I can't believe I'd never thought of this, but the overlap between the Spore and Stellaris fanbase must be massive. A lot of Stellaris players probably grew up on Spore as kids.
@@cabbage426 That's the whole reason I got into Stellaris as an adult, it looked like everything space stage should've been and it is. I also made a bunch of custom empires based on Maxis creations and the space stage archetypes.
@@cabbage426 Yep! Grew up on Star Control II and Spore (mostly Spore since SCII is, quite hard, but VERY memorable) and eventually moved to Stellaris Though after playing Stellaris for quite a few times (613 hours as of currently, not that long but longer than most my games played) I've sadly gotten quite tired of it lol
Imagine being the Grox, ruling at the center of the galaxy and terrorizing other species for millions of years, only to be completely destroyed in a relative instant by a determined speedrunner lol
@@lambybunny7173It's pretty sleepy right now, if I'll be honest. I've been checking a lot, haven't been seeing anything new crop up. But with a nigh-completely fixed flora editor now, we are so balling
And even a save for a grox free galaxy! Now I can grow my pacifist little monsters so free and peacefully, I think, and free of evil, probably. Thank you, my cute prince.
u can make any empire grow to lvl 4/5 from lvl1 in 20min. U just have to make an allience with em, then pay em to attack someone and fly there to make sure they ll win :) this way u can easily force any empire to expand.
The only thing I could think of that could be even harder than this would be the complete inverse of this challenge. Ally the Grox, and then wipe out every other empire that ISN'T the Grox.
when i had beat the grox, i remember doing a very incremental strategy- start by carving out a section with the staff of life, each one destroys a grox system immediately. then just gradually eat away at their border, establishing colonies and farming among yourself to get more colonies and so on to distract from your now tier-3 inhabitable systems as made by the staff of life. i did this with allied ships in my party
Although I didnt interact much in chat, I watched about half of this speedrun live. you're the goat bro. Do you think theres any merit to optimizing the consequence traits in the earlier stages then converting to shaman in space stage to get return ticket?
To be fair you don't really need to unlock the really difficult badges, they're more like challenges you could try to complete but aren't required to. I'd be a little disappointed if there _wasn't_ a badge or really any kind of reward for defeating the grox, it's a pretty natural train of thought to make doing so a goal so it makes sense that Maxis would add a badge to acknowledge the efforts of especially determined players.
Time for the next Video reaching 1M+ view in some time. (maybe adjust the title to "... the entire Grow Empire"? just a thought as it makes clear how you literally obliterated every city of the almost uncountable planets)
So the thing is, this could be considered cheating if there were any formal rules to this challenge. But this challenge doesn't have a competitive scene because it's very hard and tedious and Spore is not super popular as it once was. I think it's permissible because infinite spice production is actually pretty easy after you get enough planets, which setting that up only takes a fraction of the time the full challenge would take. But constantly worrying about getting full containers of spice naturally would make the challenge take ages more. The end result is technically the same, just one method is faster. Not that anyone is really concerned or needs to think about it this hard.
@@1980woodpixie Which is an important distinction because this was never stated to be a glitchless run. Nor would there ever be a glitchless category for this.
Next Challenge: Conquering & Settling every single star system in the galaxy, true Galactic Unification I can't even begin to imagine how long it would take. 52 hours to kill the grox, without even replacing the colonies with your own.
I want to see a Dalek playthrough, you have to play as the slimy blobby tentacle-y mutant creature in cell, creature and tribal stage, and make all of your vehicles look like different types of Daleks, and finally, space stage, the UFO could be just one big giant Dalek or the Dalek mothership, whichever one floats your boat or in this case, spaceship
I remember trying to ally and destroy the grox in the same run,for whatever reason the game decided i shouldn't do that and my save got corrupted, i barley got to yellow with the grox
We aren't going to use the games cheat console, however I am going to perform an infinite spice and invincibility glitch lol Just to be clear i dont have a problem with it, i just find it funny
@@balala7567 it's a joke lol, and no that's not the reason, the devs probably had an extra badge planned and left it in the total. It is in the base game, see for yourself.
@@matatic It's probably the ones for getting your content banned that got removed because people were making creatures and stuff in the shape of certain things in order to get the badge. And I think there also was one for getting stuff banned 50 times...
