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+5Daxter DarkStar Dark_Plague Mitchz95 3D 9 posters | Author | Message |
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Posts : 879 Upvotes: : 8 Join date : 2010-07-01 Location : New Mexico, USA
| Subject: BetterSpore Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:06 pm | |
| I've been hearing about BetterSpore, and it looks really amazing. I'm really considering downloading it, but I didn't know if it was easy to install, and if there were many drawbacks.
Thanks, Signing off 3DBlenderRender | |
| | | Mitchz95 Purple spice
Posts : 748 Upvotes: : 10 Join date : 2010-06-23 Age : 29 Location : Depends on where I am at the moment.
| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:20 pm | |
| What the heck is BetterSpore? | |
| | | 3D Admin
Posts : 879 Upvotes: : 8 Join date : 2010-07-01 Location : New Mexico, USA
| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:22 pm | |
| This is it: http://forum.spore.com/jforum/posts/list/24111.page It's basically an add-on for SPORE which adds over 30 new parts, new weapons, and bunch of other really cool stuff.
Signing off, 3DBlenderRender | |
| | | Dark_Plague Bronze Spice
Posts : 1630 Upvotes: : 4 Join date : 2010-08-27 Age : 24 Location : Canada, Somewhere freezing my ass
| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:44 pm | |
| I know that you may think I might be spamming, but this stuff is extremely important when you're downloading:- Spoiler:
BetterSpore - mod Readme ========================
Version: 1.5.1 Lead Author: Ball Lightning Website: http://www.sporedum.net/better-spore/ Release Date: 22/03/2009 Compatibility: Spore on: PC and Mac, and downloaded from Steam, for patch 1.03 Language: English only Requires: Spore 1.03
This mod requires 16MB of free hard drive space
======================== Index:
1. Installation 2. What packages/files should i use? 3. Features 4. Known issues 5. Force Save 6. Changelog 7. Credits 8. Contact info
================================================ 1. Installation Instructions ================================================
Installing Mods for XP and Vista:
Installing current generation Spore mods is simple enough, simply copy the .package (eg improvedinterstellerdrive.package) file into Spore’s Data directory. The data directory is typically located in:
• C:/Program Files/Electronic Arts/Spore/Data.
For example the file pathway for the installed package would be:
• C:/Program Files/Electronic Arts/Spore/Data/improvedinterstellerdrive.package
Installing Spore Mods for Mac:
The location to place the package files is as follows - based on a default install of Spore:
• /Applications/SPORE/Spore.app/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Spore/Data/
The Spore.app is an application package, so you’ll need to control/right click on it and select “Show Package Contents” from the contextual pop-up menu, which will then open a window where you will then see the “Contents” folder, so navigate the rest of the path mentioned above.
Installing Spore Mods for XP/Vista with a Steam download:
The location to place the package files for spore if you downloaded it through steam is as follows - based on a default install of Spore:
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\spore\Data
================================================ 2. What packages/files should i use? ================================================
BetterSpore is divided into 3 main categories, each with a separate package. There are also other packages for you to choose from. You get to choose what you want in your game. You can use any of these packages with each other, they are all compatible.
• BetterSpore Gameplay - This contains all the gameplay changes, there are no new weapons or parts.
- BetterSpore Gameplay NoCreature - This removes all gameplay changes to the creature stage. - BetterSpore Gameplay NoTribal - This removes all gameplay changes to the tribal stage. - BetterSpore Gameplay NoCreatureAndTribal - This removes all gameplay changes to the creature and tribal stage.
• BetterSpore Parts - This contains all the new parts, it also contains some small changes to the editor. A tutorial on how to use ForceSave is in part 5 of this readme.
• BetterSpore Tools - This contains all the new tools and changes to the old tools.
• BetterSpore In-game guide - Install this mod to get the in game guide for all the info on tools/parts/gameplay changes. Installation of this package is highly recommended.
• BetterSpore Graphics - This contains the new GUI (Graphics User Interface). This package has no gameplay changes And just changes the graphics of Spore. Installation of this package is highly recommended.
There will also be some optional mods which you can use with the ones above.
