How would you improve Spore if you could?

When I got the creature creator and I saw all the different things the creatures could do (happy dance, sing, growl, etc.), I thought that this game was going to allow more actual interactions in the game. I was quite disappointed therefore to find that you could not actually command your creatures to do any of these interactions. The actions just happened as part of the game in the kill or be killed world of Spore.

So, if I could improve Spore, I would have the creatures be more interactive during the creature phase, and have more things to be done during that phase as well. After all, we created these little monsters, we should get to play with them for a while and actually have fun with our creations.

But, I have this problem throughout Spore. I find each stage so limited in what you can do -- kill this many tribes or ally with this many tribes to get through the phase. How boring. From the promotion of Spore that was being done, I truly thought that taking creatures through different phases was going to be much more involved and creative than that. After playing Will Wright's last game (the sims) for years, I thought that Spore would be much more interactive and that game play would be much more individualized. How disappointing that it's the same old shoot 'em up game that's been on the market for years -- just with more creative characters and graphics.

EDIT: I would also make the space stage better by having a list of your contacts available. It's too easy to forget where people are located and then you can never find them again. And I would definitely allow you to get stuff from your own planets without having to go down each time.

I agree with Faith, for the most part, though you have to remember that way back then, humans couldn't really communicate with each other, either, so why should the Spore characters in the Creature stage? Anyway, it'd be nice if you could warp back to your home planet in the Space Stage, I hate having to travel all the way back and forth between them and the Grox.

I would probably make being a social creature more exciting. I like social.