Lest we forget: SPORE
jsalemi:
Quote from: photo on 2008 September 16, 00:17:53
Quote from: Hellyes on 2008 September 15, 19:00:45
Quote from: photo on 2008 September 15, 18:51:30
I'm still confused as to how you download other people's creatures?
There is two ways. At the Spore website in the Sporepedia you right click on what you want and save it to the creatures folder. The other way is in the game if you are able to go online. Go to the Sporepedia, and under creatures click Search Online. There is a link under each creation for downloading.
So since I have an arr'ed game I probably shouldn't do the second one?
Right; if you're arr'ed, you can't register and go online.
wes_h:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 September 16, 11:18:21
Of course, once you reach Tribal, if you reach Tribal
Shift-Ctrl-C brings up a console (deja vu all over again)
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levels -unlock
will let you start a new game at any level you want.
jsalemi:
Well, my current copy is seriously borked, so I'm sure I got a corrupted download. Got a new creature on a new planet to tribal, and had the same problem with the tribal leader locking up. Fortunately I got a new copy arr'ing, so I should get back to the game soon...
Zazazu:
Quote from: Paperbladder on 2008 September 16, 07:27:57
All of the paths taken with this creature were green which gave the Shaman card as the final one. Also, the right mouth doesn't seem to work during communications. I wonder if this is because the developers didn't expect someone to finish the game using a split filter mouth.
With the Morekin, who are two-headed wingless birds, only the right mouth (as I'm facing them) speaks in Space mode.
Ellatrue:
I don't know of any hunter-gatherer societies that have moved beyond the tribal stage.
Agriculture, as I understand it, is what allowed society to become more highly organized with a greater division of labor among different trades. Producing food more efficiently meant that everyone didn't have to be involved in food production, thus paving the way for art/science/government/what-have-you. In other words, "a civilization." Something larger, more organized, and more complex than tribal society. When everyone is busy hunting/gathering, they don't have time to build a civilization--only for living from day to day. This is why there's a theory that agricultural societies are what drove the hunter-gatherers to extinction. Note the distinction between "civilization" as a general term that encompasses things like culture and values, and "A civilization," which has a much more specific meaning in this discussion, especially in terms of Spore.
I think the real question here should be more along the lines of "why can't I stay in the tribal stage forever," instead of "why can't I have a hunter-gatherer civilization?" There IS something to be said for hunter-gatherer societies. It's a completely different way of life. However, Spore makes more sense the way it is now.
It would be cool if you could play as a tribal society and try to survive as the rest of the world moves past you to the civ stage, explores space, etc. Now that would be a real (if somewhat depressing) challenge! Basically, you'd have to find a place that's extremely abundant with life, very biodiverse, and difficult for the "civilized world" to reach. Either that, or a place so far on the fringes that no one wants it, with a climate so unsuitable to agriculture that specialized knowledge of hunting/gathering would give you a relative advantage.
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