I was just thinking, what's the sort of gameplay style people plan to be going for at the UFO level? For me, I think I'll poke around planets, scanning creatures, and maybe do a bit of genetic manipulation, redesign creatures and planets and such. That monolith thing sounds interesting as well, artificially advancing an alien civilisation...

So, what of the "minigames" appeal to you most?

Hmmm.... I would probably be the search, Ally, then backstab kind of person. Anybody know exactly how bigs the ships can get?


minigames? I have no idea what kind of minigames I want to play. maybe a spaceship race, or skills competition in you race that might be fun.

I've just seen a few videos and interviews and must say Spore sounds much better than I thought it was the first time I heard of it!

I think beaming up creatures from other planets and bringing them to my own planet will be fun. Or just drop them off in the middle of space (Is that possible?)

Edit: Mmm... The last reply was a little old but I'm guessing not old enough for thread necromancy.

Nothing in the Spore forums is old enough for thread necromancy. Any posts are welcome!

I don't know if you can drop creatures off in the middle of space, but you can certainly drop them on planets/moons with no atmosphere (where they promptly explode). ^^

Hehe. It's a shame the game is still so far from release. The forums won't be very active. Plus that the game isn't a (real) sequel to another game and because there is no spore related game out there which we have a source of, like Morrowind and Oblivion. There are no thousands of fans from some game related to Spore waiting for Spore here.

Bit complicated post and I don't really know how to explain it better, I hope you understand what I mean

Haha, I know. Trying to get this site off the ground, let alone the forums, is a very slow process. I just hope over time I can build things up.

Can you terraform planets?
*Looks for a populated planet*
*Removes atmosphere*

In the screens of spore that i've seen, the planets look rather small.



Regardless, I'm looking forward to spore. I plan to create a benevolent government through absorbing many other races, perhaps forcefully.



The ends justify the means, right?



Warkirby

Certainly the ones they've shown thus far do look a bit teeny. But they vary in size.


Of course. ^^ Provided you get the appropriate tools for your UFO, you can mess with the atmosphere of any planet you come across (and consequently destroy or create all life on it). The ground even gets permanently scarred by things like volcanos and ice asteroid impacts done by you (at the moment, anyway).

awesome! never knew that you could take away the atmosphere. I am going to pull a Darth Malak and destroy a planet with my fleet.

Thats something i was wondering, in the movies and screenshots i've seen its always a single spaceship, so i ask. Will there even be Fleets or other spacefaring civilisations for that matter?

There will be other spacefaring civilisations, as there will be UFO combat with other UFOs, and you have to defend your homeplanet if you annoy someone or somesuch. It seems doubtful that there will be entire fleets, though.

Yeah, that's what it looked like too. Kinda disappointing really, your civilization has advanced to the point of being a god to lesser beings but can only manage to create one UFO? I wouldn't mind it so much if you were just unable to control any of the ships created by your civilization, but not having any... Seems almost like a reason not to play the game. It'll probably show up in an expansion though, there will certainly be enough people complaining about how 95% of the game is socially based, you working along side others of your species, but the reward is just you flying around alone just being a nuisence to those you come across. Probably why the creature/tribal stage is considdered the better ones.

sad to say this game might not sell to well if end game is just a ufo exploring, I mean were is gameplay I mean it should continue the rts mode too as well allow you go of with the ship and explore, also planetary shields and better defenses should also be options and if this was a muliplayer game it would sold millions easily i doubt it will now thou, looking at the forum for it hasnt got much interest it shame also I was told about it being a rts through supcom friends once I tell them there only a small part that is rts with very little u can do they probably just not bother with it as well. creating characters all that is kewl but you can do that in any animation program it cant just be about user creation content it has to have some form of gameplay.

As long as i created and designed the ship, i dont care what it does, although i hope some destruction will take place. Hey do you think we can customize our creature's armor or uniforms in an "expansion".

my play style would be build your opponent until they can give a challenge and then destroy them. i'd be like their god who betrayed them.

i did this with a custom dungeon keeper 2 map - they did nothing until i got to them so i built them upso they would provide a challenge - it was quite fun.

my favourite way of killing a civilisations would probably be pull a comet into a town and watch as the town gets obliderated and turned into a lake . i feel kinda evil now .

Maybe some sort of oppressive alien race......
I could call them the comb........wait no

i think you will be able to have multiple ufos selected at the same time as some recent vids had you be able to select mutiple creatures in the tribal phase attack some other tribe and a few land vehicles were selected at once and told to destroy an enemy city in the civ phase.

ima have to go with a roman empire kinda thing make huge arena have random alien dudes fight to the death and then smash 2 planets together say it was someone else rebuild them then enslave them
free labor any one

uhh......im not to sure if it will allow you to build an Arena of sorts, but it would be an interesting addition.