Hi

Has not seen this forum. Has followed snootyspore for a long time.

I am planning on writing an article to a major RTS gaming site and have some few questions plus would like all the info I can get.

Okay here goes.

1. Water animals

Is water animals, cities under water possible. Is it confirmed that it can be done? link plz.


2. prey - predator

This questions is a bit odd but here it goes.
Does spore follow the nature laws. I am thinking on a healthy ratio between herbivores and carnivora. predator - prey

To be more precise lets take a real life exampel. The crocodile is in a balanced amount compared to the antilope that crosses the rivers in large numbers. If the number of crocodiles go up in big numbers the antilopes gets smaller in numbers and the crocodile starts starving due to many not getting food and thus decrease in numbers. If the amount of antilopes increase bigtime the amount of crocodiles can extend to a bigger number.

I really would like you to consider when making an animal, is it a flesheater or a plant eater. plus if flesheater does it hunt other types of flesheaters. Many predators dont hunt other predators because it can inflict dangerous wounds and the amount of energy on the hunt is larger in general since they put up more of a fight.

3. Nuke?

In the trailer on EA site, you see a space ship after it shoots the 3 tanks it throws a bomb on the enemy city and it pretty much looks like a nuke. Does nukes come in the game? anyone knows? I guess there is not an answer but many there are a lot of things in the game that we dont know of yet. like how far does the evolution of the city go before the space area.

4. Gaming requirements?

have heard that the game takes more cpu power than gpu power. When looking on the new screenshots and videos the graphic has gone up. I highly appreciate it. But is there some info of the requirements of the game?

Will it support dx 10 or get a patch later on ?

5. Will wrigth has said something about you can view some stats on your creature etc , like how does it do in encounters with other players first contact with the animal. How does that work?

6. Copyright?

Lets say you design a really nice creature. And the creature looks like one from a movie. Another person designs the same creature and in a random odd way its the same animal down to the pixel. Does the game go in and say hey that animal has been made when he downloads creatures to the machine. Choose another one.
I guess peoples race, creature etc. can be downloaded to a large pool on the net.
The reason I am asking this is, will wright has said something about you can go in and see how your animal behaves in other encounters with other civilations etc. That should make you animal unique??

7. Any word on expansions?

Will wrigth is known for his sims-series which has spawned an endless series of add-ons.

Will it be the same with Spore?

I know people says that Spore is almost perfect and expansions wont make much sence but there are plenty of things to add.

Like air-animals that lives in trees and flies etc.

How about animals that lives in space, That would rock. They evolve on a planet an later on in the evolution they adapt to space and starts living in space with like a smaller moon as base.

Lol thinking on a Space Whale like in "beyond good and evil"

8. More animals on a planet?

Can a planet in space age(where they have space craft). have multiple races which co-exits in mutual agreement and peace?

Will the different races on the planet go out and seek new planets?

If so they make war with a planet/race on their own, it would be like a war between their race and the other or planet vs planet so you would have to join in.?

As you see I have LOTS and lots of questions, some of them might be impossible to answer before the game comes out.

I have to go get something to eat lol. But I hope I can add more questions to this topic later on.

cya spore-addict

These are the answers as far as i know:

1. yes

2. yes, and wether you are carnivorus or vegetarian depends on the type of mouth you choose. and it follows nature laws, but you only control, one creature, so it's kinda impossible to run out of food, even though you can run into other creatures that eat the same stuff as you, eat you, orare the same species as you.

3. maby, there is a huge asortment of weapons, and Will Wright said that the weapons were customizeable from the premade ones or you could make some from scratch

4. I dont know....

5. well, i'm pretty sure you can go to a menu thing and check it out, or open a little box in the corner, isn't that how it usualy works out?

6. No, other people's creature are not copyright, but companys' creatures are copyright, like Namco and Nintendo...

7. nobody has heard about any expantions, but i expect there to be some.

7 1/2. air animals are available

8. yes...Will Wright kindof...stated that you could using some of the exact same words... :huh:

Other stuff:
-there is a molecule phase that is like tetris
-you can edit plants, vehicals, micro-organisms, weapons, spaceships, and terraform planets.
-water animals and underwater cities for land/air/amphibious creatures are available
-water, land, air, amphibious, and non-legged creatures are available...

that is all i know, but you need to wait for other member, search on wikipedia, sporewiki, on other sites, and our new section...

and try the gaming steve's forums section for spore, they are a lot more well-informed than us, but they are pure spore, whilst we play games and joke around...oh, and try the opening page of sporezoo.com

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and with that, i bid you a fond farewell '

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