It's there so heroes and villains can coop.
The reason (I presume) it wasn't put in Pocket D is that many player and official game events use Pocket D.
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Let's also consider the level difference. . . we all know AE is being used to PL. Now if you could start power leveling at 1 instead of 35. . .that would be my guess personally.
My point is say that someone has NEVER played one side or the other, and only has friends in a common position. If they have high level villains they'd be able to powerlevel their heroes starting at level 1!
How it is now they must wait till 35 to be powerleveled (or at least make new friends that will. . . or pay for it. . .or any number of other things, but still!)
Having to be 35 to co-op is annoying plain and simple. And for the power-leveling comment, people I know generally have a farm toon for villain and hero side, so power leveling lowbies is already easy.
Maybe Pocket D has people in it on the roleplay server or something. I don't think I've ever seen anyone in Pocket D on freedom except during the events otherwise. Unless maybe they were in the tiki lounge using the tailor.
DJ Zero having a state-of-the-art arcade gaming center would make a lot of sense, I'd think. He snaps up weird stuff. He set up a ski track in the shard. He leaves a truck just floating outside the window. He stole the Monkey Fight Club from the Rogue Isles. He has arena terminals even though he supposedly doesn't condone any fighting inside Pocket D to avoid having a bloodbath.
It was probably just to prevent coop/PL at 1-35 range. The AE in RWZ is a pretty dumb location to build. If it had been set up inside the Vanguard base to provide VG members some high-tech Rikti combat training simulations (rikti doll farms, lol) it would make more sense.
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Let's also consider the level difference. . . we all know AE is being used to PL. Now if you could start power leveling at 1 instead of 35. . .that would be my guess personally.
My point is say that someone has NEVER played one side or the other, and only has friends in a common position. If they have high level villains they'd be able to powerlevel their heroes starting at level 1!
How it is now they must wait till 35 to be powerleveled (or at least make new friends that will. . . or pay for it. . .or any number of other things, but still!)
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This has nothing to do with their decision not to have AE terminals in Pocket D.
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Let's also consider the level difference. . . we all know AE is being used to PL. Now if you could start power leveling at 1 instead of 35. . .that would be my guess personally.
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That's my rationale for it too. Which is a sad, but necessary decision.
Now, if the AE in Pocket D ONLY allowed "test" mode, basically nerfing cross-ethics teaming/PLing from 1-34 but leaving it open for 35-50 in RWZ, there might be some play with that. Not a great solution, but a possibility.
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Let's also consider the level difference. . . we all know AE is being used to PL. Now if you could start power leveling at 1 instead of 35. . .that would be my guess personally.
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That's my rationale for it too. Which is a sad, but necessary decision.
Now, if the AE in Pocket D ONLY allowed "test" mode, basically nerfing cross-ethics teaming/PLing from 1-34 but leaving it open for 35-50 in RWZ, there might be some play with that. Not a great solution, but a possibility.
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Eh? There isn't anything stopping me from PLing at level one anyway, why would that be a concern for cross-factional teaming?
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Let's also consider the level difference. . . we all know AE is being used to PL. Now if you could start power leveling at 1 instead of 35. . .that would be my guess personally.
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That's my rationale for it too. Which is a sad, but necessary decision.
Now, if the AE in Pocket D ONLY allowed "test" mode, basically nerfing cross-ethics teaming/PLing from 1-34 but leaving it open for 35-50 in RWZ, there might be some play with that. Not a great solution, but a possibility.
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Eh? There isn't anything stopping me from PLing at level one anyway, why would that be a concern for cross-factional teaming?
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Convenience and efficiency. Why bother with maintaining your farming teams in PI and GV, or AP and MI, when you can just centralize everything in Pocket D? Pocket D would turn into PI/GV/AP/MI all rolled into one.
Which would be nice, for regular teaming in all the other zones. Not so nice for people who wanted to go to Pocket D. 
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There are also crowding issues with events:
Winter Event. Spring Event.
Local Server events. Multiserver events.
Virtue's RP crowd.
Plus, the building would need an offshoot dimension just like the Ski Lodge and would require more coding and art - that's developer time.
A lot of reasons not to do it even beyond the obvious consolidation of all the PLing going on in all the other zones into Pocket D (which would happen).
Pocket D would become unusable for anything but PLing and farming.
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I appologize upfront is this has been asked and answered. But, the search on the forums didnt want to work for me.
I was wondering why a AE facility was put in the RWZ. As opposed to the Pocket D.
From a game universe standpoint it seems to me to make more sense for there to by an AE mission termal setup in the D, like the arena stuff.
The big, shiny new building in the middle of the RWZ just doesnt seem to make alot of sense.