Topic: Questions for the Devs.

[ChristianSkunk]

You'll probably be able to choose. Hopefully. Or maybe it's just completely random. (Blue grass FTW.)

Watching the TED video it certainly looked that way to me (choosing, that is).  It looked like you can pick a planet then pick which stage to start with.  A bit like choosing a neighborhood and lot in Sims (and family).

Edit:  You know what, I take that back.  I have no idea.  If you were able to pick and choose your planet, that would mean all the planets would have to be generated and set at the get-go, or else how could you view the planets in order to pick one?  Maybe you pick a system or galaxy like the lots in Sims, one of your families per lot, for example.  Then it puts you on a planet somewhere in there.  The planet would be generated at that point, randomly but within certain limits.

[CosmicD]

Well, you see a 'name your planet' screen there. But if you could choose your own planet that would be ok.

What would be cool is that this is just a screen with a name tag and then when you name it: the comet would smash into a random planet around the place where you click your mouse or something? COuld be cool too.

[CosmicD]

another thing I wonder (especially afther there wasn't so much hands on experience for the press in gc07), say you create a snake creature which is pretty long and you want to attach 6 pairls of insect legs to it but they need to be very small becaue you want to have your creature crawl over the ground. If you start the first pair, and you want to repeat them over the entire body, is there a way of having the next pairs always be the same size and scale as you configure them for the first pair so you don't always have to do that again for every pair of legs you attach ?

[DarkDragon]

I know he says it but I'm not going to bother rummaging through the videos just to say "I told you so."

If someone else is bored they're welcome to go find it.

I still don't think these fanatasies of cartwheel creatures are possible.

I'm gonna put it simple. You dreamed it! xD

You'll probably be able to choose. Hopefully. Or maybe it's just completely random. (Blue grass FTW.)

Watching the TED video it certainly looked that way to me (choosing, that is).  It looked like you can pick a planet then pick which stage to start with.  A bit like choosing a neighborhood and lot in Sims (and family).

Edit:  You know what, I take that back.  I have no idea.  If you were able to pick and choose your planet, that would mean all the planets would have to be generated and set at the get-go, or else how could you view the planets in order to pick one?  Maybe you pick a system or galaxy like the lots in Sims, one of your families per lot, for example.  Then it puts you on a planet somewhere in there.  The planet would be generated at that point, randomly but within certain limits.

We got confirmation that you can just go through the galaxy and pick a solar system and planet to begin life, it remains to be seen if you can pick any planet or if it has to support life, probably you can pick any of them and then the "Genesis" device is applied to it just for the sake of starting the game on that planet.

another thing I wonder (especially afther there wasn't so much hands on experience for the press in gc07), say you create a snake creature which is pretty long and you want to attach 6 pairls of insect legs to it but they need to be very small becaue you want to have your creature crawl over the ground. If you start the first pair, and you want to repeat them over the entire body, is there a way of having the next pairs always be the same size and scale as you configure them for the first pair so you don't always have to do that again for every pair of legs you attach ?

In some games where you build stuff, that is done with the right mouse button

[thorjarle]

Could you in a future event or in an upcoming newsletter tell us what kind of horsepower Spore need to be run with the highest details on?

[Amazingchi]

Lucy Bradshaw confirmed that you will get to choose the planet you start on.