The creations of the person you select as your theme will all be on your planet. What if you wanted your planet to be populated only by scary looking aliens, things that really make you wonder who thought up those things, and you don't want anything like the Carebear creatures? Because of this, you are allowed to choose a "theme" for your planet. If enough of a players creatures are removed, they will be completely banned from the automated uploading process in order to protect the community.īut phallus-shaped monsters are not the only concern. But thankfully Wright and Maxis have had the foresight to include a system that lets people report creations as inappropriate. The freedom of the creature editor (as well as the other editors) allows people to recreate objects that could turn some potential customers away. The most obvious problem being the certain creation of inappropriate creatures. Of course, an automated pollination system introduces several problems that wouldn't exist without such a system. There is also a "buddy list", which enables you to select a group of players whose creations will all end up in your game. This can be seen in the uniformity of the two cities in the GDC 2005 demonstration by Will Wright, and the fact that they were of two distinct styles, even down to their vehicles. Vehicles similar to your own that were made by others will be easy to find, purchase, and later alter. Buildings that are of similar style to your current buildings will be more likely to show up for you to pick from and further develop. Also, content is pulled from the database based on your creature and your other objects' "style". For example, it is known that certain pieces of content will be rated on a kind of popularity scale, where more popular, or higher rated creature designs will inevitably be more likely to show up on other planets, or in some kind of catalogue of content within the game. There are other factors that are taken into account when filling a database. If the player's creature is a high-level predator then the game would filter in prey and other creatures to fill in whatever gaps there are in the system. If a predator is needed to top off the food chain, one is pulled in for that purpose. Creatures are taken from the database based on what is needed in an environment. One example of the use of pollinated content in Spore is its creation of realistic ecosystems. Content in this situation includes creatures, buildings and vehicles (including UFOs). In Spore, content is pollinated based on certain qualifications, including style and popularity. Pollinated content is a term used to describe a type of game content that is filtered into a game through certain rules, but is not "hard-coded" into the game itself.
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