Talk:Glitches

I discovered a minor glitch that happens, if your tribal members are carrying food when you advance to civ stage, they will still be carrying the food in the "pie scene".Shigerufan 21:00, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

(Quintet=Five Members)  CAFINATOR    DO NOT CLICK HERE  19:25, 11 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I can attest to the Quintet glitch, though, I have no solid proof. It happened by accident.  What I can say, however, is that it only worked when I got one member of a species in my posse, but not added to the list on the right, and only if I added more of that species to my posse.  As soon as I added someone from another species to my posse, they would be counted, and my posse would be full (with more than 3 members.)  I tend to make my creature move away once I add a creature to my posse to skip a little animation and speed it up, perhaps that was part of it, I don't know.  If it happens again, I'll try and get screenshots to prove it.  01:38, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Creature history timeline glitch
This has got to be the most weird yet! I was looking through my creatures timeline in Sspace stage. But strangely it has somehow merged the creature, tribe, civ and space stages together. This is annoying, I quited Spore without saving, and I still have the same problem. This happend shortly after I installed GA. This could be something to do with too much infomation in the history timeline. Wormulon 22:44, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Same here good buddy. I tried to save a game after getting a lot done (captured 15+ Grox systems, gained 30,000,000 Spucks, destroyed 2 empires diplomatically, completed 8 adventures, got 4 systems with T2+ colonized purple spice planets, etc.) and it spent literally 30+ minutes saving, then the game crashed. When it started back up again, I checked the timeline to see where I was, an you know the rest. I hated life for a few hours. 01:03, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

I came to this page to find or put up information regarding this exact same glitch. I guess it's good to know I'm not alone :( My case is exactly the same as Worm's, though now I'm fearing for Zago, and that happening to me D: It's a shame; Galactic Adventures is a ton of fun and a great game, but the introduction of these new bugs is... just maddening. Novawolf 20:59, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

It must have something to do with GA, it is great, but it has invited new glitches into my game. :( Wormulon 17:06, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't have GA, but why does this make a big deal, it's just a searching problem. But it must be annoying. —Preceding signed comment added by TimeMaster (talk • contribs) 17:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I have noticed this has been reported on the Spore forums, and someone on youtube has posted a video of it. So this glitch is common.  Wormulon 14:25, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

I also got this glitch with my precious Nommonator Empire! Liquid Ink 22-08-09

Well, that's odd, because I have seen no problem in GA and I've had it since the day it came out. The only glitch I've seen is the one where the trees are all dancing, but that's an entirely different story. -Rob333

Sad to say, the same thing happened to me. On my favorite account!

This happened to me too, i was playing in tribal stage then i was about to attack a tribe and my game froze, the same thing happened to my other species, i where in space and the game was lagging randomly a few times then it stopped instatly :'(

Surplus Save Files
You're only given 10 save files, right? Well I have 14, and a new one is added every time I use an empty one (ie. if I have 11 files and 7 are used, if I use another it is now 8 used with 12 files) Has this happened to anyone else? And would it be a major or minor glitch? 00:17, 26 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I think this is supposed to happen. It happened to my brother, he has like 15 files and 10 extra save games. I only have 5, and I think I have 11. —Preceding signed comment added by TimeMaster (talk • contribs) 01:29, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

So he has used 15 of them? 02:02, 26 July 2009 (UTC)


 * He has around 20 planets either with a save game or no save game. —Preceding signed comment added by TimeMaster (talk • contribs) 21:06, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

It's the way Spore works. The game insures that you always have 6+ empty save files. FNRKK 16:47, September 7, 2009 (UTC)

The Galaxy just faded away!!!


