i would say that the Mole-people would be a Stretch to this title...

Maybe a Expansion pack would do it later on... afterall... its impossivel for the game to get it right on EVERYTHING...

like a said... this is the Ragdoll system... to the next level... just imagine that the whole game is a Index of file... and each construction in it (plants, Creatures, etc) is a Txt File with a series of codes that take a reference from that index...

so the game has all the files, and the downloadable material is only a Guide that says wich pice goes where... like a Save file of most of the games today... they are REALLY small (Check a save file from The Sims 2 and see how much stuff is in there to get a idea)

The Minion brought up "Tall critters = tall trees."

Ya know what? He's right. Important part bolded

So, since the first world you come across is your homeworld, it follows that that world would also be biased toward your critter.

I would strongly reccomend that everybody read those interviews. I'll even link them again. Part one. Part two. Go read'em; it'll give you fine info, like specifically saying you can have flying and underwater societies and that you can opt out of getting other players' content.

Well, that certainly goes against the theory of evolution, seeing that environments adapt to their populations..

What am I talking about? Who cares about realism when you can create your own army of humanoid interestelar platypuses? Doomsday is slowly coming to you, people of the galaxy -_o!

:fighter: All Hail the Fighter Empire!!

Thank you for bringing that up, Tera-san. After reading Will's comment's, I understood them to mean that you can't make a race like us, who cover up almost completely, but you can make folks like the Wookies, who wear some clothes. As I pondered what would happen when making a nearly human race, a bizarre idea entered my head. I'm gonna spoiler text this, as it gets a bit crude.

I thought, "What's Adam without a wang?" I tried to come up with a reasonable use of the tools I've seen and read of that would approximate dangly parts. My first thought was tentacle. However, since their original behavior is based on their anatomy, and the tentacle is seen by the AI as an arm, I imagine that the creature would end up grasping things with it. That'd be weird (almost as weird as sharing these thoughts with ya'll). So, I moved on the the horn tool (originally seen on the microscopic critter, but also on "butt-face"). The shape seemed right, it could be bent slightly (look at butt-face's back), but my thoughts moved yet again onto what the AI would see it as: a weapon. This lead to an astounding mental image. You'd have a man who humped his prey to death. Facinating.

So, be careful with what Mr. Potato Head parts you use. It could lead to nightmarish behavior.

Also, anyone with any respect for me now holds none. Hooray!

I'm going to have nightmares now, phil. Thanks.

What I'm most intrested in with Spore is, however, not what you can make but what you can DO.

Lets say I make a race of scorpion-monsters and while traveling space they meet a race of, let's say... moogles. And "THE SCORPIONS DO NOT LIEK THE MOGS" (as Fighter would say), we have several options for dealing with the kupo-freaks:

1) Blow up their planet, quick and simple but feels too much like they got off easy...
2) Over-terraform their planet causing their slow and horrible moogle deaths.
3) Abduct them and perform horrific and disturbing genetic experiments on them creating a moogle-scorpion crossbreed that will take over the mog planet.
4) Abduct them, take them back to the homeworld and use them as food/entertainment/cannon fodder.

I like this game the more I think about it...

Brilliant!! Thats definately on my "to do" list.

I want to make a race of Cliff Racers from The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind, just annoy all those who played the game ^^. Myself included. (Luv teh Morrowind)

So umm...
When is the game coming out?

I noticed no one asked or answered that question in the midst of all the penis horns and whatnot.

It comes out this Fall.

Thanks, Toilet Rancor, for rendering my spoiler text completely pointless. I appreciate it. Dumbass...