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chaloobi
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Posted - 09/29/2008 : 04:33:11 [Permalink]
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| My son started playing around on the Space age, doing the training, and discovered to his delight he could use the tractor beam to pick up his citizens and drop them from deadly heights. I'm a little worried. |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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 Posted - 09/29/2008 : 06:41:35 [Permalink]
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| Ah, a future politician and/or preacher! |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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Posted - 09/29/2008 : 08:24:25 [Permalink]
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| At least he'll be wealthy. The American dream.... |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
1620 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2008 : 05:01:20 [Permalink]
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Ok, I'm completely strung out on Spore. I've quite my job, my wife left with the kids, the dog died of thirst and I just want to know: when the hell does this game END?
So I'm traveling around the galaxy via black hole and setting up colonies everywhere and it appears there really are a 100 billion stars. I met the Grok in the galactic core and they got mad at me for building a colony so, rather than fight them, I went and bought a bunch of those planet busters and destroyed their nearby planets. It's ok, I didn't need them. VERY cool by the way. I thought the anti-matter bombs I used against my local nemesis' cities were cool, but destroying planets is incredibly satisfying.
Anyway, I filled up my green bar at the bottom and thought, phew, this is it, and then clicked the evolution button and, well, it's NOT it. I saw my history and that's all. So what happens next? Just play until I die of hunger or they shut off my electricity? |
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recurve boy
Skeptic Friend
Australia
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 Posted - 10/08/2008 : 06:11:17 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
Ok, I'm completely strung out on Spore. I've quite my job, my wife left with the kids, the dog died of thirst and I just want to know: when the hell does this game END?
So I'm traveling around the galaxy via black hole and setting up colonies everywhere and it appears there really are a 100 billion stars. I met the Grok in the galactic core and they got mad at me for building a colony so, rather than fight them, I went and bought a bunch of those planet busters and destroyed their nearby planets. It's ok, I didn't need them. VERY cool by the way. I thought the anti-matter bombs I used against my local nemesis' cities were cool, but destroying planets is incredibly satisfying.
Anyway, I filled up my green bar at the bottom and thought, phew, this is it, and then clicked the evolution button and, well, it's NOT it. I saw my history and that's all. So what happens next? Just play until I die of hunger or they shut off my electricity?
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I think so. I filled up my green bar just buying and trading. I barely contacted the Grok. And then ... I dunno. Maybe you should get all the badges?
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2008 : 06:17:08 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
Anyway, I filled up my green bar at the bottom and thought, phew, this is it, and then clicked the evolution button and, well, it's NOT it. I saw my history and that's all. So what happens next? Just play until I die of hunger or they shut off my electricity? |
Yeah, you need to get all the badges and accomplishments, including the secret ones. Which means you'll need to fill that green bar in space stage at least nine more times, spend over 100 hours in space stage and over 50 hours within the various creators, finish cell stage in under eight minutes, finish creature stage without dying, publish Sporecasts that other players actually subscribe to, etc., etc., etc., etc.. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
1620 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2008 : 06:28:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by chaloobi
Anyway, I filled up my green bar at the bottom and thought, phew, this is it, and then clicked the evolution button and, well, it's NOT it. I saw my history and that's all. So what happens next? Just play until I die of hunger or they shut off my electricity? |
Yeah, you need to get all the badges and accomplishments, including the secret ones. Which means you'll need to fill that green bar in space stage at least nine more times, spend over 100 hours in space stage and over 50 hours within the various creators, finish cell stage in under eight minutes, finish creature stage without dying, publish Sporecasts that other players actually subscribe to, etc., etc., etc., etc..
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You're kidding, right. If you're NOT kidding, you have to tell me exactly what the End of the game actually is - PM it if you're worried it'll spoil everyone's fun. I don't have much more time to waste on this game. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2008 : 06:59:20 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
If you're NOT kidding, you have to tell me exactly what the End of the game actually is... |
I have no idea whether anything special happens if you get all the badges in one game, or all the accomplishments (over many games).
I can't even say if you'll get a sense of closure.
