It's not a bug, At the end of the cell stage you make your little cell so it can go on land, but you are offered only legs.

in the space stage how do you get an ally ship?

^ When you are allied with someone just ask them for it under Diplomacy. You also get a ship every time you make a new ally. Just don't get them killed because each one is worth -3 if they die.

Does anyone know how many trade routes you are allowed at a certain point?

P.S. So today I went to the Grox homeworld and used the Planet destroyer thingamagic on it. It had to be one of the most satisfying and gleeful moments of my gaming career. I did die several seconds later but I did get to see it turn into a small sun.

So it would seem everyone has to deal with those Grox creatures.

Has anyone found our solar system? it is apparently in there somewhere.

Yeah, I noticed a few guys have the achievement on the sporepedia thingamajig. Figured out what roles were and how to change them from above. The best I did with the Grox was -5, apparently there's 1 role out there that gives you an additional 8 or so I'm wondering whether I can befriend them at all or not.

haha I saw the red faces when an allied ship died but I thought they became mad at the enemy, not me haha

I took the peaceful path with the Golducks so I HOPE I won't have much trouble with neighbours this time. right now I'm in the civ phase and it's a different game being religious. like, less violent haha the other time I just blew everything up and conquered the whole planet. now I'm in a mix of economic + religious capture, though I think I'll have to strike the other island with military first, I dunno.

I hope they add a "template" function for vehicles and structures in an exp. pack or patch. it's really boring to do everything again and just change one detail (house, entertainment or factory or military, economic or religious). and there should be a way to give your planets a chance to defend themselves better without your help. I know that just putting a colony in a planet without actually improving it is to ask for trouble, but you really shouldn't need to be a one man army, especially if your home country is full of YOUR own cities. where's the f***** National Guard??

I fully agree, when my empire is considered Omnipotent I don't see why effing pirates should be any trouble at all for them.

So there are now 1.5 million registered for the sporepedia. Seems like it's doing ok for first week sales.

Well I hit a bug that is annoying as heck. I cant leave my home planet without my game crashing.

So I found Earth, and the entire Solar System is there even a few moons, except for Pluto, I was kinda sad. Happened to have a nuke on me so I destroyed the planet after making it T3.