The galaxy just faded from my game! :( Wormulon 20:42, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

This is really strange, I can't travel through the stars (they have disappeared), there are weird space anomalies and I am left with an empty galaxy, a shell. Now, even the shell has gone! Even in the Spore menu, the galaxy is gone! The stars one by one faded in front of my eyes! :( Wormulon 20:55, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

I have to say that is really weird, its like the apocalypse! In the words of... someone "The stars are goin out!" But I have no idea what could have caused this--Dark Noo Noo 22:08, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

The glitch is not permanent, the galaxy has returned, I think is was caused by the stars not udating themselves when I changed my graphics settings. Wormulon 17:15, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Dark Noo Noo, is that quote from Doctor Who? Liquid Ink 18 August 2009

When Donna Noble in Dr Who said the stars are going out!? It was also like the Big Freeze theory for the end of the universe as well. Wormulon 11:15, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

I was refering to Donna's Grandfather, but I think she said it too. Maybe there are Daleks lurking the Galaxy? Liquid Ink 22-08-09

I suppose you could create a Dalek-like creature with effort. This is getting a bit off subject from glitches, though. OmniSpore101


 * It could have been daleks! I have found them in my galaxy (I like to finding Star Wars/Trek/Gate etc. aliens in Spore)!  Wormulon 23:59, September 16, 2009 (UTC)

Somtimes (for me, anyway), I can't see certain color stars, but I've found that zooming out and then in works.Jmacdonald3896 12:30, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

dark noonoo's quote fits in perfectly lol but being non-idiotic now it has happend to me... (story time yaz!!!) I was minding my own beeswax (killing grox mainly) while i was downloading cheatengine 5.5 and then once i was useing it baaammm! A large explotion came from the glactic core being very close i flew to it as it was the only thing left i went in (ive cheated so i did not get the achivement) and after geting the staff of life steve said "your to big i must size you down no one cain beat the grox!" spore closed down after saveing and i was at cell stage! I think that "your to big" was reffering to my empire and he did 'size me down'. But one good thing was i had captin parts till trible becuse i started there after that i was forced to make disitions. After i got to space stage the galxay fixed.But stragely the planet i was on remaind intaced all the time!!(home planet)Messcaron cain 19:13, November 17, 2009 (UTC)


 * You should have taken pictures, that would be really interesting to write about if it isn't a hoax. :) —Preceding signed comment added by TimeMaster (talk • contribs) 21:24, November 17, 2009 (UTC)

i dont have spore on this computer so i cant show it also i only have this pic.lol so i cant show.Messcaron cain 07:08, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

Frozen Citizens
In my game the citizens froze in my city! Placing a building fixed it. Liquid Ink 18 August 2009

This sounds like a harmless programming error, they usually stop after a while. I had a similar glitch where all my flying vehicle got stuck together, it was very funny! :) Wormulon 12:10, September 2, 2009 (UTC)


 * Cool, I agree with Wormulon. —Preceding signed comment added by TimeMaster (talk • contribs) 13:19, September 2, 2009 (UTC)

What the...
Can someone explain this for me? Click it for a larger image, to see what I was trying to get in the pic. FNRKK 13:30, September 2, 2009 (UTC)

Its just loading up graphics, leave it a while or restart the game. This has happend to me before. Wormulon 14:27, September 2, 2009 (UTC)

I had to reinstall Spore, so I lost the save, but I can see whay that would happen. The problem is, I hadn't ever changed my graphics settings, and I had gone throught the game numerous times before I actually experienced the glitch. It may be bacuseI made the Cilia huge in the Creature Stage, and the game did not have a texture? FNRKK 16:24, September 7, 2009 (UTC)

I doubt it has anything to do with the size its cilia. Wormulon 19:50, September 7, 2009 (UTC)

Planet-Hopping Chieftian...
This didn't happen to me, but a friend of mine.

He was Tribal, and his chief was sucked up by a UFO (he had version 1.2 at this time) and just became...unusable.

He didn't die, so he didn't respawn, but the ship had left the planet, so it was impossible to do anything that requires the chief, like socializing.

He said that he swore under his breath and decided to restart his file, but I don't think he did, instead carrying on an aggressive strategy throughout the Tribal stage.

--Sidd

This glitch is already in the article. FNRKK 20:02, September 9, 2009 (UTC)

1.2.4...this happens without a patch. OmniSpore

Here's something...
Hey, I allied with the Grox Empire and I didn't get negative relations from everyone else!

That's awesome!

