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[Furtuka]

: Ready for work Captain? Let’s see if we have anything for you.

: I’d like to learn more. Do you have any suggestions?



: I want to interact with other alien races.



: I’d like to do some trading then

: We need to find another empire to trade goods with. Go find an empire willing to establish a trade route with us. Completeing this mission will earn you $20,000 Sporebucks.

: How can I do it?



: Yes sir!



: So who should we talk to first?

: Records indicate the Green Toads are nearbye and in good standing with us.

: Their planets all have Red Spice though. Not much demand for that.

: Wasn’t there a Flying Moose planet with pink spice somewhere down there?

: Sounds good.



: Commander Cutebold. It is only reasonable to argue that if your don’t tell us what you want, we won’t be able to help you.



: Okay to do this we need to click the diplomacy option.



: Here we can talk to them about their cultural philosophy, gift them sporebucks, establish trade routes, and form alliances. We’re here to establish trade routes.

: My superiors have asked me to discuss the possibility of forming a trade route with this planet

: It is reasonable to establish a route between us. Our ships are on their way.



: That was pretty easy. Much less negotiating than I expected.



: And here the game crashed. While I get it back up and running, I suppose I’ll explain Trade Routes in Spore a bit here. Once you form a trade route, it’ll appear in the form of two dotted lines between your planets with your ships traveling on them. A Gauge will appear at the top of the screen if you travel to the planet you formed a route with. When the gauge fills up, the afflicted planet will have an economic crisis and offer to sell you the planet. You’ll be given options of how much money to spend. You only get one offer before the gauge resets so  you have to think carefully about how much money you want to offer or they’ll reject you for being a cheapskate.



: Sir? We in the science department would like for you to take the time to scan the majority of new animals and vehiclesto rebuild our damaged Sporepedia.

: Wha? Oh of course. By the way what happened to Miss Kobfreebkan?

: Arrested for animal cruelty sir. I’d rather not talk about it.



: Wha- When did we get new ships?! I thought they said it cost a fortune just to make this one!

: *shrugs*



: So captain, what would you like to do next?

: You mentioned alliances?

: Oh of course! Now that we know of other empires, we should form some alliances for our mutual benefit and protection. You…   might have to do some work for them to build their trust.

: Can’t be that hard.

: We will of cours, compensate you with $10,000 Sporebucks on your return.

: I thought you were in dept?

: The job we signed you up for was payed in advance.

: But there where did you get the new ships-

: Ok bye now!



: That was odd…

: Establishing contact!

: Let us Reason together

: Now to form an alliance you need to have the other empire in the Green Smiley Face relationship sector. As you can see in their portrait in the above screenshot, we are currently in the Blue Smaller Smiley face sector. We can increase their happiness with us by giving gifts, trading, or doing missions. Doing missions is the more entertaining of these options so we’re gonna do that.

: Is there any work you would like for me to do?



: How can I find it?

: Planet Gendy orbits star system Julphas. Travel to this world and if the natives behavior suggests intelligence, take one of these creatures and bring it here for further evaluation.

: They will be treated humanely I presume.

: Hmmm? Uh… of course, of course they will! We will of course not run them through any painful tests whatsoever! And we will most definitely not poke them with shock probes nor shall we vivisect them!

: Ok good then. I’ll be back in a bit



: So you see those two red circles right there? They indicate that the star we seek will be within the area theyh enclose. Other missions will just tell you the star’s location outright, while others will just give you the radius from another star.



: Well here we are!

:  Captain I recommend that we do this quickly. This planet is in Misti territory and they will likely fire upon us if we are noticed

: Duly noted.



: Kfreeblis McCaptain of the Cutebold Empire. This is a restricted airspace! Non believers are not allowed within our borders! Leave at once or face  destruction!

: Computer, arm all weapons!

: At once sir.



: Sir their weapons are much more advanced than ours! We cannot afford to take this many hits!

: Evasive Manuevers!





: All enemies destroyed captain

: Good. Let’s grab our target and leave before any more show up.



: Engaging tractor beam sir.

: Alright we got them!



: Unfortunately Captain I have some bad news. We lost too much time fighting the Misti ships and went over the time limit we had set for us.

: *Sigh* The higher ups won’t be happy about this.



