Grox



"The Grox are machines with absolutely no sense of humor! They destroy entire races and never offer an explanation of what it is that ticks them off!"

- Blocks of Chance Volume 8

"Helping the Grox is good for your survival."

- The Grox

The Grox are a sapient species of cyborg aliens generally considered to be the most evil and hostile in the galaxy. They are most notable for their evil and hostility, but are also notable for their asymmetric, weak impish appearance. They have an astonishing number of colonies surrounding the galactic core, serving as an obstacle to the player. They are drastically aggressive and only seem to be able to live on otherwise uninhabitable T0 planets. Raising a planet's T-Score will make it impossible for the Grox to inhabit it. It is very hard to defeat the Grox since their amazingly vast empire spans 2400 planets. The followers of Spode believe that the Grox are the greatest evil, even more so than regular persons who reject the will of Spode, and only The False God That Will Come is hated as much as them. And since everyone hates the Grox, the Scrolls of Faith, Harmony as well as the Scrolls of Order, the Stones of Force and Life, and the Tablets of Prosperity, even the Blocks of Chance mentions them as the most unearthly beings in the galaxy. And for that matter, all the creatures in the Spore Galaxy follows a specific symbol, as to their archetype, causing them to follow it and oppose the Grox.

Grox Buildings
City Hall: Grox Platz

Factory: Grox Stacks

Entertainment: Grox-o-Plexx

House: Grox Sweet Grox

Basic

 * Name: The Grox
 * Type: Creature (Half cyborg machine)
 * Diet: Carnivore
 * Sight
 * Mating Call
 * Graspers
 * Sprint: 5
 * Bite: 2
 * Strike: 3
 * Sing: 1
 * Dance: 4
 * Pose: 2
 * Health: 2
 * Speed: 5

Abilities

 * Too toxic for cargo hold.

Dealing with Grox
Although the manual says "they don't understand relationships" you may still deal with Grox.

How to ally with the Grox


"The Grox are a machine race that have blockaded the center of the galaxy. They are extremely dangerous. We have not managed to establish a working relationship with them."

- Scrolls of Order Vol.9

If you wish to ally with the Grox, it is highly recommended that you are a friendly tribe (gives a +10 reputation) and that you do not have any allied ships with you, as they may destroy the Grox ships, which will give you a -70 relationship boost. To ally with the Grox fly towards the center of the galaxy, you will come across them way before you get there. You need 4 Planet Busters (or 3 Planet Busters and Fanatical Frenzy/Gravitation Wave), the Super Happy Ray, and a few health packs to heal while you're going to their planets for missions. They will attack you until you become allied with them. Do missions for them until you receive the maximum +50 reputation. You can plant an embassy on one of their planets, but they will attack it before you are allied with them. However, sometimes the embassy still gives you a +10 relationship boost. Use the super happy ray until you receive a maximum of +30 reputation for "using friendly tools," even with the best energy pack, you will need to recharge a few times before you're done. Blow up 4 non-Grox planets to get a +50 relationship boost for breaking the Galactic Code. Give them 100,000 spore bucks 4 times to receive a maximum +10 reputation. It is possible to ally with the Grox once you have a +70 relationship with the them, so you need to earn a total of +140 reputation (they start with -70). It is easier if you colonize a planet a near them so that you can re-energize. Even if you don't, you still can establish trade routes with them. When you become allied with the Grox, you receive -200 reputation with every other empire in the game and anyone with whom you do not have an excellent relationship (around +200) with will declare war on you. Most of your allies will cancel their alliances with you, unless you have an active trade route. If you have lots of money, you can pacify anyone who declares war on you by bribing them. This will erase the -200 reputation from allying with the Grox. The Grox will give you a ship with 3,600 health to add to your fleet, which is better than any other empire (it is highly recommended that you keep the Grox spaceship with you in case of attacks from pirates or other aliens). For that you will automatically receive the Dance With The Devil badge. It is quite humorous watching the war declarations and incoming transmissions showing on the screen when this is done. If you met a lot of alien empires across a spiral arm then you won't be able to see it any more because of the incoming transmissions. To see it again, save the game, go to the main menu and log back on. The incoming transmissions won't be there any more but the war declarations will still be there. You only need to make up with the alien empires around your colonies. The other empires across the galaxy won't do anything to you until you answer their war transmissions.(see below)

How to defeat the Grox
Many players, having gotten most or all of the badges and achievements, turned their attention to possibly the greatest challenge the game presents; destroying the Grox Empire. However, a problem quickly presented itself; there are a few star systems that, because of the reduced maximum travel radius when approaching the Galactic Core, are too far away from any other star to be reached. This means that without a mod, the Grox cannot be totally defeated.

Maxis, under pressure from the community to fix the issue, has released a such a mod that will address the problem of unreachable star systems near the core. Player will have to manually place the mod into their data folders but this does allow players to reach every Grox system.

Although The Grox have 2400 planets at the start, they can be defeated planet by planet. How to do it: Have the Mega Bomb weapon and fly over their planet running away from their fighters. use the mega bomb as you fly over the colony and lap around and hit them again. If you're spot on you can take the colony out with one shot, otherwise it may take a few tries. Additionally, use a mega laser to destroy the colony. It would be reccommended that you use a shield because they will shoot at you. By using the laser allows you to save your mega bombs and use them when you need them elsewhere. After all colonies are gone, the fighters will leave, unless they're already targeting you, in which you can fly in circles and take them out with the Mega Proton Missle. (flying in circles makes it difficult for the Grox to shoot you) By using this method and you can take out about ten systems before needed to recharge. Colonize planets on your way to the center and you can carve a path.

Another thing; if you are well and truly tired of the Grox, then you can spend a month or two completely annihilating them. If you choose to use a mod that allows instant recharge of weapons, then changing to Zealot and using Fanatical Frenzy on every system really helps, as you destroy them, your empire grows! Closer to the core, however, Grox colonies become harder to destroy or capture.



Playing as the Grox

 * It is possible to play as the Grox using hacks. This does not let you have their empire or archetype but does let you play the game using the Grox Creature. You can play as the Grox in the tribal, civilization or space stage by saving the Grox PNG shown here, then dragging it over the creator and using the hack to allow you to save.


 * To edit The Grox, put the PNG. in the Creatures folder. Then, enter Spore, go to Sporepedia, then go to the 'everything' sub folder. Click the search and enter 'Grox' or 'The Grox'. Double click their image. If you just click the edit button it will come up with an error message. The error message reads "This creation uses Spore parts that are not installed". Technically this is not true as every copy of Spore has the cyborg parts. Players merely can not use them. I have gotten to play Tridal with them, ha, ha.

Classification

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 * Genus: Mechanicaos (OluapPlayer, 2008)
 * Species: Mechanicaos cruelis (OluapPlayer, 2008)

Videos
How to Ally with the Grox

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The Grox Anthem

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Grox being played in Tribal stage

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