# Anyone getting Spore? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 4, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015 "2008-09-04T16:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/161 "2008-09-21T15:51:15Z")
> [@aankh](#): > > (Nothing personal, by the way, **Wasabi**! Just that your bloody Schnozzy got epicced in my game and killed all 3 of the Rogues in my pack.) Hey, no offense taken. Technically, that was my wife’s creature. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/162 "2008-09-21T22:09:06Z")
In the long term, I reckon Maxis should release a Spore SDK to the general public. Spore’s gameplay may be a bit mediocre, but it’s clearly built on an incredible engine. If the community is given the ability to leverage this engine, I reckon it would result in a cornucopia of awesome games and applications. ---
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/163 "2008-09-22T14:35:19Z")
I may have missed this if someone has asked but How do you add friends?! ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/164 "2008-09-22T16:19:46Z")
> [@Pixilated](#): > > I may have missed this if someone has asked but > > How do you add friends?! Go to [spore.com](http://spore.com), and log into your account. Then open up someone else’s profile or creature. You’ll see a + sign next to the player’s name. Click that, and they are on your buddy list. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/165 "2008-09-22T17:29:35Z")
> [@aankh](#): > > I want epic battles! Try luring an Epic back to your nest. I don’t know if it’s a bug or what but it is possible to kill an Epic by luring it into your next and have your nestmates attack it. Sometimes it’ll get stuck there. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/166 "2008-09-22T17:30:59Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > > [@Pixilated](#): > > > > I may have missed this if someone has asked but > > > > How do you add friends?! > > Go to [spore.com](http://spore.com), and log into your account. Then open up someone else’s profile or creature. You’ll see a + sign next to the player’s name. Click that, and they are on your buddy list. You can also add friends from within the game via the Sporepedia. ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/167 "2008-09-22T23:25:08Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Try luring an Epic back to your nest. > > I don’t know if it’s a bug or what but it is possible to kill an Epic by luring it into your next and have your nestmates attack it. Sometimes it’ll get stuck there. I accidentally tried that one: migrated to a new nest, and in the process found out that a) I had just meandered by an Epic and b) his stomping grounds where right next to where my new nest was. Ooops. Getting grabbed and eaten gets old about the tenth time in a row it happens… As a side note, how is the patch turning out for everyone? I found it overall made the game more stable, and in the space age I no longer had my aggressive neighbor demanding an insane amount of sporebucks every few minutes. And I now have a rather passive semi-distant neighbor shoving sporebucks at me every five or ten minutes for no reason I can figure out. Maybe they like me trading with them and want to keep me coming back so they’re paying me the Spore equivalent of a fuel surcharge? ---
**Author:** ![Mirasol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Mirasol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirasol)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/168 "2008-09-23T02:32:15Z")
I feel like the patch made my game _more_ unstable, not less, as in it’s crashing every hour or two now instead of just once in awhile. But maybe that’s just because I have explored more of space since installing it and so there’s more for it to keep track of and more effects (like shield) on my ship. It also takes forever for certain parts of the planets to load now, such as colony buildings and --most annoyingly-- creatures I’m supposed to be shooting at during ecodisasters. I can see the yellow spot on the ground which usually is close enough but sometimes I blast all around it and either nothing happens or it tells me I killed too many healthy creatures so they became extinct. Unfortunately, with the timer ticking down I can’t just wait for them to load. I am well over the specs for running the game and turning down everything to low quality doesn’t help these issues so that’s not the problem. I’ve read others are having the same or similar issues with planet objects loading. However, I am totally willing to put up with these bugs in exchange for the greatly reduced attack rates from neighboring empires. Having a huge battle and then leaving my planet only to be immediately attacked 5 seconds later only to have the same happen right over again was getting really old fast. Now after the patch I actually have time to explore and terraform planets and actually play the game instead of just taking part in a constant shooting fest to defend my colonies. Some battles are fun, but I want to do the other stuff too, and now I have a little breathing room in which to do those things. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/169 "2008-09-23T05:49:17Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Not for the Mac, yet ☹ > > I had my first session on my Mac Pro dual CPU last night; it was fun, but especially in the tribal phase the game was really, really, slow. Painfully so. I dropped the video settings and it didn’t help at all. A quick search doesn’t show this a as general problem, are other Mac users here seeing this? For any other Mac users there, I applied the just-released Mac OS X 10.5.5 patch, which included a number of (unspecified) video fixes, according to the blurb. Spore now runs just fine, so I suspect the Mac OS patch was specifically triggered by the issues with Spore. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/170 "2008-10-02T19:54:26Z")
meh…I got bored and stopped playing it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/171 "2008-10-14T23:17:44Z")
> [@Carnick](#): > > Spore: Silly Eyes and Mouths Pack [Coming 18 November](http://www.spore.com/pc#creepycute), packaged with Creepy Eyes and Mouths. ---
**Author:** ![Peanut\_Gallery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/838e76/32.png) [@Peanut\_Gallery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanut_Gallery)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/172 "2008-10-15T01:43:20Z")
Wow that’s shameless. I guess I expected it, but not like a month after the release. This “game” is my most embarrassing video game purchase ever. I expected something to _play_, not just a hyped up doodling engine. Now I see though, that it was all just a con to begin with. I really should have known better. The expansion just adds insult to injury. Spore goes from “played it once, and was astounded by the lack of \*There \*there” down to “want to bludgeon the people responsible and/or myself with the game box” on my rating scale. $50 has never hurt so much. /spit ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/173 "2008-10-16T00:46:35Z")
I had more fun making creatures with the Creature Creater. It’s too bad you can’t do jack shit once you finish them. I can’t decide if the game would have been more appropriately named “Snore” or “Whore” ---
**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/174 "2008-10-16T06:54:24Z")
Agreed, the game simply isn’t fun. I played a little while then got bored… ---
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/175 "2008-10-16T07:21:53Z")
I got bored as well… well, ok, mainly I was frustrated as heck when I got to the space-age. The tutorial, imo, sucked. Never could find the stupid crashed spaceship. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![MJinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@MJinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJinks)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/176 "2008-10-16T14:19:58Z")
I had to kick myself for falling for the hype. I’m almost ashamed that I ‘mislaid’ my anti-drm principles for what is effectively a Sims game. I thought there was potential if an expansion pack was released quickly, adding stuff that was removed due to time constraints. However the first thing they released it a bloody content pack. I hang my head in shame. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/177 "2008-10-16T15:38:21Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I had more fun making creatures with the Creature Creater. It’s too bad you can’t do jack shit once you finish them. It is possible to play as any creature you’ve made when starting a new game at any point other than Cell. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/178 "2008-10-16T15:42:50Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > It is possible to play as any creature you’ve made when starting a new game at any point other than Cell. Yeah…I get how to play it. My point is I don’t want to because the game is so boring. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/179 "2008-10-16T16:43:39Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Yeah…I get how to play it. My point is I don’t want to because the game is so boring. Ah, you meant “don’t want to” instead of “can’t”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interconnected_Series_of_Tubes)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015/180 "2008-10-18T05:48:51Z")
I’d just like you say: I told you so. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-getting-spore/462015.md?page=8)