Excidium Planetis wrote:
Well then, I ask because while browsing through the Google Play Store, I stumbled across an app that had suspiciously familiar icons:
http://i.imgur.com/7QeZiZj.jpg
That's from the app Simcountry:
http://i.imgur.com/PRoEkTe.jpg
Which as you can see has in app purchases and is linked to a website.
I installed that frankly awful app just long enough to confirm the images are used in game. Not all the images match up to NS images, but as you can see, the icon labeled Corporations is an exact copy of the Sector: Manufacturing trophy, the one labeled Finance is the Average Income of the Rich trophy, the one at the bottom that looks like a truck is labeled Transportation but is an exact match for the Black Market trophy and the Population icon is the same as the NS Population trophy.
Coincidence? I think not.
(Although these icons are not significant to the money making part of the app, that is kinda cheap to steal someone else's icons, isn't?)
I think you better report this in Moderation. I feel it would be rather impolite to do it myself, since you found it. But if those images are property of Max Barry and he didn't give permission for their use, he won't be happy to see someone else using them.