets. I try to avoid calling for allied help when storming T3 planets (for the reasons stated in the guide).

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=stilldamom]Just for the record, you can't get more than 99,999,999 spore bucks. The only thing left for me to do is keep buying stuffz. [/quote]

heh.. you must have nerves of steel...

i got way too bored to reach a cap...

didnt even know there was one

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DoYouReadThis — GMT

[quote=stilldamom]Just for the record, you can't get more than 99,999,999 spore bucks. The only thing left for me to do is keep buying stuffz. [/quote]

I've bought nearly 60-70 planet busters so far. It's a nice way of spending money once you hit the cap. Just buy 10 when you reach it, then when you reach it again, buy 10 more.

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spacecoconut — GMT

Hi,

this guide is awesome, it'll probably help me a lot, but I still have some questions:

I reached Space stage and everything went well, I was exploring some planets but somehow some aliens are angry with me (I didn't do anything, the face was red from in the beginning) now they attack me every second (I already lost all my colonies) so everything I have left is my home planet, and when I finally "save" my planet they immediately attack again ...
now, can I just ignore their attacks and let them destroy my planet? What'll happen if I do so, will I lose all planets, or do you always have 1 planet left? I only have my own spaceship and an allied spaceship, so what is the best way the conquer my attackers?

Grtz

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=spacecoconut]Hi,

this guide is awesome, it'll probably help me a lot, but I still have some questions:

I reached Space stage and everything went well, I was exploring some planets but somehow some aliens are angry with me (I didn't do anything, the face was red from in the beginning) now they attack me every second (I already lost all my colonies) so everything I have left is my home planet, and when I finally "save" my planet they immediately attack again ...
now, can I just ignore their attacks and let them destroy my planet? What'll happen if I do so, will I lose all planets, or do you always have 1 planet left? I only have my own spaceship and an allied spaceship, so what is the best way the conquer my attackers?

Grtz[/quote]

You wont lose your home planet so it's okay to not care about it.
Leave it alone.

The best way to conquer them is to basicly move away from them, colonize a good T3 planet, trade spice, get rich, then come back and kick your enemies @$$es.

Read the guide for ways to do that.
Let us know if you need any more help

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spacecoconut — GMT

[quote=lucas182]
You wont lose your home planet so it's okay to not care about it.
Leave it alone.

The best way to conquer them is to basicly move away from them, colonize a good T3 planet, trade spice, get rich, then come back and kick your enemies @$$es.

Read the guide for ways to do that.
Let us know if you need any more help [/quote]
k, thx I'll let you know when I need more help

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PlasteredDragon — GMT

Some allied ships suck. Some don't. Almost any ally will die fighting the Grox, but fighting anything else and your allies can do pretty good. Just get ships from your biggest allies. If you have one ally who controls 3 star systems and another who controls 30, you want ships from 30-stars-dude. Those will be stronger ships.

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foxpmccloud — GMT

my biggest mistake with my first race (which I never intended to play for a very very long time) was I went militaristic right off the bat; I just out and out started attacking my neighbors. The end result was that it took me forever to buy stuff, forever to have some good allies (and have peace), and my spice trade was pathetically behind.

I started over (with a creature/race that I wanted...this was the one I was going to play seriously), and went economic...it was crazy how fast I was able to buy tools and items...I was a bit hindered because of the spice my neighbors wanted, but my establishment throughout the area was a lot quicker.

I agree completely; if you want to go militaristic, establish trade routes and allies in your area first, then, once you've purchased most of the weapons, and have some decent allies, [i]then[/i] go for it.

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BlanketyBlankMan — GMT

[quote=lucas182]Apparently, there is a money cap set to $99,999,999
So... no becoming a Billionsporinaire oh well...
(credit: stilldamom)[/quote]While normally true, the first time I tried cheating with moreMoney, I went up to exactly 1,000,000,000. I've never been able to reproduce it, either through legitimate means or through cheating. I should've grabbed a screenshot at the time >,<

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vegasjunkie88 — GMT

[quote=lucas182]Thank you... I felt I needed to write this cause I (like many many others) was having so much trouble in Space with the attacks and the constant lack of money... only to realise just how easy this game really is. I mean, creature, tribe, cell and civ stage are, in a way, so easy that they don't prepare you for space.

Hopefully ppl will think twice before putting Spore on the shelf and waiting for a patch (I did)... the game is pretty fun [/quote]

Same here, I was playing space my first time thru and I was like...UGHHHHH
Then I realiezed how easy it is with rate spice, and BAM...the game becomes that more addicting
yet I still have the need to destroy all enemies and eventually conquer space (except for a few colonies
who I will create)

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TheOGBubbaLee — GMT

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

[URL=http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bestsettingbd6.jpg][IMG]http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/3564/bestsettingbd6.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL][URL=http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php][IMG]http://img339.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif[/IMG][/URL]

Full happy faces w/ 144.00 an hour. If your empire is big enough you won't have enough time in the universe to collect it all in a timely fashion. You can play with this set up but start with this layout and play around with it. You will find the best mechanism for all production no happiness to my setting all based on this layout in my photo.

