To conclude the last 2 blog posts, I don’t hate it as much anymore. The save function is still the bane of this game as I’ve crashed many many many many many times while I’ve done some progress. I mean it annoys me even if I saved just before hand and then did a trade deal on some spice that sold for 15k each and lost it due to the crash.
Anyway, as I said before I had quite a few enemies but there were some that didn’t hate me yet, so I chummed up to those people by giving them cash and doing some missions resulting in allying with them. This was very helpful as I was able to have an ally ship beside me and I had some green on the map. Obviously I didn’t have an enormous amount of cash so I thought about the spices and that I was only getting red spice from my planets and the moon next to my home planet had pink spices which I never had before.
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I got Spore on Friday during my dinner break at work so I was pretty anxious to bugger off home and give it a whirl. When I got home and had it installed, I was greeted by the warning message that said something along the lines of “You’ve got an invalid activation code” but allowed me to play offline. I checked the Spore forums and found that all these other people have been effected, many saying it was only the EU but we got it before America anyway (that’s a first). Turned out their servers got pummeled and we had to wait till they came back up before we could get creations made by others, which I wanted to wait for anyway so I continued making Flying Fenix. That didn’t bother me cause I had stuff to do, but later on during the game pissed me off more. Click more to read on.
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