The Spore Thread

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Is anyone worried by the DRM issues that have been raised by Spore.

I'm a bit worried about only having three installs for the game, unless I ring up EA.

I'm guessing if I pirated the game I wouldn't be able to use it online, not that I really want to do that.

If EA guaranteed either to keep topping up the installs say every year or if they said they were going to drop the install limited after X time.

Also it annoys me that the game has been stripped of DRM before the UK release, meaning that it hasn't even worked.

No, I'm too busy playing the game to care about a bit of software I don't see in a game I won't uninstall.

[Stig]

Is anyone worried by the DRM issues that have been raised by Spore.

I'm a bit worried about only having three installs for the game, unless I ring up EA.

I'm guessing if I pirated the game I wouldn't be able to use it online, not that I really want to do that.

If EA guaranteed either to keep topping up the installs say every year or if they said they were going to drop the install limited after X time.

Also it annoys me that the game has been stripped of DRM before the UK release, meaning that it hasn't even worked.

No, I'm too busy playing the game to care about a bit of software I don't see in a game I won't uninstall.

Hard drive failure?

[Dante]

Is anyone worried by the DRM issues that have been raised by Spore.

I'm a bit worried about only having three installs for the game, unless I ring up EA.

I'm guessing if I pirated the game I wouldn't be able to use it online, not that I really want to do that.

If EA guaranteed either to keep topping up the installs say every year or if they said they were going to drop the install limited after X time.

Also it annoys me that the game has been stripped of DRM before the UK release, meaning that it hasn't even worked.

No, I'm too busy playing the game to care about a bit of software I don't see in a game I won't uninstall.

Hard drive failure?

Which I haven't had seeing as all this stuff is on STALKER aswell (bar the 3 installs) and between the two games I've played over a years worth of and no problems (and atleast 30 odd hours on spore with not one single issue)

[Lex-Man]

Is anyone worried by the DRM issues that have been raised by Spore.

I'm a bit worried about only having three installs for the game, unless I ring up EA.

I'm guessing if I pirated the game I wouldn't be able to use it online, not that I really want to do that.

If EA guaranteed either to keep topping up the installs say every year or if they said they were going to drop the install limited after X time.

Also it annoys me that the game has been stripped of DRM before the UK release, meaning that it hasn't even worked.

No, I'm too busy playing the game to care about a bit of software I don't see in a game I won't uninstall.

Hard drive failure?

Which I haven't had seeing as all this stuff is on STALKER aswell (bar the 3 installs) and between the two games I've played over a years worth of and no problems (and atleast 30 odd hours on spore with not one single issue)

I have Stalker as well it's the three install thing that bothers me I've installed Supreme Commander around five times (I'm sure it has DRM as well and I've had no problem).

My problem is installing the game three times and then finding I can never use the game again unless I put cash down for another copy.

[Akai XIII]

I'm worried; I've installed it once and I'm upgrading my PC at the weekend which means I'll have one installation left.

But I've installed it to another drive (not C), does that mean I'll still be able to play, without re-installing?

[Stig]

Is anyone worried by the DRM issues that have been raised by Spore.

I'm a bit worried about only having three installs for the game, unless I ring up EA.

I'm guessing if I pirated the game I wouldn't be able to use it online, not that I really want to do that.

If EA guaranteed either to keep topping up the installs say every year or if they said they were going to drop the install limited after X time.

Also it annoys me that the game has been stripped of DRM before the UK release, meaning that it hasn't even worked.

No, I'm too busy playing the game to care about a bit of software I don't see in a game I won't uninstall.

Hard drive failure?

Which I haven't had seeing as all this stuff is on STALKER aswell (bar the 3 installs) and between the two games I've played over a years worth of and no problems (and atleast 30 odd hours on spore with not one single issue)

It's not going to give many people issues in gameplay, only when trying to install.

If your computer's HDD needs reformatting (not an impossibility at all), or if you just wanted to upgrade, or heck, if you wanted to play the game in 4 or 5 years you are basically screwed with this system.

I'm certainly not 'buying' the game with the system like that; I'd say it's more like a rental actually.

[Mogster]

Assuming it works the same way as MS Office, the three installs should restrict it to three different machines, not three installs on one. As long as your hardware hasn't changed beyond all recognition, you should be able to install it as many times as you like on the same three, unless EA have just been idiots.

Anyway, I was playing this up to 2am last night. I just reached the Civilization stage, and spent about half an hour just making my town hall. I saved the hall, but I forced myself to quit before it was time to wake up.

[Nook29]

If I ever use up my 3 installs I'll just download the game and use that. I'm not being dictated to how many times I can install a game, so seeing as I legitimately own the game, I see no reason why I shouldn't download.

But other than HDD failure, I can't see me uninstalling this.

[Raze]

For anyone who's finished the Space stage...

Did you reach the centre of the galaxy, or just get all the promotions and stop?