Shame that didn't happen to me when I allied with them! Lol at the secret message! Wormulon 22:42, September 9, 2009 (UTC)

NICE secret message. Plz, whot's the link? Nanospore 03:31, November 4, 2009 (UTC)

Epic captians in creature stage!
When i was playing in the creature stage i saw a captain i went up to him to alie but then he turned epic and i died (from a rocket) then we i evoled captain parts were there when i used the they were called head*** and they said give me rockets i used it and i got spit! what do you think.

It happened to me to but it was a grox and it got eatten by the sea monster! after that i chould swim to the next bunch of islands(i thinck the sea monster die from eatingthe grox!.

Epic Tree
So...

This is what I encountered when playing in a game of my friend's.






 * Thats happend to me, and there is a video on youtube, showing how to do this as well, I think it sometimes happends when the player places a tree at a certain angle onto a cliff or ledge. Wormulon 21:59, October 2, 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree with Wormulon. I've never seen this happen to me but I saw the vid. —Preceding signed comment added by TimeMaster (talk • contribs) 22:01, October 2, 2009 (UTC)


 * I had a tree appear as an epic when it was beamed to the planet. No, it was not placed on a cliff, edge or at an angle -- the surface was totally flat and clear of features. Can't say what caused it. But, when I revisited the planet later, the epic tree was gone. It's not a permanent thing.. Treb2466 11:07, October 6, 2009 (UTC)

I placed some trees in a colony and one became an epic tree (about 2x as big as a normal tree).--86.146.178.122 09:42, November 24, 2009 (UTC) P.S.do not ask why I was placing trees in a colony.


 * I have had this happen before, and I learned one way to do it. You need at least one ally ship with you. When placing a plant, try to get high up and find a ledge. Then line up the ledge with your ally. Then click and hold. If the beam is hitting the ship, the plant grows larges than normal, but if you let go or move away, it turns small. If it hits the ground, it will remain large. It works on any land, but it is easier to do it on a cliff. DR8194 22:01, November 27, 2009 (UTC)

To home planets?
When i started in the cell stage the astroid landed in lava and i swam in it, in the creature stage the only other creaters where the grox! those aliens that fight for the grox on thst adverture and my grabla creature also the land was black and the sea was lava. In tribe stage the same thing and civ stage but all the boats blow up as soon as you make them and then in the space stage it said my planet was a to planet and then the cites put up shields no more biuldings and they stop mineing spice! now the grox are at war with us for attacking there creature version with my laser on my planet! on and it's 10 pc from the galatic core! but i can not scan that old cite becuase it's one of the grox planets.

That... is... weird. Rob333

Wrong Planet
I'm not sure if this is supposed to happen (it's weird if it is), but I got sent to do one of my adventures in the space stage, and it was on the wrong planet. It was the wrong colour and had none of the seas, mountains etc in the right places so allot of the objects were floating or hanging off hills. Oh and none of the roads I had placed were there.--Dark Noo Noo 21:55, October 3, 2009 (UTC)

Double Trouble Epics!!!
As I was playing spore in creature stage, I found two epics together! But not two different epics, epics of the same species! I got dominated, because (silly me) I was trying to get the SluggerAchievement. Would this be a glitch?Jmacdonald3896 11:56, November 3, 2009 (UTC)Jmacdonald3896

Epics eating sea monster?
i was in creature when i saw two epics fighting, i thought big deal till i reallised that one of them was the sea monster and it died the the other epic the started eating him! Now the sea monster is not on that planet so i can swim to the other conterit(which for som reson has tribes).

I'd say that's a pretty minor glitch, considering it doesn't really interfere with you completeting the creature stage. --Sporeblade

But, don't the tribes, like, hunt you? DevenAB 01:32, October 4, 2009 (UTC)DevenAB

It might've just been an Epic Battered Feesh. They look very similiar to the Sea Monster. Gyromite 06:20, October 4, 2009 (UTC)

No it was the sea monster i saw its tail, and yes the tribes hunt me, trap (i loss control of my creature and then it dies) and the i become a pet for them so i can not do anthing till a other tribe comes and destorys that tribe.

