It is annoiying, its like im talking to a bunch of children who are trying to act like animals... Fortunatly I ain't playing that game anymore. What a load of hype.

You know what is worse? you only hear the voices when you open a comm chanell. Which:

1. requires you to orbit the planet.

2. starts off with a window saying hello, where you click on either "talk" or "leave" (if you click on talk, there is still a leave button!

3. You have to talk and go through multiple clicks to get your free repairs and refueling.

4. etc.

The game (oops, sorry, "spore is a toy, not a game", whatever that means) sucks.

Spore is, as Phazon says, a totally casual game.  I play it while talking on vent with my friends, it makes good downtime from WAR online or FPS games.

If you were expecting the next soul/time eating mega-twitch game from MAXIS and WILL WRIGHT, you really should have known better.  This game is pretty much The Sims 2 with creatures instead of people. 

It did get much better with the recent patch for Space, now there's more actual playing time and less time spent reacting to enemies/disasters/pirates.  The player and thier allies still desperately need to be able to build defensive/eco-response fleets, however...

I don't know what you mean by "intense hardcore game"... I don't find GC2 or Sins to be "intense hardcore", but unlike spore they don't suck, in fact they are good.

Spore just sucks... ill take your word for the patch making the space age suck less (the real game, the rest is just mini games preceeding it), but if it still requires you to baby your planets... and i bet the money making system is still crap (360 spices per minute means a planet fills up its stores in 3 minutes, and you have to manually pick it up and transport it for vast sums of wealth, if you got the right routes, ugh)

no they don't, aside from canons being carpel tunnel ville, the pirates easily destroy them, and you have to manually rebuild those.

However the uber canon, a 600,000 defender that flys around, insta kills anything, has 50k health, a sheidl, and is never shot at, DOES protect your colonies well (Although they might still loose a building or two, and will not rebuilt it).

You are the only one capable of getting those type of canons by the way, and they require you to grind to unlook the technology.

Yea there are tricks to spice, you can colonize a system with multiple colors, so you get good prices in system, and you can make a system with same color so you visit and max out your hold with 99 spice (you cant have 120 spice of the same type, max 99 of any item, including spice... unless the patch changed that). But it is still a huge pain, and it just seems incredibly STUPID that over 99% of the spice just goes to waste.