I've always seen the faction venders as very one sided, despite the implication that they were in the middle of PVE and PVP. It was one thing to only be able to buy Crucible stuff with Crucible currency and reputation and Vanguard stuff with Vanguard reputation and currency, but the factions should be completely neutral. After all, while you're wearing their bond they take reputation from BOTH Crucible and Vanguard. So since I'm letting them take all my Vanguard reputation, isn't it only fair that they should accept Vanguard marks just as much as Crucible? If Bungie wanted to make the factions solely Crucible, then they shouldn't take my Vanguard rep; and even if they did make it where the factions only take Crucible rep and currency and ignore Vanguard, it's still unfair because then there are roughly 4 or 5 PVP venders and 1 or 2 PVE venders. Those of us who preferred PVE could work around all this by exchanging materials for marks, but now we're forced to play PVP in order to purchase 4/5 of the Tower vender's stuff. Is it so hard to make a materials for marks/marks for materials system, and allow the factions to accept Vanguard AND Crucible marks?