: Well-   well-   Well you smell like Dwarves on a bad day!

: Sir what will we do with the Hynerias sitting In the cargo hold now?

: Hmmm….   I have an idea!



 : You want them so badly?! You can have them! Run little Mooseys! Run!

: Incoming Transmission from the Misti and Green Toad Empires sir.



: *blinks* Well thank you? I think…  What is it that the Misti have to say?

: We have inaugurated an Unbeliever Tax of $10,000. Pay immediately.

: But I just got these! I refuse to pay this. You don’t even have sovereignty over us!

: We will not forget this McCaptain.



: Captain? We are picking up a large amount of angry sounding transmission fragments about 5.2 parsecs from this location.

: Let’s go see what it’s about. Maybe we’ll find something to take my mind off this…



: Akfrebab   ltonotcl!

: Captain! Language.

: Ugh…   Well we might as well introduce ourselves. Open Transmission!

: Yes Sir!

: State your case for continued existence.

: I am from the Cutebold. I *sigh* ...I come in peace.

: As long as you maintain your humility, we will have little to quarrel about.

: It is an honor. Not really

: Why don’t you take you mind off things captain? There’s an interesting looking planet over there.



: Whoah. How does this even work?

: You know sir...    I have no idea

: Ugh… you know what, This is taking too long! I am now assuming direct control.       …until something important happens at least.



: By the way we unlocked level 2 of this badge for flying a certain amount of parsecs. Earning badges unlocks new tools for purchase!



: I went ahead and purchased the new drive so we could travel more efficiently.

: Afterwards the Toads asked us to travel to planet Jaylas in the Albucca system. We were to scan all the plants and animals that lived there. This was a Wheeler planet, necessitating that we give them a gift of 10,000 Sporebucks, bringing our friendship levels from orange grimace to yellow dull face so that they would not attack us.




: Scanning missions are pretty tedious to be honest. It's a pain since you wind up having to track down all the different species. The radar helps, but sometimes you have to fly around for a while until the target creature is in range.




: It pays off however, and we finally achieve Green Smiley levels of friendship!

:…However, our mission with them is not over yet, as they ask us to fly all the way back and fetch some samples of the plant Appledash, which the Toads apparently consider a valuable Commodity.



: Multiple hearts-     Nevermind. We were attacked by Wheeler Ships on the way there, but manage to outrun them and return to the Toads for our reward.

:So we are finally able to propose an alliance with them. They’re happy and that’s pretty much it until we begin to unlock fleet buddies.



: We also earn the Missionista 2 Badge, allowing us to purchase a large variety of tools. And Our first alliance nets us the Diplomacy 1 badges.



:This gave us enough badge points to rank up to Commodore, allowing us to have one of the Toad’s ships follow us around and aid us in combat! At this point the game crashed again! Three times in a row in fact. As such the things I scanned will not be showing up in the Sporepedia at the end of this update.



:My third attempt with allying with the Toads after repeated crashes resulted in war beginning against the Misti due to their territorialness

: The Council will not be happy about this…

: Well at least the Wheeler’s aren’t at war with us too sir.




: Uh yeah…  Sir I have some bad news.

: What is it?

: The Misti have declared war upon us. I shot down one of their ships who tried to attack me.

: Oh dear! Speaking of warfare, one of our mission requests for is that we would like for you to go to war against the Wheeler Leaders.

:NO Just no. Do you have anything non suicidal?



: You’re on your own for acquiring the Colony Incredi-Paks. They’re not cheap and Mission Control can’t afford to hand them out like candy.  Mmmmm, candy. Is it lunch time yet?

: I’ll get right to it sir. The colonising,, not the candy. Crew looks like we’re gonna have to go fund raising.

: Captain, what if we just conquered some of the Misti planets to obtain their colonies?

: Well I suppose. Science department, are we atmospherically compatible with them?

:  Yes.  In fact, every inhabitable planet we’ve encounter has been breatheable for us. It’s very strange

: Well then Onward to warfare!      ….But first I gotta go buy some of those bombs.

: Sir they cost twice that of our current budget.

: Never mind then! Let’s just get on with the warfare! CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!!!!!



