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This might be the first game I buy in half a year, assuming the reviews aren't terrible.  Anyone know where I can download it once it's out in Europe?

Australia got a street date earlier than ours? What the shit? No more complaining about that from Yahtzee IMO!

Spore was leaked; it's been pirated already. It's on various private sites and should make it's way to public ones within a day or two.

Does anybody know if Spore phones home if you are connected to the Internet a la Steam? I'm too lazy to check.

    *  We authenticate your game online when you install and launch it the first time.
    * We'll re-authenticate when a player uses online features, downloads new content or a patch for their game.
    * The new system means you don't have to play with the disc in your computer. And if you are like me, always losing discs, this will be a huge benefit.
    * You'll still be able to install and play on multiple computers.
    * You can play offline.

It won't run on the previous Mac OS and its EA.  I shall be passing for now. 

Besides, September 9th is when Battle for Black Reach, Warhammer 40K's newest starter set packed with the 5th edition rulesbook and about 1000 points worth of Marines and Orks comes out.

And I am back to Da Boyz after a nearly year long hiatus of Chaos Marine and Tyranid shenanigans.

Spore was leaked; it's been pirated already. It's on various private sites and should make it's way to public ones within a day or two.

So, how 'bout them penis monsters?

So, how 'bout them penis monsters?

Did they mention how they will filter them out when the game populates the world for you?

1. People can deliver on hype, it just takes an exceptionally long amount of time and a shit load of delays and...

You are so wrong! (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=14334.msg505636#msg505636)

So do any stores in the US have this yet?  If so, I'll forgo the preload and call around to see if anyone's interested in selling me a box.

You are so wrong! (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=14334.msg505636#msg505636)

Spore has practically no DRM whatsoever. Let's just stop this talk of DRM. Yeesh. It's not like it's Splinter Cell fucking Chaos Theory with some bastard child of Starforce and Securom.

And it's not like a pirated copy can authenticate into Spores servers, it's tied to your CD key.

NEXT TOPIC.

Friend names!
If you want my shit, add SpaceYoru.
If it gets long enough I'll split this off into a new thread.

My spore couldn't find SpaceYoru, only Yoru_noob  :why_so_serious:

I've barely played in years, but I'll be picking this up next week as well.

Do they still have combat patrol stuff in the new edition? I'll have to rejig my painted CPs again, and finish my unpainted CPs, and then rejig their lists.

I'm playing as mientje.
My spore couldn't find SpaceYoru, only Yoru_noob  :why_so_serious:

Gamestop is showing the 7th as ship date, which is odd to me as thats a Sunday.

Fucking christ Direct2Drive is slow.  Next time I'll order it to be delivered with thumbdrives on carrier pidgeons or something.

Does not work on my machine (funny, I have a Dell XPS M130--decently standard gaming laptop).
Turns out the error I've been getting has been known since May, yet EA/Maxis has never once responded to it, and it's not in their support or forums.
DasmX86Dll.dll cannot be found. Crashes every time you start a game.

As a gamer, I'm like "eh, ok, whatever...some nice stuff in there".

As a game developer, I'm like "several of these are ok, several are simply not going to happen", because the consumers won't accept (at least not in this day and age, maybe the future) what is required to make it fair for both parties.

1.  Gamers shall have the right to return games that don’t work with their computers for a full refund.

--only going to happen if that means online "phone home" authentication. Most users as far as I am aware don't like/won't accept this.


   2.  Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state.
   3.  Gamers shall have the right to expect meaningful updates after a game’s release.



Make up your mind. If the game is finished, then there should be zero expectation of meaningful updates. If a developer feels it's interesting financially, artistically, or strategically to update their game, that's their choice, not a "right of a gamer". I call total bullshit on this one.

Does not work on my machine (funny, I have a Dell XPS M130--decently standard gaming laptop).

Turns out the error I've been getting has been known since May, yet EA/Maxis has never once responded to it, and it's not in their support or forums.

DasmX86Dll.dll cannot be found. Crashes every time you start a game.

It's got a lot more than 20 reviews now. I expect this will be more-or-less like that woman's book. You know, the woman who had a lot to say about Mass Effect's sex and nudity before she'd actually, you know, even looked at the game.

I lol'd.   :why_so_serious:

My Spore profile is "spamwise", btw.  I think I must have played this for about 7 hours straight last night.  My big question: where's my plant editor, bitches?