I'm working towards getting all the badges in space stage, and I'm still on my first game. I have no clue, right now, as to how to get the hidden badges. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
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Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 10/08/2008 : 07:55:10 [Permalink]
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| I can't tell you how many times Ive maxed out a game after a few hundred hours only to have the game say something like, "Congrats!, you can now play the game wearing a RED shirt!" |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2008 : 08:30:11 [Permalink]
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| I just poked around the Web and found out what the two hidden badges are. They are going to take some serious work. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
1620 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2008 : 16:42:12 [Permalink]
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| Dave - are you just expanding your empire more and more? Do you colonize all the planets in the stars you control? Do you buy / invade your neighbors? Are you colonizing at the other end of the black holes too? Does the galaxy just keep on going the way it appears to? Do you bring under-developed races up to the speed with the black obolisks? I did that with several just to see what happens. One of the new races was hostile to me, wanted 750k for my safety. The other two got attacked by two of my biggest allies and wanted help. Reminded me of Georgia. I ignored their pleas for help. I actually think that's a good strategy for colonizing those planets - plant an obolisk then wait for them to grow up. Then invade. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 10/08/2008 : 17:41:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
Dave - are you just expanding your empire more and more? |
Mostly, yeah, but I'm doing so with my eye towards acquiring badges.| Do you colonize all the planets in the stars you control? |
I wanted to do so, but it gets expensive and boring. About three million, and ten minutes, per planet. Now, I'll stop and build up planets with rare spices when I remember to. However, I've read that switching to Ecologist requires filling out 100 terraforming levels, so when I get to that point I'll go back to my core systems and build up all of their planets.| Do you buy / invade your neighbors? |
When they annoy me or have rare spices. Keeping trade routes going (without buying out) seems to keep the partner empire happy, too.| Are you colonizing at the other end of the black holes too? |
Not yet.| Does the galaxy just keep on going the way it appears to? |
There are 50,000 stars in it, from what I've read. I haven't yet found a place where the game will tell me how many I control (or how many planets I've colonized), and it's torquing me. I definitely am not going to try to count 'em all myself.| Do you bring under-developed races up to the speed with the black obolisks? I did that with several just to see what happens. One of the new races was hostile to me, wanted 750k for my safety. The other two got attacked by two of my biggest allies and wanted help. Reminded me of Georgia. I ignored their pleas for help. I actually think that's a good strategy for colonizing those planets - plant an obolisk then wait for them to grow up. Then invade. |
Try to set up trading routes with them, and then buy them out. No chance of accidentally blowing up their cities, and no need to spend money replacing buildings that you've destroyed. Your neighbors frown upon you blowing the crap out of other empires, anyway. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
1620 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2008 : 10:46:10 [Permalink]
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Has anyone made it to the galactic core yet? I'm convinced that's the end to this seemingly endless game. I've approached from two different directions and I've run into the Grox both times. Having blown up at least 10 of their planets and sterilized probably 20 more with antimatter bombs, I am very unpopular with them. It appears their empire is a barrier to the galactic core so at some point you have to get through them. And setting up resupply colonies is tricky as the Grox attack them aggressively, to the point they have even destroyed some cities with anti-matter bombs.
I'm guessing there is a black hole conduit to the core hidden somewhere. I can't imagine the only way there is to make your way through Grox space. That's my next step, check out all the black holes and find a way to the core.
I've stopped bothering to help my neighbors who've got ecological issues. Sometimes I blow off pirate attacks too, even on my own colonies. It's too much to manage and who cares if I lose a little spice? I've got more than I need now and my neighbors still like me even if I don't help them. They're assholes anyway - freaking monsters.
If anyone's been to the core and knows that doesn't end the game, let me know. I don't want to spend a lot of time trying to get there if it's nothing. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2008 : 11:27:57 [Permalink]
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chaloobi, what makes you so certain there is an "end" to the game? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think any of the previous Sim games had endings as such.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 10/16/2008 : 11:34:54 [Permalink]
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Okay, Boron10 got me Spore for my B-day. I have played it up to the tribal level and am now getting my ass kicked because of a glitch in the game, I think. I had a buttload of points to buy body parts when I passed the creature stage and put a few new parts on my creature. There is a button called "test drive" which I assumed to mean I could try my creature without committing to the new stuff. I had taken off much of the old stuff so my creature was practically defenseless, and when I hit "test drive" I was thrown back into the game. Period! No way back.
So now, I have to start over. Darn...
I don't know if I did something wrong or not. |
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Spore is out today!
