Imagine being a highly trained soldier attempting to secure a city, and suddenly you just hear music from a corporate orientation tape and all your weapons just cease to exist
Well its not like your weapons cease to exist, it’s more like the nation paying you ceases you exist so you have no reason to risk your life securing the city.
"We've got the city surrounded! Surrender now, and we will keep you al-" "Wait, hold on, got a call on line one... Yes, almost there... destroyed all of the buildings.. whattya mean you're not paying me anymore? Bankruptcy? Brought out? Man, fuck this, I'm going home, anyone want any Spode burgers?"
@@theinternetpolice2078 Ikr, it is so hard to go full trade-economic. And even if you DO trade with someone for a long time you CAN'T buy entire continents, not even a microstate, smh. The developers really messed up with this edition.
Giga-Economist is easier than going for a Religious or Militaristic playthrough on harder difficulties. Yeah, basically capitalism. Who needs murder or religious terrorism when you could just pay your opposition to shut up?
I believe when nations are sending a communication with you to cut off trade routes you can move to their city and click contact to get rid of the communication and not have to take the minus relation punishment for declining.
I didn't know that, thanks! I'll have to try that out. That should make it much easier, I'll be sure to give you credit in the commentary of my next Civ vid if I can get it to work!
@@KinglyValence also you dont need to make them blue in order for them to accept the trade, they just need to be above zero(in the meter from -100 to 100)
@@mme.veronica735 I feel like Religious is the easiest one, but after the speedrun where Zealot is a nice option I'm even _more_ encouraged to do that. I did have to change to carnivore and aggressive in the first two stages to be fair. I should challenge myself into winning the tribal stage aggressively, I always won that via impressing.
I still wanna see you kill all the epics on the planet in one stage of the game. Awesome gameplay. I could never manage so many things at once, I could barely follow along.
I once killed an epic in creature stage by getting it stuck between some trees and shooting it with my poison shooter things. Also I was like 10 so the poison shooter things were placed in a funny area between the legs haha
@@sitfish1113 Absolutely. I don't think you need this but for those curious here's an explicit guide from me. I tried to play with one city as long as possible, befriending everybody, the further a nation is from cities you want to buy the more you should be funding their army, so if you buy one of them they wont feel threatened. Of course try making them invade cities far away from those cities as well. The game is easier if you have an economic fleet (trade routes strengthens friendships) from the beginning but I think it is unlikely that you will spawn with that on hard, it's not something I remember getting, so most times I had to buy one. Buying a city is really tricky because it can mess an entire game (you can reload the game but still), if in doubt, don't, most times just hold the route with one vehicle minimum, buy if sure it won't ruin strong religious/military alliance. I think Spore makes your enemies stronger than your allies so try having none until one nation has a clearly bigger army and fund that one to make things faster. Be both efficient with your city builder and patient, you will win by using a big ammount of money very late on the game. All AI economic nations die eventually so don't bother. Im not sure if you can win without the finishing ability, if you want to challenge yourself even more it's a good idea. Edit: Mistakes and typos
Idk if it’s even possible. There’s always one military that hates you. If it is possible you’d have to sit there and buy turrets for an hour while giving them gifts of money over and over and that still probably wouldn’t work
You're like the pannenkoek of spore, so cool! Seeing you gain money so fast makes me wonder - sporebucks, dna and food all have caps on their stages iirc, how fast can you reach them?
"I have to build up speed on my spaceship for 12 hours so I can catapult straight into the centre of the galaxy in a parallel universe with half a mouse click."
if there’s one thing that ticks me off about civ stage it’s how nations can just randomly hate you for doing what you’re supposed to, or by no control of your own. -Nation too big, Borders too close, Being a certain type of city, Being a threat - (in a recent playthrough i had 2 cities and was under a relentless assault by a military nation that felt like they had infinite sporebucks, and a much bigger nation Somehow declared ME a threat even though i had like no vehicles and was borderline going to die... i did still win because i befriended that big nation so i could farm money till i had enough to snowball my way to fanatical frenzy but yeah..) otherwise it’s mostly fine
I think going all military makes the civ stage easier. My latest playthrough I was a powerhouse, conquering each city with relative ease. But my first playthrough I had a bit of trouble as an economic city. Never tried religious though
Economic is actually all about bribery! I challenged myself on going economic hard and my winning strategy is giving a ton of gifts and make them happy, then do trading and give even more gifts loll.