Err......that isn't possible as the game coding can't change like that. It was believable at first with the epics but when you said the tribe it gave it away. The only way I think that maybe could happen is that if you have GA and a glitch molded the creature stage and a mission together.

Stop. If even the game had a problem with its coding and tribes appeared on the other continent AND the Sea Monster was killed by an epic, the game isn't coded for tribes to hunt, trap and domesticate your creature. Stop giving false information. Sporeblade 22:52, October 6, 2009 (UTC)

Well, I think there might be a little bit of truth, even if the tribe part is fake. I once flew off a cliff with jump and wing 5, and the sea monster didn't eat me. It is possible to get to other continents. However, using the "unlock camera" hack, I brought the camera to a different continent, but it was barren except for an epic. I have no idea why. I also think that the whole tribe part is stupid because, even in GA, I cannot make a tribe, or something that looks like it, in an adventure! But the thing is, when I brought the camera over, I did not have GA. After installing it, it did the same thing. No tribe. Although it may be possible that the epic can fight the sea monster and go to different continents, the whole tribe thing is fake. I am totally sure. Nanospore 19:14, November 23, 2009 (UTC)

Friendly enemy Grox?
So I had just used gravitation wave on a Grox colony but for some reason, they didn't die. Instead, they got a green face with me! When I held my hand over them, everything had turned it's opposite. For instance, we distrust strangers +70, broke the Galactic Code -50, ect. I panicked and quit, so now it's back to me and Grox hating each other. Kinda glitchy, innit?

The Grox like you if you brake the Galactic Code, although it is strange that the Gravity wave didn't destroy their colony. Wormulon 13:20, October 4, 2009 (UTC)

Galaxy planet
Okay I was playing spore and I exited to main menu then this happened Epicfail95 00:31, October 6, 2009 (UTC)Epicfall95

Epic frowing me to a differnet conternit?
I was attacked by an epic a thrown to a differnt conternit and lived (well i landed by in the water next to it), and the there was a city! Though there was no people in it in was just a city(with no bilding).

Was it a temple?  Wormulon 14:33, October 6, 2009 (UTC)

Maybe the other conternit always has citys but it has nothing in them because you havent made any biuldings for it to have and your creature isent fully develpoed so the citazen are there?

Re: Here's something...
You know, I have a confession to make, and I'm glad that my message about the Grox didn't make the article.

That was a prank. I never got around to explaining that, and then my copy of Spore required graphics maintenance, which distracted me for a long time. Sorry. >XE I was referring to a fake Grox of my own creation. Oh, well. It worked on Legos3442.

Anyway, I'm sure that, since every aspect of the game has one or eleven glitches, It might happen sooner or later.

Grox blow up their own buildings!
I have been trying to from an aliance with the grox (im up to 44!) any way my shield had ran out and since grox blow things up and ask question later i hid behide a grox platz and they shot it and then their city was destroyed but they were still on 44(blue face)! --87green 06:51, October 18, 2009 (UTC)

Lol! A strange but maybe helpful glitch (if they destroyed their own buildings). Wormulon 09:52, October 18, 2009 (UTC)

Epic. But I think they were aiming for you, so its not a glitch. —Preceding signed comment added by TimeMaster (talk • contribs) 13:22, November 1, 2009 (UTC)

Yes but i would of thought that their weapons wouldent have effected their buildings --87green 06:32, November 3, 2009 (UTC)

It could be a glitch, turrets usually shouldn't destroy their own buildings. -Wormulon 14:43, November 3, 2009 (UTC)

but they were aiming to the player, grox are so stupid... --The Valader 18:20, November 4, 2009 (UTC)


 * Well its not meant to happen normally. The Grox are stupid for claiming war on almost every species in the galaxy!  Wormulon 12:35, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

Of course, they are stupid for many things :0

heres something else...
if you have galactic adventures then you know that there is a jump pad. click on the ying and yang sign then set the slider ( It looks like this((!)) ) to 100 then make a a very high hill or whatever then jump on it you will see that the back ground (stars,universes etc etc..) are as close to planet a you and are also your size! i realy saw it while creatng an adventure called jump i had to decrese the size of the bounce power. please look for more content by me or play jump thanks!Messcaron cain 07:09, November 18, 2009 (UTC)

