EVE New Citizens Q&A

I tried posting a thread but it ended up deleting everything I wrote. But basically my question was this and I will probably have to rexplain myself again in another post:

Is research profitable quickly enough? It requires too much starting capital for too low of a profit. It is hard for new players to join and is limited only because CCP does not want high tier players to have a free source of huge income.

This makes sense. But it should be solved by lowering the skills and time to enter the market and decreasing the profit of datacore research (which will naturally happen via supply and demand) and generally make Research a viable industry for anyone that doesn't have all their skills maxed. The reason eve online is mostly dominated by pvp'ers and many people don't enter the industrial side of it is only because of the start-up cost and time

I'm sure many people will argue that this is a good thing, but it simply leaves an entire industry to a group of players. Or maybe I have read old patch information and research is a viable industry to low tier players. Either way, I'd like someone to clear this up for me.

Thanks

Why?



Already happened. With data cores available from FW LP stores, the RP per day halved and a cost put on the data cores, as happened last year, data core research is not really worth going into unless you're training up the skills for T2 manufacturing anyway

The problem with research, especially for a new player, is the availability of the infrastructure to complete the research.

It's a well known fact that for a lot of the research slots required to invent T2 items (copying, ME, invention etc) are in exceptionally high demand in high sec and most people simply dont have the patience to wait a month for a slot to turn up.

This leaves 2 options.

a) Find a manufacturing and research station in low/null sec - this has the obvious increase in risk attached to it in order to get the bpo's into low/null sec to begin with, as well as exporting the finished T2 BPC's back to your manufacturing station.

b) Set up a POS - This requires significant faction standings (which are difficult to rise with anything but Security missions...not really what they are skilled in) as well as a large cost base. Not to mention trying to find a free moon to anchor it.

Neither of these options are ideal for new guys and will eat away at any potential profits.

Unfortunately, "making (whatever pve activity) viable" is not a priority for CCP. EVE has competition between players, and unfortunately that results in a game where you grind a lot of time spent for minimal profit, or you happen to find something that'll make you rich quick, exploit that, then your character is set.

And of course when CCP makes it so that research will be a massive alt ISK farming activity (loke it was until the change a year ago)....Malcanis' law applies, what benefit tye new players will benefit the old ones more.