Is there any reason to not always pick omnivore? Seems like the best option out of the three gameplay wise.
Mmmm... Vore...
your choice in every stage impacts the abilities you get in space stage and the philosophy of your racehttps://spore.fandom.com/wiki/Philosophy
last time i heard they're making a sequel, how's the progress?
>>750116857Didn't know that, thanks.>>750116947They're making a sequel?
>>750116731Previous stage choices give you different buffs and options in later stages. Most notably space, but you also get other minor buffs earlier if you try to stick to a playstyle.
>>750116857>do the stages according to what I want in the space stage>quit 1 hour into space anyway
>>750116731The logic of the heart says that carnivores are cooler.
>>750116731Here is the thing, what you chose doesn't matter when it comes to what you can eat.You can choose carnivore, but as long as you keep the herbivore mouth on your species from the cell stage you can eat anything.
>>750117412there are only two fun ways to play space stage>mod the Staff of Life so it has infinite uses instead of 42>destroy every planet and civilizationtrying to negotiate and trade and maintain planets is an absolute pain
>>750117519What kills it for me is realizing I have to manually pick up my fucking spice from each individual planet, like what the fuck is that? I guess that's what you mean by maintain planets and trade?
>>750117562yeah the whole spices bullshitI wish Galactic Adventures had been better
Is it just me or is the cell and civilization stage just plain out more fun than the rest?They all feel so full of filler bullshit just to get to the actual fun gameplay
>>750116731Carnivore gives a much better bonus in the space stage.
>>750117854I like the creature stage
>>750117901I mean I guess it's the first real creative species building? I was more referring to the gameplay
>>750117949I am talking about the gameplay. Running around with your squad and raping enemy nests is fun
It's hilarious that back in the 2000s when the creationism vs. evolution shit was at its height there was a minor outcry from the pro-creationism camp about this game when "evolution" in this game has more to do with intelligent design since you are in charge of designing the creatures and you can completely overhaul them. I say minor because it was nothing compared to the shitstorm about Pokemon, but it was similar to that one because it leans on not understanding what evolution is in the first place. The Pokemon shitstorm would've never been a thing in the first place if the localizers didn't think the word "metamorphosis" was too complicated for the kids.
>>750116947It's evolving into something unpredictable
>>750118079>there was a minor outcry from the pro-creationism camp about this gameThere wasn't. You fell for marketing
>>750118079>2000s when the creationism vs. evolution shit was at its heightnot really. there was just a counter culture wave of obnoxious atheists that was boosted by the internet becoming mainstream and redditors who were mostly in high school wanting to appear more intelligent than they were. with the initial generation of normies that found the internet aging and the internet being filled with more older people, that whole "movement" was quickly laughed out of existence.
I liked Space stagehttps://youtu.be/oqTFULNFLGI
How'd you improve the space stage?
>>750116947Wasted, because EA killed Maxis and threw away the necessary dev tools
>>750118079Meanwhile in reality>Starbucks releases a happy holidays cup>starbucks releases a marketing campaign about how backwards hicks are so heckin mad about it not saying MERRY CHRISTMAS>posturing coffee drinkers at starbucks feel like they're changing the world because they're supporting the happy holidays cup>cup sells extremely well because the main clientele for starbucks is already liberal milquetoast fucks
>>750116731i got scientist on my first run, i think it was because i was too stupid to figure out how to do social shit on tribal stage so i just killed everyone, then was primed into mil at civ stage so i just killed everyone there tooeither way it made me feel like a smart lad
>>750123894scientist is cool, you get the "fuck everyone on this planet" superweapon
>CarnivoreMilitary junta>OmnivoreJews>HerbivoreHippies
>>750116731i don't get why your colony can only own one spaceship while everyone else got plenty
>>750124359yeah, if anything it was a little disappointing learning that every other philosophy ability is lame and gay compared to it
>>750124359Meh, tanking your reputation with other aliens because of the warcrime penalty isn't worth it
>>750117412Space stage is the best part tho
Getting Diplomat card as a kid on my first playthrough and Economist on my second one shaped me as a person.But yeah, you get different abilities and getting cards of different colors gets you different roles on Space stage. Could've figured it out yourself lol, there's even description for each card and what you get out of it.
>>750124865You're lame and gay
>>750117854Tribal stage is probably the worst stage but i like it, after you befriend/murderape all the other tribes it's comfy to just hunt and gather and see your tribals socialize.
>>750118079>the localizers think the word "metamorphosis" was too complicated for the kids.they were right
>>750116947
>>750128480>they were rightFor all the wrong reasons
>>750116947Pain. Utter misery.
