The harvester was a scrapped vehicle for the 'city' phase between tribal and civilization. It'd be used for farming of some kind. perhaps if it did make it to the final game, it'd possibly be the only way to harvest spice. It actually has a remnant in the final game; like the advanced cell editor, there's also a secret advanced vehicle editor, which gives access to all vehicle parts (besides the UFO parts) and allows the creation of any type of land/sea/air and military/religious/economic type. Included in the type drop down is the harvester; sadly creations saved as harvesters don't appear in the sporepedia, and crash the game when you attempt to load the png file the game creates for them (presumably because it requires a non-existant harvester editor) The secret vehicle editor can be launched the same way as the secret cell editor, but with 'state:VehicleEditor' instead of 'state:CellEditor' Apparently, that isn't the only leftover either! I've yet to test it, but 'state:BuildingEditor' looks like it loads a similar super building editor, and has another invalid creation type; farms!
You CAN use overcomplicated creations with the 'freedom' cheat in game! The only limit is that they can't be pollinated by game to npc creatures/tribes/space races/etc. The limit largely exists for performance reasons, so it tries to avoid spamming overcomplicated creations unless the player pushes them for their own species/empire manually.
my first ever saves' homeworld had a moon that was a cube world, always thought that was cool. When it inevitably came time to colonize it, I placed the colonies on the corners to avoid messing with the terrain too much.
There was also a bug where u could try to befriend the epics during the animal stage but it would just eat u as u danced and sang for it. Although I remember their relation status would change from agro to neutral while they would still attack u sometimes. I did it once and it would randomly attack me and leave me alone, unfortunately, when I wanted to find it on another day I couldn't. I also remember finding a hyper epic in the animal stage which was one of my own previous creatures from another run, it crashed my game because of how huge the model looked in that stage. I miss this game so much. So many good memories.
28:02 I miss the Sporum. You know those Tuba Man memes. I strongly remember these photos being shared on the Sporum long before the Instagram post that set off the widespread meme. Unfortunately all that information is probably lost unless someone archived it.
9:12 Worth noting the Grox make reference to not being carbon based. So unless humans swapped out their main fundamental chemical building block in that time it seems unlikely the Grox are humans. Fun notion though. Also the downloaded Maxis adventures introduce us to three species clearly related to the Grox with the most notable being Clark and Stanley's species unofficially called Dweebles. Their relation to the Grox is more apparent when you look at the other two which look like middle grounds between the Dweebles and Grox. If you want to check for yourself the adventure where you see the relation is Welcome to Dancetopia.
For some goofy reason in the Russian translation when you break the galactic code the game says that you 'hacked' it There are also some creatures have the same name (For an example: Lelby and Splonk have the same name in the translation)
There is actually an Easter egg where if you spin the galaxy in the planet menu fast enough pictures of the developers (I think) will appear, stumbled across this one time when playing as a kid and started spinning the galaxy out of curiosity
The creature slinging could be referring to a creature stage (or galactic adventure) glitch where if you have a creature with wings, you can press the pause button (the small one that just pauses gameplay), press the jump button twice, and then unpause. This causes your creature to fly up a noticeable amount more than usual and is useful for cheeseing galactic adventure maps.
27:10 I don't think those are Roblox models in Spore, I recall there was an entirely useless (as far as I could tell) cheat that made Spore creatures into blocks. Typing "blocksmode" in the cheat window enables/disables it. More than sure the uploader enabled blocksmode and wanted to be a little cheeky. Great video, love me some Spore content.
Grob refers to the Grox. Groxes are basically cyborgs because they are half robots. If you remove the first to letters of the word cyborg you get borg. Borg backwards is Grob but the B was switched to X.
Why no one ever talks about SPORE java games, you know, for those cellphones that had buttons? I had two games, one resembling cell stage and other resembling creature stage. The cell stage one was actually pretty damn big, even featuring a bossfight if I remember correctly. I might be wrong however. Jesus I'm old...
Fan theory about pirates: Every time you conquer a planet and destroy an empire while doing it, the ships escape your planet, and are classified as pirates when hovering your mouse over it. What if all the pirates are just rouge remnants of former space fairing empires? Unrecognized by other empires as they have no more empire to affiliate with, they just form in separate groups of former guards of their respective former empires. They just wander space and pirate planets to attempt to survive without the ability to trade to major empires, just selling their pirated spice to black markets in return for power packs and health packs. Victims of imperialism, war, religion, it doesn’t matter, these proud guards of their planets are left alone with only former heroes alike.
