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Spore (PC)
T-Score Tip
by Draygarr (tonyjcooper) (hotmail)
When you're stabilizing the T-Score of a new planet, and you need to
put plants and animals on it, you only ever need to carry 1 of everything.
Have:
1 of 3 different types of small plant,
1 of 3 different types of medium plant,
1 of 3 different types of large plans,
1 of 6 different types of herbivores,
1 of 3 different types of carnivores.
So therefore you only need to carry 18 slots and you can completely terraform
any planet.
The trick is...
After you drop something, immediatly pick it back up! Once it's part of the
eco-system, you can pick your original back up. That way you don't need
to keep looking for new species of plants and animals when populating planets.
Big time saver.
And remember... plants can be dropped from any distance you like, but be
careful when lowering animals. They need to be placed gently on the
ground.