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Hop Gogs is a captain accessory and social tool in the Captain Outfitter in Spore Galactic Adventures. It is the second social tool unlocked in the Bard row of items.

Design[]

The Hop Gogs looks similar to a drama mask, in shining gold.

Role[]

When equipped, the Hop Gogs replaces the Captain's Dance ability with Stunning Dance. Stunning Dance starts at Level one and can be increased using the orange morphology slider when selected in the Captain Outfitter. It is used in response to Dancing prompts during socialization with another creature.

Stats[]

  • Level 1
    • Dancing Power: 6
    • Energy Used: 100
  • Level 2
    • Dancing Power: 10
    • Energy Used: 150
  • Level 3
    • Dancing Power: 14
    • Energy Used: 275

Strategy[]

The Hop Gogs present the best Dancing capability of any part in Spore, with Dancing Power 14 being able to satisfy most creatures with a single performance. Such prowess allowing for significant social progress when given the prompt.

The best application for all the Bard tools is relegated to player-generated Galactic Adventures, as the Maxis-made Campaign Adventures only feature socialization in one adventure, that being in Concert in the Park.

Without a dedicated mission to show off its potential, the Hop Gogs has a lot of small worries that accumulate over time. Dancing is frequent enough to warrant a social tool existing, but compared to the other social skills, it's far less common than Sing or even Charm. Even in a social-centric adventure, having no dance partners is a legitimate concern. The excess power at the cost of energy can still be challenged by the Diplomat's own social tool, the Princely Pad. With it, the Dancing Level 6 provides sufficient Dancing ability for all vanilla creatures to be satisfied, all while costing no energy. The only item the Princely Pad has to look out for is the Hop Gogs, and the only thing the Hop Gogs is challenged by is itself.

It should be noted that using both Hop Gogs and Princely Pad is unadvised, as the Dancing slot will merely override the Pad with the Hop Gogs' Stunning Dance. Unlocking both is therefore unadvised.

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