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viscount Mephisto
Perkone
Caldari State
#1 - 2011-09-30 01:45:23 UTC
I'm having some issues with R&D agents. I recently achieved 5.0 standings with Carthum Conglomerate and have started research with 4 different level 4 agents. On 2 agents I'm getting a rate of 80 RP/day, on another I'm getting 160 RP/day, and on another I'm getting 61.25 RP/day. I was under the impression that nothing affects the amount of RP other than whether you do the optional mission that doubles your RP payout for that single day. I was previously using L3 agents and getting 90 RP/day (which is more than I get on all but one L4 agent). Am I missing something here?

Any help here would be appreciated.
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2011-09-30 02:14:04 UTC
Some datacores require different amounts of RP/core. Those will pay proportionally to the cost of the core. Also the level of the science skill has a strong effect.
viscount Mephisto
Perkone
Caldari State
#3 - 2011-09-30 02:18:32 UTC
Tyberius Franklin wrote:
Some datacores require different amounts of RP/core. Those will pay proportionally to the cost of the core. Also the level of the science skill has a strong effect.


OK that would make sense. I'm researching 3 different types. So what would be the amount of datacores I could expect? I have trained up to L4 in all the fields I'm researching. The fields are Nanite Engineering, Laser Physics, and High Energy
Physics.
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2011-09-30 02:28:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Tyberius Franklin
viscount Mephisto wrote:

OK that would make sense. I'm researching 3 different types. So what would be the amount of datacores I could expect? I have trained up to L4 in all the fields I'm researching. The fields are Nanite Engineering, Laser Physics, and High Energy
Physics.


Can't recall the numbers exactly, but I think that with lvl 4 skills it was coming out to about 1.8 cores/day/agent
This site is a pretty good resource for figuring out where you should be
Zifrian
The Frog Pond
Ribbit.
#5 - 2011-09-30 02:31:49 UTC
EVE IPH has a datacore calc section. Download link is in my sig.

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DigDoug
RoKaSa Industries Ltd.
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#6 - 2011-09-30 05:37:43 UTC
I thought the security status of the system the R&D agent lives in also effected points/day.
Shayla Sh'inlux
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2011-09-30 07:07:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Shayla Sh'inlux
Security status has nothing to do with it. That only matters for Loyalty Points

What matters is the level of the agent, your Negotiation skill and your skilllevel of the apprpriate science skill. Technically the effective standing with your agent also factors in, but this is so insignificant that it's not worth bothering. As an example, I have -within the same corp- one agent with effective standing 8.5 and one agent with standing 5.2. I get 0,71 more LP/day from the agent with the high standing, on a total of about 116/day.

It needs to be said that training the science skill from 4 to 5 accounts for a *significant* increase in RP/day (around 25 per day extra on a lvl 4 agent) and that getting Negotiation from 4 to 5 only adds about 3 RPs per day.