I'm currently playing my second file in Spore,and do you know why?It's because starting a war with another race in the Space Stage starts the most ludicrous snowball effect in all of gaming.Let's examine further,shall we?

The whole fiasco started when another race called the Bingfish started trying to extort money in exchange for not wiping me off the map.I decided to take the initiative and flew to one of said race's planets and used my super-duper religion bomb on it,making the planet mine.Naturally,this started a war.Unfortunately,my allies at the time loved peace a little to much,and severed their alliances.This wasn't really a problem,since I wasn't at war with them.Unfortunately,when I insta-converted another Bingfish planet,said race's allies all declared war on me.Now I'm in the middle of 3 wars,with no allies because I started it in their eyes,because they obviously weren't getting extorted like I was.

Now I flew on over to said allies that had declared war,and blasted them with the God bomb.And then a massive pile of war-declaration letters was dumped on my head,because this race had no less than 10 allies,all of whom were pretty pissed.It was at this moment that I abandoned the file forever,because I would soon be dealing with 13 different wars.

Fortunately,you can start a new file from any stage in the game with any creature you choose,so I effectively hit the reset button.

Nevertheless,I still like Spore a lot.And I'm really glad it's the weekend.:P