Maybe while they're at it they can add some deeper tech trees to the tribe/civ stages.  If they give Spore the same level of post-release attention that they did to the Sims, there's a lot of room for them to do some cool stuff.  (Difference being that I disliked most of the core gameplay in the Sims, but I like what's there in Spore and just wish there was more of it).

BTW, am I alone in really loving the cell phase?  Out of all the phases I think it's the one where the choices you make in the editor have the greatest impact in the world.

I haven't played the game yet, but I'm thinking that "deeper tech trees" for the tribe/civ stages is probably not in tune with their design and market thrust for the game.

Having watched this for awhile, it seems the "game" is the editors. Everything else is just minigames to unlock the editors and move to the next phase.

Any idea where the anti DRM movement is from? (referencing the amazon down voting)

Just a guess but I'd say it probably comes from some e-libertarian hotbed like Slashdot.

I'm not sure how to finish it as Adaptable, as I allied with two tribes, killed three, and my bar stayed as a Predator the entire time.  The Civilization phase is annoying for Economics, in that if everyone declares war, there doesn't seem to be much you can do.  Space is fun except for times missions and hyper aggressive AI my first play through.

Was there a point to your second quote? I'm not demanding anything, I'm commenting about a configuration/compatibility bug to see if anyone else has had that issue, and possibly resolved it somehow.

Additionally, but fixes/compatibility adjustments are not in any way "meaningful updates" in the context of that quote--at least not in the way I took it. Nice job mucking up the Spore thread however ;)

please tell me this game isn't genocide == FTW.  What are the win conditions?

You fuckers are jaded, it's a great game. MrBart is my username, but only the crappy evolution of the Meep is showing up in Sporepedia right now.

As for the Civ phase, you need to become an economic powerhouse so that you have more spice than you know what to do with.  Build as many vehicles as you can, claim all the spices nodes you can see right at the beginning, and open up trade routes as soon as possible.  If someone doesn't want to trade with you, send him a big pile of money and ask again.  Buy cities as soon as you possibly can, since they add their spice flow to your own.  Then, when you basically have spice coming out your ears, you can maintain good relations with everyone, even if they're all mortal enemies, by sending them presents.  You'll take a -20 from doing trade with their enemies and a +40 for bribing them to their eyeballs.

On a side note, why couldn't they have made the game require a login to an account (ala mmorpgs) before playing?  Seems that would nip the [Securom] issue pretty quick, it works for WoW and the others. 

List of Buddies I've gathered:

SpaceYoru
AezZea
driakos
MrBart
MisterNoisy
Lantyssa

Feel free to crib and add to the first page, Yoru.  Doubt even I will find it here on page four in the future.

Could you guys try and add me, so far I cant find a single person by searching for their name. Mine is "Morfiend".

So you can purchase and direct download the PC version but not the Mac version?  WTF? (http://eastore.ea.com/store/ea/DisplayCategoryHomePage/categoryID.12204500/ThemeID.1252400/pgm.13928100?sourceid=ea2246)

Can you explain why?

so you guys don't worry about the DRM?  Can you explain why? (i.e. you feel confident about removing it from the registry down the road etc).  Just looking for reasons to play.

Is this (http://www.direct2drive.com/4/6677/product/Buy-SPORE-(MAC-VERSION)-Download) what you're looking for?

Frankly this is probably of little concern for a game like Spore, where the replay value is low.

The installation limit is going to be hilarious if they ever release more than 2 expansions.

http://antispore.com/
Resisting EA’s War on Creationism

Is this for real?

I restarted a new civilization due to being ganged-up on in Space.  It got annoying having to return to my home planet every two minutes to defend it from the three civilizations who hate me.

http://antispore.com/
Resisting EA’s War on Creationism

Is this for real?

But the Bible teaches us that God was not done with man. For we were His creation and He then spoke to Noah in Genesis 8:21-27 after the flood.
“21. The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never gonna give you up.
22. “Never gonna let you down.”
23.”Never gonna run around and desert you.”
24. “Never gonna make you cry.”
25. “Never gonna say goodbye.”
26. “Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.”
27.”Never truly believe anything you read on the Internet. There will always be cases of Poe’s Law.”

It’s these teachings that I’ve spent my life learning, believing and becoming, that have made me the woman that I am today.

