On topic I hope this will revive Spore for me. I go in once in a while, create or modify one of my creatures, play for an hour and then leave it for weeks/months.
Space stage was fun enough first 2nd time, but it just doesn't have enought to do with your ACTUAL creature to grip me. Whether the little portrait that always sounds the same is a pink or blue blob matters little to me (which is why I suggested away teams/missions on planets), but these things in the trailer seem to focus more on the individual - I'm looking forward to seeing more about what that's all about

....still.... read my quote under my portait. It's been the same for years.
*sigh*

I still like spore, but I've come to the repetitive stage as well.
I've been back in WoW for a couple of weeks, because spore started acting up (not launching again) and I couldn't be arsed to fix it because of the repetitive factor.
EDIT: Wow, I just read that again. I'm going BACK to WoW because another game is too repetitive? *LOL* Not a good statement for that game :p

Couple of days ago I decided to get it working again. After a while I succeeded and launched it again to play around and have fun in the editors. I wanted to start a new game after that, but thought "well why not try the patch first". So I allow it to download, fine. Error installing patch.
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Ok reload and try again. Same error. Try with different variations of EADM running on and offline. Now I'm back to how it started, only the patch wasn't installed, doesn't come up and Spore wont let me go online at all. Says there's a login problem, can't connect to the server.
So I couldn't patch (fine, whatever), but now I can't play online either?

I just gave up. It's still a fine game, but not worth the hassle.
I'll check back in a few months and see what sort of patches have been released. Maybe if the patch has been patched...

My doll ship kept attacking me last night. It's alot meaner than I thought it would be.

LOL I'd better not download that one then!

Btw. just in case I'm not here when it happens, your post count is currently 9999 so GRATS on "post ding" soon!

This is just guessing, but my guess would be that the planets are generated with a seed rather than a geological mesh. The seed would take up little data in itself.
By applying arbitrary changes the way you suggest, you'd have to render the seeded object and save it as data rather than a seed, and apply the changes and save that data. Cumulatively, with all the planets in the game, that's a lot of data.
I think SL is proposing making a different seed overlay to the existing seed, rather than rendering the seed, altering the result and saving that.

I may be talking out of my behind here (I do feel slightly concussed today), but this is how I understand it at time of writing.

If rogues are supposed to be that rare then my game is bugged up o_O
I see rogues all the time. On my first playthrough I had a posse of full rogues 2 times (they were killed off by epic attack) and I still saw more yet running around. I'd estimate at least 10 at my first go.

It needs to be noted that I streched the creature game as far as I could, and picked up every single part. Perhaps they get more frequent as you explore more/get more parts?
Like to begin with you have easy creatures around you, and you don't normally see epics for a fair while. Could be the same so you see more after you're fully evolved.

I've just been looking at the poll and I must have been half asleep. When it's not multiple choice it doesn't make any sense to have the "no I've not had any *specific issue* problems" oO
I will edit it.

Well if your old savegame got corrupted for whatever reason (which seems to be the cause) then there's probably not much you can do to bring it back. Many things can cause corruption, but the most likely is a problem with your HDD.
So if you did do that checkdisk and all the faulty sectors have been marked up, it shouldn't happen again unless the HDD is damaged further at a later time.
If you're feeling anxious that it might happen again, I guess the best precaution would be to take regular backups of your savegames (copy it somewhere else after each session, maybe store it online or on a CD-RW, USB memory module or simply another HDD).

The patch seems to have created some problems for some people, but apart from that I LOVE what was put in it

The patch notes were a thrill to read through, because they showed that the devs really have been listening to us It didn't address everything, but it addressed a great many things we've uttered concerns about here and gave me a confidence boost that it'll all be looked at with time.
THANK YOU!