I'd say that once you have 3 allied ships flying with you, switch from paying the zealot extortionist empires to destroying them. If you make friends fast enough, the demands should stay under 2mil. You should be making enough off of trading spice by then to afford 2 extortionists at a time. Once they start going over, go explore their systems and find their homeworld before they get too hostile. Taking over homeworlds rock. I'd say usually it's cheaper to start trading w/ another race's empire to take their homeworlds. Then u get high volume production. If you battle for those planets u risk loosing some cities. Most hostile races will cease hostilities for a bit if you take their homeworld right away.

Once I had 5 allied ships I switched to putting the super turret on all planets as I created colonies or took them over. Then I started putting in the eco friendly colony tools for added tranquility. Pumping up planets to T3 or colonizing 2 planets per system is a good way to keep solar systems in your control even if you don't always go bail em out from attacks.

PS - don't try and befriend the Grox by terraforming their planets for them. It may backfire if you raise the T score. I'm out of time. I must get back to my 10 billion year war I just started w/ the Grox. Luckily I can pause the game and go to sleep when I have to.

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OrionStyles — GMT

This is why the zealot's fanatical frenzy super power is so awesome.

My 1st neighbour had purple spice for his homeworld. I took it over with one click. I had several million spore bucks in the first 20 minutes of the space stage. Sure you incur a dipplomatic penalty for this, but you also now have the cash to gift everyone else.

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ZombieRoboNinja — GMT

[quote=lucas182][quote=stilldamom]Another thing I would suggest is NOT selling in batches of 99 as they tend to pay less for more. I usually sell in about 35-50 lots. The pay is higher and it's less work, more money, faster. I made over 60 mil in 2 days just goofing off and experimenting with terraforming.
[/quote]

hmmm
can you confirm this? cuz im pretty 110% sure that whenever you sell lets say 30 units of spice to a planet, its buying price will then significantly drop for that same color spice (when you try to sell it again).
Thus selling 99 at once while the price is still high would make sense.

I dunno, it's simple economics really. [/quote]
I can confirm this. When selling to a single planet, the chances of them buying a spice for more increases greatly when you don't have that much spice in your inventory. For example, if you had 30 purple spice, then most planets that you go to will buy it for good amounts (30 - 50k).
But if you have a whole bunch of spice, like 80+, then you have to search all over just to find someone that won't pay the minimum... Yes, it's quite possible to go around with 99 spice and find a buyer who will pay max price. What this mate is saying is that it's much easier to sell in groups of 30 or so to multiple planets so that way you'll always get a decent rate for your spice without having to fly across the galaxy just to sell one load.

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JohnnyPie — GMT

[quote=theogbubbalee]I have a different best setting for colonies in the space phase.

[URL=http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bestsettingbd6.jpg][IMG]http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/3564/bestsettingbd6.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL][URL=http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php][IMG]http://img339.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif[/IMG][/URL]

Full happy faces w/ 144.00 an hour.[/quote]

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:

[IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k238/johnnypie/Spore_2008-09-20_15-13-25.png[/IMG]

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neunzehnisbest — GMT

I really don't think purple spices are that rare later in the game, around my home world they're nowhere in sight, but as I explored a bit I found clusters of stars with *lots* of purple spice planets. One star system I found even had 3 purple spices and one red.

Oh and the maximum price I've seen on a purple spice was approximately 74,500.

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RyxEuclie — GMT

Just found someone who would buy green spice for 50,605 sporebucks each.

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onoma — GMT

Epic Guide.

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decrepitude — GMT

[quote=neunzehnisbest]I really don't think purple spices are that rare later in the game, around my home world they're nowhere in sight, but as I explored a bit I found clusters of stars with *lots* of purple spice planets. One star system I found even had 3 purple spices and one red.

Oh and the maximum price I've seen on a purple spice was approximately 74,500.[/quote]I find them a lot on T0 planets.

Once you get the advanced terraforming equipment they're easy to deal with. The heat/refrigeration ray and the atmospheric creators/condensers that you buy as equipment that uses energy instead of single-use make terraforming from T0 to T3 a breeze, especially if there's a nearby T3 planet you can use for the plants and animals.

There weren't any habitable planets in my sector with purple spice, I've created five now that are all T3 with 3 colonies plus spice storage (uberturret and biostabilizers make them zero maintenance as well), it's basically unlimited cash.

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lucas182 — GMT

Update and Bump

9/24/08

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obsessisim — GMT

Cool, I have been using your guide with some favorable results. I also discovered, as I am sure others have too, that you can steal artifacts from your allies then turn around and immediately sell it to them. I am so glad I can finally ignore the calls from home planet,[i] "oh for goodness sake just use the turrets you morons and quit bugging me I'm busy!"[/i]
Thanks for this thread lucas182

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=obsessisim]Cool, I have been using your guide with some favorable results. I also discovered, as I am sure others have too, that you can steal artifacts from your allies then turn around and immediately sell it to them. I am so glad I can finally ignore the calls from home planet,[i] "oh for goodness sake just use the turrets you morons and quit bugging me I'm busy!"[/i]
Thanks for this thread lucas182[/quote]

ahh yeah... many people are afraid of stealing srtifacts cuz it makes the allies angry... but its only a little angry

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SoopahMan — GMT

For crushing enemies I've noticed that on EVERY planet EXCEPT the Home planet, the fastest way is to get your Laser equipped (Mega-Laser preferred but any will do), and fly straight to the first Colony and laser the City Hall. Don't let anything else distract you.

