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== The invention process ==

Gather your BPC, all mandatory items and any optional items you desire to use in a station with invention facilities, or in ~~a Design Laboratory at a POS. The Design Laboratory also~~ has ~~a 50% reduction in~~ the ~~time required on invention, which is highly useful~~.

Gather your BPC, all mandatory items and any optional items you desire to use in a station, citadel, or engineering complex with invention facilities. Engineering complexes provide significant innate reductions (from 15% to 30% depending on complex size) to job duration and installation cost, and further reductions in time and cost are possible if the complex owner has installed the appropriate rigs.

Select the relevant BPC in the Industry window, and choose Invention on the activity list. The resulting window will tell you your invention chance, taking into account your skills and any selected optional items.

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* 'Symmetry' and 'Augmentation' type decryptors are often cheap, and add +2 or +9 (the latter at the cost of a lower invention chance) runs to the resulting BPC, so they can be very worthwhile (especially for ships and rigs, which only give 1-run BPCs by default) in driving down invention costs per manufacturing run, as well as increasing T2 manufacturing throughput by loosening the invention bottleneck.

* To maximize profits from invention, you need to minimize your investment costs. This means using buy orders to purchase invention items in the market: datacores & decryptors. You'll also want to shop around to different systems to find the most affordable blueprint copying and invention facilities.

* As you gain more experience in invention, you can experiment with different investments in your mix of skills and decryptors. If you are going to be a serious producer of Tech II items, you will eventually want to establish ~~a research POS~~ - with significant time saving bonuses - for copying and invention jobs.

* As you gain more experience in invention, you can experiment with different investments in your mix of skills and decryptors. If you are going to be a serious producer of Tech II items, you will eventually want to establish, or secure access to, an engineering complex - with significant time saving bonuses - for copying and invention jobs.

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 == The invention process ==
-Gather your BPC, all mandatory items and any optional items you desire to use in a station with invention facilities, or in a Design Laboratory at a POS.  The Design Laboratory also has a 50% reduction in the time required on invention, which is highly useful.
+Gather your BPC, all mandatory items and any optional items you desire to use in a station, citadel, or engineering complex with invention facilities. Engineering complexes provide significant innate reductions (from 15% to 30% depending on complex size) to job duration and installation cost, and further reductions in time and cost are possible if the complex owner has installed the appropriate rigs.
 Select the relevant BPC in the Industry window, and choose Invention on the activity list. The resulting window will tell you your invention chance, taking into account your skills and any selected optional items.
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 * 'Symmetry' and 'Augmentation' type decryptors are often cheap, and add +2 or +9 (the latter at the cost of a lower invention chance) runs to the resulting BPC, so they can be very worthwhile (especially for ships and rigs, which only give 1-run BPCs by default) in driving down invention costs per manufacturing run, as well as increasing T2 manufacturing throughput by loosening the invention bottleneck.
 * To maximize profits from invention, you need to minimize your investment costs.  This means using buy orders to purchase invention items in the market: datacores & decryptors.  You'll also want to shop around to different systems to find the most affordable blueprint copying and invention facilities.
-* As you gain more experience in invention, you can experiment with different investments in your mix of skills and decryptors.  If you are going to be a serious producer of Tech II items, you will eventually want to establish a research POS - with significant time saving bonuses - for copying and invention jobs.
+* As you gain more experience in invention, you can experiment with different investments in your mix of skills and decryptors.  If you are going to be a serious producer of Tech II items, you will eventually want to establish, or secure access to, an engineering complex - with significant time saving bonuses - for copying and invention jobs.
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