[WR] Spore Speedrun of Civilization Stage on Normal in  

Yeah playing windowed could make it run better at low graphics too idk

Good idea! I tried it but if we are Religious for example and we dropped Military vehicles into the Planner, it won't change the Religious vehicles into Military vehicles. But turns out if you have multiple specialties, like controlling one Religious and one Military city, you can drop different Military vehicle PNGs into either City Planner to change the Military vehicles, but the religious vehicles will be unchanged.

he was faster ;-;

Religious vehicles can take over cities faster especially when there are few buildings. The Military vehicles have to destroy all the buildings which can take a bit longer.

religious vehicles also leave all buildings intact, so you can keep them when you take over the city! as a downside though, they are awful against other vehicles. if you’re being attacked by a military nation it’s best to just keep putting down turrets since your religious vehicles can’t do much to defend from a bunch of military ones also if you’re religious i’d recommend trying to avoid fights with other religious nations since it’s very hard to defend a religious city from a religious nation. turrets won’t work and your religious vehicles won’t do much either

google ‘spore philosophy guide’! there’s plenty of resources online

This wiki page has a really good break down on how to get the archetypes :) But that might be a good video as well! spore.fandom.com/wiki/Consequence?so=search

If you don't have 2 monitors, you could play the game in windowed mode and have the file explorer open alongside it, on the same monitor

@@sockpuppetqueen yes but unless you play on a low resplution the game will take up your whole screen

I actually just tied Alt-Tabbing and it's actually crazy fast! I didn't consider that strategy, but if you can remember where the file browser will appear after alt-tabbing and then drag the PNG in, it might even be faster than going to the second monitor because the mouse doesn't have to move as far away from the City Planner button from the city!

Oh I see the scenario now! I didn't quite get it on stream, sorry. Yeah that does sound like a difficult spot! Were you able to find the galaxy file if you wanted to give it to me to give it a try?

another question, does clipboard do the job here? can you just copy a vehicle file, and paste it while playing? if it worked, you'd have much faster switches to the vehicle you copied, while other switches would be as fast as they normally are

I thought I had tried moving two PNGs into the game to switch 2 vehicles at a time and not getting it to work, but I just doubled checked now I got it to work! So you can switch 2 different vehicle PNGs by dropping 2 at a time! Not sure how I messed it up the first time haha. I guess it could have saved a second during the double switch if I selected both vehicles in the file browser, like making a box around them to select them both in the file browser, and drag both in. It's still pretty close between dragging them both in individually, since we would have to spend a little bit more time in the file browser to select both, unless there's a faster method to select more than one file really quickly. But good time save potential in there! I tried keeping a vehicle in the clipboard but pressing Control V to paste in the PNG while the game was in focus didn't bring the vehicle into the game. Good idea though!

I know there's a way to keep collecting parts from the same skeleton by using the Freecam cheat and zoom out after breaking the bones and zooming back in will reset the bones and allow them to be used again. Is there another way that you know?

@@KinglyValence no, it is that one, thanks for clearing that out! I just thought maybe found the new one heh

Most of the luck required is getting the right city spawns. I like starting on the north continent which gets all the spice geysers pretty easily, and that forces the next city spawns on the home continent to be pretty consistent. Then the next big luck hurdle is getting both coastline cities to spawn for the boats. These cities can spawn as land locked cities within those continents and we'd have to wait for more cities to spawn on the ocean to take them. In this case I would just reset the run. There is another city spawn that didn't happen (on the north east of the mini map) that could have taken a bit more time to drive to it. So all the cities spawns were basically perfect. So I'd call it a 10/10 luck for perfect spawns but it happens fairly often, and I would basically keep resetting until I got it anyway. There seems to be a bit of randomness to how fast the cities are taken over by the religious tanks. And basically all of them except the final city pretty much seemed as fast as I could hope for. If that last city captured faster that could have saved a few seconds. I'll give 9/10 luck for capture speed. Some times there are Epics in the way but I didn't have to worry about them too much this run, so perfect RNG for Epics but I'd say only 20% of the time they are in the way. :)

@@KinglyValence huge thanks. I didn't expect such a detailed reply. I almost feel honored. Youre awesome and you make awesome videos