I know that it's not mentioned, but you showing that Tribal Stage still works on the "illegal" continent is really interesting! Does going to this continent affect the game in any other ways? I'd love to see a deep dive into how this affects the game
Playing on the other continent is definitely worth exploring and I'll try to show any other interesting findings! So far I've seen that there are no other creatures during Creature Stage on the other continent, but there will be creatures once we advance into Tribal Stage. For speedruns we had theorized perhaps migrating to a small continent to limit the amount of tribes that can spawn, similar to using the planet sculpting tools to make a small island that only allows 1 other tribe to spawn to beat Tribal Stage super quickly, but this hasn't been done yet!
That's an interesting idea! I wonder if it's possible (through glitches or mods) to get the Earth terrain in Civilization Stage. I'm not sure currently how to get that to happen, home planets seem to be restricted to 15 different set terrain layouts.
Wow, that sea monster skip is so cool. I'm sure back in the day when people were playing on Window Vista that would have crashed the game for sure lol!
I never knew about any of this in all my years of playing! fantastic job, I found myself rewinding multiple times to see how I could replicate this for fun on my own
The fact that theres even a nest on the other continent is even weirder its like maxis wanted to add an nest to the other side but tried to hide it with the Sea Monster
They're actually still used for cities in the civ stage. All player migration nests and cities, alongside the player starting nest, are stored in a planet's LVL file, which were hand-made by Maxis using the now-defunct in-game level editor. Migration nests also serve as places for cities to spawn in the civ stage, so those nests are a side-effect of this.
You should make a short video on how to replicate the grox civilization by bypassing the error “this creation cannot be loaded”. What i mean is bringing a grox grumbler png to the vehicle creator or bringing a grox spaceship png to the spaceship editor and successfully saving.
I didnt know about the monster bypass, usually I just sculpted the planet with another save and unite continents with landbridge if I wanted to explore other continents. This could be interesting to try because with connected continents there will be less cities that spawn overall, but with the continents apart you still get the full load.
@Alex_Barbosa yes. You have to start a space stage on a new save, remember location, and quit without saving. Now knowing where that planet is, you can get there and do whatever you want with it
i didnt know that the nest spawn locations on the other continents corresponded to the city spawns !!!! i wonder if its like, flagged in the game as "special location you can use for nests or tribes or cities" and theyre just set up for each planet layout and still reused between stages to save time? though it only even comes up on the other continets during civ stage anyway so its a weird bit of dev time save if you think about it. do tribes and cities then spawn on the original continent's player creature nests? this is such an interesting bit of info
Rival tribes don't seem to spawn on Creature Stage nests but they do seem to have set/consistent locations when they spawn, but not sure what markers these use. The rival cities on the original player's continent also spawn at nest locations. I'll look into this more but I believe there are 12 total nest locations on each planet, 5 on the home continent and the other 7 nests dispersed on other continents. :)
That continent trick is really cool! I remember a long time ago i somehow ended up on the other continent and was really confused on why there were no other creatures. Thought i broke my game. I reser it lol If id known i could have continued into the tribal stage like that i totally would have, its so cool! Definitely trying this on my next run!
There only seems to be other nests to migrate to, without regular creatures on the other continent. But once we advance into Tribal Stage regular creatures will appear. :)
There is a safe passage between continents you should follow the rocks and small islands to reach other side but you need the best wings as far as I remember
First time panting spire I did tye joining a nation thing in accident as an economic city, I could not keep any cities as so many people kept attacking me, and rebuilding my fleets kept taking all my money, finaly I was able to find blue nation to win the war, my plan was to slowly buy all his cities, then he popped up and said “let’s merge” and I made it to space stage
Been playing casually off and on since 2008, but started speedrunning and tricking around 2016. Hard to estimate the total amount of hours, but maybe around 2,000 :)
That achievement says to play every level and use every creator, I have a list of all the editors I can find when I was working with Cheat Engine that might help! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G8u2TkkDOqIaW1twGC1bB2V0KqRxjsTBv_a_aUmrolQ/edit#gid=0
Hey do you happen to still have the uncut footage from Nak3d Eli's H2 Zero Shot run? I know you cut out the deaths for the vid he has on RU-vid but I was wondering if you had the original stream footage archived