If the planet has just the 1 Colony you will either Capture or destroy in seconds. If you Capture, all the planet's ships suddenly give up on you, including giving you safe passage home! Unfortunately destroying the city causes half the ships to give up and the other half to keep at it. At that point you can either back up and stay just out of range of their missiles while you missile them, then come back for the loot the dead city left behind, or you can run for it, FAST.

For whatever reason, Home planets are the only time this doesn't work. You need to break their spirits by bombing a little, then go in with the laser. Try to isolate your bombs to one half or one quarter of the city (target that section) so that if you Capture the city, you have more structures to work with in rebuilding. You DON'T need to bomb it to death - just drop enough bombs to break their spirits then laser the City Hall and it's yours.

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BringerOfLight94 — GMT

what i do is i keep one of each spice as a guide to know which star wants what and for how much then i gather it until 99 spice and i sell all of it but the one "standard" spice that i use to check prices, since each planet wants to buy three planets and they dont buy other three spices. it is good to keep one of each, even if it takes up some of your cargo, or do this once you have the large cargo hold so you still have room for your terraforming and artifacts.

another tip that i use is once my planet has a T3 score i give it the spice harvest box so that my planets make 30 spice instead of just 15 and i guard all my planets with the uber turrent so that i still have some time to defend going from place to place.

another stupid mistake i found was dont laser your artifacts or you lose them. i did this on accident while trying to save a planet from an ecodisaster [yah it was a stupid mistake but it was better then my friend blowing up his own city in civilization]

hope this helps any one it is just what i use to scout for space spice.

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Ulciroa — GMT

Once, I saw purple spice at 73,000! Unfortunatly, I only had 5 spice at the time and was saving. By the time I had 20 spice, the price was down to 30K each

However, this guide really has helped! It's great!

EDIT: WOW! Pink just beat your highest seen in my game. 56,188 each. I have a screenshot if you want it

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FuzzballsJr — GMT

Very nice guide. I had no idea spice was worth that much
I tried to gather spice but my cargohold is full of sentient being from the civilizations I have destoryed So one quick question... If i put enough of them on a planet will they make more civilizations or just die? I don't have much and i don't want to lose them, i like trophies

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Crypton — GMT

Fantastic Guide! Wish I had seen this one sooner, had figured out a few things but did not put much 'thought' into everything. This definately puts much perspective on the economic system. Cheers!

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Aetom — GMT

So if I place an Uber Turrent on all my planets (which I already have) I never have to worry about them? EVER? Even if I have an enemy alien attacking? (I don't have any enemies right now, but I do have pirates).

So I can go out and explore all day and when I get messages that say my colonies are under attack, I don't have to worry about it because uber turrent will take care of everything without them destroying everything?

I have maxed out on sporebucks, so...yeah, I'm kind of bored.

P.S. I usually just buy all the systems so I can stack up on badges then I just destroy the cities so it's a barren system.

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=aetom]So if I place an Uber Turrent on all my planets (which I already have) I never have to worry about them? EVER? Even if I have an enemy alien attacking? (I don't have any enemies right now, but I do have pirates).

So I can go out and explore all day and when I get messages that say my colonies are under attack, I don't have to worry about it because uber turrent will take care of everything without them destroying everything?

I have maxed out on sporebucks, so...yeah, I'm kind of bored.

P.S. I usually just buy all the systems so I can stack up on badges then I just destroy the cities so it's a barren system.[/quote]

Taken from a previous post of mine:

If you DON'T show up to help:
The Uber Turret Will:

- Defend your colony from Pirates (they will steal some spice). but wont damage anything.
- Defend your colony from warring empires (they wont damage anything at all)

The Uber Turret Will NOT:

- Stop Pirates from stealing your spice.
- Defend your colony from Grox attacks (you will lose SOME buildings)

If you DO show up:
The Uber Turret Will:

- Defend your colony from Pirates (spice and buildings).
- Defend your colony from warring empires (they wont damage anything at all)
- Defend your colony against the Grox (they MIGHT damage something, but it is safe to ignore them and watch the Turret kill them off)

The Uber Turret Will NOT:

- Get attacked
- Die
- One-Shot everything (it does approximately the damage as your Mega Missile)

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desepticon4 — GMT

sometimes I find I can put two uber-turrets on a planet. theres a bug where sometime when I place a colony item instead of going to the ground and deploying it will fly out into the sky behind me for some time before landing. during that time I can place another uber turret. sometimes a have to wait a while for the first one to land before the game lets me leave the system. raising terrain in some areas, seems to quicken this process.

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knightjoe6 — GMT

i went to a planet and stole/abducted some spice and did that 5 times and made 2mill

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Radioactiwe — GMT

[quote=soopahman]For crushing enemies I've noticed that on EVERY planet EXCEPT the Home planet, the fastest way is to get your Laser equipped (Mega-Laser preferred but any will do), and fly straight to the first Colony and laser the City Hall. Don't let anything else distract you.

If the planet has just the 1 Colony you will either Capture or destroy in seconds. If you Capture, all the planet's ships suddenly give up on you, including giving you safe passage home! Unfortunately destroying the city causes half the ships to give up and the other half to keep at it. At that point you can either back up and stay just out of range of their missiles while you missile them, then come back for the loot the dead city left behind, or you can run for it, FAST.

