Talk:Spore (2008 video game)

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Galaxiums/galaxia

I've cut , and even galaxiums (networks of interconnected galaxy surfaces) beyond. since 1) there's no WP usage of 'galaxiums' in a Spore context; 2) nor is there any visible on a quick Google; 3) the plural should be 'galaxia' anyway :) and 4) there are no 'interconnected galaxy surfaces' in Spore - just the one galaxy with its radiating arms. I'm open to correction, as always. Kay Dekker (talk) 21:45, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

federation

you are not able to make a galactic federation in spore. if any one says that it is truth that you are able to make a galactic federation then tell how —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.62.20.190 (talk) 14:14, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

It just says federation in the article not galactic federation. I would imagine this is when you become friendly with a race and they allow you to have one of their space ships to fly with you. Dark verdant (talk) 15:15, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

City Hall

"The player can place three types of buildings (House, Factory, and Entertainment) around the default City Hall building (which is ________) and up to 9 types of vehicles"

I've seen the text (highlighted here) in this sentence change (at the blank) at least ten times already. We need to reach some sort of consensus. I suggest we get rid of the parenthetical phrase all together, as it makes no sense to a non-Spore player. Theusernameiwantedisalreadyinuse (talk) 20:39, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

"cider emulation" information

I have removed the apparent disclaimers next to indications of Macintosh support about how it's not really native, but is instead emulated using Cider. Cider is not emulation technology. It is a version of the Windows libraries ported to Mac OS X, but the game itself runs completely natively and uses the Cider libraries like any game would use whatever libraries it was made to use.

Perhaps this information would be relevant to include in the article in a section about the technical details of how the game was made, but where it was it seemed like it was trying to make a point that the game isn't really a true and pure Mac game. samrolken (talk) 07:32, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

NOTE: According to own Transgaming's own web page on Cider: "Cider acts as a "wrapper" around the PC game dynamically translating PC API calls to the Mac OS X operating system". That's the definition of emulation. Cider games are *not* native Mac games. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.57.73 (talk) 00:24, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Grammar

The grammar on the page needs improvement. Sentences such as,

"There are Alpha creatures, which have higher health and stats, babies, which have lower health and stats." (missing an "and" before babies, presumably?) "The player may choose whether the creature is a herbivore or a carnivore ear to starting the stage." (shouldn't that be prior to starting the stage rather than ear to starting the stage?"

appear to contain errors. I fixed those two mistakes, but there are other questionable grammar choices (and possibly more mistakes). Someone reviewing the grammar for the entire article would be beneficial. 24.233.223.5 (talk) 20:29, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Darkspore

It should be noted that EA has trademarked the name "Darkspore".