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I really wish you would stop refering to a skill for "placing vendors" There isnt' one. The skill mod is "Manage Vendors" the popup text tells you that it allows you to place a vendor. That doesn't imply that the name or the purpose of the skill is "placing" it is merely a description of what you can do and it isn't a complete description. The developer who wrote this code has admitted that the fact that you could operate them after dropping the skill was an oversight on his part and he never intended it to work like that.

There are a number of reasons why allowing people to drop merchant and keep vendors is a bad idea among them are the balance of skill points in the game and fair competition among crafters/merchants.

The whole point of the skill point system is that you have to make choices. If you get everything for free without having to keep the skill points you really don't have to make a choice.

In any event that is the way it works and post Publish 10 it will be enforced finally in code. I really don't know why we are still discussing it.

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Barris wrote:

I don't think that will change after patch 10, but Doc may be working to make it that way. This is a horrible thing really because of how it gimps templates for people like you and myself... Have to make sacrafices. Something these hardcore merchants that only craft wouldn't know about.

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Sacrifices? You don't know the meaning of the word. You try scouting for resources on one of the outer planets, armed only with a melon and barely the skill to use it.