This is a repost of a reply I made to another question. After reviewing it, I thought it might deserve its own Topic.
So read on, if you're interested ...
The armor and nano program problems NTs are having now are the direct result of Funcom's releasing the game early; ergo, AO was not complete when released (no, I'm not going into the bugs issues).
OK, you say ... so where is this nut coming from?
Simple. Ever been to Rome Green? Ever wonder why the exits from Green are blocked? Ever wonder why there are maps to play fields that don't exist in the game?
The NT profession's "holy grail" is the Island of Jobe. According to the AO documentation, Jobe contains libraries, teachers, shops, and so on, dedicated to the NT profession. If you want it/need it/want to know what it's about, and it's an NT item, then go to Jobe ... because that's where the answers are supposed to be.
Jobe is supposed to be a neutral site for two reasons: NTs are notorious for their independent attitude so they wouldn't take the Omni side in the clan wars; therefore, to neutralize them, Omni-Tek reached an agreement with the NTs that allowed them to settle on Jobe in return for not taking sides in the clan/omni wars.
Got it so far?
Good, because the absence of NT stuff in the city shops is because the really "neato" NT stuff is supposed to be on the Island of Jobe.
Unfortunately, and ONLY because Funcom released AO early, the Island of Jobe playfield does not exist ... and neither do its connecting play fields like: The Reck, Spur, and Bay of Rome play fields.
Since the AO release in June, Funcom have been up to their "ass in alligators" trying to fix bugs, expand capacity, and add content for the more senior AO gamers (my NT is but level 52 because I spend a lot of time on the Test server checking releases for bugs).
As a result of Funcom's preoccupation with getting AO to work properly, we NTs have been left hanging at the end of the proverbial "skinny branch" because it takes a lot of programming to create the content for at least four play fields, the NPCs, the dialogues, the shops, the shop bots, and the bot contents.
Ergo, no Jobe, no connecting play fields, no NT benefits, no NT stuff!!!
Hope this helps ...