Are you sure? It seems so artificial, and im certain most of the npcs do nothing at all- but i guess I'll have to wait for a nerd to make a real analysis to know for sure. Some of the npcs may have a purpose
Yes. There are cargo oriented vehicles aptly named 'water trader' or 'energy trader'. When you build a station, you can have the station pick up materials by itself rather than you supply the materials. You give the architect a budget and they'll try to get as much items through that budget as possible. If you wait long enough, you can see traders making its way to station, dropping materials off, then moving back to the factory/station that it belongs to.
You can scan ship to see if they are carrying cargo. Eventually you pick up which ones are trade ships and which are just traffic by sight. There is a logic to it as well, when I needed the otherwise unavailable reinforcement plates I went to the PMC Sation that makes them and found several ships ferrying the goods out of the system to cap.
It isbasicallythe same game... just at the moment very broken, unbalanced, and many of the UI elements need lots of work.
The XCOM expansion is really good, apart from all your augmented soldiers inexplicably swap their badass armor for short sleeved T-shirts.
Maybe the genes they use for augmentation are from Jersey? I mean, all that tanning bed UV light has to eventually cause some kind of beneficial mutation.
Yea, that doesn't really mean anything. If you pulled apart Vanguard and Conan the same way you'd find all sorts of similar references in the code and GUI art. Doesn't mean the game was ever in serious contention for coming out on a console, especially considering how much it costs.
Yes, you would. Xbox Controller GUI art is absolutely in the Vanguard files (as is references to xbox), and on Conan (and TSW) we used an xbox controller internally to control the free camera (among other things) for testing and videos. So parts of the code handle xbox controllers and reference xbox library files. I am not some random schmo making things up, I worked on those games.
Im far too lazy to download vanguard and check its shaders, so I'll concede that maybe every game is released with xbox tags in the gpu handling part of it. That said, the job posting for xbox 360 devs on their website and the very old news article where egosoft claimed to be looking at a xbox port make it extremely hard to deny they were developing with xbox in mind