For whatever reason, Home planets are the only time this doesn't work. You need to break their spirits by bombing a little, then go in with the laser. Try to isolate your bombs to one half or one quarter of the city (target that section) so that if you Capture the city, you have more structures to work with in rebuilding. You DON'T need to bomb it to death - just drop enough bombs to break their spirits then laser the City Hall and it's yours.[/quote]
why dont you just use megabombs or sumting because they do it in 2 secs if only few buildings and they wont use your energy

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=Radioactiwe][quote=soopahman]For crushing enemies I've noticed that on EVERY planet EXCEPT the Home planet, the fastest way is to get your Laser equipped (Mega-Laser preferred but any will do), and fly straight to the first Colony and laser the City Hall. Don't let anything else distract you.

If the planet has just the 1 Colony you will either Capture or destroy in seconds. If you Capture, all the planet's ships suddenly give up on you, including giving you safe passage home! Unfortunately destroying the city causes half the ships to give up and the other half to keep at it. At that point you can either back up and stay just out of range of their missiles while you missile them, then come back for the loot the dead city left behind, or you can run for it, FAST.

For whatever reason, Home planets are the only time this doesn't work. You need to break their spirits by bombing a little, then go in with the laser. Try to isolate your bombs to one half or one quarter of the city (target that section) so that if you Capture the city, you have more structures to work with in rebuilding. You DON'T need to bomb it to death - just drop enough bombs to break their spirits then laser the City Hall and it's yours.[/quote]
why dont you just use megabombs or sumting because they do it in 2 secs if only few buildings and they wont use your energy[/quote]

indeed... 3 mega bombs will clear out a city.

i hate using lasers

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CamsCreations — GMT

HERE IS A NOOB QUESTION

How do you get allied ships to join you fleet.
Ive got two slots for them to go in but i dont know how.
It is different to impressing them right??
do u have to bribe them or something??

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=CamsCreations]HERE IS A NOOB QUESTION

How do you get allied ships to join you fleet.
Ive got two slots for them to go in but i dont know how.
It is different to impressing them right??
do u have to bribe them or something??

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!![/quote]

just talk to them.. there is an option "Can you lend me one of your ships? "

he should give you one

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fresh72 — GMT

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

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charonbond — GMT

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?

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mrsaturnzoom — GMT

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

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Original182 — GMT

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

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dizzye — GMT

5/5 Good Stuff

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TheOGBubbaLee — GMT

[quote=JohnnyPie][quote=theogbubbalee]I have a different best setting for colonies in the space phase.

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Full happy faces w/ 144.00 an hour.[/quote]

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:

[IMG]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k238/johnnypie/Spore_2008-09-20_15-13-25.png[/IMG][/quote]

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.

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findapollo — GMT

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?

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Physicsable — GMT

[quote=charonbond]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?[/quote]

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

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Physicsable — GMT

For [b]findapollo[/b] and [b]TheOGBubbaLee[/b],

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

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Physicsable — GMT

Oh yeah, I almost forgot.

[b]findapollo[/b], 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.

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Emmote — GMT

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!

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Sphira1168 — GMT

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

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treebark — GMT

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

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MANNIO2 — GMT

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!

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Gregory1 — GMT

NIce guide, this might help me!

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lucas182 — GMT

[quote=MANNIO2]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![/quote]

hehe.... thats one way of doing it, but now u can't get any achievements

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fuzzey — GMT

u said the highest seen was 56000 well i just created a trade route wit dese ppls whpo buy pink spice for 74,500 each!!!!!w0000000000000000000000000000000000000000t lol

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Shavonne — GMT

Wow I've never seen pink spice for that much! Lucky!

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Silversnow — GMT

[quote=fuzzey]u said the highest seen was 56000 well i just created a trade route wit dese ppls whpo buy pink spice for 74,500 each!!!!!w0000000000000000000000000000000000000000t lol[/quote]
Are you SURE it was pink spice?
Purple and pink are so alike it's easy to confuse them, and that price tag sure looks like a purple spice

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Bruom — GMT

very good guide, but i'd like to change one thing. when it comes to civ stage planets, if they have like purple or green spice, DO NOT conquer them by destroying. instead, wait, get a monolith, evolve them and then conquer. that way you can make them surrender without destroying their cities, giving you a planet with 5-10 cities =D

belive me, it is really worth the wait. i captured a 10 city (well, i accidentally destroyed one, so 9 cities) purple spice planet, and got rich in mere hours =D

ps:get a spice tank (or whatever it's called), it doubles the maximum spice limit, so, like in my case, it goes from 45 to 90, that sold can give a whooping 6 million + bucks

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SomeOtherRedhead — GMT

Great guide. I wish I had read it sooner. I got $74 million about now and am bummed to know that I'm gonna cap out soon. It's all in the spice!!. Oh and all those yummy rares!

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pikachujc — GMT

i saw a yellow spice buyer that bought for $26,500 (rounded amount)

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gigasquirrel7 — GMT

See, if you could stop pirates from raiding your cities, you'd be practicly invincible since you'd have no enemies...

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Owndapwn — GMT

I got the city set-up part down.

4 happy faces
&
80 spc/hr.

Epic, right?

Problem is, I can't hold enough spice per planet to collect it effectively...

