On another note, am I understanding right that people are seeing children and teens in NPC apartment neighbor families?  Because I'm seeing only adults and elders.

1)  So... limited activations include... if you ever have to re-install?  i.e. if I ever have to reformat, it will count as one of the 3 time only activations?

2)  I can understand how the cracked version would allow you to circumvent SecuROM... but does it actually let you re-install multiple times?  I mean... wouldn't you still need a serial/activation #?  I would imagine that each serial/activation # still only has 3 time only activations.  Unless the cracked .exe actually does something to prevent the activation from counting?

OR... does it only NOT count if you DON'T play online.  in other words... you can activate and re-activate, whether you use your valid paid for serial/activation # or whether you use a cracked/key-gen'd one, so long as you NEVER go online?

In doing so, I noticed a behaviour that quickly drove me to distraction. Every walk-by, after being greeted and talked to, walked straight into one of two bedrooms that were equipped with dressers and repeatedly changed clothes! Over and over and over. Four of the orphan kids did the same. Everyone lined up to change clothes. It was ridiculous! I finally deleted all dressers and the walk-bys. Bleh! I have never seen this behaviour in any EP before this.

I believe they eventually scrapped the activation scheme due to public outcry.

I'm going to be getting a new computer in the next few months, and I'm not thrilled that I'll have to reactivate my game and only have one more activation available. I miss the "good old days" when copy protection was "type the fourth letter of the fifth page of this manual". It was a lot less invasive than SecuROM.

There are no reviews at all for Spore now on Amazon.co.uk. However the tags for the game are quite interesting.

AL introduced a new feature - you press Ctrl and Alt together and then it will let you put more things on the same wall, without using move objects. 

Would someone pretty please link me to a copy of the full version of Creature Creator?

Yee, I'm starting up my game. :]

ps: what do you mean by people are experiencing opposite? do you mean that people are having their games running faster after this ep?

Yep! You can register for a Spore account as long as you have a valid registration code.  When you install the game, do not start it up until after you install the crack.  Then just start it up normally and you can go online and utilize the full features of the game, minus the SecuROM checks. 

When in another household totally, they all list fine, but when playing the 2nd family in an apt, the first family isn't on the list.