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Dave W.
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 Posted - 10/16/2008 : 12:14:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
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. |
Spoilers below:
Getting to the actual core gives you one of the two secret badges.
Destroying the Grox gives you the other one. |
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chaloobi
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Posted - 10/16/2008 : 17:13:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
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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You must have done something wrong because that's not supposed to happen. I don't believe you can actually lose points once you get them - the game is very forgiving that way. You can take stuff off and put stuff on any way you like and you never lose your points. Even if you go back into the game with a bunch of unspent points and get killed you can spend them again if you breed. |
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chaloobi
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Posted - 10/16/2008 : 17:15:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by chaloobi
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. |
Spoilers below:
[Edited to say: don't quote spoilers! - Dave W.]
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Sweet. I'm going. Did you go there yourself or did you research that? I wonder if you get anything for murderering a whole hell of a lot of Grox? |
-Chaloobi
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Dave W.
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Posted - 10/16/2008 : 17:28:21 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
Sweet. I'm going. Did you go there yourself or did you research that? |
I was looking for info on something else, and accidentally spoiled it for myself.| I wonder if you get anything for murderering a whole hell of a lot of Grox? |
That was the second spoiler I wrote, above. Here's another one:
The Grox allegedly own about 600 planets at start of game. Destroying them will take a lot of work. |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 10/16/2008 : 18:39:07 [Permalink]
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| The latest Spore patch has discontinued one of the achievements: Bad Baby! Of course, in order to get it you needed to have one of your creations banned from Spore servers, which would also suspend your account for a week. Go figure they take that one away. |
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chaloobi
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Posted - 10/17/2008 : 04:34:27 [Permalink]
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Interesting. I missed that second spoiler.
Here's something I read doing research (but not had a chance to try out) - if you capture a species home world, all their colonies revert to your control (not particularly realistic, IMHO). I'm not sure if that applies when destroying the planet or not, which has been my prefered means of dealing with strong enemies. Theoretically if you did want to win a war against the Grox, which I've found painfully tedius so far, then finding the home world is the way to do it. |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 10/17/2008 : 07:00:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
Interesting. I missed that second spoiler.
Here's something I read doing research (but not had a chance to try out) - if you capture a species home world, all their colonies revert to your control (not particularly realistic, IMHO). |
Stated so broadly, that is incorrect.
I've captured plenty of homeworlds. All of the colonies on that planet become yours, which is as it should be - after all, you've got to get them all to surrender before you can capture the system.
This is the best way to go, by the way, because if you're careful, you wind up with 8-10 colonies on a planet (instead of the maximum of three you can put on an empty planet), so it'll make lots of spice for you (10 colonies with a storage doubler gives you up to 99 spice in a single load). And you don't need to spend tons of money on colony packs, buildings or turrets - most of them will be there waiting for you.
Here's my strategy:
Swoop right into the middle of enemy colonies, and bomb the crap out of City Hall. If you're using the megabombs, two direct hits is all you need, so don't go crazy on it. When it looks like another bomb hit will "overflow" the surrender guage, switch to a smaller weapon like the pulse or laser. The object is to damage City Hall enough for them to put out the white flag, but not so much that you destroy the colony completely, and there's a very fine line between the two. Remember: you want to keep as many colonies as possible, because that'll mean money in your pocket later.
Avoid having allied ships with you while trying to take over colonies. If you bomb a colony, they will attack the colony also, making it much more difficult to deal just the right amount of damage. When other ships have been with me, I've destroyed more colonies than I've gotten to surrender.
Enemy empires do not create new homeworlds for themselves, so far as I've seen.| I'm not sure if that applies when destroying the planet or not, which has been my prefered means of dealing with strong enemies. |
The problem there is that all the neighbors within 10 parsecs of the blast hate you for it, and you vaporize all that in-place spice production.| Theoretically if you did want to win a war against the Grox, which I've found painfully tedius so far, then finding the home world is the way to do it. |
Nah, that won't work. |
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chaloobi
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Posted - 10/17/2008 : 07:48:31 [Permalink]
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| Well then you're back to having to conquer/destroy a whole lot of Grox worlds. No thanks, that sounds boring to me. I am jazzed about going to the bright shiny center of the galaxy though. |
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Dave W.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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Posted - 10/17/2008 : 10:04:09 [Permalink]
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| Thanks!!!! |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
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Simon
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Posted - 10/17/2008 : 10:44:21 [Permalink]
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| 'py birthday bat boy! |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Posted - 10/17/2008 : 21:59:36 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
I am jazzed about going to the bright shiny center of the galaxy though. |
Well, I got there, earlier tonight. No spoilers here. |
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chaloobi
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Posted - 10/19/2008 : 00:01:34 [Permalink]
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| CRAP! I just go there about an hour ago. Fun stuff! Did you make it back alive? |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 10/19/2008 : 08:30:58 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
Did you make it back alive? |
Nope. I decided to try to take over a nearby Grox planet, and didn't pay close-enough attention to my ship's health during a firefight. Oooops.
Now, I'm trying to befriend the Grox. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 10/19/2008 : 09:31:37 [Permalink]
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So, Mac's mouse was not good for the tribal level. Left and right clicking is not a regular function of those mice, even though the super mouse does have it, it's not convenient and is mainly for setting up mouse commands ahead of time. Lucky for me, McNally makes a mouse for Mac that has regular right and left clicking in the more conventional pc way, even though the mouse is a mac dedicated. I flew through the tribal level after changing my mouse. This just may be a tip for mac users. The mouse was only ten dollars and works great. I even like the click wheel better than the small scrolling ball on the Mac mouse, even though the ball scrolls diagonally and right and left too, which comes in handy sometimes. I'm not throwing it away...
By the way, I think the tribal level could have been way more interesting and challenging. I hope this is not a game of diminishing returns. |
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