Double Planetary defence
Check this: I was on one of my colonies, during war with the grox lol, and I decided to put a planetary defence on my colony, you know those satellites with shield, but I missed to fire it on ground and I fire it to the sky, falling to no where, so then I used another of my planetary defences and this one did fall in planet, so I had one planetary defence. Then i looked to my minimap and they were two mini balls in there, I realized there was two planetary defences!!

Is this a glitch?? cause game doesn't let you to have more than one planetary defences...


 * That sounds like a glitch, yes. I'd guess that it's caused by the game not recognising that a colonisation tool has been added to the planet until it's on the ground (or, maybe, until it has been set up and working). It sounds like a very useful glitch too, as it would allow you to add multiple Uber Turrets (that's what the planetary defence is called) to a single colony without having to use mods. And three Uber Turrets is one per city on all fully-developed non-homeworld planets, so that should be more than enough to defeat any invasion without any damage being caused.
 * If you can replicate the glitch on all your colonies, you'll never have to worry about attacks again - even Grox invasions. 18:31, November 12, 2009 (UTC)

he he well I never thought that lol -- The Valader 18:40, November 12, 2009 (UTC)

ok. I tested this double uber turret glitch, and it worked again, here are the tips:


 * First be sure to have an ally.
 * select the uber turret
 * target your ally.
 * Fire(the uber turret will start travelling in circles around the planet just when an active one is orbiting the planet)
 * wait until your next uber turret is recharged.
 * depend how many do you want on your colony, you'll have to repeat the operation.
 * you will note that you cannot leave the system until the first one has landed, you'll have the many uber turrets you can.


 * Do you need an ally, or could you just fire the Turret up into the sky? Also, does it work on other Colonisation Tools - so could you have multiple Spice Storage facilities on a planet? 16:35, November 17, 2009 (UTC)


 * You will need an ally. Also I would save BEFORE you enter the planet, as when you place a colonisation tool and it hasn't landed you can get stuck in the planet atmosphere.  Even if you destroy your ship, you will get stuck on your homeplanet.

Well the tool will automatically hit the ground in a period of time, it is not too long, but you need an ally, you can no fire the tool to the sky if you are not pointing at something that flies The Valader 18:05, November 17, 2009 (UTC)

I would still save, just in case.

Incomplete homeworld ecosystem glitch
I have been meaning to post this for a while, but I haven't gotten around to it until now. The point is: My homeworld's ecosystem is always T-1, with plants in the T-2 and T-3 slots! Only the T-1 section is completly fillled out, meaning that all my hard civilization stage work with buildings is for nothing! A major glitch! Kill it! Kill it! Stuart98 00:52, November 17, 2009 (UTC)

Funny glitch
at least i think its a glitch... i was in adventure editor and i found out the exit point in a teleporter can go as high as the sun!!!! i used a bunch of different meathods to get up there and the sun is messes up the background when you look down and you cant move period... PS for you guys only, DO NOT TAKE AN ADVENTURE CALLED "Maxis Made" :)

Civilization Stage. 1st city not sea city.
Happened on hard mode. I had to capture a sea city, then I got defeated.JimJam707 18:27, November 23, 2009 (UTC)

Not a bug. Part of code. Stuart98 00:52, November 24, 2009 (UTC)

Star systems containing only gas giants.
The title pretty much explains it. Basically, there are 2 star systems in different parts of my galaxy only having one gas giant in the system. It looks like someone used the planet buster, but it was randomly placed into the game. DR8194 02:44, November 28, 2009 (UTC)


 * Planet busters would have left a molten shell, but there is none in your picture. It's a programming error. And NPC empire's don't planet bust. Stuart98 19:45, December 6, 2009 (UTC)

A tribe on the other Continent.
I'm in tribe stage but one tibe is on a other Continent, im not abel to go to the next stage :(