• BetterSpore Intro Movie - This will disable the intro movie. • BetterSpore Improved Complexity (2,5,10 or 100 - Use one) - This will increase the complexity in the editors by however much your package is. Use only one of these.
================================================ 3. Features ================================================
----------BetterSpore Gameplay Package----------
Creature Stage:
- Longer Creature Stage, requires more DNA for each brain level.
- No more annoying sea monster
- Have up to 4 epics in each game. They are in packs of 2.
- Epic creatures health is now 350.
- Epics do 50% less damage.
- All nest creatures now have a base amount of hitpoints 25....alpha's are 32...babies are 15.
- The amount of all creatures per nest has been increased to 4.
- There are many more roaming creatures then before.
- The amount of creatures needed to get the hunt bonus has been increased to 5 and the bonus is 50 DNA points.
- The amount of creatures needed to get the social/ally bonus has been increased to 4 and the bonus is 50 DNA points.
- Rogues now travel in packs of 4...they even have babies!
- You now must kill 4 rogues of the same type to get a 400 point DNA bonus.
- All rogue creatures now have a base amount of hitpoints 125 and babies are 62.
- Includes Ahvena's Fireball Spit mod.
Tribal Stage:
- Increases health points for the tribal hut.
- Starting food is set to 30 instead of 15.
- You can now have more tribal members.
Civilization Stage:
- Slightly more money from spice mines.
- 20 new Civilization Names
- Increased the vehicle cap to 60.
- Tribes are now closer to cities.
- Tribes give you more money once you destroy it.
- Building's health has been increased slightly.
- All vehicles now cost slightly more.
Space Stage:
- It now takes longer to get the high end badges (Eco Hero badge is now easier to get).
- Base of 8 spice stored per colony.
- Reduce the amount spice is worth on hard difficulty.
- Tools cost more on hard and less on easy difficulty.
- Money dropped from ships is worth more.
- Enemy ships now have more health.
- Ally ships now have more health.
- Cost more to repair and recharge.
- Your home world produces more spice.
- Costs more to buy up solar systems.
- Now have up to 8 trade routes.
- Have up to 8 planets in a solar system.
- More chance of a barren planet then T1-3 compared to the original game.
- Abduct from higher up, so you don’t have to keep going lower.
- More buildings and Turrets on T1 and T2 planets.
- Turrets are better defenders.
- Less attacks, less disasters.
- Now up to 3 artefacts per planet.
- Now as you gain badges you get more cargo storage slots.
- Grox Reachable mod is now included in this mod.
----------BetterSpore Tools Package----------
Changes to old tools (Space Stage):
- Interstellar Drives have been increased slightly.
- All the items which you place (eg colonies, spice storage, uber turret etc) now do not need to be bought multiply times, but instead cost sporebucks everytime you use it.
- A collection of rare items have had there prices increase by over 500%.
New Tools:
- Ultra Cargo Hold - Upgrade to
- Ultra Energy Storage
- Ultra Health Upgrade
- Ultra Laser
- Ultra Proton Missile
- Ultra Bomb
- Ultra Pulse
- Interstellar Drive 6
- Wand of Life
- Nuclear Death Cloud
- Xionic Singularity Missiles
- Uber Missiles
- Mega Dud
- Plasma Inferno Missiles
- Mega Death Bomb
- Black Cloud
- SSD Flak Cannon
- SkyWriter
- Epic Warz
- Nuclear Chaingun
- Orbs of Doom
- Ecodisaster
- Xionic Apocalypse Device
- SSD Flak Cannon
----------BetterSpore Parts Package----------
- Make creature parts larger or smaller than ever before.
- Creature Editor includes a new tab, called BetterSpore, which contains all the hidden grox and cell parts.
- The parts we made ourselves are not included in this version as they did not live up to our expectations.. yet.
36 Cell parts:
- 4 new Omnivorous mouths
- 4 new Herbivorous mouths
- 4 new carnivore mouths
- 4 new flippers
- 4 new tails
- 4 new jets
- 4 new eyes
- 4 new Poison shooters
- 4 new electric shockers
- 4 new spikes
10 new grox parts
-----------Bugs with the parts package
- Each tab in the creature editor will have 2 pages for the first page. An example would be the BetterSpore tab which contains 2 pages of the community made parts, and 1 page of the cell parts and 1 page of the grox parts.
