Getting Maximum Money Spore Speedrun 

fr, it always makes me so happy to see a new video

lol

Interesting, is the plugin thinking the video is a custom aspect ratio because of the black space? The video itself is 16x9 but Spore is recorded in windowed mode as 1920x1017 so I put the timer in the open space.

@@KinglyValenceYeah, the plugin is not *that* smart, so basically, when the top of the screen is dark enough to quality as blank space, it cuts off the timer at the bottom, and an equal amount of space from the top. And then when the top is bright enough again, it puts the whole video back in frame, but the detection is honestly very patchy. Tends to not like black screens with text in the middle, either. (Some RU-vidrs do that for emphasis in edited content.)

I bet a lot longer lol, but that could fun to figure out! I wonder if uplifting and buying a purple spice planet with a monolith that has 10 cities or finding several purple spice planets and putting 3 colonies on them would be faster to generate more spice!

@@KinglyValence That's exactly what I mean lol. Even if the run isn't done, because who would want to go through that torture, it would be cool to see theory crafting on how long it would take considering optimal gameplay and so forth! Kind of similar to a Minecraft video by Jokeypokey

Our home planet gives us 10 planet/animals at a time during the mission briefing. I just wanted to show the cargo was doubled along with the terraforming tools :)

well what you think they want a sporebucks overflow into the negatives (you actually can have negative sporebucks as you can get it in civilization using glitches)

You're not alone, because SAME 😂

Surprisingly this has happened to me multiple times. It was just the one time that I completely ragequit

Does this still happen today where your home planet looks like Earth? Or was this from the game a long time ago?

@@KinglyValence This was from maybe 9 years ago, unfortunately I don't have the game anymore. I was on windows, I'm not sure if it happens on mac or not

If I start from Space Stage I might have to buy the star system from the uplifted empire since I wouldn't have the Fanatical Frenzy, but that may work. Unlocking the Monolith takes either Traveler 2 or Zoologist 2 to unlock, so I'd have to see if a 10 city purple spice planet with the extra waiting time of getting the Monolith could be faster than finding several purple spice planets and placing 3 colonies on them. But that could be interesting to figure out!

The galaxy file is located in the Roaming folder in Windows. Search "%appdata%" into Windows search and the folder "Spore" contains the galaxy. Rename, move, or delete the folder and the game will generate a brand new one when launched! :)

@@KinglyValence thanks. I got carried away with a save file and now an entire arm is unplayable for any other

@@KinglyValence a continuation of the above question: what all ways can one saved game take colonies from another? Not the homeworld, but the colonies. The Spode Empire has used their SoL to drive The Grox out of 42 systems and I'm debating whether I should have the Spode take over those systems to avoid them declaring war on each other or of I should have the Groxington empire speedrun there to take them over directly Edit: after checking the wiki, I took a calculated risk and it payed off. Fanatical Frenzy enabled the handoff

I'm not sure about an every badge route, some badges are harder like the Wonderland Wander badge requires finding storybook planets which are randomly generated and pretty rare, so it may be too hard to route reliably. There are speedruns of just filling the Progress Bar that only requires 275 badge points, which is less than the total available that takes about an hour that I've been working on :)

@@KinglyValence Hmm, I see! Thx for answering. I'm asking because I'm always a sucker for 100% runs, no matter the game 😅

The specific mission type ones will take a while, wonderland wanderer is luck based, collecting rares is a lot of running around, having to change archetypes six times requires that you build up allies, and the joker badge is a thing (though I wonder if such a run will allow cheats, or if you'd have to get that one last.) However, Badge Outta Heck for defeating the Grox will take longer than all of those combined.

Pressing "Escape" on the keyboard skips cutscenes :)

At least he can, I have a physical disc but the code I used doesn't work anymore and I can't download it anymore (i got it around 2016)