[Ironhide]

Assuming it works the same way as MS Office, the three installs should restrict it to three different machines, not three installs on one. As long as your hardware hasn't changed beyond all recognition, you should be able to install it as many times as you like on the same three, unless EA have just been idiots.

Anyway, I was playing this up to 2am last night. I just reached the Civilization stage, and spent about half an hour just making my town hall. I saved the hall, but I forced myself to quit before it was time to wake up.

no, its 3 installs from one CD key.

I havent touched this since i reached tribal stage. Game is just too boring.

Try playing the space stage it'll rekindle your interest.

[This is me breathing]

Got the game today and just played the first two stages.

Yeah its pretty good, can see myself playing through the whole thing many times.

[Roonmastor]

Patch 1

The focus of this patch is to fix some bugs that have been reported and to respond to feedback we've been seeing from the community about tuning and stability. We managed to squeak in a few fun things too; there’s a cool cheat that allows you to turn your creature into a blocky representation of themselves, a new “inspection” feature for the creature creator to browse the parts stats that you have applied to your creature, and the much-requested “evoadvantage” cheat - you'll now be able to start a new creature game with a more evolved creature of your choice!

Be Aware! This patch is only for the PC version. The Spore Patch 1 for MAC will be released at a later date.

How to get the patch:
To get the patch, launch the EA Download Manager to download and install it.
If you didn’t install the EA Download Manager when you installed Spore, you can get it here.

Features
* New Cheat: "evoadvantage". Enter this cheat when are starting a new Creature game to choose any creature from the Sporepedia. Start a new game with one of your more evolved creatures!
* Display part statistics when you are in Build mode. Rollover any part and hold down the 'i' key.
* New Cheat: "blocksmode". Turns creatures into their blocky representations.
* More style filters. Open the cheat window and type: "stylefilter -microscope" or "stylefilter -norainbows" or "stylefilter -nextgen" to see the new styles
* Added 70 new planet scripts with a low terraform score, especially of the "hot and high atmosphere" type

Graphics/Aesthetics
* Animation improvements
* Improved the planets fogging, blooming and lighting
* Fixed animation issues with tool handling, hand walking and some of the more oddly shaped creatures

Tuning
* Creature phase: Improved the pacing towards the end of the game, and increased the challenge in Normal and Hard modes.
* Tribe phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
* Civilization phase: Increased the challenge in Normal and Hard difficulty modes.
* Space phase: Made Empires in Easy and Normal modes demand reasonable amounts of money in exchange for peace and adjust the level of punishment if the player doesn’t pay
* Space phase: Made disasters less likely to occur in Easy and Normal modes and increased the time between each attack from the enemy empire when the player is at war.

Miscellaneous
* Creature phase: Improved the way posse members behave during threatening situations and fights.
* Space phase: Made finding your home world and colonies easier in the Galactic view.
* Tribe phase: Made it so that tribe members can travel on steep hills if they need to do so now, but their speed will be reduced a lot.
* Fixed an issue with attacks not working on some bigger animals and larger animals not dying correctly
* Fixed collect mission not completing correctly when all parts have been collected
* Fixed problems with the "Rolling Thunder" and "Déjà Vu" achievements not being awarded as they should
* Fixed floating parts not being deducted from the budget when loaded into creator
* Fixed an issue with the rotation rings not resizing correctly when a part was resized and improved their look
* Fixed an issue where the terraforming score of planet could differ when revisiting a solar system
* Fixed the keyboard controls for zoom & pitch in the Colony Planner not working properly
* Fixed a crash that could occur when watching an epic creature attack a city
* Fixed some issues where the game would freeze when using the Creature Tweaker tool or when capturing a planet in solar view
* Fixed an issue where not all tribe members would obey the raid order when a large group was ordered to raid
* Fixed an issue where banning a creation from one of your other saved games would black out the main menu

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Key

[DeadFish]

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Finally!

[Exxy]

Picked this up today after Game refused to sell me Crysis Warhead. Installing now and looking forward to play it tonight

I'll be sure to go through the list in C&OG.

[Mogster]

After getting a bit bored with the Tribal phase, I stopped playing for a couple of days. I enjoyed the Cvilization phase far more though. Designing all my own vehicles and buildings was great fun, and throwing them at the rival civs was very satisfying. I'm a short way into to the space phase now, and it's already offered me more than the rest of the phases combined.

[This is me breathing]

Still haven't started the Civ stage yet, hoping to complete it before the real thing turns up next week.

Personally so far the change I'd make to the game is to make the first stage last much longer, it seemed to be over before it had really began, could have easily played it for twice as long.

[Ironhide]

I managed to finish the Tribal stage in just over half an hour yesterday by peaceful means (the other tribes simply couldn't get enough of my tribe's musical mastery).

[Captain Kinopio]

strawberry float me this is dull.

[Winckle]

strawberry float me this is dull.

much like your posting.

[Winckle]

Seriously, spore owns.