A small thought

[Astrodog]

Let's say you get SPORE the very first day it comes out. Now, there probably aren't going to be very many people out there making buildings and creatures for you yet. Will the game fill in these blanks using preloaded stuff, and therefore use player and Maxis-created stuff?

[Mr.Heat]

That was confirmed by Maxis.




Heat

[Flank57]

This has been bothering me. Will you be able to create some of the stuff that surrounds you? Like, lets say you have your main race but there is also creatures you created on your planet that cant be controled. Ya dig

[Tye]

"Heat" said it was confirmed even though I haven't seen anything.

I guess the editing and creating could get boring after a while but I think it looks really cool at the moment and I don't see why people would ever want to sponge off other players. :laughing2:

I'd love to create a unique creator or design a super-powerful UFO! :smile:

[spore freak274]

this game definatly has some awsome stuff in it and i think that creating things would be one of the best things in the game :bouncy:

i was just wondering if you are able 2 make under water cities? :confused:

[Astrodog]

Yeah, if you have an aquatic critter, at least.

[Vandilyn]

Well, I see it this way... you start your first creature and after a few hours you decide to start a new creature and again... all those will be in your game for you to interact with.

What I want to know most is if there is a way to 'ban' a creature you just don't like. Lets face it, not everything others make is going to be something I want in my game and not everything I make will others want in their games.

I prefer to have a choice as to what ends up in my game and what does not.

[FireMaker]

The small file size of the creatures/buildings ect. will allow EA and Maxis the ability to ship thousands of creature species and building/vehicle types.

Fear not, if you do not wish to create, you will not have to. (There has always been basic stuff shipped with The Sims games..)

And yes, I am verifying what Heat says.

[Martun]

The small file size of the creatures/buildings ect. will allow EA and Maxis the ability to ship thousands of creature species and building/vehicle types.

Fear not, if you do not wish to create, you will not have to. (There has always been basic stuff shipped with The Sims games..)

This is true. And to give an example, just look at all the creatures, buildings and vehicles that have been designed so far purely for the E3 demos, etc.

Not to mention that freak of nature Robin Williams created this year! :laughing2:

[FireMaker]

Yup.. See, they aren't actually storing images of the creatues, which takes up alot of space.

They are simply storing the 'DNA' so to speak, of the creatures. That way, another game can simply recreate the creature using its DNA, rather than actually having to have an image copy of the creature. Its basically.. cloning.

[Snabbelkrab]

I don't agree with you Vandilyn. If you would have the choice to 'ban' creatures the fight for survival will stop as you can now choose e.g a land creature that has no legs or no mouth. This will make it far too easy to advance in the game and dominate your planet

[InvaderBlack]

I don't think you'd need to ban a creature, since you could just run away. And if you don't like a creature, come back with the UFO and blow 'em up!! :mischievous:

[FireMaker]

I think what he means by 'ban' is to ban a species from being in the game. Say you really dont like the way one species look, you simply turn it off so it never appears as you play.

[Hazath]

at the least, just delete that species from your hard-drive

[FireMaker]

Minor spelling note, species is the plural and singular form of the word.. there is no such thing as specie.

Also.. I think instead of just delete from your computer, but keep the game from re-downloading it automatically. As that is a feature of the game.

[imported_artistvrd]

that's a great feature thrown in by Maxis, saves a lot of time, and effort.

[Hazath]

Minor spelling note, species is the plural and singular form of the word.. there is no such thing as specie.

on the contrary there is. If I trade specie with you for a good or service, you will recieve money. Specie = coin - albeit this has no relevance to creatures

[FireMaker]

Semantics.

[Smarty Izola]

heheh... NICE. hey peoples, what are your favorite places to travel?? give me some feedback!

[FireMaker]

Smarty.. your question is off topic, I suggest you start a whole new thread with that question.

[MatchNL]

im not too keen on other people's stuff being put into my game. Honestly, it usually sucks or looks ridiculous.

I think there should be an option to turn it off.


On a side note, it brings the community together if we share similar experiences.... thus, it'd be more fun (i think) to have, at first, the same types of creatures we all face, so we can all compare and contrast our first creatures with that which Maxis placed in the game for us as a challenge.

