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When the player's creatures become sentient, they enter the Tribal Phase. The Tribal Phase occurs when the player's creature has finally achieved sapience and gathers members for surviving, attacking, and defending from other tribes of its own species and other sapient species[1] to become the dominant tribe.

In this phase the player stops controlling one creature and now controls many. New tribe members will be acquired through mating or from other tribes by "buying" them. Each tribe member costs 10 food points. After short childhood phase, a tribe member will be available to play.

The tribe has a village at this stage which may be expanded with additional huts providing more items such as: weapons, entertainment, and culture-themed items (at the cost of food) with which tribe members can interact. Food can be gathered by hunting, fishing (if you're a herbivore you get seaweed instead of fish) and domesticating animals.

Depending on what the player gives his or her creatures and how they play the game they will become diplomatic, scientific, or agressive (there might be others). When a tribe conquers all rival tribes they can advance to the civilization phase (this advance is optional).

There are two ways to deal with other tribes: subdue them culturally or exterminate them. To exterminate a tribe one must destroy its main building.

There are specializations in tribal phase: for example by building different buildings, the player can give its tribe members ability to fish, gather more food, attack from range with spears, burn enemy houses with torches or close attack with axes. To change a tribe members specialization, the player selects him and sends him to the desired house by right-clicking on it. For example to arm fishermen with a spear, you send him to the "Spear" building, which will cause the fisherman to drop his net and grab a spear.

According to the official Spore site, there will be six powers in this phase, two of which will be granted to the player at the start depending on how they played the Cell and Creature phases.

The tribal phase could be compared to the Stone Age on Earth.

Check out the list of Tribal phase stubs if you're looking to add something.

[edit] See Also

• Tribal phase images

[edit] External links

• E3 Spore Presentation