recently did a full pacifist run to space, no kills whatsoever. decided, for the extra difficulty, to go from religious to economic immediately via tribe vehicles. bad idea. ended up with what felt like the slowest economic vehicle in existence, with no way to change it or get more until buying out a city, which took like ten minutes. damn you cream sedan lol
I also did a similar run with the same challenge of religious to economic. It failed horribly when the city I was trying to buy with my one vehicle got conquered and had to reset
@@NoName-oz3gj yes!!! most of my runs are on hard mode these days because i know the drill, made the stage infinitely harder. somehow finally managed it one run though! my best recommendations would be to minmax speed and only speed on a land vehicle, buy like 5 and absolutely bolt for it, resetting until you get at least one eco vehicle
I have in my notes you asked "what occurs if we destroy a tribe in Tribal Stage after it has been allied," though I can't find the original comment. However, the tribe can be destroyed after allying but there is no cutscene and we don't get any additional progress on the progress bar for destroying the tribe once it had already been allied. Although this does impact the History timeline by lowering it by the amount of tribe members killed, so this could be useful there! We can't normally attack an allied Tribe but we can lower the relationship using the Firebombs Chieftain ability in order to attack them :)
Thanks! I realized that after doing this run lol. That would definitely speed up the run, thanks for the reminder, I'll should be able to make an updated Econ run including that soon :D
@@internetpeasent1374 It's not the bugs, it's the entire mising aquatic stage. It's the promises EA forced Maxis to break. It's the never giving the series a second glance after dark spore.
Speedrun Idea: Cell Stage: Omnivore Creature Stage: Carnivore Tribal Stage: Aggressive Civilization Stage: Economic Space Stage: (whatever you get) That is the most time-consuming way to beat the game so I'd be amazed if you managed to do it
first time playing spore i was economic, i had like 2 cities by the end of it and still won, because i befriended the biggest military nation, gave him money to kill everyone else, and because we were allies and no onw else was around, they called me, said we should become one nation, and i didn't even have the option to say no, which was great because otherwise i would have to slowly buy all of his cities lol, that was normal difficulty.
It's not a problem to beat civ stage as economic. It is a problem when you started as military/religious, but still want an economic trait for space stage (or e.g. going for scientist archetype through red->red->blue->blue) and the first economic city only appears on the other continent. Worse still if it's an inland city. Happened to me last time I tried. That was a lengthy session.
I can try an Ally the Grox run! I don't think I'll be able to destroy them all, haven't even done that on a casual save lol. And I don't think I'd have the video storage space for a run that long ;)
Yesterday I had reached civ stage and was economic on hard, I only bought 2 cities after 10-15 minutes, but blue, a military city, conquered every single one, so I started a trade route with one of the cities and unlocked the plane, after that, blue "surrendered" and civ station was just done
@@KinglyValence That would be interesting challenge to see, different from the optimal & safe strategy of befriending everyone. Would you do it on hard too?
@@szymo4a Yeah I'll do it on Hard. I haven't played Tribal aggressive in many years so that will be cool to work out. Part of the game i haven't seen in a long time!
I think it is game over when you are military and have only 2 cities and the enemy has flying vehicles. They will just spam your city with those flying vehicles.
that same thing happened with me, the green took all the world, i had 2 cities but i were friends with greens, i gifted them sporebucks until max happines from gifts then started taking their collectors and after re starting 4 times with a horrible save, which was when they were invading the last city, i made my vehicles faster, started taking their countries and collectors until i had like 1/3 world conquered and they started war but i already because i had enough money to defend, attack, repair town and place turrets, also it was a bit harder because i was economist but i ended up with only military cities, so i coulnt change city classes, and also just 1 of my skills was useful
If citizens are happy they can start celebrating, doubling (I think) production, and if citizens are unhappy they will go on strike, cutting the production in half
I downloaded the robot parts (illegitimately 😱😱😱😱) and I swear the game crashed when I got super far into the space stage and I was back at the civilisation stage and I was very upset
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Imagine being a highly trained soldier attempting to secure a city, and suddenly you just hear music from a corporate orientation tape and all your weapons just cease to exist
Well its not like your weapons cease to exist, it’s more like the nation paying you ceases you exist so you have no reason to risk your life securing the city.
"We've got the city surrounded! Surrender now, and we will keep you al-"
"Wait, hold on, got a call on line one... Yes, almost there... destroyed all of the buildings.. whattya mean you're not paying me anymore? Bankruptcy? Brought out? Man, fuck this, I'm going home, anyone want any Spode burgers?"
LMAO--
@@medicindisquise4271 He sold? Pomp eet
"cease fire!" "why central command is backing down?" "they bought the central command..."
MAN IS PLAYING CAPITALISM HARD MODE WHAT
Capitalism hard mode? So just regular capitalism?