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TheGroxinator — GMT

A better set is 120 3 happy or 132 2 happy havent figured out the second one.....

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ChaosHarbinger — GMT

The 132/hr and 2 Happy is also the cheapest in terms of building set-up. Can't remember how to do it off the top of my head though...

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nogoodnames — GMT

I discovered a glitch that can give you a lot of spice but some might view it as cheating.

To do it go to one of your planets preferably one with high value spice and high spice storage. drop a crate of spice on the planet (any amount will do but putting too much might lower the amount you get back the first time). Buy the spice back then abduct the crate which is still on the ground, and voila you just got a bunch of free spice!

You can do this as many times as you like. You can also do this on alien planets but they view it as stealing.

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DinoBozo — GMT

This will be SO helpful to me.

I've played Space on two games so far, and on both, I had no money and was at war with 1-2 other civilizations. D:

And I didn't even start the wars. I made allies, and all of a sudden another civilization attacked them, so I defended them, and the next thing I knew, I was in a war. And every 2 minutes there would be raids of about 10 enemy ships, and I would be shot down in literally 7 seconds.

I think I will try the Space stage again after reading this.

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SpoMax21 — GMT

This guide helped me greatly, thank you.

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blingstar47 — GMT

Theres also another spice.Its white.If theres any empires living in a gas giant buy there system and you can get white spice.Its a glitch.Also it can sell for some good cash.

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miller0771 — GMT

Also: Something useful for the combat part of war: Use a laser to destroy your enemies spaceship. WAY FASTER.
Another note: The "Star Level" of your allies empire determines how much health there spaceships have and how big their empire is. Try to ally with levels 4 and 5 empires.

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Blaziken2008 — GMT

What a duplicate, http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/17155.page

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nogoodnames — GMT

[quote=Blaziken2008]What a duplicate, http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/17155.page[/quote]

Your thread? Why yes it is.

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joural — GMT

OH... so the game is smart... that's why I had to swap trading partners... well, I love the game anyways. also, it goes green-pink-purple. I checked the wiki for that one. but yeah. the wiki also tells you the prices you can get.

and yeah, his thread is a duplicate... I poted a sort of ender there, that gives them a link back to here. that way people who are looking for tips don't have to deal with that massive amount of ever present stupid. seriously, did you read his tips? it was basicly "get purple spice, then sell 99 at the same time"

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White2Volf — GMT

Making a Colony full with factories with less fun is not that effective.
Happines 5 colonies will get production boasts in several minutes.

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Tragu — GMT

Green Spice:
Jackpot >> Anything upwards of $37000/u
Highest seen: $50600

OH COME ON, I have TOLD you i have seen it go for $6050, but did you listen? NO.

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Tragu — GMT

[quote=White2Volf]Making a Colony full with factories with less fun is not that effective.
Happines 5 colonies will get production boasts in several minutes.

[/quote]

Read the title, SPACE NOT CIV THEY DO NOT GET ANY BONUS"S (sorry for some reason i am annoyed, don't ask me why)

SOrry for the double post.

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Tragu — GMT

[quote=joural]OH... so the game is smart... that's why I had to swap trading partners... well, I love the game anyways. also, it goes green-pink-purple. I checked the wiki for that one. but yeah. the wiki also tells you the prices you can get.

and yeah, his thread is a duplicate... I poted a sort of ender there, that gives them a link back to here. that way people who are looking for tips don't have to deal with that massive amount of ever present stupid. seriously, did you read his tips? it was basicly "get purple spice, then sell 99 at the same time"[/quote]

TRIPLE POST AND I SAY, IT'S A WIKI, PEOPLE CAN EDIT IT, PEOPLE CAN BE WRONG. I THOUGHT THAT IS THE SIMPLEST THING EVER, BUT NO. BESIDES, LOOK AT MY FIRST POST IN THINS THREAD, I HAVE HADE IT GO CONSISTINTLY FOR $60,050, IF YOU HAVEN'T THEN TOUGH LUCK I CAN EVEN GET A PIC.

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jiNguan — GMT

When you say convert the capital planet what do you mean? Personally I've tried wearing down non-capital planets by destroying their ecology. It may be expensive but it's very fast.

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Disami — GMT

well i have this issue with this one empier cap that has all defenses at 5 and i just cant get ride of them
(and im rlly poor) does anyone know waer i can get rlly cheap terraforming tools, and tell me ideas for making money rlly fast wit hout breaking G. Code

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Mariokart30 — GMT

Hey, amazing guide it really helps a lot ! Anyway, I had a quick question if anyone could help me out... The question is:

I Have some colonies on different planets, but the planets are like T1 and T2. Should I terraform to T3 or just ditch them and make colonies elsewhere because I'm not really getting any spice from them. Plz respond, thanks.

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TheBuzzard — GMT

Yes!!! I followed the war guide, captured the capital and it had PURPLE SPICE!!!!! I placed a spice storage on it and that's 70 PURPLE SPICE per visit!! Thats over 5 million sporebucks at maximum selling price! Woot!!!

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AaronMk — GMT

Nice guide. I will keep this in mind. Although I never try to claim red-spice... Not only is it cheap and common but it's not as pretty as the rarer spices.