No (http://antispore.com/2008/09/11/understand-my-beliefs-please/)

Lantyssa's Empire is my bestest buddies. But Shavnir's empire has declared war on us and Reg's empire stopped trading and is also probably going to declare war. You guys are so mean.

edit:
This. This is annoying, I guess this is where they try to add game for all the people bitching here about it not being gamey enough (and who wouldn't like it anyway). I want to do some trading, some exploring, some planet building and sculpting. Instead I'm dealing with Shavnir and Reg skull-fucking my 3-empire alliance because we haven't pumped out warships.

Lantyssa's Empire is my bestest buddies. But Shavnir's empire has declared war on us and Reg's empire stopped trading and is also probably going to declare war. You guys are so mean.

My worst enemies are the Freedom Sharks. Do they belong to one of us?

I was having a lot of trouble with the space stage of the game. I just can't get the hang of the radar so when I get sent to kill off the 5 glow in the dark animals to avoid ecological catastrophe while a timer counts down in the background it causes me massive frustration.  I cured that by completely ignoring such things. After a few species go extinct there's a final mission that tells me to stabilize the ecology by restocking the planet. I fly over, dump a load of Meeps and bask in the admiration of my allies. :)

Another sometime buddy is the Cenophite Empire. Is that one of yours Aez?

Please tell me this is a joke. This has to be a joke.

Win conditions. Will Wright. ... Win conditions.

Srsly?

Srsly.  Not win, but is it the case that carnivores are the OP?  More clearly, does the game only lend itself to winning via violence or is there a non-violent alternative.  Can you grow a race without nuking others?  Just asking.  The box has arrived.

The Cenorites are my powergamed race with the perfect set of attributes for my playstyle in the space age. They swing pretty widely between aggressive and passive over their history, ending up as Ecologists in my game. I'm not sure if those attributes cross over entirely - I have Joe's race (the Will Smifs) in one of my early games, and they came out as Scientists in mine, whereas he said they were force/warmonger dudes in his.

Lantyssa's Empire is my bestest buddies. But Shavnir's empire has declared war on us and Reg's empire stopped trading and is also probably going to declare war. You guys are so mean.

Srsly.  Not win, but is it the case that carnivores are the OP?  More clearly, does the game only lend itself to winning via violence or is there a non-violent alternative.  Can you grow a race without nuking others?  Just asking.  The box has arrived.

Srsly.  Not win, but is it the case that carnivores are the OP?  More clearly, does the game only lend itself to winning via violence or is there a non-violent alternative.  Can you grow a race without nuking others?  Just asking.  The box has arrived.

My enemies all have enormous fleets as well. Hang in there. If you survive long enough to unlock a few weapons upgrades you and one or two friends can easily whip a big fleet of bad guys.

Oh another tip. When you shoot down an enemy ship it often drops loot that if you tractor it into your hold is worth 5,000 - 10,000 bucks. I would never have noticed except for reading about it over at QT3.

And another.  When you drop a plant or animal onto a planet while terraforming it instantly fully populates the planet. What this means is that you can safely tractor the guy you just dropped right back into your hold without doing any harm. So you only need to carry one of each type to save space in your hold.

Edit: Also, Spode help you all whenever I finish evolving the Frobozzians. They make the Freedom Sharks look like cute harmless pandas.

I've had the same experience with the Meeps - they're EVERYWHERE, but they're pretty much harmless no matter which era you run into them in.

edit: Also, you can get the advanced rotate handles by holding down tab in the creators. I assume you know that holding alt and dragging a part copies it. I forgot the one to pull a joint off a limb, though, to use an upper arm for a neck, f'rinstance.

That section in the manual was a misprint and will be corrected in future printings of the manual. There is one Spore registration/account per game/serial code so you are correct in that you cannot make multiple accounts at this time.

I just unlocked the energy-driven terraforming tools last night and I was all like  :ye_gods:  :drill:

My guys at Mission Control keep telling me to go colonize other star systems, but fuck them.  I'm going to go put MONKEYS on the fucking MOON.

I pirated it, and I'm glad I didn't pay because I'd totally feel ripped off right now.  Everything somehow manages to feel dumbed-down and cluttered at the same time.

Microbe phase:  If this were a Flash game I'd think it was pretty nifty.  This was probably the most directly fun part of the game.  You sit down, and within a minute or two you're swimming around eating stuff and evolving your creature.  This and the next phase REALLY remind me of EVO for SNES.

