Just out of curiosity (thanks for the advice, by the way) have you ever seen this galloping behavior in the full game? The back arches and the forelegs move with eachother and the back legs do as well, and it takes a bit of a hop forward and both front legs go somewhat between the hind legs. It's hard to explain..

Well, either way, it's not the standard left-right-left-right shuffle.

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Did you here what else they said?
No beaiming down on non mission planets?!

I also cried on that one, I mean I don't mind if it worked like this:

You see a planet, you are flying over it and you can see if it's an adventure or a normal planet in which case if it's an adventure it asks if you want to play it, but seriously if the adventure planets don't show up in the actual universe and only on the Sporepedia then it's kinda lame....

Im starting to think this expansion isnt going to be all that good...

In the extremely early versions that I toyed around with, I was able to make creatures that shifted under their own weight. Creatures that exploited the length of their arms or legs for greater reach. Creatures that behave and move true to how they were built. A short bunny-creature would definitely be out-run by the long-legged dragon-giraffe. That was very neat, and it implied several exciting possibilities in gameplay.

For instance, creature morphology actually mattered. This implied deeper strategy to creature creation. You have a small inkling of this in the Cell stage where placement of parts somewhat mattered. For example, spikes placed behind your creature saved you from being bitten when chased. But, the strategy that earlier prototypes implied went beyond placement of parts. The length of limbs or spine felt like it mattered. If you had a forward-heavy animal with legs placed in the back, it would run poorly as it tries (and fails) to counteract its own weight.

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As has already been pointed out explicitly to you, numerous times, the game could easily choose among existing races to meet quotas of the different philosophies. As in, the players create races, and the game chooses how to pollinate them. In other words, player whim has nothing to do with it.

Player whim has everything to do with it, if you're changing things so that how they played their game now has an impact on how my game turns out. Which is sort of the opposite of what Will Wright made painfully clear during development. The minute your creature is in another game, it's not your creature anymore.

That, or do what I do, and ignore philosophy when I design space civs. Put what looks good on them. The game'll handle the rest.

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As has already been pointed out explicitly to you, numerous times, the game could easily choose among existing races to meet quotas of the different philosophies. As in, the players create races, and the game chooses how to pollinate them. In other words, player whim has nothing to do with it.

Player whim has everything to do with it, if you're changing things so that how they played their game now has an impact on how my game turns out. Which is sort of the opposite of what Will Wright made painfully clear during development. The minute your creature is in another game, it's not your creature anymore.

That, or do what I do, and ignore philosophy when I design space civs. Put what looks good on them. The game'll handle the rest.

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Traders get downloaded twice as often. Seriously, how hard was that to figure out?

So you're cool with, say, your Space game populated by three or four copies of my Jeropodian empire? Spore isn't the first game to prove that player-generated content is never balanced.

Every carnivore a player makes is functionally identical to a angry-face, unsociable creature. Thus, the game modifies it. Same with Space and the Empires therein.