EVE General Discussion

Datacore mining takes around two years from you create the character until you actually see a return in the invested resources. If you wish to accelerate this, you need to watch the market and adjust your research to the most profitable cores, which are constantly fluctuating based on other developments in EVE, like the boost to hybrid turrets. As the agents are typically scattered far from each other, in different regions even, there is significant amounts of travel required to collect and sell your product. Also, I started this around 2 years ago, so yes, I'm about to break even on two of my characters and one of them have begun to net a small profit.



Oh, that may very well be. Just like people buy ships on the market that they have no interest in flying, just to resell them at a higher price. Or people that have no interest in producing T2 ships mine moon minerals. That argument has no merit in EVE whatsoever.



I'm not even sure what you're trying to say with this? If this was such an easy way of making ISK you'd think more people were doing it? Like all of EVE? The truth of it is that some of us had research characters from before the datacore system, trying our luck in the T2 BPO lottery. Some won big, others like me never won anything. Regardless, I did not suddenly jump onto an exploit bandwagon, I am following a natural progression of my research and production based characters, and decided to capitalize on it by creating extra alts to support that. This is no different than people training extra characters to assist with looting in missions or haul during mining operations.



I never said that I don't do any other R&D work. I am an industrialist at heart, and I do invention with some of my datacores, but regardless of that fact who made you the judge of what is the right way to play the game? It's obvious to anyone reading your posts that you know little to nothing about industry in EVE, so why would you come here and troll in a thread about datacores?

Any other non-arguments you wanna throw at us while you're trolling?

We're not removing research agents or the ability to farm datacores from them. What we're going to do is slow down the rate of datacores you accumulate and put a small pricetag on them.

Additionally to that, they're being added to the Faction Warfare LP store, with a dynamic price.

We should have a devblog out later this month with the exact details.

We've divided all of them into the LP stores.

At least your previous suggestions of moving a large portion of data core production to exploration made sense. This change sounds an awful lot like you ran the hat around for ideas on boosting the attractiveness of Faction Warfare, and data core production by blowing up militia ships happened to make it into the cut.

Do you really want people engaging in Faction Warfare simply because it is a better income than level 4 missions or Incursions? What do the current FW community feel about having their numbers bolstered with mercenaries?

Mining with guns, all over again.

How come any time I click one of those blue dev thingies on a post there's never any useful information. What's the point of the blue thingy? Inferno information or GTFO.


Thanks.

Sup.

Dynamic pricing in LP stores? How are you going to do that then? As currently the LP store rewards are horribly set and are all over the place. Is this new dynamic function going to be for Datacores only or all LP store items?

Max

What happened to previous ideas of increasing data core availability through exploration?

Right now, 0.0 feels a lot more healthy than low-sec. There are a few good ways of making money there right now and I'm not sure adding another steady source to compete is as good as doing something for low-sec. Exploration is something I see getting a lot more rare and "jack-pot" type rewards, rather than something farm-able like datacores. It's profession that should rely on you tracking down diamonds, not standing at an assembly line.

You do realise you're saying "low sec" when you mean FW right?

The two are not mutually exclusive but are quite different given plenty of people live in lowsec and are not in FW. Unfortunately lots of people in FW don't class as "lowsec" pilots coz they're there to farm missions in bombers too.

Boost lowsec - yes, boost FW - yes, but dont think boosting FW is a boost to all lowsec.

Cheers.

Next year EVE will come with free condomes per account.

That way when they screw you it will be atleast safe.