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warmslime — GMT

[quote=Mariokart30]Hey, amazing guide it really helps a lot ! Anyway, I had a quick question if anyone could help me out... The question is:

I Have some colonies on different planets, but the planets are like T1 and T2. Should I terraform to T3 or just ditch them and make colonies elsewhere because I'm not really getting any spice from them. Plz respond, thanks.[/quote]

Better make them T3, put 3 colonies on them and maxed out buildings and turrets. It could take a lot of time if you're in the beginning but it's very rewarding.

Unless they're red spice planets

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pizzaboy9109 — GMT

And if you want real intense, epic battles, get EPIC SPORE. I think it's called that. Or is it EPIC WARS? Ah well. Anyways, it makes the game pretty fun when it comes to fighting. Just SEE the Grox attack a homeworld with that mod, oh my!

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cody343 — GMT

[quote=op]Purple the most expensive (and rarest)) [/quote]actully white is both of those

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ChaosHarbinger — GMT

Can't sell a glitch though as I recall.

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AmoebaMikel — GMT

[quote=cody343][quote=op]Purple the most expensive (and rarest)) [/quote]actully white is both of those[/quote]

There is no such thing as white spice.

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zane99111 — GMT

Good idea, but my style is eradication. Eradicate all enemy empires make their planets have monolith creatures and have your super spice mine planets.

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zane99111 — GMT

[quote=AmoebaMikel][quote=cody343][quote=op]Purple the most expensive (and rarest)) [/quote]actully white is both of those[/quote]

There is no such thing as white spice.[/quote]
Actually, white spice can be found on some gas giants and is unaccessible. That is rare and won't be able to be obtained, though. Have fun wishing you had the unachievable white spice. : )

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Taupo — GMT

I think you may be able to optain white spice via trade routes... Not sure though...

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Veristar — GMT

I've seen blue spice at 26,140 Spucks, if that helps any.

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Majama — GMT

If you are very very very very lucky you can find a empire that will live on a gas giant and you simply buy it from them.

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Haxorzunited14 — GMT

[quote=cody343][quote=op]Purple the most expensive (and rarest)) [/quote]actully white is both of those[/quote]

lies

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clok555 — GMT

[quote=Haxorzunited14][quote=cody343][quote=op]Purple the most expensive (and rarest)) [/quote]actully white is both of those[/quote]

lies[/quote]why?just cuz you dont know if it exists?

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Haxorzunited14 — GMT

[quote=clok555][quote=Haxorzunited14][quote=cody343][quote=op]Purple the most expensive (and rarest)) [/quote]actully white is both of those[/quote]

lies[/quote]why?just cuz you dont know if it exists?[/quote]

because ive never seen proof

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kaos_kid — GMT

[quote=lucas182]This is a Guide for those who are having trouble getting rich in space stage. It also provides some strategy on how to avoid the constant annoying attacks.

Okay... to start off... KEYWORD (and quite an obvious one) = SPICE

LOTS AND LOTS OF SPICE

So how do you get them?

Exploration is key.
Fly around your neighboring star systems looking for a "CIVILIZATION" planet. That means a planet that has got a dominant species in the Civ stage. These planets will ALMOST ALWAYS be T3 (you want a T3 colony because it grants you 3 colony slots which mean more spice).

(Keep in mind, when selecting your new planet, the Spice price chart: It goes Red, Yellow, Blue, Pink, Green, and Purple, with Red being the cheapest and Purple the most expensive (and rarest))

[i]EDIT:
There is an "easy" abeit time-consuming way of getting a good colony, with good spice, close to your home planet. If you haven't visited a star system you can: 1) save your game, 2) visit the star system, 3) IF you believe the spices/planets within aren't that good, Exit to the Main Menu (without saving), 4) Reload your game, 5) Re-visit the star system again, 6) Repeat until you think you've got a good planet/spice configuration.
PS: Blue stars have the best spice (Blue, Green, Pink, Purple). Red stars usually only have Red and Yellow.

(credit: elavals)
(this has been confirmed by me... if only I knew this before...)[/i]

The objective here is to conquer this T3 planet and colonize it.

How?

If your ship has any set of "Bomb" ability (mini bomb and so on) this chore will be extremely easy.
If it doesn't, then I'm going to assume you at least have a "Laser" ability.

Hover over a city, any city, and start bombing or laser-ing that city's City Hall. Adjust your ships height so that the city's defenses can't touch you but you can keep firing down.

Sooner than later the city will turn into dust.

Keep doing this to the other cities in the planet until you have conquered everything. Take trips back to your home planet to refuel and repair between attacking one city and another if you feel it's necessary. And always try to take out cities that belong to different factions and not the same one.

Okay. So now that you've conquered your T3 planet and built 3 colonies in it with the optimum production/happiness setting (refer to screenshot), it's time to TRADE until you get amazingly bored (and/or rich). Your planet should be producing around 20 spice units – should be 30 with the spice storage upgrade.

[i]Optimal Setting:[/i]
EDIT: 132 Production, +2 Happiness
[img]http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k238/johnnypie/Spore_2008-09-20_15-13-25.png[/img]
[i](credit: JohnnyPie)[/i]

Find a trading partner near your new planet.
Look around your galaxy for a group of star systems that do not have easy access to the spice you're producing. That's where your best chances of finding a great deal lies.
Establishing trade routes between your planets and your allies DOES NOT help this cause. You will only be providing your spices for free (and getting theirs in return, but the benefit is minimal).

