I am patched, and I'm a meathead -- I must be misremembering or had a one-time glitch that I put 2 on one planet.  If I did, I can't find it, and I can't put more than one uber turret on any of my planets now.

I have no hacks in my Spore, and I'm pretty sure I put 2 on one planet.  I'll go back in and check later this evening when I play. 

Hmm, the game where I put more than on I was playing on Easy (it was my first game) -- maybe that's the difference?

Unfortunately they went to war with one of my allies, which made them angrier, and I didn't have the sporebucks at the time to sufficiently bribe them.  But they're the only race I've wiped out in my Trader game, just because they really pissed me off.
 

No, Spice containers are one per planet, but there's no limit on the uber turrets that I've seen.


My first space race is Warrior, and that's pretty much their philosophy from the get-go.   But I'm also playing a Trader race, and it's taken a while to get the ship strong enough to take on the closest Spodean race that decided they didn't like me.  The other one in the immediate neighborhood of my home world isn't close enough to invade without going through an ally's space, so they don't bother me.  Only one uber turret mops up any pirates pretty quickly, so I ignore any of those warnings now, unless I'm nearby and want (need) the gold reward for burning them out of the sky.

You're not alone -- wrong sounds annoy me too. I hate it when a sim is wearing boots and sounds like it's walking around barefoot.   I did notice some of these, too, so it's great having a fix.

Actually, it's up on GameFix (linked to by GCW), but you're right -- it's out there now.

Yea, the homeworld cities can lose buildings to a particularly aggressive attack.  Then again, the HW only produces red spice (as far as I've seen), which isn't worth much when you get to the point that you're far enough away from the HW that you can't get back in time to stop a determined attack.  You'll never lose the HW, though it could go down to 3 cities.

The HW is always the first place I put an uberturret when I can; my purple and pink spice planets are the second.  That way I can wander further afield and not worry about losing them.  BTW, if you have the cash, you can put more than one uberturret on any planets near aggressive neighbors who are always attacking.  One keeps the attack from being successful, but two or more wipe them out before they have time to establish an orbit.

I believe 'call targets' also disappears if the sim has more than enough friends and is at the top of his/her career, since there's no need for it anymore.

Well, rumor has it that the first L&P Splotch SP is coming (someone found a link to it on Amazon), that's supposed to add body parts for the creatures.  If true, it looks like EAxis is going to go the Sims route with Splotch.  What a surprise...

Yes, but I've only seen it on pirates bay. However, with the problems that the patch seems to have introduced, you may want to wait until EAxis gets the next patch out.

That explains a whole lot about some of the problems I've had in Civ -- I haven't started with weak, fast units and then get pummeled later on by other cities.  This tip alone will make a world of difference in my play style.

Judging by my explorations with just two space-faring species, I'd be surprised if there's less than 2,000 stars in each ARM of the galaxy, let alone the whole galaxy.  As has been said many times here, Spore really does capture how big space really is.

Oh yea, you don't want to do that if you have the testing cheats enabled -- it'll generate thousands of errors as it errors everything in the game.  If you're going to use that one, turn the testing cheats off first, and it'll only error things associated with the lot you're currently playing.

Ah, yea, I was looking for 'fightclub'.  Nevermind....

You can't unlock the uberturret until you get to Colonist 4 or Warmonger 3, which is kinda hard if you don't wander far from home.   Once you have it, though, you can pretty much ignore calls for invasions unless you happen to be near the planet anyway.

It's not in the AL directory or AL Director's Cut, fyi.

This happens if you changed one of your game files (maybe you forgot to put the original .EXE back in if you're using a no-cd version, or edited one of graphics files), or sometimes if you made objects.package read-only.  You should get a pop-up window that tells you what file it's barfing on - you may have to move the main patch window to see it, since it sometimes pops up under the main window.  Fix/replace the file it complains about, and run the patch install again.

Reading is fun-damental, as is searching -- there's been a fix for the Ergo stuff in the Peasantry forum since just about when AL came out.  Go forth and look for it thyself.

I had that happen in the Desiderata hood, too.  I plopped down an apartment house and moved in the romance female that was living with her sister and brother-in-law, hoping to give her a wider pool of potential conquests.  Every tenant and the landlord are female -- not a male in site.  Something is wacky, because pure sadorandomness shouldn't have caused that.

I only get lag when there's a lot going on on the screen, such as a multi-ship space battle.  My system has beefy arms too, so this is the only sore point.

So bumping up the process priority fixes lag, eh?  Have to try that later.

As far as I remember, they don't get the overachiever want filled until the kid goes to college. That's when the kid gets the memory of being an overachiever.

Hell, look at how Spore does it -- if you use someone else's building or vehicle, and just recolor it to your liking, it's sent back up to the Sporepedia as your creation.  Which I think is silly, but I wouldn't be surprised to see this type of setup turn up in other games (Sims 3, maybe, anyone?).

You probably have a hack that's interfering with it.  Have you run the HCDU on your downloads directory?