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Stats

First Let's start off with the basic stats, no parts involved: (The Core is as follows)

• 150 Health, every point of Health equates to 1 exact point of Damage.
• 10 Power Military, Economic or Religious, all effectively deal Faction Damage in exact integers per point of Power.*
• 5 Speed, Speed is roughly equivalent to can only be described as 'Miles per Second'. without official planet sizes, just assume that they are small and cities are a few miles apart.

*Land / Sea war Vehicles deal volleys of Power per shot, whilst Air war vehicles deal a steady Damage per Second beam in Power. All Economic Vehicles dump the same amount of meter at 50% Power. Enough to Buy out in one cycle.

Next up is Maximums, this is important because of the way Spore calculates final stats:

• 750 Health - +600 / 80% growth difference from base.*
• 50 Power** - +40 / 80% growth difference from base.*
• 45 Speed - +40 / 88.89% growth difference from base.*

*Spore only cares about the percentage total from 0 to 100% per stat. It cannot Exceed 100% and takes 7 Units to reach it.

**Without Glitches, Power parts are required to be attached, meaning it is not legitimately possible for pure 100% power.

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Units

Each part in the creation tray has a symbol ranging from 1 to 4 Units. A Unit is Equivalent to 15% before Capping. So it's better to count in Units when balancing a build.

• Bodies feature a mix of Health and Speed, with exactly 2 featuring 2 Health.
• Cockpits also feature a mix, but all Cockpits have at least 1 Health.
• For Land/Sea/Air the opposite is true, all have at least 1 Speed
• Power parts only have 1 to 4 Power Units.

Effects and Details do not cost any Units, and can be attached freely to any body or weapon. Use this to sculpt creations when Units are tight.

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Balancing Your Power

Buildings have 600 to 800 Health. The best powerful vehicles without loss by destruction during an assault can dish out 30 Power per shot without being blown up themselves.

As you may notice: 30 -10 = 20. 50% of your Unit budget can be allocated for over triple base damage.

This leaves the other 50% to your Discretion. Remember, you can have 0 Speed or Health Units if built correctly, enabling a 50/50 split.

However, in my experience: The optimal balance is 10/50/40. This can either be achieved with 1u/5u/4u (10u) or 2u/10u/8u (20u). Past this point the model hits the complexity limit and Power is lost.

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Spice Capture

Last but not least is Spice Capture. It is not affected Power at all unless attacking a claimed Geyser. All unclaimed Geysers capture at the same rate per Vehicle based on Speed by a small amount. About 1.x times your Speed stat.

This works best in the opening gambit, with land and sea. Use your land to capture your continent, then use the funds per Geyser to buy boats and claim the last 2 to 4 nodes in the sea.*

*You must be on a shore in Tribal to spawn as a docked City.

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End Results

No matter the approach, 30 Damage per Shot per Vehicle is insane. It only takes 15 Land Vehicles to destroy a building in roughly 2 shots each.

On certain difficulties with enough speed, you can lock down up to 10 Geysers. that's a base rate of §1,000 per tick. But Building Economy is for another time ;)

Enjoy your maximised weapons and traders of world war Spodes!

For Context, I've already beaten:

• Tuner Stock, Rx-8 > Eclipse > Skyline
• Exotic Stock, Alfa > Lotus Elise > Porsche Carrera GT

Both playthroughs i did in-between attempting Muscle Stock, now i'm stuck in the last zone at Silverton and I can't progress because I can't get a tier 3.

I've beaten a couple races by quite a lot of happenstance, especially police happenstance but I can't close any territory it's... impossible!

The AI catch-up zoomers just annihilate my chances at the sharp corners even though i'm executing them like it's GT4 trying to do liscense golds (as in perfectly).

Has anyone actually managed to get to unlocking the Plymouth or the Shelby 500 like this ever? There are stock car challenge vids but I can't find any specific class stock playthroughs.

As far as i'm able and know Muscle stock is just not doable because they suck too much at handling even with S Tier racing experience.

My Step dad who can't have milk, lactose, wheat or gluten tends to make tea for us all but has to drink just 'hot water'.

Is there a safe tea he could possibly try?

• I'm maining Devastation Evoker on Horde since its the class I like most and has a really easy 4 combo with the disintegrate setups.
• I haven't done War Within yet as I did pretty much all Chromie Time between Wrath(finished up to Icecrown Citadel cutscene) and Legion(3/5 zones done), so my gear is roughly lv.76 avg.
• I'm aware the current expansion will probably be really up there like ilvl200 so I'd like to know what ilvl floor I need to hit before starting.
• Lastly, what's the most repeatable thing I can do that's not raids/mythics? I'd prefer to be able to do stuff like timewalking with those helpful goods scaled gear drops.