This Update's Sporepedia

Spoiler: Gophem (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Hyneria (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Koosh (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Techy Hall (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Towers (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Curatory (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Zorguedium (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Bone Tank (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Marzon (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: DWMC Kontin Rifle (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Adamant (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Rokkett (click to show/hide)

[NRDL]

I've never gotten the hang of space warfare.  Or civilization age warfare.  It was always so much easier just to use religion or economics.  And how the hell is one ship capable of conquering a planet?  I wanna bust out Spore just to figure this out, but I might as well ask for some advice first. 

[Neonivek]

I've never gotten the hang of space warfare.  Or civilization age warfare.  It was always so much easier just to use religion or economics.  And how the hell is one ship capable of conquering a planet?  I wanna bust out Spore just to figure this out, but I might as well ask for some advice first.

Space Warfare is easy once you understand that it is a graphical representation of a MUCH more simple system.

The best way to fight in the Space stage against ships is to switch to missles, then move backwards while constantly spamming the fire. If you do it right you can destroy enemies without getting hit. Flying higher or lower to the ground is pointless by the way.

Enemy turrets are tough and I have found no effective way to really deal with them... Use health, forcefields, or just ignore turrets by using bombs high above the city. Do NOT fight them all at once unless you got some way of taking them.

[Corai]

"Cutebold empire"

I will be watching this, very closely. Cant wait to see how the cutebolds respond to the Grox Empire.

[Furtuka]

: Ello and welcome back to let’s play Spore! At the end of the last update that was probably so recent that this recap is utterly pointless, we went to war against the Misti Empire because our dear captain hopped the border a few times too many. As you can see up in the above screenshot, when you go to war against an empire, red spheres form around their star systems telling you where their territory is, similarly green spheres appear around your allies. It…   can get ridiculous later on in the game when you meet a certain someone whom I’m pretty sure 3/4s of the people in this thread already know about. Anyways let’s get on with this.



: We shall head first for the Yasmus system. It is preventing us from safe contact with the Toads.

: Aye sir

: On the way there we stopped by the Toads to get recharged, when I noticed that we had picked up a shipment of Pink Spice back at Boatmurdered due to our trade route. I sold it to the Green Toads for a whopping 37,464 Sporebucks per unit nearly tripling out moneys. It turned out that the Toads also sold the minibomb upgrade for half the price of we Cutebolds so we of course, purchased it. Minibombs are good for use against buildings.



: Captain we are now descending onto the planet

: Good. This is a simple T-0 planet crew. I predict that this will be a piece of cake.





: AAAAAAUUU-     *KABOOM*



: …

: Uh I forgot to press the missile button on the dashboard before I started click spamming. Only managed to after I noticed that when I had about 30 health left. Silly me, let’s try that again.



: But first we purchase a energy tank upgrade and a bunch of Repair Modules in preparation. Our next stop is to go ask the Toads for another buddie ship.



: But we are interrupted by a crisis back on planet Boatmurdered! As the only militarized ship I the entire empire, it’s our job to stop them!



: We arrive to discover a single Misti raiding party attacking one of our cities. In Spore enemy ships come in two varieties. Their squadrons arranged into smaller version of their ships which serve as fighters escorting a much larger bomber.



: In my experience it’s typically better to take out the fighters first so that you can destroy the bomber without being shot at from all directions.



: Just doing my job sir.

: Of course. By the way, do you mind helping out with the cleanup here

: After a battle you’re gonna have to repair  your cities. This mostly entails removing rubble, replacing buildings, and building more turrets. And it’s here that the game crashed again D:<

: Upon starting the game back up, I do a lot of spice trading to obtain more sporebucks and upgrades in preparation for the Yasmus invasion. “But Furt!”  you may ask, “you failed so badly last time!” And I will say, yes. Yes I did. However, this time will be different. This time we will be using our allies to their greatest potential.



: I’d like you to attack the Misti in the Yasmus System

: Anything for our dear friends the Cutebolds! Especially against the Misti. They’re always preaching to us about how our material ways are hedonistic. Whatever that means. Not to mention they keep asking for donations. However…

: Uh oh

: Warfleets cost money! This one will cost you $54,000!

: Oh. Well that’s hardly anything! I’ll transfer the funds right away!



: CRAP



: Sometimes when enemy ships are destroyed, they drop money. Not very much though. However if you leave them lying around the radar will freak out and be very annoying/distracting.



