jrrtoken Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 I just got to the space stage, and I swear, there must be thousands of stars out there. I've had to pry myself away from the computer and get back to reality here. So far, I'm still trying to figure out how tho terraform a planet, but I don't think I'm doing it right. Well, at least I'm riding around in my sexy Assault Gunboat: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 Holy long post, Batman! To terraform, you want to bring that dot you see to the center of the circle. I think the first terraform project your empire gives you only requires increased atmosphere. You'll see how the dot goes up. Terraforming is a real pain until you terraform enough to get the terraforming badge and can buy the terraforming ship tools. No more spending 300k for atmosphere generators and meteors ftw! The Space Stage really starts out rough, but once you get enough upgrades it's all good. Since I'm a military empire, I'm waging war like crazy. I've already destroyed a couple of empires. One of them was a long time ally, and turned out to have really powerful ships. Here's a hint: get yourself a pink spice planet. One of those at T3, with 3 fully deckout colonies and a spice storage = 30 units of pink spice. 30 units of pink spice sold at about 20-30k = lots of money. As a bonus, your fully decked out colonies are producing tons of spice. So you can come back in a few minutes and get more. Once you colonize enough planets, you begin to not care what happens to them. Your homeworld sucks and I heard it can't be conquered or destroyed. It barely produces spice, so who cares if it's raided. There's only one planet I really protect, and that's the pink spice planet. Even then, I probably don't need to because I spent a crapload on this "Uber Turret." 50k HP and oneshots anything (from what I've seen). I need to see if I can just ignore attacks on it now. Maybe it'll protect the planet without me? Last night I travelled through a black/worm-hole (whatever they are) and ended up on the other side of the galaxy. More planets for the empire! Remember to join the Spore Social Group! P.S. Spore is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbieZ Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 It's great. My only gripe is the space age. It's fun and i love the scope of the whole thing but my colonies get raided by pirates/grox every 5 seconds. You can't really explore. If it's a grox attack, your planets are essentially doomed because they possess very powerful ships. Used a few planet killers though, they were fun. Other than that i did a fair bit, went to earth, met Steve, etc. I think the main strong point about this game is the creation aspect, you can't really buy it if you expect to buy a strategy game or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corinthian Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 Got to the center of the galaxy. You get a terraforming tool that instantly sets a planet to T3. Okay, nice, but it has limited uses and THAT'S IT!? You leave me here in this unnavigable hellhole with my pants unzipped, my ship limping along like God himself just hit it with his terrible swift sword and I've got an uber T-tool with 43 uses? Yeah. Not touching this game again. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patient_zero Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 I've been playing it for a few days now - my brother caved and bought it, so I used one of his three precious installs while he was trying to make it work with his graphics card. My main complaint comes probably because of the way I play it. I'm so used to the concept of stats and such that it seems odd -not- to metagame with my parts. Why have that cute level one mouth when the level three one gives me awesome bonuses? Why make a sleek ship when you can have one crammed with turrets and foghorns that make enemy cities fall to their knees? I've been playing the space age for about half an hour and I'm finding it a bit dull. It's like a less interesting version of EV Nova. I was a bit disappointed with the length-or-the-lack-thereof of the other stages, considering most people bought it to mess about with making their creature and interacting within the ecosystem and not so they could play Hyperspace Spice Trader 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrrtoken Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Got to the center of the galaxy. You get a terraforming tool that instantly sets a planet to T3. Okay, nice, but it has limited uses and THAT'S IT!? You leave me here in this unnavigable hellhole with my pants unzipped, my ship limping along like God himself just hit it with his terrible swift sword and I've got an uber T-tool with 43 uses? Yeah. Not touching this game again. Ever. So you think that Spore is a bad game? I sentence you to one playthrough of Shaq Fu! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corinthian Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Thanks but no thanks. I've played Extreme Paintbrawl. I even watched a trailer for Daikatana once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcesious Posted September 16, 2008 Author Share Posted September 16, 2008 If you hate the tediousness of the space stage so much then well.... *cough*cheat*cough* Use these cheat codes: ctrl + shift + c moremoney- 1mil sporebucks refillmotives- refills your health and energy spacecreate- unlocks all terraforming and creation tools (Except for a few that are easily earnable with badges.) help -full- lists all the other cheats in detail Yeah I know cheating is bad... But it's so much more fun to play Spore with cheats... (But only in the spacestage. All the fun in the other stages would be ruined by cheating.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corinthian Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Already did it. It made the game slightly more fun. Slightly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkonium Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Well, I bought the game on Saturday, and here's my creature so far: It's called a Kiamro, and though it's omnivorous, it doesn't hunt for meat, and only eats meat from creatures it kills in self-defense, preferring to make allies with the other creatures on Sadnian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcesious Posted September 17, 2008 Author Share Posted September 17, 2008 Already did it. It made the game slightly more fun. Slightly. I have to agree with you a little bit that the space age gets annoying. All these empires calling for help and stuff... I'm playing Omnivore-Social/Military-Ecologist in the game, and the 'missions where I have to exterminate like five diseased creatures to save an ecosystem is incredibly tedious since I always have to probe the whole planet over a dozen times to get the job done... Fighting is far easier now that I have a fair-sized fleet with me though. Edit: I wish there was a creature stage cheat code to unlock all the parts at once... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astor Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I even watched a trailer for Daikatana once. Only watched a trailer? Try being stuck in a wall while trying to find where your sidekick has gone... As for Spore, have they removed the ridiculous DRM yet? No? I'll put my wallet away then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 This made me laugh so hard. (Bad language warning.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corinthian Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 As funny as Yahtzee is, I usually disagree with him on games that I've actually played, although he's usually got a valid point. This time, however, he pretty much nailed my perspective on the game. Whenever I play the game now and someone asks for help, I just hit their world with a Planet Buster. That usually fixes the problem. After that, I just annihilate their empire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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