Science & Industry

I just ground out Core Complexion standings like crazy hoping to get a jump clone. It turns out I didn't do my homework though and none of their stations have cloning services. I am determined to make lemons into lemonade though so I'm thinking about delving into R&D agents, but I had a quick question.

I really don't want to invest training time into something that might not be around much longer. I thought that I heard somewhere that they were thinking of removing research points from the game, though I have been looking for that article again and I can't find it for the life of me. I then found an article where they talked about how they were closing the get-research-points-while-unsubscribed loophole, and thought that might be it, but I am pretty sure that I saw previously that they were thinking about removing research points from the game period.

So, am I crazy? Did I totally make this up? Are they considering removing research points from the game or not, and if so is there any indication what they'll replace them with so that the science skills are still useful?

I do vaguely recall seeing something along the lines of "I've never been particularly happy about the RP system" but that was very much as far as it went, ie. a dev's personal opinion that it wasn't an ideal system. I've never seen anything more concrete or indicative of more substantial plans on the horizon or even any further thinking on the subject.

The hard part is grinding the standings, the skills (at least to 4) are likely a much quicker affair, and whilst the rewards are limited there is nothing in Eve that could be described as a more passive isk generator. I'd say go for it and get working on the lemonade distilliery.

edit: linky - http://www.evenews24.com/2011/07/31/ccp-soundwave-why-balancing-is-bad-and-monkeys-are-good/ - some might say it's wise to be a tad wary of evenews24 veracity but I could have sworn I saw that interview on the Eve site at some point too.

Anyway, key quote would be "Yeah, there are several issues we’ve run into – Research Points is one of them; I want to rip that whole system out and fix it." - now that was written 8 months ago and you can see the progress we've seen in RP generation in the meantime (ie. none, so for now I'd consider it as safe as it's going to be to get that RP generation going).

Cant help in regards to the RP, but if you looking for an easy way to get jump clones, you can use the free services of EACS.

EACS

Hmm, suggestions from the stream that this may actually occur afterall. Still, the same skills used to research are then used in invention, so not like wasted skill points (research project management possibly refunded?)

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=85163

Dev blog or it's not true. Period.

People always fail to fully read anything on the internet...

"We then discussed a [pretend this is bolded]general decrease[/pretend this is bolded] to passive Datacore gains, as we want to add Datacore offers in the FW LP stores."

(Yea, I derp on bad computers that can't read half of the information on current web browsers)

A general decrease. the market won't be controlled by FW, like one person posted. you will still get passive income, as another person complained.

All in all, it will still be a good thing to have on your alts :) and people, PLEASE.... learn to read. 'We' didn't allow you the right to read just so you can abuse it and be stupid.

FFS Why do they have to involve the ******** factional warfare to such a crucial industry in the game's economy and **** off producers on top.

******* hate when they try to make ******** **** like ******* FW better by ******* up the crap out of the **** of other things like datacores and invention.

The only thing that will prevent data cores from becoming worthless will be the presence of other items in the FW LP store which are slightly more interesting. LP can be collected without practical limit, while RP are accumulated at a capped rate per day. The floor price of data cores will become whatever the direct ISK value of the LP data cores is set to.

Well, this will likely increase profitability of T2 BPO

LOL!