- Some parts do not save, to fix this look in the readme on how to use forcesave.
- Parts in the Creature2Cell editor may have higher than usual prices, it is advised to start in Cell stage with BetterSpore.
- It may not be possible to find all the parts in the creature stage, please tell us which parts you can find by Email, please send it to BalLightning@gmail.com
======================================= 4. Known issues =======================================
- Creatures will not be featured on Spore.com with the parts package installed, also if you use any of the new parts, your creature will not upload to the sporepedia.
- If your computer has low hardware, you may encounter crashing in the tribal stage.
======================================= 5. Force Save =======================================
- The Force Save application is found in the force save folder.
- While running spore, load up Spore Editor.
- When in the creature editor, make sure you have a completed creature, then go to the "options" tab in Spore Editor and make sure that "Force Save" (Option 3) is on. MAKE SURE YOUR CREATURE IS NAMED.
- You should now be able to save your creature.
Note: If it still doesn't work, try un-applying the hack (by using the "unhack" button), and then making sure the "Force Save" option is on, then try again.
Thanks to RamonNZ for the SporeEditor program which is used. For me info go here: http://www.sporemods.org/forum/index.php/topic,207.0.html
==================== 6. Changelog ====================
BetterSpore v1.5.1
Gameplay Package
- Changed into 4 sections - BetterSpore Gameplay - This contains all the gameplay changes, there are no new weapons or parts. - BetterSpore Gameplay NoCreature - This removes all gameplay changes to the creature stage. - BetterSpore Gameplay NoTribal - This removes all gameplay changes to the tribal stage. - BetterSpore Gameplay NoCreatureAndTribal - This removes all gameplay changes to the creature and tribal stage.
Changes to the gameplay package:
- Nest creatures base hitpoints is now set to 25, 32 for alphas and 15 for babies - 5 creatures per nest - 5 needed for hunt bonus - 4 needed for socalize bonus - Rogues base hitpoints is now set to 125 and 62 for babies - 4 creatures per pack - 4 needed for hunt - 3 needed for socialize - 2 epics per pack, which allows for a total of 4 epics
Changes to the tools package:
- Fixed EPICWARZ bug, you should now be able to buy it normally
Changes to the parts package:
- Now when playing Cell2Creature, all parts cost 25 DNA points, and you have 180 to spend. - Fixed a few issues with parts in the Creature Editor - Changed a few balance issues with what parts give you
Changes to Other packages:
- Fixed main screen bug for Graphics package - Updated Guide package
==================== 7. Credits ====================
- Ball Lightning (Head of the BetterSpore team)
- god (Programmer)
- rotto (Programmer)
- Ahvena (Balancer/Fireball Spit mod creator)
- Nineballfool (Creature Stage/Programmer)
- Odistant (Civilization stage)
- Virakotxa (Head of Modelling)
- Mettra (Part programmer/Part creator)
- SunGodRa (3D Modelar)
- xero262 (Head of Tools)
- logarithm256 (Tools)
- DarkDragon (Head of Editors)
- BoyMac (Official Alpha Tester)
- And all the other people out there who have come up with ideas, have helped with testing or whatever, thanks very much.
==================== 8. Contact info ====================
If you want to contact me, send Private Message (PM) to "Ball Lightning" at the sporemod forums (www.sporemods.org) or send me and e-mail at BalLightning@gmail.com
www.sporedum.net/better-spore (Official website)
http://www.sporemods.org/forum/index.php/board,25.0.html (Official Forum)
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| | | DarkStar Purple spice
Posts : 936 Upvotes: : 3 Join date : 2010-09-11 Age : 27 Location : Texas, the Greatest Country in the World
| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:45 pm | |
| Bean! Your post is ruining the page! | |
| | | Daxter Blue Spice
Posts : 89 Upvotes: : 0 Join date : 2010-09-19 Age : 26 Location : Everywhere, Nowhere, and absolutly somewhere (possibly about to kill you.
| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Sat Nov 13, 2010 8:43 pm | |
| Seems that it would be better for spore play, but there are a few drawbacks that im not sure i might want. (according to beans post) | |
| | | Gelatino95 Silver Spice
Posts : 3501 Upvotes: : 9 Join date : 2010-06-27 Age : 28 Location : Dinosaur Planet
| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Sun Nov 14, 2010 3:48 am | |
| Bean, could you please edit your post? Why not just include a link? | |
| | | Dark_Plague Bronze Spice
Posts : 1630 Upvotes: : 4 Join date : 2010-08-27 Age : 24 Location : Canada, Somewhere freezing my ass
| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:32 am | |
| - Gelatino95 wrote:
- Bean, could you please edit your post? Why not just include a link?
But it didn't come as a link, that stuff was written in a download, so I downloaded it to put up here so then people would know the drawbacks to downloading BetterSpore. | |
| | | Pintoz Moderator
Posts : 2485 Upvotes: : 4 Join date : 2010-06-19 Age : 27 Location : Everywhere, nowhere.
| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:28 am | |
| Hmm.. Never heard of this.
Is it really new parts? How come i have never seen a creator with new parts then... | |
| | | 3D Admin
Posts : 879 Upvotes: : 8 Join date : 2010-07-01 Location : New Mexico, USA
| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:47 pm | |
| Glass: Yep. It's got a bunch of "Grox" parts like the famous cybernetic eyes, and these robotic feet and armor. (And there are a bunch of new mouths that look creepy ) Signing off, 3DBlenderRender | |
| | | Pintoz Moderator
Posts : 2485 Upvotes: : 4 Join date : 2010-06-19 Age : 27 Location : Everywhere, nowhere.
| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Sun Nov 14, 2010 8:14 pm | |
| - 3DBlenderRender wrote:
- Glass:
Yep. It's got a bunch of "Grox" parts like the famous cybernetic eyes, and these robotic feet and armor. (And there are a bunch of new mouths that look creepy )
Signing off, 3DBlenderRender But i've never seen a creator with these parts. I assume you can't use them? | |
| | | 3D Admin
Posts : 879 Upvotes: : 8 Join date : 2010-07-01 Location : New Mexico, USA
| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Mon Nov 15, 2010 1:13 am | |
| The reason you can't see them is because you don't have the hack/mod. If you did, you'd be able to see and use them.
Signing off, 3DBlenderRender | |
| | | Gelatino95 Silver Spice
Posts : 3501 Upvotes: : 9 Join date : 2010-06-27 Age : 28 Location : Dinosaur Planet
| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:45 am | |
| Glass means that he hasn't seen any creators using the mod. Even if we don't have the mod, then we should still be able to see the creations of other people who have it. But that hasn't happened yet.
ALSO: Bean, you can edit your post so that the readme stuff is in a spoiler box, so the page will only be stretched out if people want to read it. | |
| | | Pintoz Moderator
Posts : 2485 Upvotes: : 4 Join date : 2010-06-19 Age : 27 Location : Everywhere, nowhere.
| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Mon Nov 15, 2010 6:13 pm | |
| - Gelatino95 wrote:
- Glass means that he hasn't seen any creators using the mod. Even if we don't have the mod, then we should still be able to see the creations of other people who have it. But that hasn't happened yet.
ALSO: Bean, you can edit your post so that the readme stuff is in a spoiler box, so the page will only be stretched out if people want to read it. Yes, that's what i meant.. Why doesn't people ever understand what i mean? (most of the time) | |
| | | Oplan Red Spice
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| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:07 pm | |
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| | | Dory01 Pink Spice
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| Subject: Re: BetterSpore Tue Nov 16, 2010 7:53 pm | |
| - Oplan wrote:
- What's BetterSpore?
It's a mod that changed most of the GUI graphics, adds the "forbidden" Grox&Cell parts to the Creature Creator, and changes many aspects of the game. I like it for the most part, but had to uninstall it because it gave me some problems later. | |
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