Certain colors of spice are more rare than others, but they mean different things to different empires and colonies (GamingSteve.com). I haven’t really figured this out yet, there seems to be a lot of different colors. The Spore Guide indicates that the star colors of different galaxies have a meaning: Blue stars have planets rich in spices; Yellow stars have planets with a good amount of spices, and Red stars have planets low on spice.

Now, what do the different ‘Wild’ icons mean when a planet is inhabited by wild animals?

In the Tribal level, your allies will periodically send you gift baskets of food. It says, ‘Click on the gift basket to accept’. But when I went to the food store, I could see no basket. Clicking on the message icon just takes you to the ally’s village. Well, the allies will probably take a few seconds to arrive at your food store, so the basket won’t appear right away. And as long as there’s a creature nearby that’s not busy, it will automatically accept the basket, so you don’t really have to do anything. I always make sure there’s at least one creature guarding the food from raiding wild animals, so it will also accept any incoming gift baskets too!

Can you send gift baskets to your allies? I’ve tried but was unsuccessful, the cursor doesn’t change to a green gift box. You really just need to give them to tribes who are less than neutral towards you.

I installed Sims 2 Apartment Life today! Some features sound really neat, like witches and magic. Others like the actual apartment living and roommates sound very similar to the dorm rooms in University. The first bug I’ve found that is starting to get annoying is that the sims will serve food on tables in the common area of their apartment, in addition to the tables that may be in their own apartment. The common area is usually far away, down some stairs! I think the first thing I’ll try to do is make sure I have enough open table places so that all the dishes are served inside the apartment. I think there’s only about 6 servings per meal.