>>750116731I always try and make up my own worldbuilding for my creatures so i just choose whatever path fits their society and lore
>>750116731Roleplaying.Fruit is better than meat. And seaweed is yummy too. And later you can add eggs.But omnivore is the best gameplaywise objectively. It's just that the game is singleplayer, "Hard" difficulty is super easy and lax and you do not need to minmax the game to this degree.Same reason I make the creature I wsnt aesthetically, rather than slapping together the 7 best 250 cost parts for max efficiency (plus eyes of course) like it was a PVP game.A very obscure advantage Herbivoures or Carnivoures may have is that they have different tribal progressions. Herb starts with torch, carn gets axe and omn gets spear. Everyone gets everything in the end but the order is different. Herbivores only get axes very late fir example.But yeah, when purely minmaxing omnivoure is king because unlike real life omnivoures do not need a balanced diet and can just eat meat and fruit as they get them.
>>750131794>When you hear something so utterly Triassicyou just gotta hit em with that Late Cretaceous stare...
Diet doesnt really matter because you can just keep the omnivore cell mouth into the creature stage and keep eating whatever you want
>>750116731Spore mogs all of modern AAA games in the "how fun is it" department
One thing I forgot to mention is mouths.Carnivoures max out sing at 3 while herbivoures get Sing 5.For Bite, it's the inverse with 3 for herbs and 5 cor carns.Omnivoures can max out Sing at 5 but only get 4 bite.So carnivoures have the very niche advantage if being the only species with 5 bite. If this was an online PVP game, that would be very vital. But since it's a very easy singleplayer game, 5 charge, spit and strike suffice for taking out everything, even with just bite 1. Especially if you bring a pack.The herbivoirous boar snout has the very questionable advantage of having charge LV 3, as the only mouth that has a non-bite attack. The usefulness of this is highly dubious but it is nonetheless a fun fact worth noting.I always found it funny that the boar snout, an animal generally considered "ugly" and "brutish" by humanity, has a magnificent singing voice in Spore.
We'll never see any interesting experiments from big companies ever again, will we?
>>750124359Zealot gives you the same thing, actually. Once you use it, you break the galactic code and immediately capture EVERYTHING on the planet
I actually never managed to visit the center of the galaxy
>>750133105Same. It's boring.Endgame gets boring once you maxed out your ship and cash and everything.I don't want to crush 500 more generic enemy planets easily while backtracking in between to solve ecological problems.Really, what is even out there in space?"Artifacts" that do nothing?Random flora and fauna to hunt?Planets to colonize for no reason?Purple spice is the only reason to leave your solar system.
>>750118263Try existing in the 2000s instead of being a sperm. My Christian biology teacher was complaining the entire time when teaching about evolution, and would go on unrelated tirades about anal sex.I know the meta with you twitteroids is to pretend to be paleocons but come on.
Being anti evolution in the 2100s is just fucking retarded.There is so much evidence pointing towards evolution, including reconstruction experiments on a much smller scale.The only evidence against evolution is some book from 2000 years ago that humans wrote to cope with the fact they did not know stuff we know now.Anti-evolution goylems are holding back humanity and deserve to be mocked and laughed at.
>>750132978Omnivores can get both Bite 5 and Sing 5 but it requires two separate mouths.
>>750134174Dang it, ur right.Must have been years since I last played this game.
>>750122626happy holidays anon
>>750118079>when "evolution" in this game has more to do with intelligent design since you are in charge of designing the creatures and you can completely overhaul them.There is some element of evolutionary pressures. Most parts you unlock are more advanced versions of parts you already have which reflects the evolutionary forces that prefer to repurpose parts of the body than evolve new ones from nothing (look into how we got lungs). At first I was kind of weirded out by socialization because interspecies socialization like that is pretty rare in nature and you dont see species going out and befriending eachother to avoid getting eaten but I realize now that it's the best way the game could approximate sexual selection within its gameplay even if you're sexually selecting with other organisms instead of members of your own species. I find myself often changing my creature's bodyplan and stats minorly just to approach a specific species. That is a form of evolutionary pressure, you can't always brute force it. Yes, by the nature of being a video game, it is more like "intelligent design", but that's because you are never truly playing as an individual member of a species or even the species itself, you are natural selection. You are the vector through which evolutionary pressures select for traits. If ever there was a spore sequel I would love more specialized traits than just combat to really make this show. Make flight and burrowing and arms all their own paths to spec into that allow access to different areas. Also expand the prey gameblay/herbivore gameplay. Make it so you still have an incentive to explore to find food but you get DNA by finding food and then a mate instead of befriending other species. There has to be a way to make being a herbivore enjoyable but still less detatched from real world herbivore behavior
>>750116731>boughted the standalone creature creator that game out before the game for $20.how they fuck did they get away with charging for a demo?why the fuck did I buy it?
