Skill trading: Difference between revisions

== Lore ==

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Understood to be a development and refinement of neural interface and transneural scanning technologies used by capsuleers, the skill extraction and injection techniques have apparently been made available by the Society of Conscious Thought. In an appendix to the notification, the SCC confirmed that the technology has been extensively tested and used by the SoCT for some years as part of several special educational programs. As the SCC appendix notes: “One of the leading specialist education providers in New Eden, the Society of Conscious Thought has supplied ample data establishing the safety and reliability of this novel technique for learning pathway resolution and reassignment.”

The SCC notice makes clear that the transneural skill extraction and injection technology is not authorized for sale to non-capsuleers due to the "destructive reading" method of the extraction device. The primary source for Skill Extractors will be the commissaries, trading under the name "New Eden Store", found in every space station's secured capsuleer zone. Since the demise of the Noble Exchange, following Noble Appliance's loss of the commissary contract after an SCC investigation into pricing manipulation, the New Eden Store brand has been operated by a board believed to include representatives of Cromeaux Inc., Genolution, Modern Finances and Khanid Innovation.

== Skill Extractors ==

It's a consumable item that removes skillpoints from your own character in order to create a new item called a '''Skill Injector''' and transfer the skillpoints into that item (the extractor itself is used up in the process). This allows you to sell or give away a portion of your skillpoints or simply redistribute skillpoints from one skill to another. There are [[#Diminishing returns|diminishing returns]] as you get more and more skillpoints in total however, so keep that in mind.

=== How much time does an injector buy me? ===

To put this into perspective, it might be good to know roughly how much time you're actually ''"saving"'' by purchasing a '''Skill Injector''' instead of just waiting for the skills to finish naturally.

| 11 days and 14 hours

| 9 days and 12 hours

| 7 days and 18 hours

| 9 days and 7 hours

| 7 days and 14 hours

| 6 days and 5 hours

| 6 days and 23 hours

| 5 days and 17 hours

| 4 days and 16 hours

| 3 days and 12 hours

| 2 days and 21 hours

To compare the cost of '''Skill Injectors''' vs '''PLEX''' you could for example calculate how many injectors worth of skillpoints your 30 day train will equate to:

| 2,6 injectors

| 3,2 injectors

| 3,9 injectors

| 3,3 injectors

| 4 injectors

| 4,9 injectors

| 4,4 injectors

| 5,3 injectors

| 6,5 injectors

| 8,7 injectors

| 10,6 injectors

| 13 injectors

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=== Purchasing a character from the Character Bazaar ===

=== Using ISK to facilitate training and extracting ===

If you're buying PLEX to facilitate the training and then pay ISK to get the extractors from the market, then you'll be able to extract at least 3-4 injectors a month (at 2,700 skillpoints an hour you get 1,944,000 skillpoints in a month). So for that to be profitable, you'll need to sell the injectors at a price that's higher than your initial investment.

=== Using real money to gain ISK ===

If you're using real money to subscribe (in order to have an account to train on) and again real money to get extractors, you should compare the relative ISK per real world currency spent. If 4 injectors doesn't yield as much ISK as however many PLEX you get for the same price, you'd make more money simply selling PLEX straight up.

=== Active accounts that do not need training ===

If you're using the account anyway and for some reason have no need to train anything (the account might be filled with specific alts already trained for their purpose), you end up changing the dynamics for profitability. The ability to train in this scenario doesn't cost you more, you're already subscribing to use the account, so the above mentioned formula is changed to simply weighing the cost of extractors vs the profit of selling injectors.

== Skill Trading between Alts - A Comparison ==

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This gives us a total of 13 options, only three of them being ISK only and four being IRL currency only. The 6 remaining involve both ISK and Dollars.

We are now going to compare each option, using the equations below, this equation should include the amount of money you are willing to invest and the skill training point time:

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