Spored out of your mind?

[FatuousTwat]

My strategy has been to colonize every planet within one jump/move from my home planet. Seems to work out.

[Samwise]

Made it to the center of the galaxy.  Woo!

[Reg]

Wow congrats. So the last big thing you have to accomplish now is to find Earth.

[FatuousTwat]

Are you joking? Or can you actually find it?

[Reg]

Yup I haven't found it yet but it's out there somewhere.

[FatuousTwat]

Awesome. I'm gonna planet-buster it. Teach you uppity motherfuckers a lesson.

[Yoru]

I actually found it by accident when exploring random wormholes. Was just about to pop back through one after going "welp, this place looks boring" when I moused over "Sol".

... y helo thar!

 

[Sky]

Sol brother #1!

[Kail]

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.

[bhodi]

[FatuousTwat]

[Sky]

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.

It happens randomly. It's either a random meteor storm or simulating another race terraforming your planet, like when they show up and hoover up a few of your buddies.

[Samwise]

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.   

[schild]

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

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.

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

[Raging Turtle]

I'd buy it, especially if they throw in a couple of enhancements to the rest of the game. 

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to lead my Gila Lizard-man empire in taking over the galaxy.

[Yoru]

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.   

Hex editing or trainers. Sorry dude.

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

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.

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

Money-grubbing? Simsesque? Pure, undiluted EA?

[schild]

Uh no, I was going to go with "gay" but you were close.

[Reg]

I don't care about parts packs but if there's actual enhancements to gameplay I'm in.

[Samwise]

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.   

Hex editing or trainers. Sorry dude.

BOOOOOOOOOOO.   

Letting you go back in to recharge it would be enough to make getting to the core a decent "win" condition, since you could mop up the Grox in pretty short order then.  Well, it'd still take a little while to fly to all their systems, but using that thing is just so SATISFYING that I think the time would fly.

[Yegolev]

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

It's three words, and they are "Yegolev was right".

[Raging Turtle]

People are still making some damn cool shit. 



The spine is only in the bear, the shark is made up of arms and legs. This link says a little more: http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=sast-500104898013

I'd like to run across those in the space stage and see the shark and bear speaking as one 

[Yegolev]

People are still making some damn cool shit for The Sims. Also my wife is not able to get The Sims to start up after the latest pack, probably due to user-made content, but since she says it's not worth playing without all the player content, she is very close to ditching that bullshit for LotRO.

[schild]

Fuck LOTRO, make her ditch it for warhammer.

[Yegolev]

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?

[Murgos]

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.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55280

[schild]

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?

Lucky? I can't even parse your post.

[Yegolev]

Your parser is feature-anemic.

[schild]

Funny because I thought you called your wife a big penis. My parser is feature-packed.

[Yegolev]

Touche, Mr. Schild.

[Samwise]

I can't quite bring myself to post the obvious rejoinder.  Dammit, Yeg.

[Venkman]

Spore has a lot of cool parts but it's a lot harder to less creative people to do the really cool shit that the really creative are doing. So selling more parts helps drive the perception of closing that gap.

Adding more game to the Space age is good too. What I'd really like to see though:

- A movie maker, or at least a diorama maker, some way to feature your civilization having a life without having to continually load a prior civ-phase as finished and replace all the parts out. This is specifically for my market of one who loves making stuff but is too younger to understand how to play the civ phase (she's fine with cell and creature, but tribal is too much).

- Modify the game so what your creature, vehicle, and buildings looked like actually impacted the game. The baseline there now is fine but you should be able to amp things up a bit. The last time any of the aesthetics matter seems to be the cell stage, where putting spikes, mouths and poison/shield stuff in the wrong spots diminish performance. After that, just having the part at all is all you need.

[Pennilenko]

Is spore fun for people who wouldnt normally play an RTS type game thingy?

[CmdrSlack]

Yes. It's very "shallow" compared to most RTS games in the earlier stages.

[Khaldun]

Anybody else try the new expansion?

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

Plus unlike the creature creator, which somehow let really creative people shine and even made the doofuses look ok, the adventure creator is pretty well putting the stupid on display. I've done two non-Maxis adventures now that were just seriously terrible. I'd like to think they were made by ten-year olds but I think unfortunately that's not the case.

[WindupAtheist]

Fuck LOTRO, make her ditch it for warhammer.