Lest we forget: SPORE
Zazazu:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 September 15, 05:49:07
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2008 September 14, 19:47:10
I did finish Creature as a predator. No choice really, because no matter what parts I equipped, I never managed more than 25% on the charm bar. Or is that 50%, since half way is success? In any case, even with perfect mimcry and +5 socials they weren't impressed.
Numbers improve things. Having more creatures in your pack and less in theirs helps. Babies are more easily impressed than adult and Alphas. They are also very tasty. Mmm. Babies.
Recruiting a rogue creature can be fantastic, too. I almost got Fwoggie on my side last run through last night (straight blue), but instead ended up with one of my own race and two carnivore rogues. The rogues generally have high stats and fantastic HP, so you can pretty much sic them on a nest by themselves. They help exponentially with socials.
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As an economic civ, it is crucial that your first vehicle emphasize SPEED ABOVE ALL ELSE. Forget entirely about armor (you don't have weapons anyway, so who cares?), and go for SPEED, so you can raid those remaining tribal villages and claim the spice before they can. This will choke their expansion and allow you to buy out a military or religious civ, and thus have some means of defending yourself.
Ditto that. I love econ just for the fact that as long as you are on top of it and prioritize vehicles first, you can dominate your continent by taking all geysers before other cities appear. Then, buying out the ones that do appear cost me only $4k as they had no resources. After that, I was rolling in it and taking over the other cities was simple. I just bombarded them with four or five planes at once trading, hitting with an advertising blitz when available.
I'm still playing on Easy, but we know I suck. I want to hit the end goal, then play through Normal and then through Hard. I definitely feel like I can handle cell-civ on Hard, but not space.
syberspunk:
Quote from: Hellyes on 2008 September 12, 23:55:08
Quote from: jsalemi on 2008 September 12, 23:15:57
Quote from: Hellyes on 2008 September 12, 23:13:01
Just wanted to let everyone know. According to this online article (don't know how reliable this information is) if you are using a no-cd crack you can install Spore as many times as you want. This suggests that a crack bypasses the 3 install limitation.
Umm, simple reading here will indicate that using the no-cd.exe means just that, and also means you don't get SecuROM on your system. This is not news. :P
I was just passing this information on, as people were asking about this earlier in the week. Of course I knew that you don't get SecuROM on your system with a crack, but there has still been some uncertainty whether or not using a crack would specifically bypass the 3 install limit and allow you to reinstall as many times as you want.
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 September 12, 23:59:37
With the no-cd, you don't have to activate your game. It's the activation that locks up after three installs, far as I've heard.
Quote from: jsalemi on 2008 September 13, 22:56:35
Quote from: EsotericPolarBear on 2008 September 13, 22:09:20
The real question is "Can you use the no-cd AND activate online without having securom installed?"
Yes, because you'll be activating a legitimate serial number if you buy it.
Ok, I installed Spore. I haven't run the game yet because I haven't put the no-cd patch in yet. I actually still have SecuROM from BV, which I haven't had time to remove yet either. But, just to clarify...
Can you play the game online without activating it? OR... does going online, in effect, "activate" the game (or rather... does it require you to "activate" the game in order to go online)?
I'm a bit confused about this activation limitation thing. I haven't been keeping up with the happenings and all, but from what I vaguely recall, I think Hellyes said they were able to go online fine with a no-cd. But, I'm confused as to whether the no-cd crack bypasses activation altogether... meaning you can run the game and go online, all without having to activate?
Or, it just lets you run the game locally/offline without activation. And... the only way to get online, is to activate, regardless of whether you use the no-cd crack or not?
Ste
PS. I also saw some rumblings about Sporn and servers and crap being disabled and what not. Previously, I had the Spore Creature Creator installed. When I first played around with it, I'm pretty sure I was able to see the 30 EAxis made creatures, and I think I was able to see random peeps creatures too. But recently, just before I installed the full game, I went into the Creature Creator and I could only see my single creation and the 30 Maxis ones. I tried to look through the settings/options, and I didn't see anything related to privacy or what not, that would prevent me from seeing other people's stuff. I thought the whole point of the game was that you should be able to see other people's creations and download them.
Was this recently changed? Or is this just something isolated to the creature creator? Or possibly isolated to my PC/install? And is there some setting that I would have to change in order to see other player's custom created content?
cwieberdink:
Ste I'm also having trouble seeing other people's creatures that I've downloaded. I opened up the sporepedia in game, dragged the .png to the window. It shuffled the thumbnails like it was adding them, but I can't find them back in game now. Where did they go? when I try to sort them by creator, I get nada. sorting by name gets only those few maxis ones. It shows on the left side that there are some thousands of creatures, but I can only see a handful.
syberspunk:
I don't even mean ones that have been downloaded. I didn't download anything yet. I thought you were supposed to be able to access other people's content in game. In the Creature Creator, when you created stuff, you could start off by building from scratch, or choosing something that's already been built. I could have sworn I used to be able to see other people's stuff under the "Community" part (or whatevs it's called). But last week, all I could see was just the 30 pre-made EAxis content.
Are we supposed to go through a website then? I either imagined that I could see other people's stuff, or something changed on the server side. As I am pretty sure that I haven't adjusted any of the options since I last created that single creature I made, which was like during the first week the creature creator came out. ???
Anyhew. I've also herd/read complaints about people downloading stuff and it still doesn't show up. I also remember peeps mentioning something about an adult server that's supposably separate and hosts the Sporn stuff. I thought that the reason why I couldn't see anything else was related to that. But it can't all be considered Sporn? Lol. :D I thought maybe they added like privacy options for people to check whether they wanted to see other users' custom content, and/or the adult server (if there is one), and that maybe they set defaults to not have any access. But I couldn't figure it out. :P I hope that, when I finally do get Spore running, I'll be able to see other peeps stuff. Unless that was never supposed to be an option to do it in game, and the only way to add content is by downloading things outside of the game, from a website? And then importing them I guess? :-\
Ste
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I'm still confused as to how you download other people's creatures?
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