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Originally Posted by NicMacc

I also found these, which answered a few questions. blog posts from the Spore community day, where fan site creators were invited to Maxis to play the game

Playing Spore @ Maxis Studios - Total Spore

It says that the content at the start of the creature phase is mostly maxis. Maby some creators should make some simple creatures with low complexity so that it is not just maxis stuf that occures at the start of the game.