I just strated playing EV (Unregistered, came with my EVO/Marsrising CD) and I was doing a little editing on it with RESEdit, and i found these sprites that said "Backroom" and "Requisition escort" and stuff like "Demand more" etc. Having never found these used in the game I looked for awhile but I can't find where they are used. The version is 1.0.5. Did they include those optioins later or what? Oh well. Just curious.
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**I just strated playing EV (Unregistered, came with my EVO/Marsrising CD) and I was doing a little editing on it with RESEdit, and i found these sprites that said "Backroom" and "Requisition escort" and stuff like "Demand more" etc. Having never found these used in the game I looked for awhile but I can't find where they are used. The version is 1.0.5. Did they include those optioins later or what? Oh well. Just curious.
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Good question. I've noticed this question has been asked a few times during the past few months. I guess more and more people are becoming loyal users of ResEdit. 
As Mr. Matt Burch said over at the Developer's Corner some time ago, all of those buttons you mentioned were never used. They were originally planned to add a few additional features to the Escape Velocity engine, but the ideas were cancelled. According to Matt's words, the mysterious graphics were deleted, but somehow showed up again in the graphic data files of EV when it was released. To put in short, those buttons aren't suppost to be there. Just remembrances of a cancelled idea...
I believe the "Back Room" button was suppost to give you access to more dangerous, high-paying missions. The "Demand More" button was going to have something to do with dominated planet tribute. As for the third you mentioned, I don't believe Matt had any comments on it.
I hope that answers your question. Welcome to the forums.
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(This message has been edited by Captain Skyblade (edited 10-27-2001).)
Hmm. Well, I was hoping that I was missing the buttons. I hoped that the Demand More button was for dominating planets (my specialty). I think I heard that some of these features were in Nova? That would be cool.
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**Hmm. Well, I was hoping that I was missing the buttons. I hoped that the Demand More button was for dominating planets (my specialty). I think I heard that some of these features were in Nova? That would be cool.
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Yeah, I was a bit puzzled about those buttons years ago when I first discovered them. I searched through Escape Velocity for some time, attempting to find the buttons within the game (but with no luck, of course).
What you heard about such features being in Nova is probably true. I don't know the details and such (not many do), but the Nova engine will have many, many more features over the EV and EVO engine /me thinks of the wonderful, 16-bit graphics/.
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Sure man, anytime.
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Hmmm, topic still seems to be open for posts. Don't tell me the Ambrosia forums are behaving like your PHP coding now. 
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Here's how Matt Burch, the author of Escape Velocity, says:
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**Since this has been asked so many times, I'll give a straight answer to clear it up once and for all...
In an early version of EV, there was a Back Room button in the bar that would lead you to what was basically just a copy of the existing Mission Computer window but filled with more "unique" missions. It was exceptionally lame, hence the thing you see now in which people come up and "talk" to you in the bar via pop-up dialogs.
The Demand More button may have been intended to have something to do with tribute or giving fuel to AI ships - I really don't remember, and I don't think any code was ever written that had anything to do with it.
Once those buttons crept their way into the EV data files, they stayed because we either didn't notice or didn't remember to take them out. Interestingly, during most of the development of Override, those buttons were gone - but sometime prior to the release they snuck back in somehow! Since the buttons are handled differently in Nova, I would hope that the phantom buttons will now be well and truly gone.
DLOG resource 4005 will probably stay, however, since I know David Dunham just loves answering email about it. **
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Ambrosia bans all free e-mail services because otherwise, people who had been banned from the boards for their misconduct could just get a new free email address and sign up for a new account.
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**Hmmm, topic still seems to be open for posts. Don't tell me the Ambrosia forums are behaving like your PHP coding now.:p
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He probably forgot to lock it. I've seen Frandall and Tom do that before; post an iLock and then forget to actually lock the topic afterwards.
I don't believe any of those features are going to be used as they were intended in Nova.
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**He probably forgot to lock it. I've seen Frandall and Tom do that before; post an iLock and then forget to actually lock the topic afterwards.
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Heh, I've done that at the (url="http://"http://yoshi.zzux.com/spaceport")Spaceport Bar(/url) (a webboard that I administrate). It's actually kind of embarassing. 
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Um, yeah, well, uh...
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