EVE New Citizens Q&A

Here is some info about it:

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Research_agent

You probably need to train a few skills.

R&D Agents aren't there for missions. The only missions they offer are a once per day 'fetch me a few hundred veldspar'.

Once you have the required science skills, you can ask them to research for you. It generates around about 1 data core per day per agent for L4 agents (L1 far lower).
This used to be good income, several years ago. It's no longer such.

also if you need datacores make an alt for FW and get from their lp store the datacores.. much faster and easier and you get to pvp bit.

Factional warfare, as in lowsec PVP on behalf of your chosen faction. Fighting each other for glory, territory and ISK.

Any faction, depending which data cores you want. And it's just from factional warfare missions, not regular missions

The trick with R&D Agents is to gain access to level 4 and work more than one agent. Gaining access to multiple R&D Agents is a long and laborious process. Along with training up various Science skills, both Corporation and Faction standing must be gained for access.

Long ago before Soundwave & Co tried to kill off PvE content, R&D Agents was a very good source of passive income. They are still viable for that but in my opinion only after you have established ISK income from a different source. The reason for that is it now costs ISK along with the Research Points to collect Data Cores from R&D Agents.

To actually make any ISK from the sale of Data Cores, it's best to let the Research Points build up to a large amount so as to receive a large quantity of Data Cores to sell in the Market.

As for the R&D Agent missions, yeah they offer a Trade mission every 24 hours which when completed will double the amount of Research Points generated for that day. Also after 16 of those missions are completed, you'll be offered a Storyline mission.

I have 5 R&D Agents working for me which I haven't checked for a very long time. Thanks for reminding me about them.



DMC

Do you mean un-subbed for a bit ?

I would check the Research Points balance listed in the journal and then after Downtime re-check it again. There should be an increase in the amount of RP's.

If not then just initiate convo with the various R&D Agents (without actually visiting them) which will cause the Research Points to start accumulating again.. Of course doing that will also cause the R&D Agents to start offering their 24 hr trade missions again. Ignoring those mission offers will cause the mission notices to cease.



DMC

Well, that's how it was for me when I was un-subbed for a couple months a few yrs ago. Since it was a few years ago, I think it's probably a good idea to decline the mission offer instead of just ignoring it. That will ensure you don't incur any negative standings with the R&D Agents.

I believe Research Points work the same as Skill Training, after an account is un-subbed for 3 days, they cease to function and after re-subbing, need to be re-activated again.

Hopefully that info I posted is still correct. If not then definitely let me know.

Good luck.



DMC

I hope you didn't take my reply on gaining access to R&D Agents the wrong way. In my opinion R&D Agents are still a very good option to pursue.

With the right skill plan, some mission running for Event Agents to quickly gain Faction standing followed with some R&D Corp Agent missions, you can actually have some R&D Agents working for you in no time at all.

Please accept my apology, last thing I want to do is discourage players from participating in this type of game content.



DMC

the numbers I pulled from evemon yesterday suggest I have been gaining RP since, and Evemon's numbers today are within 1 point of my current research, roughly 70 points higher than yesterday.

also at the daily rate I've been getting RP for 805 days (2.21 years), so I really can't say what I've done over that time span with specific regards to said agents. I do know my account with those skills was unsubbed for roughly 6 months in 2014

It really is pointless to gather datacores from research agents. Faction warfare LP stores are the primary source.

I've got a few years worth of research points accumulated since the patch that made research agents sell datacores for 10,000 ISK. Just not worth my time to go and collect the datacores.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3833365#post3833365

http://hussars-online.ru/eve/datacore.php