Science & Industry

I have been considering buying an implant to help speed up my research on my BPOs, however am I right in thinking that a 5% implant will only shave off 2 days of a 40 day research job? or am I missing something here?

ONLY?

Once you get into the world of researching, you'll notice that those 2 days are a luxury.
Beggars can't be choosers.

To minimise research times, the following are required;
Research / Metallurgy to V,
A POS with Hyasyoda Research Laboratory,
Cybernetics V to plug in the 5% Beancounter implants; and finally
Advanced Industry to V.

I tried a 5% copy implant once...

I tore it out of my alt's head and replaced it with something more useful.

Currently the only useful industry implant is 4% reprocessing, IMHO.

an implant doesnt have a resell value as it is destroyed rather than removed. If it was removeable to resel i would of course buy it. As for the Lab, the POS I use is not mine and the owner doesnt want to buy one... although I may donate one myself.

Tau as always is probably correct that the RX-804 is the most useful industry based hardwiring.

On the subject of ' Joe Smith makes one billion per month ' type comments one billion isn't actually that much ISK although when you first start playing EVE that is a lot of ISK. But you have to take some peoples comments in the forum with a pinch of salt as they can often be exaggerating, plain lying, or trying to lessen the competition for their business/market.

Some people might have half a dozen accounts with fully slotted characters to help them make money, and brag that they make billions a month. Some people can do it with just one character.

Thinking outside the box helps a lot, especially when it comes to exploiting ways to make money.
The easiest would be to look at what's in demand for the next week, and manufacture those units. Move along for the next week.
Watching supply levels is just as crucial.

Another is to get information on what ships + mods will be lost when two big alliances clash it out in the next big space battle.

Others do dev blog speculations on what might make them money.

There's no end on what could make you money.

The person who is most prepared will benefit the most.
That means, he might have all types of ships and mods copied in BPCs, ready to manufacture.
Or he liquidated enough assets for the next big buy in.

But for starters, it's all in industry, and you seem to have stepped into that direction.

If you want to make some profit, and earn your PLEX at the same time, whilst prepare yourself for industry related sessions, do incursions. A stable logi pilot doesn't cost that many SP, and the startup investment is a couple hundred mils, as opposed to the bling bling pirate Battleships and their purple mods.

If you slave out on average 10 hours doing incursions, you can get 1billion easy.
Do that to earn your capital, whilst learning the ropes of the industry way to make your ISK.

My 2 pence.

You definitely do NOT need multiple accounts to make billions. However, having alts that can be logged in at the same time is helpful or necessary for many activities. The extra skill points help too.

Nah. I could probably make a couple billion a month (mix of T1, T2, T3 and faction items), but the work required to do so would tip EVE from 'fun' to 'job', so I don't make anywhere close to that.

One thing though. People who make 2 billion a month probably have 20+ billion invested in that operation. It definitely takes money to make money in this game.

I am lucky in that I have use of a POS but dont own the POS. so someone else does all the admin for that.