These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

Science & Industry

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
 

NPC station invention slots vs Lab slots
Author
Previous Topic Next Topic
JonnyRandom
#1 - 2012-07-28 16:58:43 UTC
Hi,
I'm trying to get into Invention and I've got a question about invention slots. They are available on NPC stations, but you can also have them at your POS in a Lab.
Looking around I found out that POS Labs have a time multiplier of 0.5 on Invention jobs, whereas the NPC stations have a 1.0 time multiplier. Just so I'm getting it right, does this mean doing an invention job at a POS will take twice as long as at an NPC station?
In that case, why do many people prefer to use POS labs for invention jobs rather than NPC stations?
Thanks for any advice :)
Mishraile Viliana
Doomheim
#2 - 2012-07-28 17:33:25 UTC
It is actually the other way around. A 0.5 multiplier means that at the end you mulitply the job duration by 0.5 effectively reducing the time by halve.
JonnyRandom
#3 - 2012-07-28 18:09:10 UTC
Oh... thank you, haha. I got that completely backwards.
Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
#4 - 2012-07-29 13:59:47 UTC
The upside of station slots, infinite storage space and zero risk to your decryptors, datacores and meta modules. Everything in one location, no need to shift assets around.

The upside of POS labs is the 0.5 time multiplier.

The downside is that you have to:
- Use regular Mobile Labs which have (5) invention slots (but aren't as good for copying)
- Refill your datacores in the labs every 2-7 days
- Store expensive decryptors/datacore amounts out at the tower
- Spread your (10) invention jobs over (2) mobile labs
- Fly out to the POS array to retrieve the resulting T2 BPCs

That being said, if you use jEVEAssets and setup some stockpiles, keeping the POS labs stocked with the right mix of datacores / decryptors is not that difficult.
JonnyRandom
#5 - 2012-07-29 16:53:11 UTC
Thanks for that link, I'll give it a try :)
Quinc4623
Space Explorers Federation
#6 - 2012-07-30 21:30:29 UTC
A mobile lab has a full variety of research slots, but a limited number of each. It would be recommended that you perform a variety of different research jobs at once. For invention a Advanced mobile lab might be better since you will need to be generating BPCs to which to invent from.

Fortunately you can place your blue prints in a station if it's in the same system and has a corp office, and invent that way. Actually this is better as you can start jobs remotely, but not on blueprints in the POS.

A POS can greatly accelerate the invention process, halfing invention times, three quarters for copying and other research. But also because you can skip the queue for copying and materials research that takes up most of your time on any station.

Of course the task of obtaining and moving datacores and BPCs is true regardless of where you invent from.