About the Space Age
Prior to me starting to play Spore, I heard mixed opinions on the space age. Back then I kinda thought to myself, that the space stage can't be that bad... And honestly, since I started playing it, I really got to enjoy the space stage. It's definitely not the best stage in the entire game, but it's fun and I enjoy it... However, that doesn't mean that there aren't a few things that piss me off, which also makes me understand why the space age has mixed opinions.
What pissed me off, personally is the amount of emergencies that sometimes pop up. They aren't so bad or annoying at the beginning at the space stage, but they get progressively more annoying as time passes on. I mean, it's not like I don't want to help my allies or own planets against raids, ecological disasters etc, but it's always a pain in the ass when that happens, while I'm literally on a different arm of the galaxy and ages away from the wormhole back to my home system. Also, my allies, just like me, are lifeforms capable of space travel, with their own space ships and such, but they can't deal with their own ecological disasters???? Like, bro! You guys got ships with weapons too! Kill the infected animals yourself! Same applies for my own planets. I'm literally becoming an empire that rivals the size of the Star Wars Empire (which is ironic, because I also fly around in an ISD), but my planets can't deal with anything themselves! I'm literally controlling half of the galaxy, but I'm the only freaking person who can repell raids or stop disasters! Shouldn't each planet also posesses a ship of their own at least?!
All of that really makes me feel, like I'm the personal babysitter of my own empire (which is kinda fair, but still annoying) as well as the empires of my allies! I need to always go back to them, as soon as even a single worm coughs, basically forcing me on the age long way of back to my home system, even though I just wanted to look for Earth (with me being on the opposite side of the galaxy)!