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So Spore is a pretty fun game
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Well the first four parts of it are fucking pointless but I guess the space stage is pretty neat. I've been playing about an hour an tooling about doing stuff, but my abilities at having fun are tampered by my lack of money. It seems like everyone expects me to have more money than I do, what am I doing wrong? My only source of income seems to be collecting the spice and selling it, but it makes fuck all. Do I have to grind the shitty missions to make enough money to terraform things? Does that just get me more useless spice?
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Also, you can make money by attacking people and destroying their cities.
Terraforming will get you spice, but I tend to do it just for the hell of it. Doing missions will give you blocks of money while your spice is regenerating, and after doing a shit-ton of them you'll get some of the cool unlockables (hologram, cloaking device, etc...).
Eventually, you're going to unlock all the atmosphere tools in a more economic fashion; costing ship power rather than money. So, yeah, space stage definitely starts off slow. It will all be a faint memory when you reach the godlike power of late game.
Oh, and try to stay away from the center of the galaxy, unless you want to deal with an attack every 15 minutes. And watch out for Spode worshippers (unless you're a filthy Spodite yourself :x).
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Man, once you get the better weapons, kiss paying any tributes ever again. Go genocidal on the Spode worshippers.
I only discovered this later in the game when it didn't matter anymore. Yes. Fuck someone up and grab the huge cash drops from the ruins of their cities.
Also am I the only one who can't see any reason that they even put the first four games in? They suck! The civilisation stage is LUDICROUSLY easy! I don't even know how you could lose it!
I've seen yellow sell for around 10k, and it produces pretty fast, if you find a neighbor suddenly in demand of it. Look around Blue stars for the Blue, Green, Pink, and (omg) Purple spice.
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Civ Stage should have been way better, but I consider Tribal to be greatest sinner. My second and third favorites (respectively) were creature and cell. Yeah, not surprised about your opinion.
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Tube, buy the Mega Pulse and blow up some Spode worshippers.
PLEASE.
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Well, cell is pointless because you just staple legs on at the end and change everything, so there is no sense of progression.
Creature was a lot of fun, especially if you try to only make incremental changes over generations. Plus, your evolution actually did shit.
Tribal and civ were both entirely pointless. Nothing carries over, you don't do anything meaningful, especially in tribal. The game should have just had 2 stages, creature and space, with a Giants: Citizen Kabuto style RTS action in between instead of the shitty tribal/civ modes. Also, you should be able to get out of your space ship. I hear they're working on that for the expansion after the creepy whatever parts pack.
They're like those annoying missionaries that come to your door, only they also rob you at gun point.
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I can blow them up though right
all of them
in the end I just cheated my way to the core to see what the fuck
Yes, you can. Mega weapons help.
They are the reason I kept playing. I couldn't let them win.
You can't ignore the fucker's, either. If they're not killing your manz, or demanding money out of you, they're making your allies cry for help. Now I just bomb them on first contact.
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as long as you have enough money from trading
but you can't have too many trade links
and you have to be allied with everyone you meet or you're fucked
and any planet you want to destroy has to be either destroyed from orbit or personally ravaged by your own star ship
Civ was my favorite. Waging all out war was great. I did find the instant win weapon retarded though. I have 4 cities left, I don't want to just instantly blow them up or convert them. I want it to be personnal. I haven't done an economic Civ stage yet, although there is really hardly a difference.
Why didn't you just bribe them?
Bitches need to step back.
It just makes more satisfying later when, suddenly, you buy the fuck out of all their cities. It's the Karma from high school, coming right back to bite them.
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The thing is, once you give them enough cash to make them happy, you've basically won. It just takes an extra 10-15 minutes of staring at the screen before your victory actually kicks in.
Going herbivore at cell stage gives you a nice ability to fend off war. If you went carnivore, then it's going to be a little more difficult.
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Huh? The healing one? How does that help at all?
Oops, my bad. Wrong stage. The Social creature stage bonus, actually. Diplo Dervish.
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Now, religious conquest in Civ? Oh, how I hope for an expansion that turns it into a full game.
I love the first two stages.
The second two blow.
And then you have space, which is occasionally cool, but mostly just sucks ass.
The problem is, I want to build a solid foundation and tool about a bit, but I can't because literally every five minutes someone launches an attack on one of my planets, which I, personally, have to defend. Sometimes three at once. It's not feasible to keep peace with everyone, and the only way to peace once you're at war is buying your way out. Even with the mega laser, going on the offensive isn't terribly practical, and where does it end? If I kill the two species I'm fighting now, are two more going to pop up? Am I doing something horribly wrong?
Also no sign of any purple spice worlds yet. I have a pink and some greens.