Lest we forget: SPORE
jsalemi:
If you use the no-cd.exe and a keygened key, then you can't go online. If you use it with a legitimate key, you can go online, but you're subject to the 3-installation restriction (I believe). But you won't have suckrot on your machine.
But I don't think there's any real advantage to going online -- you can search the Sporepedia on the website, and save the creatures/vehicles/whatever that interest you. Just plop them in the proper sub-directory under 'My Spore Creations' and they'll show up in your game. They don't always show up in your game's off-line Sporepedia, but I've seen them actually show up in the game itself. But at least that way you have complete control over your game, and aren't stuck with random crap it decides to download on its own.
I decided to start a new planet today (still downloading a new copy in case my original was damaged), and while my carnivores were in creature stage, the pack chased some prey into the ocean. Didn't get to far when suddenly something BIG came up out of the water and ate them all! Surprised the hell out of me...
kuronue:
From what I can see, to get online you need an online account, which would be tied to your serial number. Because the cracked game comes with a pregenned serial number, using it to try and set up an online account is a bad idea because the odds are a lot of people have the same serial number (I don't recall if there's one or three or what). Thus, you can only play online if you have a copy of the real game with a legit serial number.
However, the three-install thing seems (from what I hear) to be negated by the crack even if you have a legit number, because the cracked exe won't phone home to reduce your install count on their server.
jsalemi:
No, the cracked exe doesn't come with a pre-genned number; you still have to gen one (or get one) and enter it in during install. Others in this tread have reported going online successfully with a legitimate game with the no-cd.exe to keep it from installing SecuROM.
kuronue:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2008 September 15, 22:44:06
No, the cracked exe doesn't come with a pre-genned number; you still have to gen one (or get one) and enter it in during install. Others in this tread have reported going online successfully with a legitimate game with the no-cd.exe to keep it from installing SecuROM.
Maybe someone tossed one into the torrent I used or posted it in the comments or something.
rufio:
I finally broke down and went to look for promo stuff on youtube for Spore, but I'm not real impressed. I was kind of hoping it'd be possible to custom design tools and dwellings and whatnot based on your creatures' physiology, but it looks like they all get basically the same stock tools and instruments and buildings and social whatsits. And there doesn't seem to be an option to make it a hunter-gatherer society rather than an agricultural/city-building one. Don't they know that there are real honest-to-god hunter-gatherer societies in the 21st century? And that from all appearances the switch over to an agricultural lifestyle was a bad one?
It looks mostly like the earlier stages are about sticking bits and pieces of things together to make funny-looking creatures and the later stages are sort of a clone of civilization. Am I wrong?
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