@@theinternetpolice2078 Ikr, it is so hard to go full trade-economic. And even if you DO trade with someone for a long time you CAN'T buy entire continents, not even a microstate, smh. The developers really messed up with this edition.
@@sonofgreatsteppes9497 man i have always found economic the easiest by far. I must be doing something different then you
Giga-Economist is easier than going for a Religious or Militaristic playthrough on harder difficulties. Yeah, basically capitalism. Who needs murder or religious terrorism when you could just pay your opposition to shut up?
Finally someone who knows you can go full Europe on tribes
Lmao
So many years and I never knew this 🤣
I learnt it by watching other cities do it lmao
@@chrissmid8660 a year you mean?
@@jayboi3488 maybe he saw the ai doing it
I believe when nations are sending a communication with you to cut off trade routes you can move to their city and click contact to get rid of the communication and not have to take the minus relation punishment for declining.
I didn't know that, thanks! I'll have to try that out. That should make it much easier, I'll be sure to give you credit in the commentary of my next Civ vid if I can get it to work!
PogChamp It works! Thank you so much! That will really change how I think about the route and how I play Civ now! And it is really easy to do :D
holy crap I didn't even know that and I been playing Spore since it came out, I always go for the blue card in this stage too thanks a ton
Holy shit I didn't know this was a thing!
@@KinglyValence also you dont need to make them blue in order for them to accept the trade, they just need to be above zero(in the meter from -100 to 100)
As a kid I wasn't able to beat the game in any different way, just trading. Then I realised barely anybody did it this way
I always did economic for civilization when I could so my colonies would produce more spice in space stage.
@@mme.veronica735 Yep. tbh it is fun bribing everyone
@@mme.veronica735 I feel like Religious is the easiest one, but after the speedrun where Zealot is a nice option I'm even _more_ encouraged to do that. I did have to change to carnivore and aggressive in the first two stages to be fair.
I should challenge myself into winning the tribal stage aggressively, I always won that via impressing.
Goddamn I can't ever beat civ stage with economic. Religious is the easiest especially with marine vehicles.
wow, that is some really good micro management. keep up the videos going!
I still wanna see you kill all the epics on the planet in one stage of the game.
Awesome gameplay. I could never manage so many things at once, I could barely follow along.
Go tribal. Get spears. You can do it from the start. Not really that hard
I once killed an epic in creature stage by getting it stuck between some trees and shooting it with my poison shooter things.
Also I was like 10 so the poison shooter things were placed in a funny area between the legs haha
@@4sythdude549 Tags: Size Difference
Space stage : super easy
Civilization stage: easy
Tribal stage: medium
Creature stage: extremely hard
Cell stage: DEATHMATCH
@@RachelKennedy50 If you have enough spikes on cell stage than no
I remember doing this for fun as a kid, for some reason I wasn't able to do it, 5 years later I figured it all out by trying different strategies
The best method is to stay small and give money to other nations and trade with them without buying any so your border is not a problem
@@sitfish1113 Absolutely.
I don't think you need this but for those curious here's an explicit guide from me. I tried to play with one city as long as possible, befriending everybody, the further a nation is from cities you want to buy the more you should be funding their army, so if you buy one of them they wont feel threatened. Of course try making them invade cities far away from those cities as well. The game is easier if you have an economic fleet (trade routes strengthens friendships) from the beginning but I think it is unlikely that you will spawn with that on hard, it's not something I remember getting, so most times I had to buy one. Buying a city is really tricky because it can mess an entire game (you can reload the game but still), if in doubt, don't, most times just hold the route with one vehicle minimum, buy if sure it won't ruin strong religious/military alliance. I think Spore makes your enemies stronger than your allies so try having none until one nation has a clearly bigger army and fund that one to make things faster. Be both efficient with your city builder and patient, you will win by using a big ammount of money very late on the game. All AI economic nations die eventually so don't bother. Im not sure if you can win without the finishing ability, if you want to challenge yourself even more it's a good idea.
Edit: Mistakes and typos
Now try it without the ability, buying cities only.
That's a good challenge, I'll try that!
Idk if it’s even possible. There’s always one military that hates you. If it is possible you’d have to sit there and buy turrets for an hour while giving them gifts of money over and over and that still probably wouldn’t work
I do love starting economic civilization in hard mode when I want to relax, it's more than possible
@@coleworld1110 done it in half an hour, no tower bought, just a lot of presents
You're like the pannenkoek of spore, so cool!
Seeing you gain money so fast makes me wonder - sporebucks, dna and food all have caps on their stages iirc, how fast can you reach them?
