Creator Tip: making NPCs use matching buildings.
Do you love making themed matching sets of buildings? If so, you might want to know this tip.
This City Hall has the tag “set:galazan“. If the game picks this hall, it will search for a House, a Factory and an Entertainment building with that tag, and will find these:
In SPORE, when the game picks cities for NPC (Non Playing Character) civilizations, it picks a random City Hall and chooses buildings that match it aesthetically. By using a tag “set:” you can assure that it will allways pick the correct buildings to match the randomly chosen City Hall.
Example:
This City Hall has the tag “set:galazan“. If the game picks this hall, it will search for a House, a Factory and an Entertainment building with that tag, and will find these:
Update: further testing has shown that this system is not 100% reliable. I guess we’ll have to wait for better ways to control our content and create our SPORE Empires…