>>750135374This game has nothing to do with real evolution.It is abstracted, gamified and simplified so children can build their cool creature they want, rather than learning about genetics and natural selection, and that is completely ok.
>>750135628Idk, I pirated the entire game and did not give them a cent.No regrets btw.
>>750116731>mfw that dynamic animations system even today in 2026
>>750132975interesting I think the development pivot away from strictly science angle made the game more entertaining, but goddamn so much was cut out the game. I'm talking entire evolution stages.
>>750136384No middle ages sucks.Give me castles, hammers and maces, plate armor for my creatures.Castles and towns, trade routes, cozy villages, artisans, building wooden ships and sailing the seven seas, discovering the other continents like Columbus discovered America and fighting pirates and barbarians. Maybe even fighting off the black plague with research and quarantine zones.They even skipped antiquity. You go from the stone age straight to modernity. I wanted to build up from a small village with some carpenters, stonemasons and militia to a thriving capital for my creatures with a huge castle towering over it.I used to have a debate with some fuck looking at my cell and saying it was a multicellular orgasm when I said that in the fictional setting of Spore this is a cell.
>>750116947How has nobody asked for a source?Is EA actually trying to do a sequel? I know the spore discord is active for some reason.
>>750137679>Is EA actually trying to do a sequel?They stopped trying when they killed Maxis
>>750116731I always tried to befriend everyone but killed the species who I wasn't able to.It was so kino when you found one of the giants creatures and could befriend it
>>750141508You can befriend these guys?I always jzst killed them. Having one on my pack would be ridiculously powerful.
>>750141852You could but unfortunately you couldn't have them in your group. Would be too broken otherwise.I think they protect you if you get attacked while they're in range tho
>>750142269Must try next run.I loved hunting them because it made me feel cool and powerful, even if in reality it just boils down to holding S and spamming Spit LV 5.
>>750126761I like civ stage the most despite it being so short.
>>750133036The Galactic code this basically told me that you play with an entirely different set of rules to the game then the NPC Empires.
>>750133545Ever seen the mega rare White Spice?
>>750126761>>750142721Creature stage is the best part because it is a third person RPG, even if it is basic, and actually the part of the game during which you evolve your creature, which is the point of the game.Replacing exp and equipment with creature body parts is a clever spin on the genre.Tribal stage and civ stage are shitty RTS and Space stage is decent, though you barely interact with your creature anymore. It's quite easy to snowball cheese purple spice planets for infinite money and it grows very stale after a few hours of playtime. Space stage also kinda larps as a strategy game but since you only have one ship you cannot really defend your planets so they added that super overpowered drone thing that just negates all invasions. Past purple spice, there is little reason to explore or colonize.At a maxed out build the Grox are not a challenge but tedious because they have so many planets.
>>750144121That's a bug, innit?Bugged spice.
>>750116731depends on what you want in the space stage, personally I liked red cell stage and then blue the rest until space for Trader with 1.5x energy>>750117519The spice must flow
>>750133795>My Christian biology teacher ... would go on unrelated tirades about anal sexdamn i wish my hot blonde 28 year old christian biology teacher gave us anal sex lessons instead of just having us dissect rats and frogs
Why did we never get Spore 2? Not Dark Spore, but just another Spore a few years later with extra evolution and society steps like those that were originally planned? Did it really not sell well enough? Like everyone I knew played it when it was a new game.
>>750145521EA is retardednothing more to it
>>750146385>recent Bioware newsyeah I guess nothing ever really does change
>>750145521i'm pretty sure it sold like 3 mill in a year, surely it wasn't due to poor sales
>>750146931>shutting down a studio who hasn't made a good game in 20 years is retarded
>>750148574I still remember when the creature creator came out I pulled an all-nighter just making retarded shit on my old windows vista laptop. Good times, still remember the sun coming up and it dawned on me just how long I was playing
>>750116731Plants are for faggots
>>750150453*Meat is for faggots.Imagine eating corpses. Plants RVLE!
>>750150453ermmmm i dont see anyone making steak lattes?
>>750116857This just makes Omnivore even better, though.
>>750150901>names the drink that includes milk
>>750120542Holy based sex poster.
>>750151070FENCE SITTING KEK
Anyone playin Thrive?They'll surley reach creatue stage eventually, trust the plan.
>>750151335Faster space travel is way better than "decreased likelihood of revolt"Has a revolt EVER happened in Spore? Kek
im in my amoeba arc cell maxing
>>750151481the sporim do not revolt
time to watch more videos of people breaking the game.
>>750116731For Space StageToo bad Space Stage is half-baked, it could have been a good automation/industry/number gets bigger stage
They need to bring it back with just Cell - Aquatic - Creature
Knight is best because knights are cool.Herbivore, Adaptable, Aggressive, Military.