Creature phase:  Getting bodyparts and modifying your creature is fun, but a lot of this is just you tediously eating creatures via MMO-style combat.  Eventually when you're running with a pack and some of the other species are fighting each other this is kind of neat.

Tribal phase:  Shitty watered-down RTS.  Kill the red village, now kill the blue village, now kill the... etc...  I do like the way your creatures still use all their special attacks from the previous phase, but overall this was my least favorite part thus far.

Civilization phase:  Less shitty but still watered-down RTS.  Kill the red nation, now kill the blue nation...  You design one ground unit, one air unit, and one sea unit type.  That's it.  Since modifications to my creature always had a lot of direct meaningful effect on gameplay, I spent a good chunk of time coming up with a well-designed ground vehicle complete with a tailgun for shooting things behind it.  Then the first time I went into combat I realized that all vehicles fire auto-homing poofs of light into the air and it didn't matter how I designed them.  All that matters is the overall proportion of health/speed/damage.  Just get 4 cities so you can build air units and then pew-pew everyone else to death from the sky.

Space phase:  I just started this one, but so far it's looking like a micromanagement nightmare of playing an empire-building game by physically flying your avatar to every city on every colony and telling them to build houses and shit.

I just ran into the Space Cat civilization this morning.  They have the oddest little space ship. It looks like a big white refrigerator.

Behold, ze jackalope!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vQ8tD0Ql8k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vQ8tD0Ql8k)

Really, I'm just impressed that you can upload video directly to youtube from in-game.

I too want to play it as a toy, not a game.  What I really want is something like an aquarium.  I want to be able to casually create stuff, plunk it in my galaxy, sit back, and just watch what happens.  I'll get my gamey bits elsewhere, thanks.

What's odd is that I blew off Spore because I didn't think it was going to be enough of an actual game to suit my tastes.  It turned out that, even though I've never been a fan of non-games or creating visual art, I'm more interested in the social interactions between the races/critters and creating new ones than I am 'playing the game'.  Will Wright is frickin brilliant.

Has anyone run into my creations? I have a lot of people added, but I *always* run into Lantyssa's and Samwise's creations.

Well, I'm done.  The space part kept me interested for a little while longer, but the interface is just too terrible.

Hooray for piracy.

Why can't you play Stephen?

The game entertained you through about a week of fanbois level posting and you're actually going sit there and mouth off about how worthless the experience was?

If the game actually hadn't been reasonable you just wouldn't have played it.  The indignant self-justification act is amazing.

Eh, I like it. Well, I sort of liked it before I jumped through a wormhole and got lost on the other side of the galaxy, suddenly turning my game of spore into the worst of the Star Trek series.  :ye_gods:

It's -probably- a compatibility issue with Dell drivers for the 8600 laptop video card I have, or possibly the on board sound--no one seems to know though.

Zero Punctuation take on Spore (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/218-Spore)

I actually really like the basic idea of the city building in civ/space, with the whole city being a graph that has score values applied to certain nodes and the edges between certain types of nodes.  Optimizing the graph to give you the highest possible score in all stats has the makings of a fun game.  It just doesn't last very long with only three building types and two stats to manage.

Boring. Sold.

This is a PC only patch. Mac users should check back soon!
Features

    * New Cheat: "evoadvantage". Enter this cheat when are starting a new Creature game to choose any creature from the Sporepedia. Start a new game with one of your more evolved creatures!
    * Display part statistics when you are in Build mode. Rollover any part and hold down the 'i' key.
    * New Cheat: "blocksmode". Turns creatures into their blocky representations.
    * More style filters. Open the cheat window and type: "stylefilter -microscope" or "stylefilter -norainbows" or "stylefilter -nextgen" to see the new styles
    * Added 70 new planet scripts with a low terraform score, especially of the "hot and high atmosphere" type

Graphics/Aesthetics

    * Animation improvements
    * Improved the planets fogging, blooming and lighting
    * Fixed animation issues with tool handling, hand walking and some of the more oddly shaped creatures

Tuning

    * Creature phase: Improved the pacing towards the end of the game, and increased the challenge in Normal and Hard modes.
    * Tribe phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
    * Civilization phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
    * Space phase: Made Empires in Easy and Normal modes demand reasonable amounts of money in exchange for peace and adjust the level of punishment if the player doesn't pay
    * Space phase: Made disasters less likely to occur in Easy and Normal modes and increased the time between each attack from the enemy empire when the player is at war.

