EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hello,

Got a question regarding being an industrial character. I read up on forums but they are quite in depth. Skill set wise I pretty much got them. My only confusion is:

Are research and manufacturing advisable to be trained into one account? Or should I do one character research and another one manufacturing?

I'd like to stress a point in the above post - 'one character.' Training multiple characters by pausing the training que on your 'main' character is not a great route to take. Mostly because you end up training a large quantity of fundamental skills and could've gotten the skills quicker on your 'main.' Notable exceptions? PI Alts (Planetary Interaction).

Also, PLEXing a second character isn't a starter activity. You can, but it increases the cost of the game and can turn it into a second job.

Having one character that can do all the industry professions is fully possible and often people do exactly that

While most end up training alts there is really nothing stopping you from using just one character for all your needs.

Thanks for the replies. And I'll check out the guide.

There are many different approaches you can take. Most serious industrialists run multiple accounts, because the ultimate limiting factor on any one character is the total number of available production/whatever slots and time per job. Together, they represent the total possible production/whatever time per character. The more involved the product, the longer the times and thus the less total number of jobs completed. As you move up the chain to more advanced jobs, you'll need to create several different tiers of materials, which takes up more time, etc, etc. Invention eats slots like crazy.

Then there are the logistics and trading sides to the operation. Acquiring production materials is also part of the setup. Once you've got a pile of ISK, you can buy your materials. But until then, you'll probably have to harvest them yourself. That will require ships/training and time. Then the hauling materials issue will crop up and you'll need a ship/training for that. Which will lead to bigger ships with bigger holds and more training time and more ISK. Industry is a rabbit hole.

I know it might seem a little uptight to say this, but before your start training heavily into an industry character, start doing the math now to figure out character training and all the "administrative overhead" of running an industry setup. The training times are pretty long to get to the T2 stuff that sells for decent money. The tradtional path is usually mining first to build your wallet and basic ship skills. Mining usually leads to hauling, which often leads to a second account. And then its down the rabbit hole!

thanks for this info.

Nope. Data cores come from R&D agents. You aquire a fixed rate of Research Points (RP) a day with the agent. Which can be exchanged to datacores.

Yup. Plenty of places to get them. But if you want to focus train for manufacturing then R&D agents are the only choice that makes sense. Anything else requires you to branch out your training into combat/exploration. Which is fine if that's what you want, but trust me, it's not hard to spend two years just training a good focused builder/inventor. I never add more skills than those specific to my needs on my industrial characters.

On top of that, R&D agents are set and forget. Pure passive if you want. Though you have the option of running a rinky dink mission once a day for some extra research points if you like. The missions are a short delivery that can be done in a shuttle or just giving them some ore that you thought ahead to stockpile in the agents station.

Mr Epeen

Also if you are looking to get into industry, I have a couple of beginner BPO's ican send your way some already researched. they are mainly frigates and ammo but would be a good starting point for invention later on. send me a mail in game and i will contract them your way if your interested.

Not much of bring "scared off". just want to plan ahead. read guides with overviews of what are the different roles. just that it's not in depth enough so I'm asking in forums to get a more general view on things. I haven't skilled up much yet. Holding on before I decide. I got my drones pretty average. With guns and piloting skills average. Trained science and industries to 3 and holding up before I commit too much. Industries or logistics will be my choices while I figure out more for now.