>>750116731>never completed Spore because everything after creature stage suckedi loved playing in turd person and just trying to surviveswitching to RTS sucked balls
Why do they get mad when I use this? Why do they even care?
>>750117412This
>>750154602>Why do they even care?That's the neat part......they can't do shit once it fires. Aliens hate you because you did shit that they have no way of stopping.
>>750151070Omnivore only effects price of equipment, the other stages' colours don't change depending on your diet, you can have different colours every stage
>>750154602>Destroy perfectly colonizable planet with rescources that can support life and the economy just for fun.>Planets are finite and do not respawnWhy WOULDN'T they hate you.It's fun because it is just a video game but in-universe it's fucking dumb.I only ever used that thing in overkill warfare.
>>750144586Fuck you that shit was fun
I feel like the game wants you to go all red, green or blue instead of mixed which kinda sucks.
>>750156248I like to play a Zeolot that kills everyone except the Grox who I try and befriend so I go red, red, green, green.I also use their power to instantly take over any homeplanets so I don't have to make any colonies myself
>>750116731>red green bluei instantly thought that this thread is making fun of bioware now that its dead
>terraform planet to T3 with all my native plants and species>plant monolith>wait for space civ>out-commerce them and buy their "home" planetand another fully decked colony full of cities joins the empire. yep, it's space jew time
>>750156969I completely forgot you needed to do this shit to get a 6 city planet for max purple spice.Personally I just bombed their cities until they gave them up to me.It's dumb you have to do this garbage just because you cannot place 6 cities yourself. Like some memelord who elevazes a species to the spave age only to imediately extinct that species again.
>>750151070Carnivore is the best because the space stage economy doesn't matter and pirate raids are just an annoyance so having less of them is better.
>>750132975is that a fucking planet dob spurdo
>>750156441I enjoy playing proxy wars commerce jew in the middle of grox territory, buying them out little by little while my uplifted territories take over their stars.
>>750158124An omnivore or even herbivore can be warmonger in Civilisation stage.Pirate B gone is not carnivore exclusive>>750116857Darn, red really gets the best shit.Glad the game is too easy for that to matter.But still 50% more spaceship health is insanity.My minmaxer path would look like:Powermonger, Prime specimen, Gracious Greeting, Spice Savant.But I do not minmax.
>>750158526Isn't how much spice you can sell mostly capped by your cargo capacity rather than production? Or did I make that up
>>750116731Your choice literally doesn't matter
Disasters ruined the space age, i was never able to truly explore because every other twenty minutes boom disaster
>>750159484Cargo isn't an issue. The only issue is planet max capacity may fill up by the time you visit anyways. But faster spice still adds some profit over time if you commonly fly between the same planets.Keep in mind I only farmed purple and red (just because home planet) so I didn't store 5 stacks of different spices.Pirates, and planet defense as a whole, can be solved with the meme drone and bio disasters with the stabeliser building thing.Thank god NPC empires do not have the overpowered meme drones.
>>750159943>just because home planetHey that reminds me that the home planet has weirdly low production (like at least x10 less than any other planet) because it continues from the civilization stage, but if you just destroy and rebuild the factories it suddenly has normal production
>>750159727you can just mod those out really
>>750160261Well I didn't know how to mod as a 10 year old anon. Which is when I played this.
>>750160343skill issue, I was already modding around that age, the scene was huge back in the day.
>>750160026It doesn't matter. Red spice is the least valuable spice in the game. The homeworld is mostly of ceremonial and historical nature, not useful.
A Spore decomp would be cool ngl, people could add some of the removed stages or improve civ/space stage. Darkspore could be brought back too if someone autistic enough tried it potentially.
>>750156630>>750159592but it was made by Maxis
Trying to go for an economic win in the city stage on hard is probably the worst thing you can do in the entire game. Having to actually deal with the psychotic diplomacy AI instead of just steam rolling everything with tanks and popemobiles takes hours of resetting and save scumming just to try and keep it so that the snowballing AIs will actually trade with you. Also the space stage bonus for an economic win is garbage anyway.
>>750162325Bro, I figured out economics as a small kid.You're supposed to bumrush all the spice refineries so you can get rich quick, and spam gifts.
>>750118079anyone with a christian parent heard all about this shit then on fox news
>>750161749And Maxis is dead, but the game lives on
>>750165176Honestly the greatest tragedy of the industry, Will Wright made some of the most creative games back in the day and now there's basically no innovation whatsoever.
>>750166251>now there's basically no innovation whatsoeverThere are still random weird ideas from Japan and indies.The issue is that gaming industry and budgets have gotten so big those games look like bad student projects next to the by-the-numbers but perfectly working and beautiful AAA title x1000.Look at fucking Sim Ant, how much would that sell for today?
>non jap game dev