Miscellaneous

    * Creature phase: Improved the way posse members behave during threatening situations and fights.
    * Space phase: Made finding your home world and colonies easier in the Galactic view.
    * Tribe phase: Made it so that tribe members can travel on steep hills if they need to do so now, but their speed will be reduced a lot.
    * Fixed an issue with attacks not working on some bigger animals and larger animals not dying correctly
    * Fixed collect mission not completing correctly when all parts have been collected
    * Fixed problems with the "Rolling Thunder" and "Déjà Vu" achievements not being awarded as they should
    * Fixed floating parts not being deducted from the budget when loaded into creator
    * Fixed an issue with the rotation rings not resizing correctly when a part was resized and improved their look
    * Fixed an issue where the terraforming score of planet could differ when revisiting a solar system
    * Fixed the keyboard controls for zoom & pitch in the Colony Planner not working properly
    * Fixed a crash that could occur when watching an epic creature attack a city
    * Fixed some issues where the game would freeze when using the Creature Tweaker tool or when capturing a planet in solar view
    * Fixed an issue where not all tribe members would obey the raid order when a large group was ordered to raid
    * Fixed an issue where banning a creation from one of your other saved games would black out the main menu

What size is your monitor? I find the font size on the slightly small size at 1620x1080, so can imagine it gets worse at higher resolutions.

One question I had: in the civ phase I kept paying a neighboring town off. No real reason, I just thought at the time if I kept giving them money they would feel less inclined to attack me. I eventually got to the point where I could roll through them. But afterward I wondered if I hadn't paid them off periodically, would they have attacked me instead of attacking others? I never saw any indication that they liked or hated more or less in their smiley-face/shield icon thingy, but I don't know how granular that scale is (like, was my graft making micro-improvements to the relationship?)

I went back to my original Bortax empire now that I actually know how to play the space game. I'd given up on them in disgust because I had two big empires pounding on me every five minutes. Those empires are both gone now. The new Bortax philosophy is one of complete intolerance to the overly aggressive. If you don't have a nice friendly smiley when you meet the peace loving Bortax empire you will be eradicated.

This galaxy is just for vegetarians.

Why does this game sound like nothing more than a pretty simple RTS when people are discussing it?

If you mouse over the nation's little color indicator on the hud (the one that you click on to initiate communications once they've captured at least two cities) it tells you their exact relationship (1-100) with you, as well as a breakdown of all the influences on it (e.g. "You attacked our enemy, +65" "You're a threat to us, -30"). 

Why does this game sound like nothing more than a pretty simple RTS when people are discussing it?

Also, how come in the civ phase the religous path is the "nonviolent" one that you get by having played as a pacifist the entire game, but in the Space phase all of the religious civilizations you meet are giant warmongers?

Sky, I think there's a buddy name thread. I'm obviously CmdrSlack.

I know, I was looking over people's stuff last night after reading this thread and realized there were some glaring omissions in the buddy thread :)

Also, why aren't people posting their Buddy Names?? I'm pretty sure there are a couple people (DQ, naum) who aren't playing the pirated version and are creative people. Makes me sad when some fun races haven't been updated in over a week (Looking at Lantyssa!)

When I figure out how, I will do so…

One thing I'd like to see added: a way to build a city from the race, building and vehicle choices you made. Just some sort of snowglobe thing, maybe a way to make it a screensaver. This occured to me today when making creatures, buildings and vehicles with my kids. I really had no way to quickly show them the results without having to log in game. I'll hafta play something through to the civ phase but never continue it just to use that as a diorama I suppose.

Curious if anyone has bumped into my critters in space stage. I lost a few to the complexity bug :uhrr: but supposedly, they still show up in games.

Haven't seen any others in space.. YET. But lots in creature and tribal. Tres cool stuff.

Actually, it sounds like:

 (http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:7ZMb77sRRrUK2M:http://gaygamer.net/images/642.jpg)

and his original vision. 

EDIT: Removed his name so he doesn't find us in one of his periodic Google searches of his name. 

I had trouble with that with my Zaphods, too.  It seems like if you finish the cell phase as an herbivore, you never have the option of developing an omnivore or carnivore mouth (those parts will never unlock for you).  Annoying since I wanted the more "human-looking" mouths for cosmetic reasons.

BTW, the trick to dealing with aggro carnivores as an herbivore is to use Siren's Song to stop them from chewing on you, and then befriend them before it wears off.

