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Posted - 2012.05.10 06:13:00 -
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I don't see why T2 invention/manufacturing folks are complaining so much about the datacores.
The current R&D agent system strictly limits the number of cores you can earn per account. Once you've trained up everything to level 5, on all three toons (which takes a bloody long time, btw), you can't earn more cores unless you pay for more accounts. This has always been a bottleneck for T2 BPC invention.
Under the new system, you just join the winning faction, run missions to farm LP and stock up on the cores, at up to 4x cheaper than the base cost (since you are in the winning faction). More missions, more cores, no limit. As the tides of war shift, you quit and join the other faction, run missions to farm LP and stock up on the cores. Once again, more missions, more cores, no limit.
If you are worried about the standings, just put one alt in the Caldari/Amarr faction and another alt in the Gallente/Minmatar faction. Keep your main out of FW, and you don't need to worry about it.
Keep in mind, too, that you'll no longer need to train up a bunch of skills nor grind the standings to use the R&D agents, to farm datacores with an alt. You just need to be able to run the FW missions, which really aren't all that difficult, even with the risk of getting shot at by other players.
True, it isn't passive any more, but that's ok, since you should be able to easily farm a lot more datacores, in order to drive those T2 BPC invention crap shoots.
As for hauling them out of low sec, no BFD. Datacores aren't that bulky and a cloaky transport works fine. But, if you are too nervous to do it yourself, you can always courier contract it to the nearest high sec system, with someone like Black Frog.
And, finally, as far as losing out on all of the training time which you have put into those passive ISK generators, CCP Ytterbium stated:
"While our current intention is to turn datacore gathering into more of an active profession than it currently is, we will be following feedback closely to make sure players that invested time into Research corporations are not abandoned, most likely by making further changes to them in the next release."
Isn't this nice, esp. considering the fact that most of you (incl. me) have made back that original investment many times over already.... ;) |