Vault-Tec's Competition?

[CringePotato]

Were there ever any companys that built other vaults or anything that were against Vault-Tec? If so I would love to see a vault or something from another company in Far Harbor.

[Delta]

Well theres the Pulowski Preservation Shelter[fallout.wikia.com] though they aren't vaults it's the only other type of company that does offer nuclear protection other than the RobCo/Vault-Tec vaults (which were used by the U.S government to conduct secret experiments). The shelters however weren't very successful in keeping their occupants alive given all the skeletons and ghouls you find in them.

[White Knight]

Nothing that we have seen in our games...yet. Of course, there is the Enclave whose origins are hinted at on some terminals in the Boston Bugle building. Filthy rich corporate tycoons who had formed a kind of shadow government - POTUS went away with them shortly before the bombs fell. I would assume that means they had at least one shelter.

Then there is Poseidon Energy, another huge and powerful corporation that we don't get to see much of. They have always existed on the periphery of the story and haven't taken a direct role at any point...so far.

Both of these groups had the resources, the know-how and had contingency plans.

Then you have space aliens. Since they are real in this game, who knows what kind of role they might have played? There could be another powerful faction waiting on another planet or living on space ships.

Lastly, there are all of the people who made it by hiding out in sewers, caves, basements, etc. We find them in every game.

There are lots of options, the writers were clever that way - anything is possible. Vault-Tec was running an experiment, experiments have controls, some of the vaults are working on a larger timeline and others may have no "end-date" whatsoever? We haven't seen the vault that had the world's most powerful and influential people in it, the one stockpiled with valuable resources, tools and knowlege needed to rebuild the world (200 years counts as nothing when talking about the survival of the human species).

We don't know and they can do whatever they like. They have laid the groundwork for as many more games as they can stand to make. As long as there are players willing to spend their money, there will be people willing to make us more games.

[These comments are based on what we think we already know. We only know bits and pieces of rumours about a small portion of the USA. There is a lot we don't know]

[Joe]

spend some time in the wikis and timelines you could lose hours reading stuff suffice it to say vault tec posiden and the government and almost all of the other big companies were colluding with each other and the secret group called the enclave had members spread across all of them (governments and corparations )

[Marshall]

even better than reading wiki is playing F2 with Restoration project (RPG) and Fallout Tactics (Squad based tactic game with a good story) - they are great games. And New Vegas with Nevada project and couple more mods that suit you taste is also great. Especially F2 will tell a lot about Enclave - as they are main antagonist. Well I might be biased, but I had much more fun with these than with F4 so far, but I hope that it will change.

[ChemicalBacon]

Originally posted by Delta9:

Well theres the Pulowski Preservation Shelter[fallout.wikia.com] though they aren't vaults it's the only other type of company that does offer nuclear protection other than the RobCo/Vault-Tec vaults (which were used by the U.S government to conduct secret experiments). The shelters however weren't very successful in keeping their occupants alive given all the skeletons and ghouls you find in them.

They almost seem like a cruel joke both F3 and F4 shelters had no way of telling you when the radiation was safe, no food or water, no room to move, barely enough room for one person and you had to pay to use it.


On the bright side, in F3 enemies couldn't open the door, so you could hide from them in one until they went away

[Paintbrush Poltergeist]

Originally posted by Delta9:

Well theres the Pulowski Preservation Shelter[fallout.wikia.com] though they aren't vaults it's the only other type of company that does offer nuclear protection other than the RobCo/Vault-Tec vaults (which were used by the U.S government to conduct secret experiments). The shelters however weren't very successful in keeping their occupants alive given all the skeletons and ghouls you find in them.

Imagine being locked in one, needing a crap, but the doors blocked with debris.

[ChemicalBacon]

Originally posted by Majestic Goose Shrimp:

Originally posted by Delta9:

Well theres the Pulowski Preservation Shelter[fallout.wikia.com] though they aren't vaults it's the only other type of company that does offer nuclear protection other than the RobCo/Vault-Tec vaults (which were used by the U.S government to conduct secret experiments). The shelters however weren't very successful in keeping their occupants alive given all the skeletons and ghouls you find in them.

Imagine being locked in one, needing a crap, but the doors blocked with debris.

*fallout death music as you collapse and die from holding it in too long*

[Yhwach]

Originally posted by Chemicalbacon:

Originally posted by Majestic Goose Shrimp:

Imagine being locked in one, needing a crap, but the doors blocked with debris.

*fallout death music as you collapse and die from holding it in too long*

If you're locked in there for that long, you'd have to release it at one point or another, even if it's on the floor.
Gross, but, yeah.. gross.

[Yhwach]

Originally posted by R:

Government contractors and government owned organizations almost never have competition inside of their own country. So you may have a Chinese rip 'Safely-Tech' but there is no domestic competition to Vault-Tec as far as I am aware.
Monopolies are illegal, unless they are government owned.

Depends, there's visible and hidden monopolies, where as the hidden ones amass their sales everywhere and have an impressive revenue.
There's a way to get around it such as on the internet medium or being represented across a broad spectrum, a few examples are:
Netflix
Facebook
Microsoft
ABInBev
Paypal
Intel

They're not really "True" monopolies, but they're close to being one.
In fallout 4, there's more clearer ones such as RobCO and General Atomics