[InvaderBlack]

Why would you say that? What makes you the master Spore creature artist? This game is supposed to make stuff look rediculous, it's more fun that way.

That is a good idea, so people can share tactics and stuff, but maybe one player's creature can't handle the enemies like another's will be able to. That's why the enemies are determined by how you play.

[MatchNL]

I never said my stuff was the best, or anything.

But I actually AM an artist and a graphics designer among other things.

So I hate having 10 yr olds make all these lame-looking generic pieces of crap creatures and having them pollute my beautiful creations and fester.

[Gungnir]

Stop saying "My beautiful creations" if you haven't even made ONE creature yet. Once the game comes out and you can provide us with a screenshot of what your supposedly beautiful creature looks like, THEN we will tell you if it's beautiful or not. If it is, good for you. If it's not....then good for you.

What's that saying..don't count your chickens before you get eggs? Or something like that..


By the way...not all ten year olds make lame-looking generic pieces of crap. I'd worry more about 20 year olds making pieces of crap, because 10 year olds usually have MUCH crazier ideas, which in the case of spore, is a good thing.

[MatchNL]

hey, I'm being optimistic here. I have confidence in my artistic ability :)

I just dont want my world populated with crap. Whether it's made by 20 yr olds, 10 yr olds, or 80 yr olds.

Content filter is a must. I dont want my world populated with creatures walking around with some phallic-looking object on their head just because the creator somewhere thought it would be funny.

[Hazath]

disconnect your internet then. Solution solved.

[Gungnir]

I think you mean problem solved..but whatever.

You can always just block spore's access to the internet with a firewall, and I remember reading that users could flag conent as inappropriate, so you won't be seeing gigantic exaggerated genitals anytime soon. Although you could probably make them yourself and have em in your game that way, although I assume you wouldn't want that, judging from what you're talking about.

[InvaderBlack]

I see what you mean now, Match. Though, you probably won't be dealing with too many user created creatures until you start moving from planet to planet. When you do that you can just blow 'em up or leave. But, if you do see something on your planet during Creature, Tribal or Civ, gang up on 'em and kill every one you see. Maybe they'll go extinct, who knows?

[Mikao]

From what I have read...

1. Underwater creatures are a want at the moment. Will Wright has said that he would like to include this in the game. He also said however that if time gets cut short then this will be one of the first things to go. He said to expect it later on in an expansion pack.

from an interview with Will Wright...

I quote Will Wright: "We've thought a little about that. When you're making a game, you start out with all these ideas. Then as the deadline draws near, you have to start cutting stuff out. And that stuff is the first content you want to get into expansions."

With the next couple questions, he continues on to say that one of the things on the cusp of being cut out right now is the ability to have underwater creatures.

Source: Spore Revolution

2. About the whole "banning" creatures thing. I believe there is a sort of flag system about this... let me find the quotes.

Is there any way you can exercise quality control over that?

We’ve had that issue with The Sims - because players on The Sims can create characters, put them up on a website and others can download them – and we have to put in a system so that if somebody, you know, makes the walking penis, other players can flag it. If it gets enough flags, it gets removed from the list, so we’re familiar with building those systems already. There’s a whole legal around that: we don’t want to be the ones editorialising the content. We have to give players that control, so they can object to content which is inappropriate and it’s automatically removed. Then we’re not liable for policing it all the time.


Source: Spong

I do not know if that answers any questions. However I feel that this "flag" system may work better by just removing creatures you flag automatically. So you don't have to wait until so many people flag it to not see it anymore.

[creatures_crazy]

they said you can bookmark a friend, you can probably blacklist a player too so you don't get his creations.

and it's confirmed there's an option to turn off downloading creatures.

[Sporn]

What I want to know most is if there is a way to 'ban' a creature you just don't like. Lets face it, not everything others make is going to be something I want in my game and not everything I make will others want in their games.

I prefer to have a choice as to what ends up in my game and what does not.

Yes you do have a choice. You can ban the player so his/her creations dont end up in your game. Also, you can tag a creation you only THAT creation dosen't show up in your game. You can also bookmark players creations so their creations come up in your game more.

[ManagerJosh]

Maxoids have expressed there are ways of banning a particular creature, keyword, or even a creator from appearing.