Underwater civilization

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Despite some rumors to the contrary, aquatic civilizations do not exist in Spore. All civilizations are land-based and all cities are built on land. However, Will Wright has hinted that underwater civilizations may appear in an as-yet uncompleted expansion pack.

These rumors come from an old video created by Spore on youtube where, as they build a city in a bubble in space, the player says that "about this time we could build cities in these bubbles underwater". This was removed however due to it not working with the mechanics of the game. If a city was underwater it could not be attacked, traded with or converted thus the game would break at Civilisation phase.

Also theory is no way to go underwater again once cell phase is finished. You can swim in the Creature phase, but going to far from shore will result in being killed.