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View Poll Results: Which take on wear & tear would you prefer?
Equipment that is in perfect condition when spawned, but deteriorates over time 11 39.29%
Equipment that is always in perfect condition, like in PS1 4 14.29%
Equipment that shows the same wear & tear all the time, with NC tech being the most broken 13 46.43%
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Old 2011-10-01, 05:21 PM   [Ignore Me] #14
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Re: Style vs. Reason - wear & tear on equipment textures, or "Why spawn broken stuff?


Originally Posted by Accuser View Post
^ This
There's nothing saying that there's a Vanu-tech "computer aided design" interface where the factions get to design whatever they want. They brought over a small civilization worth of gear to Auraxis, found the nanite construction tech and scanned in what they had. NC had to bolt a tank together as best they could, then scan it, then start pumping them out using the resources on Auraxis.

This makes perfect sense if the founders of the VS were TR scientists who discovered a cache of Vanu tech and figured they could scan it all and use it to secede.
It would, if the TR and VS vehicles were pristine.
The TR have/had limitless resources and could scan a fresh vehicle, right off the assembly line.
VS tech is by definition cutting-edge, brand-spanking new and there's no reason why it would be scanned dented.
Come to think of it, even if the NC had stolen some previous-generation TR hardware (which I'm assuming is what they're using, story-wise), they obviously had to repaint all of it before scanning. And they're not some space hobos that they couldn't afford enough paint. :P

I do agree that this explanation has merit, and I thought about something like this when considering the subject of worn equipment, but there are still a few gaps left unfilled until the devs tell us their story (assuming there are no gaps there).
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