Science & Industry

RNG is R
Number of runs and ME/PE is wholely dependent on the input BPC number of runs and decryptors.



That's how the skill system works.



Up to you.

I have never bothered. I also don't invent stuff unless there is a pretty decent profit for "expected" success rate invention.

If you train more skills to iv, rather than one skill to V (which is the trade off most of us make), then you get more items to search amongst for current market conditions offering a big profit at "expected" rate. Bear in mind that the skills are 20mil each or whatever and not all of them will be profitable purchases on that basis, ie you still probably need to investigate what items the skill gives you.

this is purely from personal experience...

i have had 3 chars runnin the whole process from invention to production.

now i have found that if i ran 10 slots per char comprising of invention for 2 different modules (5 invent jobs per module) i would get a success rate of between 40-60% per each job completion. 4-6 t2 bpcs.

but if i ran 10 jobs for each module (extending it over 2 days for the 6 modules) then my success rate would be 50 - 70%. 5 - 7 t2 bpcs.

i found that at least 50% of the time i would get the 7 bpcs out of the 10 runs.

so it was worth it to me to fill all lines with the one module to possibly get the extra print that would add an extra 20mil prof for the 10 items.

have all invention skills trained to 4 across the 3 chars.

Well, I am slightly surprised you would even do invention without researching the mechanics properly, you could end up throwing a lot of ISK right down the drain.

First of all it matters a lot what you are inventing, normal modules, for example, have a base chance of 40% while all ships will have considerably less depending on the type of ship. Second of all you need to run calculations on using decyptors and metalevel items to boost you invention chance. Even with increased chance of invention greater profitability is not ensured as you will have to account for cost of decryptors, decryptor effect on ME/PE and so on.

Skilling past 4 on datacore specific skills is really not recommended unless you have absolutely nothing else to skill up.

Havent you heard they nerf invention and other proc success rates in every mmo after each patch, its a wonder theres any success left anymore

Yes lvl 5 skills make a diffference. One thing to know,do not mix success chances. Do not mix high chance items with low chance items,if you deviate from this expect heavy losses. Pick an item and run with it and while you are at it,use every invention slot you have. Use another toon for other chance items.

That said, it's not terrible advice. Sticking to multiples of your invention slots and running monolithic blocks of inventions makes it a lot easier to keep track of what decryptors and datacores are in what labs.


But yeah, stare at a stucco wall for an hour or two and you'll find faces. Stare into a mirror for an hour or two, and you'll never go to the bathroom in the dark again. The human mind is a freaky thing.