Spore Improvements:
■Asymmetry is now available for creatures! Details on new Asymmetry features for Creatures and Vehicles can be found here.
■This patch fixes several crashes in Space Game.
■Many tuning improvements to Space Game, including reduced disaster rates at all levels of difficulty, adjustments to Hard Mode, increased limits on concurrent trade routes, as well as changes to tool unlocks for the Knights.
■Creator Lineage appears correctly for all creation types shared after this patch is installed.
■Cheat is included that permits Creators to export creatures in Collada format for use in Maya. Creators must acknowledge and accept a Tools EULA to perform this operation. An additional cheat has been provided to enable highest quality textures to appear on vehicles, where it is supported by user hardware.
■Fixed a problem where creations would go missing if a user quits the game in any way while downloads are in progress.
■Fixed a bug where achievements were disappearing.
■Fixed a bug where some Sporepedia cards had corrupted backgrounds.
■Fixed a problem in Space where some Grox planets were unreachable.
■YouTube movies now publish as public


Galactic Adventures Improvements:
■This patch must be installed again after installing Galactic Adventures, even if you have installed this patch previously.
■You can now place the avatar, NPCs, and handheld objects on top of air, land, and sea vehicles in the Adventure Creator. Get more info here.
■Improvements are made to the Adventure Creator, including right-click camera behavior, and User Interface enhancements.
■In EP1 open gates were not working correctly when they were disguised
■Some customer-reported crashes in Galactic Adventures have been fixed.

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Assymetry finally: http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/0/36030.page
Seems like they've learned a few things from Better Spore.

Cheat is included that permits Creators to export creatures in Collada format for use in Maya, WOOOOOO.

My Assymetrical creature now hangs its head to either side as hes turning. Like a motorcycle. Im not sure if thats a bug or if its supposed to be that way.

Humpfrey:


Fo real bro!

Lately I've been playing GA and flying around the galaxy trying to find missions to complete. Problem is, im running into the same missions.

Is there a sporecast updated with current adventures? or does it automatically download them? cause I'm sadly runnning out.

If not, can we get a list of players and thier adventures that gamingsteve members have made? or maybe even a gamingsteve adventure sporecast?



My name: DaMuncha
Creations: Dagon Brawl Z, Whodunit (WIP, Not uploaded yet), Mist Island (WIP, Not uploaded yet).

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Edit: Gamingsteve Adventures sporecast is up.
http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=ssc-500381475946

I just got Galactic Adventures and I'm just wondering how many people have it yet. I've only just installed it and im allready having fun. So how many peeps have it and will I soon see your adventures?

My first captain is Galactic Space Gremlin (Yes hes a gremlin wearing a space suit).

You can change your vote when you finally get it.

Rather than constantly having to go check each others profiles on the sloooow sporpedia, why dont we just post our widgets here so we can easily view each others creations.

Heres mi...  Wheres that damn button gone... I know its on the profile page somewhere...

Ahh there it is: http://www.spore.com/flash/csa_widget.swf?userid=2262950273&username=DaMuncha&host=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spore.com%2Fview%2Fuser-thumbnail

Anyway, post your widget link so we can check 'em out.

Things that could easily make the game more fun or longer.

I'm finding that the phases to too fast, so the Cell phase is perfect and all. But I feel the other phases of the game go way too fast. As we all know the phases of spore dont have too much depth and alot of reviewers have critisized Spore for this, But how can Maxis easily make it better, just by tweaking gameplay that allready exists?

Ways to make them longer or better easily in a coming patch.

Cell:

Its awsome so far, the length of the cell phase and the look are great. BUT I would like more. We're now aware that there are more parts availible in the advanced cell editor. More parts makes for a greater variety of customisation and personalisation of your cell. So let us use the other parts. And I'd like to be able to share cells with other users, I'm getting kind of bored of seeing the same old cells every time I play. Let us share them.

Creature:

The creature game is great and looks amazing, but I feel like I need something else (Instant Kiwi). The creature phase goes way too fast, even on hard. Its finished within 1 hour, and sure you get to see some interesting things on your planet, like Epic creatures and UFOs but that small island you live on becomes very small after a while. I'd like to explore the rest of my planet, I'd like to travel all the way around my planet so I end up on the other side of my island. If they could remove that monster from eating you, I'm sure we'd be spending alot more time exploring as I like to do.

Another thing is theres wwaaaaaaay too many parts scattered around. I know that was so that you can make the creture you want as fast as possible, but seeing bones everywhere you turn and getting parts from socialising with every creature is too easy. If they used the whole world instead of an island they could spread the parts out more, or at least have less parts at rests. I've seen nests with up to 5 skeletons around it with parts that have nothing to do with the creature whos nest it is. And socialising/eating to get random parts is kinda a bit too much. Keep that in, but only reward the parts that the other creature actauly has.

Tribe:

Tribe is great so far and the dynamics of it are good, but that is the fastest of all the phases. You ally or take over 5 other tribes and thats it, next phase. and the tribes are very close to each other. I've taken the camera all over the place and theres allmost no other life. If they could spread the tribes further apart and over a larger area that would be great. I'd like to use my whole continant, rather than just that small area. and More tribes, not just 5, how about 20? or 30? tribes across the whole planet, and tribal boats to cross continants, since they allready have a boat creater. Id like to go fishing on the water, paddel my canoe out to the open sea and catch fish that way. And add more head pieces to the totem pole so that we could play longer. Things like that.

Civilisation:

Civ looks great, and is fun. But how did your tribe get from being stranded on this tiny little space on a continant to beign accross the whole world? another reason why we should use the whole world for tribe and creature. That all I can think of, Civ is pretty good, but still too simple. Can you think of a way to make civ better?

Space:

Space is the most polished of all the phases, you get to explore the galaxy and see many wonderous things in space. But like Cell phase its eat or be eaten. You can take it all by force or buy it and make aliances. But thats it. As much as there is alot of things to see in space and it looks good and its got many things space has, but thats all there is to it. They could make the parts harder to get, cost more money, give less money for spice, tie quests to items, be given a reason to explore space other than "find the grox", be given rewards for exploring, have some one or some thing to tell you your doing a good job. Many other things I cant think of right now.

What do you think?

How could Maxis make this game last longer?

How could they easily improve the game but still make it simple enough for grandmas?

At the moment the game feels like a quick party game, you play it, you finish it, then you pat your self on the back for doing a good job and move on and do something else.

And I know I know its up to the player to make his own story and invent his own fun in the game. But I cant help noticing that theres this big arrow and flashing lights saying "CLICK HERE" that moves you on to the next phase. Like its putting it in your face "EVOLVE TODAY" "leave this phase behind , your finished here" "Click it, CLICK IT, CLICK THE DAMN BUTTON" "You know you want to!".

They need a button that says "Dumb ass" and "Smart ass".

It was just me and the Blue Civilisation. I have given him as much money as I could, to stop him attacking me (Blue holds the whole map except my town) He's currently on the blue smiley face and I cant make him any happier. The problem is I cant go any further. If I attack him he swarms me with flyers and takes over my city and I loose. And I cant make him any happier to ally with him. So I'm stuck.

Is there a way to force him to join me, or at least restart the civ phase?

For a while now. As I create more creatures in The Spore Creature Creator, it takes longer time to load spore. I have over 180 creatures in my Sporpedia now and it takes a very long time to load up the game. Why is this?

When Spore finally comes out and we start playing, we will have 1000s of creatures in our sporpedias. Does that mean that it will take a realy realy realy long time to load Spore?