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I know that if you have business 3 and you set up a vendor that wenn you drop the skills you keep the vendor.

But as everyone knows the maintenece of the vendor will be very high.

My question is: What happends if you get Novice Merchent and place a NPC vendor.

How do these costs work?? And will I still be able to use it after I drop the skill?

I think you may be working from old information on the "maintenance of the vendor will be very high" part. I haven't checked lately (moved all my vendors to NPCs), but a few publishes ago they made all vendors have a flat maintenance fee instead of having the vending terminals (gained at business 3) charge based on the total worth of the items for sale. This goes up if you add barking or planetary registration (which both require Merchant), and down if you get Efficiency IV (I think, maybe Efficiency III).

I'm pretty sure the base maintenance cost for all vendor types is 15 credits/hour.

If you place a vendor and drop the skill, right now you don't lose any functionality. Emphasis on "right now". The profession Q&A Thunderheart posted today (the "19 Answers" thread on the In Live forum) stated that this is not how it's supposed to be used, and the devs will be adding a check at some point to make sure you have the skills required to run all your placed vendors.

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Kriles Ch'artoff , Chilastra server
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