Spice

Spice
Spice is the only commodity in the Spore Universe. It is used for power, currency, and food. There are many different varieties of spice (read:colors). Some are more rare than others and therefore are more profitable. The key with trading spice is to buy low and sell high.

Different star systems will pay different amounts for the different type of spices you have to offer. There seems to be no high-end algorithm that is used to base how much a system will pay. (e.g. A system that produces red spice that is right next to a blue spice might still pay a very large sum for that blue spice, even though it could be considered a relatively easy to get resource)

The way to obtain spice is to have colonies on the given planet. The amount harvested at a time is based on the T-Score of the planet.

Setting up trade routes are a good way to get a variety of spice (for free when visiting your home planet) and then going out to sell said spice to high paying star systems.

--Tyrnt 00:10, 10 September 2008 (UTC)