"I have to build up speed on my spaceship for 12 hours so I can catapult straight into the centre of the galaxy in a parallel universe with half a mouse click."
ayee!! i really like your commentary, your voice is surprisingly calming
Thank you :D
this was always my favorite way to play civ stage ngl. its hard but also kinda fun.
Hi! I'm a big fan! Keep making great content please!
I did this on my middle path run, it was fun! I didn’t know this was a challenge
if there’s one thing that ticks me off about civ stage it’s how nations can just randomly hate you for doing what you’re supposed to, or by no control of your own.
-Nation too big, Borders too close, Being a certain type of city, Being a threat - (in a recent playthrough i had 2 cities and was under a relentless assault by a military nation that felt like they had infinite sporebucks, and a much bigger nation Somehow declared ME a threat even though i had like no vehicles and was borderline going to die... i did still win because i befriended that big nation so i could farm money till i had enough to snowball my way to fanatical frenzy but yeah..)
otherwise it’s mostly fine
that's just spore when you play on eu4 mode
Sounds like real life
I think going all military makes the civ stage easier. My latest playthrough I was a powerhouse, conquering each city with relative ease. But my first playthrough I had a bit of trouble as an economic city. Never tried religious though
@@Bigzthegreat As a fella eu4 can confirm
@@TheMisterDarknight opinion - 2000000
wants your provinces -200000000
-meta
Rival -200000000000000 bing chilling
-we just have a rival for no reason
awesome stuff man, keep it up!
Nice thumbnail! Keep up the great work!
Cities are like companies, you can just buy them with loads of cash and enough Trade.
The goal?
Be the EA of Planet.
You don't burn the cities down, though.
Economic is actually all about bribery! I challenged myself on going economic hard and my winning strategy is giving a ton of gifts and make them happy, then do trading and give even more gifts loll.
recently did a full pacifist run to space, no kills whatsoever. decided, for the extra difficulty, to go from religious to economic immediately via tribe vehicles. bad idea.
ended up with what felt like the slowest economic vehicle in existence, with no way to change it or get more until buying out a city, which took like ten minutes. damn you cream sedan lol
I also did a similar run with the same challenge of religious to economic. It failed horribly when the city I was trying to buy with my one vehicle got conquered and had to reset
@@NoName-oz3gj yes!!! most of my runs are on hard mode these days because i know the drill, made the stage infinitely harder. somehow finally managed it one run though! my best recommendations would be to minmax speed and only speed on a land vehicle, buy like 5 and absolutely bolt for it, resetting until you get at least one eco vehicle
@@turingtestingmypatience alright, thank you!
I have in my notes you asked "what occurs if we destroy a tribe in Tribal Stage after it has been allied," though I can't find the original comment. However, the tribe can be destroyed after allying but there is no cutscene and we don't get any additional progress on the progress bar for destroying the tribe once it had already been allied. Although this does impact the History timeline by lowering it by the amount of tribe members killed, so this could be useful there! We can't normally attack an allied Tribe but we can lower the relationship using the Firebombs Chieftain ability in order to attack them :)
In my experience, they'll accept a trade route as long as your relationship with them is positive. No blue smiley required
Thanks! I realized that after doing this run lol. That would definitely speed up the run, thanks for the reminder, I'll should be able to make an updated Econ run including that soon :D
Spore deserved so much better than what it got. Shame on ea, infinite shame.
I don't think it was that bad, considering how buggy games were back then.
@@internetpeasent1374 It's not the bugs, it's the entire mising aquatic stage. It's the promises EA forced Maxis to break. It's the never giving the series a second glance after dark spore.
@@mme.veronica735 Either way, i still don't think EA is the best company, but they're definitely not the worst.
Speedrun Idea:
Cell Stage: Omnivore
Creature Stage: Carnivore
Tribal Stage: Aggressive
Civilization Stage: Economic
Space Stage: (whatever you get)
That is the most time-consuming way to beat the game so I'd be amazed if you managed to do it
Space Stage would be Scientist which results in your ability breaking the galactic code
For some reason, I always love playing with economic strategy😊
first time playing spore i was economic, i had like 2 cities by the end of it and still won, because i befriended the biggest military nation, gave him money to kill everyone else, and because we were allies and no onw else was around, they called me, said we should become one nation, and i didn't even have the option to say no, which was great because otherwise i would have to slowly buy all of his cities lol, that was normal difficulty.
I always feel dirty when I play an economic civ.
It's not a problem to beat civ stage as economic. It is a problem when you started as military/religious, but still want an economic trait for space stage (or e.g. going for scientist archetype through red->red->blue->blue) and the first economic city only appears on the other continent. Worse still if it's an inland city. Happened to me last time I tried. That was a lengthy session.
