I'm currently playing Space Age and I was really thinking this was awesome... at first... Now I think it's going to be patched very soon because there is a lot of complaining going on right now.
http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-game-discussion/335444-space-age-post-your-rage-here.html
And I think I agree. You get declared war upon very easily in space age, if you don't pay incredible tributes, that's the way it happened to me. And these tribute requests come in every 15 minutes or so, so ... um... Yeah. I guess I could spend time farming spices all around the galaxy only to pay for tributes, but that's not fun (is there any non-first-person way to make money? I mean, at that stage, am I the only possible income source by doing missions and manually trading spice?). And once war has started, I haven't found any way to stop it or win it. First, all attacks I do are with only my ship and like two or three friendly ship, that's pretty lame. Then on defense... I can only defend my 3 or 4 colonies against constant attacks from enemy fleets. They're not hard to defeat, but meanwhile, I have absolutely no time to enjoy SPACE. I want to explore it, look at the creatures people have made randomly popping on odd colour planets, find weird artifacts, choose which planets to colonize, make them look like I want. This was at the heart of The Sims, ultra customization... It's what makes Spore fun. But now, in Space Age, I don't have time to do this because with my small, very small.. empire. I'm constantly under attack. Every 10-15 minutes someone attacks a colony, be it an enemy or pirates. I can't do anything except go there and defend it. Is there a way to have help in defending other than these ally ships you can add to your tiny ship, and the useless turrets you can build in your colonies? Because right now, it seems the enemy empires have armadas and fleets to send at me, meanwhile, I'm alone in my empire with my space ship to be able to defend ALL of my colonies at the same time. I can only be at one place at a time. And my empire is very small. Apparently it gets ridiculous with large empires.
There should be the possibility to have battle and war. But at that stage of the game, I don't think the AI should be harassing you and stopping you from being creative around the galaxy. So I think maybe AIs should only attack when you really provoke them, or I don't know. Something's got to be done I think.
Am I dreaming? I'm hoping for a very quick fix.
http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-game-discussion/335444-space-age-post-your-rage-here.html
And I think I agree. You get declared war upon very easily in space age, if you don't pay incredible tributes, that's the way it happened to me. And these tribute requests come in every 15 minutes or so, so ... um... Yeah. I guess I could spend time farming spices all around the galaxy only to pay for tributes, but that's not fun (is there any non-first-person way to make money? I mean, at that stage, am I the only possible income source by doing missions and manually trading spice?). And once war has started, I haven't found any way to stop it or win it. First, all attacks I do are with only my ship and like two or three friendly ship, that's pretty lame. Then on defense... I can only defend my 3 or 4 colonies against constant attacks from enemy fleets. They're not hard to defeat, but meanwhile, I have absolutely no time to enjoy SPACE. I want to explore it, look at the creatures people have made randomly popping on odd colour planets, find weird artifacts, choose which planets to colonize, make them look like I want. This was at the heart of The Sims, ultra customization... It's what makes Spore fun. But now, in Space Age, I don't have time to do this because with my small, very small.. empire. I'm constantly under attack. Every 10-15 minutes someone attacks a colony, be it an enemy or pirates. I can't do anything except go there and defend it. Is there a way to have help in defending other than these ally ships you can add to your tiny ship, and the useless turrets you can build in your colonies? Because right now, it seems the enemy empires have armadas and fleets to send at me, meanwhile, I'm alone in my empire with my space ship to be able to defend ALL of my colonies at the same time. I can only be at one place at a time. And my empire is very small. Apparently it gets ridiculous with large empires.
There should be the possibility to have battle and war. But at that stage of the game, I don't think the AI should be harassing you and stopping you from being creative around the galaxy. So I think maybe AIs should only attack when you really provoke them, or I don't know. Something's got to be done I think.
Am I dreaming? I'm hoping for a very quick fix.
