As We have clearly seen direct control of a creature is possible and as it has been stated you can re-visit any stage, so i presume that means you could also take conrol of one of your many creatures in the tribal/Civ/space stages, much like the dungeon Keeper game way.

Presuming that this is possible, it got me wondering if they would also let you command your robotic creations as well, i would love to set up a battle statagy hit the go button and leap into the contols of a giant robotic rino type thing, smashing through the enemys base for example, or whatever mechanical montrosities you create, Im Backpacking around Australia Atm so ive missed the last 4 months of spore info, hopefully should be back intime for spore off but is there anything i may have missed regarding direct contol of your own army, cause i think it'd be sweet?

Listen to me. I'm saying that if you get close enough to an electromagnetic field generator (Probably something like a cellphone) it will enter your body because of the whole "balance of energy" thing, which is included in one law or another. Now if you convince your body that there is no electromagnetivity in your hand, that means that electromagnetivity will want to go to the hand, since it too believes that there is no electromagnetivity in there, so it must fill the void that is left, even though there already actually is electromagnetivity in there. So it just adds, but the electromagnetivity is still convinced that everything is in balance. Then when the field around you hand comes into contact with the paperclip, it feels the need to balance out the paperclip, and, once AGAIN, voila. Magnetism in your hand.

Quite a good explanation giving the grasp you have on physics, but can i suggest incorperate something like dark-energy (another theory on the expansion of the Universe (anti-gravity)) as it is widly unkown and could be controlled by a duck called Fred and even the most prominent scientist in the world could not argue against the statment, and would certainly move stuff.

10 points if you know where I got the idea for this one:

Would that be the demon out of Spawn perchance?

To throw in another senario, providing the editor was of the latest build, it could indicate spore might work like manny other games do and have different settings for how advanced and complicated you wish it to be. This could just show the editor on simple mode, hense simple stats, and a editor that can simply make a rough creature in a few minutes, its only a theory but i would love it if spore had different levels of complication so that you really could spend hours creating a creature, exactly the way you want, and have perfectly defined stats.

Will always said he wanted a editor that people could use to create a basic creature in a few minutes or spend hours on a masterpeice, to do this the editors settings would most likly have to be able to change to cater for the two, dont ya think?

Beards

that is all

Will no one listen to the many voices of reason, There is in no way shape or form a productive result from discussing the release date can come, we all can find out when the last geuss was from EA but as we've experianced that is no certainty, apart from that no beacon of light or new revelation will ocour that will give us a precise date.

Unless somone makes a time machiene and gives us evidence of at what stage what was done, or a memeber form the production team sheds some light, this topic can serve no perpose as we know next to nothing (in reality) of what is going on production wise.

So as manny have said, leave it.

I do not see why it requires "belief" theres an undeniable probability, from what we understand about the universe, that extra terestrial life exists, and if so there must be a probability that one of these species could develop space ships that could in theory manipulate or ignore our rules of physics and could feasibly visit Earth. The probability of all of this is low, and our "proof" is so suspect i do not reasonably think that Extra terestrial space ships have visited earth, but i dont ignore the probability that they may. Belief in the way your talking is basically saying ill ignore the off chances and place my bets on whichever argument you feel most compeling.