Word getting around the water cooler is there are some preferences that are available for change to reduce the number of RSI and tourettes inducing events.

That way you shouldn’t have to rage back across the Galaxy to shoot a couple of ships down for your completely incapable Empire who deems that you should be the only spaceship for the other Empires’ 50gazillion* ships.

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1. Go find your Spore’s directory. It should be located in your applications directory.eg. C:\Documents and Settings\<<USERNAME>>\Application Data\SPORE\Preferences
   
2. Make a backup (make a copy) of your original preferences.prop file.
   
   
3. Open the file preferences.prop and add some of the lines to the end, where x is the set variable of your choice.  Using Notepad is probably the easiest way to edit this file.universeSimulatorPirateRaidFrequency x
   universeSimulatorPirateRaidAllyFrequency x
   universeSimulatorPirateRaidPlunderFrequency x
   universeSimulatorHappinessDisasterFrequency x
   universeSimulatorBiosphereCollapseFrequency x

   Some other potential things to play around with.

   universeSimulatorGrobTeaseAttackFrequency x (default:100)
   universeSimulatorGrobWarAttackFreqExtremelyAware x (default:40)
   universeSimulatorGrobWarAttackFreqVeryAware x (default:80)
   universeSimulatorGrobWarAttackFreqAware x (default:160)
   universeSimulatorWarAttackFrequency x (default:300)

   0 should disable the given event normally.

4. Save the file.
5. These apparently can be entered during the game the same you can enter Spore’s cheat system by pressing ctrl+shift+c, but then you’d have to do that all the time and Spore gives you enough RSI as it is.  On the subject of console cheat entry, entering “help” should bring up the list of all the available cheats.

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Also got word from EA game support on Spore crashing a little too often. Not that it’s very helpful for me but might work for other people.

Hi Jort,

It might be worth trying the Nvidia beta drivers that have solved a lot of issues for folks.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

Regards,
EA Support