When selling your spice, you should already have a basis on the difference between getting ripped off on a deal and hitting the jackpot.

If you don't, this might help you out:
[i]EDIT:[/i]
[b]Red Spice:[/b]
Jackpot >> Anything upwards of $10000/u
[i]Highest seen: $17000[/i]

[b]Yellow Spice:[/b]
Jackpot >> Anything upwards of $15000/u
[i]Highest seen: $22000[/i]

[b]Blue Spice:[/b]
Jackpot >> Anything upwards of $22000/u
[i]Highest seen: $26000[/i]

[b]Pink Spice:[/b]
Jackpot >> Anything upwards of $30000/u
Highest I've seen: $54000
[i]Highest seen: $56000[/i]

[b]Green Spice:[/b]
Jackpot >> Anything upwards of $37000/u
[i]Highest seen: $50600[/i]

[b]Purple Spice:[/b]
Jackpot >> Anything upwards of $45000/u
Highest I’ve seen: $64000
[i]Highest seen: $74500[/i]

[i](credit: defektiv, ryxeuclie, neunzehnisbest)[/i]

[i]The Amazing Purple Money:[/i]
[img]http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9904/guide4dd1.jpg[/img]

Now, I suggest selling in stacks of 99 always (that’s the max).
There’s a reason for this:
Your buyer won’t have the same demand for that color spice after you’ve sold a bunch of units, and so it’s best to sell in bunches of 99 to maximize profits and take advantage of his already high demand.
EDIT:
It has been reported by some players that selling in bunches of 30 or so is easier. Apparently it is easier to find buyers that will purchase your spice for more cash when you're selling in bunches of 30. That way you can sell 30, get 30 more, find another buyer easily, sell again, repeat.
I still believe though that selling in stacks of 99 is better; there may be less buyers out there with a good price, but once you find them it gets easier than selling in smaller stacks.

If you follow the aforementioned chart, you should be earning upwards of 1 million sporebucks per sale.

That’s in less than an hour of play if you’re selling Red spice and mere minutes if you’re selling Purple spice.

[i]Selling The Pink:[/i]
[img]http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/6277/guide5ot6.jpg[/img]

A couple of additional pointers:

1) Artifacts are dumb and worthless. Sell them. They take up too much space and don’t go up much in value when you find another that belongs to the same set. They aren’t worth trying to complete.
2) When conquering/colonizing an enemy Space-Stage T3 planet, NEVER bribe an ally to help you… UNLESS it’s absolutely necessary. Why? Because if you convert the planet’s cities instead of destroying them (you will see a white flag above the hall), you can end up with a planet that has a lot more than 3 colonies… which leads to a LOT more spice for you. If you send your allies to help you out, there’s a very high risk that THEY will colonize the planet (and its colonies) and keep the spice for themselves.

[i]Conquered Planet (40 Spice Capacity):[/i]
[img]http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/8996/guide3dx5.jpg[/img]

3) Your home planet is worthless. There, I said it. Now, let it rot, really. Who cares if it’s getting invaded? It gives you so little spice it’s almost not worth having. Go back in there when you feel like repairing your ONE colony (there’s no point in having more than one colony in your home planet… let the others die). Repairing your home planet is cheap anyway.
4) ALWAYS purchase spice from other species. They SELL FOR CHEAP. You can resell later for a lot more cash.

Avoiding getting raided every SECOND (my GOD how annoying this is):

First of all, I’m a carnivore, so I kill things right?
Well, yes, but oh… NOT IN SPACE.

Don’t make the same mistake I did when starting out.
I didn’t care about enemies, I wanted them dead.

Well, if you want to be attacked every second (okay, minute…) then that’s fine.
If you don’t however, you need to make ALLIES. Lots and lots of allies.

And creating alliances is easy. Just bribe them if you have the money, or complete missions for them if you’re poor.

If you already have enemies, the only way to get rid of the constant stupid attacks is to obliterate them.
It doesn’t matter if they only have one T0 planet in their empire, they will still bother you until you’ve dealt the finishing blow.

Killing them off though will be VERY HARD if you:
A) Don’t have money
B) Don’t have allies
C) Don’t have a good group of ships next to yours
D) Have a Starter’s spaceship with minimal upgrades.

However if the reasons above don’t apply to you, killing your enemies is easy.
Simply bribe your allies into attacking the enemies planets (avoid their capital… reason why was mentioned above).
Now take your small fleet to the planet you sent your allies to.
When you get there, ignore the enemy’s ships (they might be busy fighting your ally’s forces anyway) and focus on bombing the city’s hall. The enemy ships will flee when you destroy the city hall and the planet will be empty.
Do this to every small planet your enemy has, until you leave him with his capital. THEN attack the capital.

When you are left with no enemies, you will enjoy a time of PEACE (PAX ROMA-SPOREANA if you will…).
Well, mostly.
You will still need to save planets from eco disaster (but that happens like every half hour) and you’ll have some pirate raids (but they only steal some spice, so it’s okay not to care…) BUT you won’t have aliens attacking anything.

WHEN YOU GET RICH (and believe me, you will), invest in a little thing called UBER TURRET… It’s such an amazing thing… I love it, and always have like 7 or 8 of them with me.

