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Manufacturing & Scientist - 2 toons or 1?
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Aidan Durden
da Vinci Holdings
#1 - 2013-04-15 19:07:17 UTC
What do you advise industrial professions?

It seems like they have some overlapping skillsets (nanite engineering, metallurgy, etc.) - should my alt that's currently training to be a scientist be a manufacturer as well?

I was going to do the manufacturing on this toon, but getting to an orca and then a rorqual is going to take so long (and the exact right amount of time)\

Thanks!

- Aidan
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Zanzbar
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-04-15 19:13:59 UTC
both are fairly passive professions in that you set up a set of jobs and dont need to come back to them for hours or even days so there is little point training wise to have them on seperate characters, there will always be select cases due to meta gaming that will make having them on seperate toons be worth it but for the most part a single char is enough. ussualy these 2 professions are done in addition to mining or trading as they dont take a lot of tim and siting in station watching a timer tick down is quite a boring way to play
mkint
#3 - 2013-04-15 20:27:48 UTC
+1 for having them on the same toon. Easier to do alt POSes and stuff that way, which you'll want for even basic research, and high end manufacturing. Also, the skills for high end research and it's associated manufacturing can overlap a lot. Waste of time to train 2 toons with most of the same skills but not enough to do both jobs.

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Aidan Durden
da Vinci Holdings
#4 - 2013-04-15 20:30:46 UTC
I suppose it would be pretty difficult to run multiple toons in a battle at once so maybe it doesn't make sense to train him to fly all the fighting ships as well as industry as I had expected.

I've been training the alt to be an explorer, finding grav sites and the like as an alternate profession from just being a scientist. What do you (anyone reading this) think?

Thanks!

- Aidan
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Aidan Durden
da Vinci Holdings
#5 - 2013-04-15 20:38:23 UTC
mkint wrote:
+1 for having them on the same toon. Easier to do alt POSes and stuff that way, which you'll want for even basic research, and high end manufacturing. Also, the skills for high end research and it's associated manufacturing can overlap a lot. Waste of time to train 2 toons with most of the same skills but not enough to do both jobs.


Wow! some great advice here! thank you! Definitely going to train them both on my alt now - kind of regretting having started a bit already before I rolled my alt on this toon! haha.

- Aidan
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#6 - 2013-04-15 22:39:34 UTC
The only time multiple characters are warranted is if you start doing science stuff that is beyond 10 or so jobs. I, for example, have three research/manufacturing characters as I have done lots of BPO research and invention in the past which took up far more than 10 slots. However for most people one will do fine. Especially if you only plan on running a small operation.

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Fleur Kendall
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-04-20 02:33:03 UTC
if you do love manufacturing, and go for a bulk line in t2 mods for example, it does pay off to have several toons trained as the bottleneck (pointed out in the previous post) comes at the invention phase, according to your skills and inputs, iirc success rate of 40-60% (but) so you can have 2 invention toons to 1 copy and build toon with all science skills at level 3, preferably 4. Scale this up to the size of your operation. I personally maxed out at 12 toons producing about 800 mods a week in addition to pvping and null sec life. I''m sure its possible to do more, but that was the point where I started feeling schizo and got sick of all the click intensive activities, and ditched it for something more relaxing.

POS wise it was easy as they were all my alts, all in same corp, so I just made them all directors, having said that when I opened corp up to other people i had to refine the roles, and access masks for the POS to make it all work, but quite doable. Would consider doing it again if CCP overhauled POS and so on, but probably not :p