The aquatic stage would be so cool. Underwater tribes, underwater cities, underwater animals. Instead of a big ol' fish that kills you once you get too deep.
Hi. I'm one of those participants in the Fiction Universe you mentioned. To explain to anybody who is curious: The fiction universe starts all the way back in 2006 (when the wiki was founded), and I believe a certain well known figure who made quite the well known drawing of their fictional creature started the whole thing. Along with obviously writing about the game and its features/mechanics on the wiki, users (which are still on the wiki to this day and are still active!) began writing fiction pages, which eventually were (from my understanding) coordinated under the Fiction Universe project. At its height hundreds of people were writing about their fictional empires, creatures and even making their own galaxies until it ended up getting _way_ too out of hand. So we basically used what are the "evil Gods" of the Fiction Universe to basically wipe out 90% of the actual fiction "in universe". As far as I remember most of these fictions/galaxies weren't actually deleted, they were just ceremonially considered to "not exist" anymore. I've never actually tried to look for galaxies that no longer exist anymore. Another correction to make is that this Fiction Universe has grown so large that it's honestly not even based in Spore anymore: It's only loosely based on Spore (such as, at least for the main continuity) including inventions such as the Staff of Life and the Grox. We basically at this point only use Spore for creature creation and or spaceship/vehicle creation to show off in our infoboxes, and even then some of us forgo Spore entirely to use other programs/games. Spore is a pretty small game all things considered and it's such an old game that all the things that can be discovered and that are worth actually writing about have been written about, meaning that the only thing SporeWiki really has going for it anymore _is_ its Fiction Universe. You can imagine that over a span of 18 years that most of the people who once wrote on the wiki have moved on long ago- so it's quite slow and I would honestly say on the verge of dying at this point. There are still, however, a handful of people who have been continuously contributing to the wiki for nearly *20* years now, which is honestly baffling to me. It's also funny to me how the creators of among the most famous TF2 memes, "MEEM"... is an active creator in this very fiction universe.
I briefly knew death by proxy, he has a neat channel and it's cool seeing him basically get a shout out when I don't think even Royal Blue knows his stuff.
I added onto the Grox theory much more and made it more compelling with real science. Here it is: If you don’t know, there’s an Easter egg in Spore where you can actually find the real life solar system inside Spore. With every planet exactly how it is in real life. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Earth. But one thing is missing… if you go onto Earth, there aren’t any humans. Not only that but the planet is specifically Tier Score 1. To me that’s kind of specific, like the devs wanted us to think about that. I mean it has everything accurate to earth, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, you name it. All of it except for the atmosphere being nearly uninhabitable and the absolute lack of humans. That can’t be a coincidence. I think the humans in the Spore universe could’ve polluted their planet and driven life on it to near extinction. After nearly killing Earth they built spaceships and genetically engineered their descendants to be smaller, that way to have lower calorie and oxygen intake to save food and oxygen for longer voyages. They made it in their nature to want to colonize as many planets as possible. They gave them higher traces of melanin and as a side effect, red skin, to be protected from the ultra violet rays of other worlds and make them be able to colonize planets faster. Do you see where I’m going with this? As wild as this may sound, I believe that the Grox are the descendants of humanity. But you may be questioning how they got towards the center of the Galaxy when the Sol system is in the middle of the cosmic arms on the galaxy. I think they might’ve passed through one of the wormholes you can encounter in the space stage, as we know these said wormholes can transfer you from one side of the Galaxy to the next. There are even some near the middle. It’s possible they fell through one of these and ended up in the middle of the galaxy where they made it their homes and with their technology, resources, and biology, were able to take over most of the systems in the center of the galaxy while losing sight of their original culture and knowledge of their origins over the eons. Just one thing is that the Grox are so overly aggressive to any and all spaceships and civilizations crossing into their territory. This may be because of their colonization-crazy nature brought on when they were made by the humans. So that’s the theory. It’s maybe not the most sound but I think it’s very interesting to think about.
Well..... Spore2 does exist its a free mobile game not made by maxis, its similar to Spore but lacking a lot and with a lot of monetization added in to worsen things out its called creature creator