: After we clean up the mess, we are free to go attack the Yasmus system with the Toads!



: As you can see here, the Toads have sent a squadron of ships that are distracting the Misti fighters for us.



: This leaves us free to bomb the heck out of the Misti colony. When conquering a planet, you basically pound each city into submission. When a city’s warfare bar is filled up, they surrender. This fills up the planet’s bar by a fraction. Get them all and the planet is yours!



: However it’s quite easy to accidently destroy the entire city, especially on a T-0 planet like this one with only minimal defenses and infrastructure. But before we are capable of comtemplating the ethical ramifications of our actions, a cry for help sounds out!



: The Grox? The same Grox that destroyed that colony we found?

: All references point to yes captain. The council is asking that you try to scan their ships in order to learn more about this mysterious enemy.

: Don’t just sit there and blather! Help us! We don’t have the funds to make another fleet like that!



: There’s so many of them!

: These ships… they’re more powerful than anything we’ve ever seen!

: Captain! We have an incoming transmission from an unknown source!

: Greeting Kfreeblis McCaptain of the Cutebolds.

: You again! Are you the Grox!?

: No no, you couldn’t be farther from the truth. My people have no greater wish than to destroy the Grox

: Than why aren’t you out here helping us?!

: There would be no time to explain. Let me just say that we are very interested in seeing in how you perform against this raiding party.

: Wait! Get back here you…  Arghtlor!  Computer! Activate weapons!

: Acknowledged



: They’re running away captain!

: Just like that? Without doing anything? Why would they do that!?

: Perhaps this was a scouting mission. Or maybe a warning…

: Argh. We weren’t able to shoot down even one of their ships! Their shields are too strong.

: Perhaps we should ask the Toad’s about them



: I’m sorry captain but we simply don’t have time to talk right now. Our CEO is simply swamped with calls as we speak!

: I understand. Please tell us when is would be a better time to talk about these “Grox”

: *Shudders* We’ll see captain. End Transmission

: So now what.

: Well sir it seems that this war might become rather expensive. Perhaps it would be good to do some missions to raise funds? We might want to speak to some of the other Toad planets that might be less…    panicked.

: Agreed. Set course for Cylarcion!



: Of course!

: Good! Here’s your mission dossier. It’ll explain everything about this adventure.



: We’re approaching Coldiah sir

: Alright time to see what this mission is about. *Opens it* An obstacle course?

: The Toads have always been a little eccentric sir

: Yes but is this really worth my attention?

: At least it pays well.



: Beaming to the planets surface.



: You alright down there Captain?

: Yeah. Everything looks fine from here.



: Taking my first steps. Looks alright so far.



: Holy!

: Captain what happened?!

: The floor panel exploded under me!



: Hey there! You two! What’s the big idea?!

: It’s part of the course. You have to watch your step or you’ll get burned…   Speaking of that, your next test is to jump over this minefield in a single bound!

: …Good thing I have wings



: Hey this is all that hard!



:  The path is pretty clearly marked out. What’s the point of this event?



: Pretty nice decorations though



: I assume that one bridge will explode and the other won’t. Have to choose carefully here. Just gotta fly up and…    Yep the bridge on the right leads to more of those white panels!



: Hmmm I’m almost at the end. According to the dossier I have to collect all the beer cans and smash a pumpkin? What’s a pumpkin?



: Don’t wanna touch these boats



: That’s what a pumpkin is?! I was expecting a plant or a structure or something. Oh well guess I’m suppose to kill it. TAKE THIS!

: ROOOOAAAAARRRR



: That was easy. Though a little hazardous.

: Preparing to beam you back to the ship Captain



: So why did I have to go through that course?

: We spent a lot of money on advertising on that course. It was being televised all over this spiral arm!

: But it was so easy!

: Still popular though.



:Ugh.  Let’s get back to business.



: Captain we can’t take much more of this!

: Ignore the fighters, just start bombing the city! With any luck they’ll leave if they have nothing left to defend!



: Now this time we switch to laser right before the bar is filled up. This should prevent the city from exploding this time.



:… Or maybe not.



: we head back home to defend it against retaliatory Misti attack, and stick around to buy some weapons.



