yup! You get clothing from tribal onward - the backpack/tuxedo/bowtie/tophat is from the Civ stage. I'm now lost in spaaaaccceee... and have much different-tech style clothing.

You should've stayed with the tuxedo.

My race lives in high-tech houses and ♥♥♥♥ but has all tribal clothing.

Pssh
Who needs modern clothing anyway.

I don't think I could possibly improve my current guys, unless maybe I add a top hat.

Here be some other pictures from civ stage, which is by-far the best looking stage.
I was herbivore therefore started religious and had to capture a military city before I could blow things up. The aqbility to turn of turrets was nice.
Here are some pics from my abilities as religious.
This is Blacksmoke, It turns off all power (including turrets, woot!) and makes it REALLY quick to capture by religion...But I just used it so I could bring in my city demolishing Air Force


My magnificent force de air.

This is the 4th power for religion/herbivore. It instantly converts all one nation's cities into your empire- meaning an insta win if it is only you and another guy left. Also gives an achievement

If only the civ stage wasn't so damn easy.

Insta-build units, no infantry, you basically just need to mass units and attack and then you're nigh unstoppable.

yeah and other civs don't use powers

That's my war car gif

I am on Space stage. I only started and did the tutorial so far, but it looks awesome. I tried to abduct an Epic creature that was wondering around one of my cities, but it didn't work and he just breathed fire on me. Then I used the Mini-Laser and it only did like 10 damage a second. Anyway, my ship looks horrid and I am going to fix that.

I haven't seen any epics since Creature stage. It makes me sad, I wanted to abduct one.
I suppose it has something to do with the fact that I killed one (!); but I didn't get the "Epic Killer" achievement like I should have..

You can't abduct them. Or at least I couldn't. Anyway... I was playing Spore the other day and was doing amazing in the Space stage, then all of a sudden Spore closed and I lost everything I did that day... D:

There's a keyboard shortcut to save (I believe it's CTRL + S?) I suggest you start saving more often, as that hints at unstable computer. I haven't had any crashes at all yet.
I like how, if you get the right badges, you can create a creature and then turn it into an epic in Space stage.

Now that I've played them game, I'm glad that Maxis/EA decided to do speed and things on a part/point system instead of by body structure.
Because I've realised I'd much rather design a totally unrealistic creature that looks cool than one that would work in real life but doesn't.
The player has more freedom this way to make whatever they want, I think that's the point of spore, obviously not realism.

So now I'm in space stage and I have creatures with some pretty awesome moleman-esque goggles. I'll post pictures later, add me as TheLastBanana if you want to see them right now.
Civilization stage was pretty easy
My continent was me, a one-city nation and a large war nation. Somehow I ended up religious, so I converted the small nation and then took over the war nation one-by-one.
Then the other continent was left, and I hardly even had to go there. Using a little bribery, I got the two large nations to like me, used my military vehicles to weaken the small one-city nation's defenses, and then sent one of the big nations in to convert.
After the city was gone, I actually ended up with 50% of the world joining my nation in a 5-second period.
And because of the little tiny nation that we destroyed having owned a whole bunch of spice geysers, I just barely got economic for space.

Okay... Spore crashed TWICE on me now... I saved a lot this time, but I didn't save too closely to where I was... Why does Maxis/God hate me?

I just got Spore today. I must say that I am really enjoying it! And it works on my computer even though it has a sucky graphics card!