Science & Industry

So my rough plan at this point is to train up 4 characters for invention/production on 3rd account then transfer them to my existing 2 accounts and not train them anymore.

My question is should I specialize the invention skills for each of the 4 characters or just train it all up to 5 for invention and production on all 4 characters?

Invention and production?

Um, OP was not "combining accounts" but transferring the chars from the new accounts to the existing accounts.....

Cool thats what I was looking for.

Should I get one character's science skills leveled up to actually do invention?

I have 2 alts that know invention skills specifically, the 3rd one just does BPC's for them to invent off. She pretty much keeps up with 2 inventors, not sure what you'll use a 4th for personally.

Keep in mind if you're doing invention, you're likely sitting in station in high-sec with a nice pos in system with your labs.

Why not throw up a large ship AA and make freighters or battleships or some such as well on the 4th if you're dead set on having it?

Just a thought.

5s makes about a 4% difference, iirc (or 2%, depending on where you're applying it. 4% more successes. or 2% higher success rate) . Worth going for, but not /essential/. All depends on how much time you have for training them.

You will probably not need to do more then (2) characters with invention skills, unless you don't have a lot of time to play per day. Just setup a few mobile labs (5 invention slots each) and do 75 minute invention jobs in the evenings instead of waiting 2.5 hours in a station. If you can do 3-4 batches per day (20 T1 BPCs per batch), you can probably keep up with 4-6 manufacturing alts (40-60 slots, non-stop) unless you're inventing something with a very short build time.

The rest of your alts will probably just need a smidgen of T2 skills (enough to construct the things that you invent) along with the ability to turn BPOs into BPCs non-stop.

In the case of (3) alts this would be: (10) invent (20) copy (30) manuf.

For (5) alts, probably (20) invent (30) copy (50) manuf, but you might have to periodically trim back on invention slots in order to crank out more BPCs.

If you run short on BPCs after a month or two, you needed more copy slot slaves. If you run short on T2 BPCs, then you don't have enough inventing going on. If you start piling up T1 BPCs or T2 BPCs, then you need more inventors or manufacturers. Start with a 10/20/30 setup, then see where you're bottlenecked before deciding whether to train up alt #4 as a copy slave (15-18 days) or a manufacturing slave (36 days for T1 manufacture, plus 3-5 weeks for T2 manufacture).

Thanks everyone, this has cleared up a lot of questions I've had.

So all my alts will have production skills and all will have copying skills.

I'll have to go through and spread out the tech II manufacturing skills in evemon to figure out what I want to produce and which characters would be doing what.

Should my tech II producing alts specialize in different races or should I spec them all into like Amarr and just concentrate on one race? Seems like a lot of training time to get all my bases covered on the tech II invention/production end.