Drop one of those on every planet you got a colony on and you will never have to defend it from anything EVER AGAIN. You won’t lose a SINGLE building.

Also, don’t buy those super Planet Bombs… You won’t need them. They’re expensive and by the time you unlock them, you’ll be powerful enough to colonize any enemy planet.

Have Fun

Additional pointless info:

[i]EDIT:
Apparently, there is a money cap set to $99,999,999
So... no becoming a Billionsporinaire oh well...
(credit: stilldamom)[/i]

I play Spore on Hard… don’t know how much that influences this guide... It only means my spaceship has 2250 HP maxed out (against 9000+ in easier difficulty settings)... but other then that I think it makes no difference.

The buildings and the Zebra/Bee/Dog/Bird creature called Plukmen, along with its vehicles (spaceship, water, land, air) were all created by me.

The Buildings are part of a Chess-Set inspired pack and are available for download at my spore page.

I stopped following this “guide” after reaching 60 million sporebucks because I got very bored and wanted to explore (plus, there’s no way you can burn that much money in this game unless you buy a million Planet Bombs or purchase a bunch of systems – which I don’t recommend).

or just use the cheat more money

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MKCSTEALTH — GMT

wow, thats the longest Necro i've seen

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luffyze — GMT

Thanks for the guide.

Interesting stuff

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Taupo — GMT

It's not a 'necro' if it's a constructive message...

And as for the white spice, I'm guessing it does exist but I've seen no proof of white spice selling higher than purple.

(GUIDE) Get Rich and Avoid Attacks in SPACE

Masterfireox — GMT

there's Purple spice!?!?

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MKCSTEALTH — GMT

[quote=Taupo]It's not a 'necro' if it's a constructive message...[/quote]

its a necro because he posted on a thread that died a month ago, wether it be a constructive message or a spam post, its still a necro.

now let this thread die.

Re:(GUIDE) Get Rich and Avoid Attacks in SPACE

12gunner — GMT

the easiest way for me to get rich is just go to planets with creatures in the civ stage and steal their spice go out do a quest or two then come back and repeat it may not be as good as the first but it works I like to call this taxing.

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Dahmination — GMT

Just saw someone buying pink spice for 56188spucks. Too bad I only had 11.

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screenname1111 — GMT

I dont care how much the shaggles empire pay for spice im not trading with them.They're such idiots

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Shneo — GMT

Hit SHIFT+CTRL+C and type in "[i]moremoney[/i]".

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Dahmination — GMT

First of all, Shneo, that's called CHEATING. if you CHEAT, you can't get ACHIEVEMENTS.

Second, I have found an interesting way of putting this to use, not sure if its already been posted though. Find a wormhole that leads to a place that has red spice planets that are easily colonized. colonize ONE T-0 RED SPICE planet, and just leave the colony there (uber-turret it if you want, but its not really necessary). Make sure there aren't planets with any other kind of spice, except maybe yellow. On the other side of the wormhole, colonize a bunch of purple-spice planets, 4 or 5 should do, and make them all T-3, 3 colony planets, following the building guide provided in the original post. Add spice storage and uber-turret, and anything else you want (happiness booster is a waste in this case). Gather all the spice from your purple spice colonies until you have 99, then head across the wormhole to the t0 colony you placed, making sure its the ONLY colony around for.... many many parsecs. They'll probably be buying the spice for a very HIGH price, and their price doesn't tend to change much. This worked for me, and I have a lot of money now.
EDIT: After a few sells, the price does go down. my bad. Just destroy the colony and set up a new one. You may have to find a new wormhole. Either that or sell them to other empires for a while.

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carcanken — GMT

Purple sells for 70,000+?
Man I was ripped off I sold mine for about 900 :O

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SeanStar25 — GMT

[quote=carcanken]Purple sells for 70,000+?
Man I was ripped off I sold mine for about 900 :O[/quote]
Don't necro.

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CloudedThoughts — GMT

[quote=SeanStar25][quote=carcanken]Purple sells for 70,000+?
Man I was ripped off I sold mine for about 900 :O[/quote]
Don't necro.[/quote]

Yes, a necro is considered spam, most people don't tolerate it, leave this thread in piece.

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SeanStar25 — GMT

[quote=CloudedThoughts][quote=SeanStar25][quote=carcanken]Purple sells for 70,000+?
Man I was ripped off I sold mine for about 900 :O[/quote]
Don't necro.[/quote]

Yes, a necro is considered spam, most people don't tolerate it, leave this thread in piece.[/quote]
Clouded, leave it alone.

Re:(GUIDE) Get Rich and Avoid Attacks in SPACE

carcanken — GMT

Thats a good guide it helped me on a few things.

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MKCSTEALTH — GMT

Happy Birthday in a few days thread!

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odDballL — GMT

[quote=12gunner]the easiest way for me to get rich is just go to planets with creatures in the civ stage and steal their spice go out do a quest or two then come back and repeat it may not be as good as the first but it works I like to call this taxing.[/quote]

The only problem with this method is that when they become sentient they are instantly your enemy because you stole from them. The work around to this is to place a crop circle on the planet when you are done but then I wouldn't recommend stealing any more spice from them. When the reach sentience they shouldn't be angry with you but making an ally of them will be difficult.