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My game keeps downloading rubbish that appears in my game. This is despite me playing offline. For some reason, the downloaded content mostly comprises earlier stages of the creature I'm playing in my current game. Thus, I keep coming across earlier stages of the very race I'm playing. In the tribal stage, my creatures hunt themselves as food. In the space stage, they bump into themselves on every other planet, ranging in development from hostile rival space empire to wild indigenous predator. Is there a way to a) stop the game from downloading rubbish that I have deleted for the 100th time, and b) prevent the game from reusing earlier stages of a particular creature. I always delete earlier stages of whatever creature I create as soon as I advance to the next stage, but the game keeps downloading them right back.

It isn't downloading back things you have deleted, the problem is that earlier stages cannot be deleted. Every time you edit your creature, it saves a copy of the old version; these copies are hidden and therefore difficult to delete. If you toggle "Buddy Content" off and then on again (or vice-versa) in the options, you should be able to see them and delete them, but I may be remembering incorrectly.

This is a feature, though I've never had one race find earlier stages of itself. Other races, sure.

I had it happen once in space -- I found a planet that had a tribal version of the race I was playing.  I dropped a monolith on them. :) (New challenge -- wander the galaxy and find your other 11 'tribes', ala Battlestar Galactica.)


I have seen one of my other races show up as an Epic once, though.  That threw me for a minute, I was so surprised.  I didn't realize until that moment that the Epics are just random larger versions of the creatures already in your local catalog.

I think I've been through one game (out of 14 saved) where this guy wasn't made an epic. Maybe eight of those he was also a tribal. My game really, really, really loves him.
(http://i533.photobucket.com/albums/ee334/zazazuspore/Creatures/Nevin.png)

Also, one of the things the game will occasionally do if you have renamed your creature at any point in play is that it will reimport the PNGs thinking they are new downloads after you have deleted them. You should also purge your "my Splotch creations" directory of all the PNGs so that the game cannot reimport them.

Will that mess up the History window at all? Since it shows the previous versions of your creature.

It will cause the boxes to go blank under the new patch. Unpatched, they tended to become white squares. Nobody ever reads the ancient histories anyway.