So to start this off, has anyone made it to the center byt actually making it there? I unlocked 42 and all but that's only because I took a black hole righ next to it and stocked up on massive amounts of health boosters and every time as soon as I clicked on the center 10 ships jumped on me and killed me at the little loading phase. Anyone actually live through that?

Also, anyone find an easy way to figure out where mission plantes are? They keep giving me a name and I'll be damned if I'm able to find it.

I'm in space stage, I recently passed through a wormhole and came in contact with the Grox, I'm trying to befriend them (or at least stop them of attacking me everytime they see me) by making missions for them so I can try to reach the center. I'll update it when I do.

You can actually talk to them? I get to the first planet and I automatically start a war...

I dunno, I'm in the civ stage. Just started it. probably won't get a chance to play until tomorrow. Pretty frikkin sweet game.

I dunno if I did something special. But when I was showing the game to a friend (I wasn't planning to save, so I tried to reach the center to see what happened), I came in contact with the Grox, so I tried to avoid them by flying from system to system as quickly as possible, but they control EVERY system, and since there is less gravity, is a lot more difficult to fly. So I thought, "if I want to pass, I have to make sure they won't attack me", so the next time I tried, as soon as I came across a Grox system, I made contact with them and offered to do a mission for them. I started with -70 of relationship, now after three missions and one bribe of $100000 every time I come in contact with them I'm -22 and the face turned yellow, so I think I'm doing fine

Oh man nice. I should do that.

I'm in the tribal stage right now--not as fun as the first two, but it's still fun (and it's likely just because I'm not an RTS fan)

Best parts of the game so far for me have both been in stage 2:

1. Getting chased by something so big I don't even have space to turn around and see its' name.

2. Being in the middle of an epic four-species (two-on-two) fight over one territory, only to have the party crashed by an EPIC BUTTERFLY!

anybody hate the civilization phase? It's so shallow!

I don't hate it, but Tribal and Civ are shallow, they're just a bridge between the two most important phases, Creature and Space

I like all of them but I think the cell and Civ are my favorites, pre-Space obviously.