Funniest thing to happen in Spore

[Dale]

So are you asking if it's a distraction from the primary course? I don't think so. Because the primary course is to evolve into those UFO's. And seriously, a lot of missions in the space phase revolve around eliminating or abducting our species of creature/tribe/civ. So in reality, it's another species that is ahead of you in the game.

I don't see it as immersion, but more a goal or focus. As in "I'm gunna get you back for that!"

EDIT: do == don't

 

[King of Town]

It's sort of like the random events in bts. Thats the best part.

 

[Abaddon]

How is it immersion breaking? Let me count the ways.

Seriously, you're playing a game on the tribal mode, where you have creatures running around, occasionally attacking different peoples, generally growing through the phases of societies until the dawn of agriculture and civilization... Your people are in the middle of cracking another people's skulls wide open, then suddenly a giant UFO appears over you and abducts you.

Now maybe it's just me, but having a giant spaceship abduct your creatures isn't what I associate with the story of the human race, and it isn't what I'd like to associate with the story of my race, either.

Well me its the exact opposite, the idea that there ARE other evolutions on different planets, that got to space age faster than us makes complete sense. An in mean that in RL sense.

 

[North King]

Yeah, but they don't visit here. No confirmed spaceships from another planet have been seen in our skies. Forgive me if I hold the game to a high standard, but I was really looking forward to this, and would rather shape a culture in a realistic way than have spaceships swoop in and abduct people.

 

[Leonel]

I don't see it as a break in immersion at all. Matter of fact, I see it as something that adds to the development of your society's myths and religion!

 

[salty mud]

I was trying to please a species, and then they all ran away. I noticed that my creature was in the middle of a huge meteor shower! Luckily, I came out unscathed, and made some allies out of it too.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I would point out that this UFO thing happens in a time before historical records, so it is possible that this kind of thing happened in early Earth (colossally implausible, of course, but this is a game). As I said, you wouldn't really know what the heck it was, and would probably come up with a religious explanation for it.

 

[GVBN]

Here I am, getting thrown around by an epic

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Hahah, that's awesome!

 

[Bigfoot3814]

Epic creatures just show up from time to time and smash you up?

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

They're just a more powerful version of creatures that are dotted around the map on their own. You can stay clear of them if you like, especially since it requires a bit of muscle to take one down.

Accidentally led one to a neighbouring tribe as I was attempting to forge an alliance with them. Bit of a faux pas, but we all laughed about it in the end.

 

[Hitti-Litti]

It's nice when an epic creature destroys all tribe members of your enemy.

 

[Ball Lightning]

Well haven't played it to much, but when i saw one of my brothers creatures that he made with the spore creature creator it was huge, about twice the size of the trees and had about 6000 hitpoints and killed my allies in about 2 seconds, had to run like crazy to survive.

 

[Genv [FP]]

That's called an epic creature. The process of determining a epic creature is random, and they appear in civ phase sometimes. You can also make creatures epic in the space phase

 

[Puppeteer]

In the creature phase I've had nearby alien abductions and meteor showers. The moon is huge and freaky, at least at my world. At first I wasn't sure what it was...a huge rock in the sky. I saw it during the meteor showers and thought it was a giant meteor, but it's just the moon.

I had epic creatures during the tribal and city phases. Neither bothered me, but apparently the tribal phase creature mixed it up with a competing tribe because they lost all their population without my help, and later I found the creature with half a health bar. I finished it off after I killed off the other tribes. My epic creature was roaring and stomping my tribesmen to death one by one...one stomp was all it took, but I had 12 guys chucking spears at him and had I think two left when he fell. I was breeding babies to take the place of the fallen, and they made quite a few trips carrying back meat from the epic creature. I also did some mass fishing and mass wild creature attacks trying to see if I could wipe everything out, but I got bored and moved on.

I didn't notice the epic creature in city phase until I had taken over all the cities and was taking over the spice mines. I sent everything I had at it, and it died. I had too many vehicles to keep track of whether or not I lost some.

 

[King of Town]

I was playing music for the other tribes and the epic creature would just stand there and listen, and then he would walk away.

 

[cubsfan6506]

In space phase I took a sentient creature and placed on a planet really close to the star. He just ran around screamed then lit on fire.

 

[mrt144]

How is it immersion breaking? Let me count the ways.

Seriously, you're playing a game on the tribal mode, where you have creatures running around, occasionally attacking different peoples, generally growing through the phases of societies until the dawn of agriculture and civilization... Your people are in the middle of cracking another people's skulls wide open, then suddenly a giant UFO appears over you and abducts you.

Now maybe it's just me, but having a giant spaceship abduct your creatures isn't what I associate with the story of the human race, and it isn't what I'd like to associate with the story of my race, either.

Im more shocked that you're immersed so deeply in a something that shows a teeming group of creatures as only having a total of 12 on the planet.

 

[King of Town]

I swam out into the water in creature phase after trying to follow my groups migration path and got swallowed up by a sea monster. That was pretty awesome. I also had an epic take out my whole squad of airplanes in civ phase. Dude was just breathing fire on them once and they would be destroyed, it took three waves to get him, and then finally it was my boats that took him out. I love boats.

 

[Rub'Rum]

Epic monster? Oh yeah, I was flying my heavily damaged SPACESHIP on my homeworld in the space age, I had just defended my homeworld (yet again...) against an alien invasion, I was flying low to pick up some life to terraform another planet when I crossed and epic creature that has been hanging around my world since the creature stage... And the creature SMASHED MY SPACESHIP TO PIECES. At least I think so. There WERE enemies around still... But I'm pretty sure it attacked me. Try it.

Is there a consequence to dying in the different stages?