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Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2026?

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Justisaur wrote:
> On 4/1/2026 2:00 PM, Justisaur wrote:
>> On 4/1/2026 7:43 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>>
>>> What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2026?
> Doggummit!  I forgot the one I've actually been playing the last three 
> days.
> 
> **** SPORE
> One of the youtubers I was following played this, and it brought the 
> itch back.  I have the DVD.  I found stuff about it not working on win 
> 10, and issues with online play and DRM.  Something about you being able 
> to enter they key and claim the new cleaned up DRM removed still working 
> version from the origin client.  Except the origin client doesn't exist 
> anymore, it's the EA client, and I couldn't find any way to use my key 
> there.  I thought about buying it again, but it's $20 and in the EA 
> launcher, so I reconsidered and I installed the DVD version, and it ran.
> 
> First issue I found was running it at native screen resolution of 1440p 
> is all the UI elements are so small I kept miss-clicking.  So I went to 
> 1080p and it was barely tolerable.  Next issue is it's fullscreen and I 
> can't use my second monitor, well, it does let you turn it off, but then 
> it's tiny on my 1440, and I really don't want to change my desktop 
> resolution.  I don't see a way to upscale it.  Back to fullscreen. 
> *Sigh, on with the game.  There's apparently a bunch of mods and an 
> unofficial patch I'm going to look into too.
> 
> I think I enjoy the early game stuff best, the first two stages where 
> you start out as a little tiny microscopic thing then grow up into 
> something big, then the creature phase where you wander around and fight 
> or try to impress other animals.
> 
> The tribal stage is o.k. but not as fun, and very short.  Then we get 
> into the meat of the game, the Space stage.  Well before that I ran into 
> a game crash, and I guess I'm too used to new games autosaving, well 
> this game doesn't.  I lost many hours and had to go back to the 
> beginning of the Tribal stage where I'd last saved. So I find there is 
> an official patch, however you can't get it from EA because of course 
> you can't without buying another updated copy on their launcher/store 
> travesty.  So I had to dig it up from elsewhere, it seems like it's 
> working.  No more crashes, though now I'm running into bugs like not 
> being able to see my people, or scanner not working.  At least save, 
> exit, and start back seems to get rid of the bug until a new one shows up.
> 
> Fortunately it did save my creations, but I didn't realize that before I 
> went through and recreated everything for civ & space.  Unfortunately it 
> also thinks this is an old game and I ran into one of the other space 
> empires using the same space ship as me and I was confused and having 
> trouble clicking on enemy ships to attack as I couldn't tell who's was 
> who's, So I had to change my ship.
> 
> It plays as sort of a real time 4x game, except you have really limited 
> amount of space ships and everyone else seems to expand at astronomical 
> rates. Progress for me is extremely slow.
> 
> Initially I was able to do a few missions and make a couple empires 
> friends, but now every single mission involves doing something in 
> hostile territory, often with time limits, and I can't do them while 
> being attacked as I'll just get blown up staying in one place long enough.
> 
>    At least I found trading spice is very lucrative, even among 2 
> planets in the same alien empire.  I found one that was selling blue 
> spice for 5k, right next to one that was buying it for 17k. 
> Unfortunately prices do adjust, but it seems to eventually go back up if 
> you buy it all out and stockpile it and sell it all at once (or at least 
> up to 99 which is the most you can sell at once.)
> 
> I'm currently fending off attacks what feels like every 5 minutes.  I 
> can recruit extra ships from my allies, but they get blown up 
> immediately and they don't like when that happens and my alliance gets 
> on shakier and shakier ground.  I think you can buy your own ships as 
> additional ones but I expect the same issue and I think they're pretty 
> expensive.  I find it unfair as the enemy I have to keep fighting has 5 
> ships in each attacking wing, and attacks with 2 wings.
> 
> At least I (re)discovered kiting with missiles is extremely effective, I 
> can avoid most of their attacks and they run into my missiles.  I was 
> actually able to take over one of their planets.  I was going to try the 
> economic takeover route for planets, but it requires so much money even 
> after many many hours I can't afford to do even one.  I may be relegated 
> to concurring the enemy that keeps attacking me at least.
> 
> Expanding my own colonies is extremely expensive now too, and even 
> finding time to do anything between attacks is getting difficult.
> 
> Even with all the negatives, I'm feeling that old 4x just one more turn 
> feeling (although it's real time not turns.)  Also feeling like I just 
> want to entirely start over.
> 
Spore comes highly recommended in my experience. I played it quite a lot 
upon release. Somewhere around the point where one is traveling between 
stars I hung up on it for some reason, probably having other games to 
play. I would go back to it but like you said there are some 
compatibility issues to deal with.

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