3:35 THAT SONG THAT PLAYED WAS YA VIENEN LOS REYES THE FIRST SONG IVE EVER PLAYED ON PIANO HOW DID IT GET TO SPORE OH MY GOD SO MANY MEMORIES
love spore, going to binge your yt channel
Here before Teras!
I just leave my comment here to support the Spore community.
Civilization, my favorite stage!
Hello Sporegod, what do you think about "Allying Grox" or "Destroying Grox" speedrun? Would be pretty fun and no one has done it in a while :D
I can try an Ally the Grox run! I don't think I'll be able to destroy them all, haven't even done that on a casual save lol. And I don't think I'd have the video storage space for a run that long ;)
@@KinglyValence Looking forward, gonna be awesome with ur commentary ;)
@@KinglyValence destroying the grox speedrun can only be segmented. You would pass out way faster than you would destroy them
please tell me i wasnt the only one screaming 'JUSt BUY tURREtS' at the end
Always played civ stage on economic, doing it warlike was too stressful
I think the main reason I struggled with economic so much when I started was because I refused to pay into demands lol
ouchie
Amazing speedrun! Also yay Nico Bolas!
I wish I could record my run too, because I liked those kind of challanges. But I couldnt beat stage as a military. Religious is the easiest one imo
Yesterday I had reached civ stage and was economic on hard, I only bought 2 cities after 10-15 minutes, but blue, a military city, conquered every single one, so I started a trade route with one of the cities and unlocked the plane, after that, blue "surrendered" and civ station was just done
If there's only allied Nations remaining, they will merge with us when we reach a minimum of 4 cities :)
I like the economic civ stage the best.
Too bad that this game is so simple :/
2:59 we found it, we finally found the squarest country in the world
nice one!
how about tribal stage, but no instruments and only eat meat?
That's an interesting challenge. So fighting only? Maybe I'll also require no Tribe members can die for an extra challenge!
@@KinglyValence
That would be interesting challenge to see, different from the optimal & safe strategy of befriending everyone.
Would you do it on hard too?
@@szymo4a Yeah I'll do it on Hard. I haven't played Tribal aggressive in many years so that will be cool to work out. Part of the game i haven't seen in a long time!
I think it is game over when you are military and have only 2 cities and the enemy has flying vehicles. They will just spam your city with those flying vehicles.
that same thing happened with me, the green took all the world, i had 2 cities but i were friends with greens, i gifted them sporebucks until max happines from gifts then started taking their collectors and after re starting 4 times with a horrible save, which was when they were invading the last city, i made my vehicles faster, started taking their countries and collectors until i had like 1/3 world conquered and they started war but i already because i had enough money to defend, attack, repair town and place turrets, also it was a bit harder because i was economist but i ended up with only military cities, so i coulnt change city classes, and also just 1 of my skills was useful
spore hard mode is no joke
I could start at economic hard but then buy military/ religious cities and use those
Speedrunning American Imperialism on Hard
Corpo civilization path.
As long as I’ve had this gave I’ve never played economic in civilization 🥴
Did anyone else hear a little bit of Subwoofer Lullaby in the background music?
You set the game to normal by accident
ngl you made me look haha ;)
Do civ with 1 tank and 1 boat
Why does the thumbnail vaguely looks like grove street?
So cool
ECONOMIC HARD
Cool😆👍👍
That's a so nice
love your pfp
Wait, I have a question, Can you turn a civilization into a space facing empire, because I just but a monolith and 2 crop circles on one planet.
Nice
I thought that playing as economic made the game too easy.
economic is easier than religious or military on hard
Can someone pls explain how and why is happiness in cities important?
If citizens are happy they can start celebrating, doubling (I think) production, and if citizens are unhappy they will go on strike, cutting the production in half
Oh, and to add on, according to the wiki, if cities are unhappy, they are more susceptible to religious attacks, so put in some entertainment
@@erina_lessthan3and revolution
Noice
Ah yes, my favorite run, Pure Capitalism
I downloaded the robot parts (illegitimately 😱😱😱😱) and I swear the game crashed when I got super far into the space stage and I was back at the civilisation stage and I was very upset
Economic on Hard
is ez
Holy shit I had no idea you can commit a colonialism and destroy villages and tribes for cash!
I think I saw this happening in china
yeet
do you have a discord?
discord.gg/vrubb8J Spore Speed running discord :)
I was trying to add some mods to my spore origin version and it dint work help Please
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What China seems to be doing right now:
ive completed economic civilization on hard in like 30 minutes
It's not that hard, did it many times.
First commend
I was so close
commentable
Where is the Halo music coming from at 6-7 minutes lol am I crazy