Planet

Planets or Terrain in Spore play a very crucial part in the heart of the game, as they are where all major activity happens, outside of Space phase's interstellar exploration. Initially, they will be made up of any combination of Terrain features, such as mountains, oceans, lakes, plains, flora, etc, as well as other creatures. Once the Tribal stage has been reached, Buildings will become a common sight on all planets. As the player continues, Cities and other Creature-made features will become more and more common on planets with sapient life.

Types of planets
There is an extremely large number of planets in Spore. Gas giants are very possible, and even habitable moons orbiting Gas giants have been displayed. Rings around Gas giants are very common, but don't always exist. Rings around Rocky planets or Habitable Planets may also sometimes appear. The size of Rocky Planets, however, has remained small in comparison to Gas giants, but that is natural. Newly added in Spore Patch 1.02 is the Cube Planet

Computer-Generated Planets

 * Almost all planets in Spore are computer-generated.


 * That is to say, they are created by algorithms. The Spore Development Team is including a wide variety of algorithms, making anything from Hyper-realistic worlds to very whimsical planets.  Oceans seen from E3 2006 have ranged in color from a Pearlescent green to a Ferric red, hinting at the variety.  The terrain can also be painted from a very cute Pink, to a dark Navy Blue.

Exceptions
There are some exceptions to this, most notably the Sol system.

Player-Created Planets

 * At E3 2006, Will Wright announced that players would eventually be able to customize planets, making modifications to the terrain, the colors of the land and water, the climate, and so on. Presumably these types of planets would then be uploaded to the server and spread through the content pollination system similar to the method by which creatures, buildings and flora are distributed. However in the released game players can only modify existing planets, which do not appear to be shared.

Planet Dangers
All Uninhabitable planets have two dangers. Lava Planets have Fire Storms and Fire Jets. Arid Planets have Fire Jets and Meteor Showers. Rocky Planets have Rock Geysers and Meteor Showers. Flurry Planets have Ice Geysers and Meteor Showers. Ice Planets have Ice Geysers and Electric Storms. Water Planets have Electric Storms and Whirlwinds. Boiling Planets have Electric Storms and Fire Jets. Occasionally a Homeworld will have an Epic Creature on the surface.

Other
The Sporepedia can keep track of planets visited by the player by providing a card which contains the planet's stats, again similar to the method used to keep track of known creatures.