Missions & Complexes

When can we kidnap these R&D agents and force them into indentured servitude on our Citadels?

Google brought me here.
Wouldn't this be better in Science and Industry?

As others have said, It's generally not worth wasting the training time on now.

The passive income was not huge when CCP applied the nerf to it, not when you consider how much isk and active play time had to be put into that passive earning.

Level 5 skill with a Level 4 agent will get you around 117.
I think that CCP removed standing gain on missions, so fail a mission with them and you will get around 119.
Failing a mission will cause a standing penalty, then your social skills can work to raise standing.


117 works out at 42,705 per agent. or only 427 cores per YEAR.
With 5 agents you would get a massive 2,135 (few level 4 agents are close to each other). That's around 192 million earned per year! (you'll probably invest around 50 mil and 30 days+ of training).
The only hidden Gem (perhaps we could call it a hidden Grape as it is not worth a Gem) is that the R&D Missions count towards storyline mission, so you can slowly pull up your non-combat non-haulage alts to higher standings.

I have about 90,000 of these things strewn around New Eden, but they are worth so little now that the idea of hauling them makes me want to puke.

Before the nerf I had 13 characters doing 6 each, and 4 characters doing 5 each.

My advice, go do something else for a couple of hours and then buy those 2,000 datacores.