Hello fellow DCUO players and hello Dev-Team! Now first I want to say that this might not be the appropriate Sub-forum for this kind of thread but I'd like to keep this one readable for a longer time which I could not effort with posting this in the Gotham City Section. Second: This is gonna be a longer read and I have no "tl, dr" to give you. But if you look at the pictures I gonna post in this thread, it should give you enough information on what this thread is about. So let's start! Since over a year ago there were some adjustments and new things added to the Watchtower regarding Vendors, their location and what they sell. For instance: PvP Vendors now sell all kind of PvP armor PvE Vendors got replaced with other ones (T3 Sunstone's Edge's slot became the one for the T5 Atlantean Monarch armor) New Location-Teleporters have been added where you can explore DLC content and where you find DLC vendors A new (imo random) location has been added on where you can purchase Tier 6 gear. Now I don't have any problem with finding the right armor I need because I play this game long enough to be familiar with the Watchtower and its Vendors. However some of the vendor locations don't make sense to me. On top of that I knew from newer players my league recruited that they are getting confused about different Tier-Armor-locations and where to find them, and also about the PvP armor sections. Now what I did is pondering about how this little problem can be solved to make it look more logical and to give certain NPCs back their purpose. So the points I think would make the Watchtower more lucid (is that the right word) are the following: Robin and Steel can share the same section in the Tech Wing making the other section free for other stuff (read below) Hawkgirl, Aquaman and Robin don't serve any purpose right now. They sell Aeronaut, Logistics Officer. That's not what they are ment to be. My suggestion is to make them sell their very own Iconic Style for Marks of Valor. Now I know therefor we have a seperate Vending Unit in the Hall of Heroes but my problem with that is that these NPCs have no special reason to be there at all. We could now remove them entirely and nobody would miss them (practically) whatsoever. The Atlantean Monarch Armor stole the slot for the Tier Three Sunstone's Edge armor. Newer players won't even know it's there without scrolling down on the other three Tier Three vendors. I'd like to have the showcase for Sunstone's Edge back and place the Atlantean Monarch Amor in the left section of the Tech Wing (reason mentioned before). The Tier Six Insect Colonist Vendor seems to be at a completely random location next to the Central Hub of the Watchtower. Alongside with Mister Miracle and the Teleporter I'd move them to the left section of the Tech Wing. With Robin moved to the right we have plenty of room there. The Vestment of Rage gear should be purchasable in the Mogo Command Center. It belongs to the War of the Light Part I DLC and should (or should not) be purchasable with the appropriate number of Marks of Triumph since right now the Style itself is tied to another DLC currency (Marks of Fury). Despite the fact that it is a style only it should be placed in a Lantern-themed location - the Mogo Command Center just sounds right, don't you think? The Amazon Stragetos Vending Unit should be placed in the Themyscira Outpost and not in the Gotham Under Siege Warfront. Since we already have an Outpost I see no reason why the vendor should be again in another section. Right now the Themyscira Outpost is only good for the Wonder Woman Intro Mission to the DLC (which even can be skipped entirely). Placing the vendor there would give the Outpost the purpose it should have had in the first place. The PvP Armor showcases in the Hall of Heroes show non-iconic styles which should be replaced by iconic ones. Right now you can see Aeronaut, Logistics Officer and Vengeance even though we already have iconic gear inspired by Red Tornado (Elemental Android) and Nightwing (Gotham Knight). Not only the currently shown styles (two of them) don't look as good as the iconic ones, they're also the weakest gear available in Arena PvP. Replace them so we have Armor Showcases of Vengeance, Elemental Android and Gotham Knight. With coming PvP Seasons in the next year there could be new showcases added to the Hall of Heroes - there is so much unused space that can be filled. So that being said I'd like to post a few pictures of what I imagine the Watchtower could look like: The Watchtower's Tech Wing: As you can see the right side now looks like they do in every other Wing - a PvP Style and a PvE Tier One Style. The left side now would serve Tier Five and Tier Six vendors. The Watchtower's Meta Wing As it is shown, the only change would be to bring back the Showcase for the Sunstone's Edge Tier Three Armor making it visible once again which would not only make it 'look right' but also shows newer players that there are indeed four pieces of gear with four different Feats tied to them. The Watchtower's Magic Wing The Magic Wing is the only wing that just seems right how it is on live right now. The only change would be to give Hawkgirl back her Style to sell it to players who can bring up 8x800 Marks of Valor. The Themyscira Outpost Only thing to add would be the Strategos Vendor. Right now there's only Wonder Woman, a complete obsolete Teleporter (return to last location) and a Soder Vendor - if I'm right; I'm not even sure any player actual uses this vendor to buy Soders... The Watchtower's Hall of Heroes The way it is displayed we would have an actual "PvP-Wing" in our HQ serving only one purpose (go away Zatanna). I'm fine with the different vendors for Styles, Weapons and Armors - this is a visual-only issue to me. _________________________________________________________ Now I hope a few of you people took the time to read through this wall of text and if not at least have checked the images I provided. But even more I hope some developers have read it as well - maybe there are even some who had the same idea yet? I would appreciate it if this thread gets some attention and maybe we could have some (or all - yeah in this case I'd like to be greedy) changes on the Live Servers in the (near) future. Best Regards Schimära PS: In advance I apologize for some grammatical or semantic mistakes that might have happened. I am not a native english speaker and such mistakes might happen. However I am open to constructive criticism to improve my skills in english.
+1 Even if it's not exactly like this, I agree that the placement of tier vendors is very confusing, and I'd like to see it make a little more sense.
I would also suggest, to move something into the space that was used for the broker right under the main hub.
Wow. This makes so much sense, I almost want to cry. Devs, this is the way to go! also you should rename EMP Pulse
yep the old broker room and the old mail spots are perfect to expose the vendros ,or at least the suits in glass cases for ppl to admire, it would be ossom
I also suggest to place the skin vendor in the watchtower. In my opinion he's misplaced in Metropolis near Star Labs. People, who don' t know hardly find this vendor.