I don't think it does.  By the end of my creature phase I had literally unlocked every creature part except for any of the omnivore/carnivore mouths.  I think it's locked in by your choices as a cell.  I even tried eating meat to see if eventually it'd let me change my diet, but no dice.

This. The band you are in (herb/omni/carni) at the end of the cell phase determines what kind of mouth parts are available in the creature phase.

So if you want omni, pick herb/carn in the cell phase, then switch mouthpieces when you hit the cell editor.
Then make sure to monitor your History, and switch mouthpieces if you're getting too close to herb/carn.

I think I'm going to put two damn mouths on my cell and see what happens. :) I tried the probiscus thing, which seems pretty damn "Omnivore" to me, but I must have switched to late or eaten too many plants.

At the end of your cell stage, if you are a carnivore or herbivore, add a mouth from the other type (or a proboscis if you want) to be able to eat anything in the later stages.

Heh, I managed to exterminate the Religious Quack species after befriending it in creature mode.

SporeGod works in mysterious ways and whatnot. :p


Bonus points for creating a duck species tho.  :grin:

Finding stars is a PITA, even with the filters. I think perhaps it's time to invest in a mouse for my laptop, because the touchpad thing doesn't like to play nice with it's "mouse wheel" function in Spore.

I have no idea if it'll help me out with my star-finding issues, but at least it'll make the creators more functional for me.

I've tried getting to the center of the galaxy a few times now but always ended up at a point where I couldn't jump far enough to get to the next star. Then I'd get frustrated and give up.  My latest race though, the Omnitards stumbled on a wormhole that seems to be taking me almost all the way there. Now I just need to grind and get the best warp drive before I make another attempt.

Holy crap some of you people spend a lot of time in the editor.  150+ creations from some of you!

Downloading most/all of it now... hopefully have time to upload my own  :awesome_for_real:

Wish there was a way to set up internal trade routes to my home system to automate spice collection. Having to fly through 30 or so systems is a drag, especially during a war. Also, I'm still stuck to 3 or 4 trade routes. More trade routes should also result in some kind of market screen where you can sort prices so you don't have to dick around finding a system to buy spice for a good price, and also know which aliens sell which upgrades.

Does not work on my machine (funny, I have a Dell XPS M130--decently standard gaming laptop).

Turns out the error I've been getting has been known since May, yet EA/Maxis has never once responded to it, and it's not in their support or forums.

DasmX86Dll.dll cannot be found. Crashes every time you start a game.

After upgrades it can hold up to 100 purple spice and it's producing it blindingly fast. I think I could probably support my whole empire just by visiting that one system every 10 or 15 minutes.  :awesome_for_real:

Stupid question:

Every time (as far as I've noticed) I get about halfway through the creature stage, there's some kind of big, loud meteor shower event.  Anyone know what this is, or what it does?  Seems to just make NPCs run around randomly for a bit, and daze anyone who's standing too close to an impact site, but since it only happens once (as far as I can tell) in the entire game, I'm wondering if there's more to it that I'm not seeing.

Gamers looking forward to the inevitable expansion of Spore might not have too big of a wait ahead of them. Fansite Hooked on Spore discovered listings for a Spore Cute & Creepy Parts Pack on both Amazon and GameStop, both of which have since been removed.

OH HAY.  I just learned that you can fly into the galactic core as if it were a wormhole.  And there is indeed a cutscene and a present waiting in there.  Awesome.

Anyone know if there's a way to replenish the present?  I would sort of like to go conquer the galaxy with it, but 42 charges isn't going to be enough.   :grin:

Gamers don't care? Target the same easily amused crowd that bought The Sims:


There's a word for this, I just can't put my finger on it.

Hex editing or trainers. Sorry dude.

There's a word for this, I just can't put my finger on it.

Electronic Arts today announced that a Space stage expansion pack is in development for Spore, with a release expected next spring.

The expansion will allow players to beam down their creatures from their spaceships, exploring new planets and going on missions. A new Adventure Creator will allow for the creation of custom missions, which can be shared online.

OK, she did see me play LotRL for 45 second and comment " That game looks totally gay" but my wife is the largest handgun in the world. Do you feel lucky?

Well, do ya, punk?

Fuck LOTRO, make her ditch it for warhammer.

Anybody else try the new expansion?

It has some potential, but there are issues just with the tools themselves.