: Namely the Auto Turret which will continuously fire at our enemies even in space, and a health upgrade. We then head out to fight the next Misti planet. However we notice some waves radiating off one of the planetsi n our home system and stop by to check it out



: Let’s find out what this is



: Looks like some sort of artifact?

: It’s a tool! Grab it immediately I have to examine it!

: It turns out to be a tool that turns skies purple.



: We move on to the next Misti planet. The new upgrades help as we find ourselves not dieing nearly as much as we use to.



: Or at least, until a stray magma plume hits us right in the face. And immediately after I finished off the last Misti defense ship too!



: AAAAARGH! Why won’t they stop exploding!?!??!



: On a lighter note, our trade route finally fills up!



: And I rebuild the ship to reflect that the Cutebolds are at war.



: What am I doing?...





: Our most recent conquest results in our promotion to admiral. Now if only those Misti would come to their senses and STOP DYING. We then visit the Toads and upgrade our missiles in exchange for more pink spice.



: Finally!!!



: in other words, we surrender!

: About time one of you came to your senses. Tell me, why have you refused to surrender till now!

: Spode does not reward the cowardly.





: Well we’ve finished the mission that the council told us to. Only thing left is to assault the Misti home planet.

: We’re with you all the way captain! Right guys?!

: These samples from this planet are so fascinating! Development of local creatures seems to indicate it as only having recently evolved terrestrial kife- Hmm? Uh oh yes, sure.

: On the way to the home planet we pick up a terraforming tool that turns the seas deep blue.



: Yes Sir.

: Now Captain. Your next mission is to hunt for more of these artifacts that you have been finding. We’ll grant you 5000 Sporebucks if you bring another one next to us.

: And the war?

: Oh yes go beat up the Misti Homeworld too. Could  bring up our spice production quite a bit!

:…



: Well guys… only one planet left. You ready for this?

: Ready as I’ll ever be captain.



: Woah!

: Watch out for those Turrets Captain!



: Maybe we should get some more money… We’re gonna need the Toad’s help on this one. I think I’ll try spice trading this time

*ONE TRADING SEQUENCE LATER*



: This time we’re ready

: All right. What you want to do when assaulting a higher T rating planet is to take out the turrets first when you attack a city. This leaves you mostly free to bomb the crap out of them. You still have the fighters to worry about, but the Toads should help take care of them this time.



: Unless of course, We DIE, in which case the Toads leave the planet immediately.



: Other than that, there’s not really much to say about this battle.



: Last one sir.

: Bring us in.



: Finally it’s over…

: Let me tell you this Kfreeblis! Spode will not be pleased. So long as one follower of the path remains-

: Oh shut up already. Is Spode the only thing you ever talk about?

:…yes

: And that's it for this update folks! Questions, comments, criticism? And I'll be here next time for- Oh screw it I'm terrible at writing catchphrase type things.



This Update's Sporepedia

Spoiler: Illar (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Huminoid Duck (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Killer (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Stone Hut (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Pyragobel (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Stone House (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Stone Recycling Factory (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Stone Supper Club (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: T-38 Streetsweeper (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Jade Hovergem (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Bone Boat (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Bat Flier (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Cargo Hold (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Grox Ship (click to show/hide)

[Graknorke]

Aagh, those religious ones always annoyed me!
I think I might download Spore onto this computer, probably without my old saves.
Not like that's a problem, cell stage was always my favourite.

[NRDL]

Very nice!  I am so gonna reinstall spore now. 

[Neonivek]

Aagh, those religious ones always annoyed me!

You should worship them. As two of the most powerful and useful abilities in the game are held by them if you convert to their way of living (Mass Conversion and Home Teleport)

Mind you with Galactic Adventures the need to is no longer there.

What is odd is originally the point of having a kingdom, according to some early information, was that traveling between owned star systems was faster.

[Jahsg]

Necro to watch

[Furtuka]

Actually I wrote up an update for it couple weeks ago. It's just mu computers been deactivated for a month so I can't finish said update

[Neonivek]

Actually I wrote up an update for it couple weeks ago. It's just mu computers been deactivated for a month so I can't finish said update

Is one of my genuinly cool creatures in it?

[Geen]

If you see anything by a Hobbes98 or something like that, that's me like 5 years ago.