Datacore farming: Difference between revisions

1 - Open your character sheet

2 - Click on Standings

3 - Click on the "Liked By" tab.

4 - Scroll down to the "Corporations" section

5 - Right-click the top Corporation

6 - Click "Show Info" in the menu

7 - Click on the "Agents" tab in the new window

8 - Scroll down to the "R&D" agent list

9 - In the "Available" list, scroll down to the highest level agent and do a show info on him.

10 - Look under the "Agent Info" tab for one of the above mentioned research fields.

11 - If none of the above skill areas are listed (Mechanical Engineering for example), move to the next best agent and repeat.

In order to maximize the production of RPs, and therefore to produce more datacores, you will want to work with the highest level R&D agents - level 4. There are no level 5 R&D agents (thought some agent-finder sites may show them, this is in error). The corporations with level four R&D agents, sorted by their associated factions, are:

* Gallente Federation: CreoDron, Roden Shipyards, Duvolle Laboratories (a mix of research corps is needed to have all level four agents, unfortunately)

http://hussars-online.ru/eve/datacore.php - This site lets you input your skills, standings, and such and it'll show you in order which agents/skill combinations are the most profitable. You can use your real skills/standings or just input possible combinations. The market does fluctuate, though. What's the most profitable now may not be so in six months.

 

 

 

Now that you've found a faction that likes you, and has R&D agents - it's time to start pounding out the missions. Hopefully you have done missions before and understand how they work. I'm not gonna explain that to you in this guide. The idea here is to just complete as many missions as humanly possible to get your standing with the particular corp up to where you can use level 3 agents. Don't stop there though... your standing with the corp opens up higher level agents, which ultimately effects how many datacores you get per day, which I'll explain later.

 

Just do whatever missions you feel comfortable with. You'll make some ISK along the way, but remember to focus. Don't take forever doing a mission. Once it's complete, go talk to your agent and finish it off so you can start on another. Here's a list of what areas give what types of missions:

 

The Math

So now that the basics are over, here's some math for you so you can understand how to get more Research Points per day. The raw calculation for how many research points you'll get in a day is as such:

 

Agent Skill: Determined by the Level of the agent. Level 3 agents will have Level III of the appropriate research skill.

Your Skill: Determined by your training in the research skill.

Effective Quality: is your effective quality (after Negotiation, Connection, etc.) with the Agent.

Area Bonus: Depends on the research field. Most fields have no modifier (e.g. 1), weapon-area research is doubled (2), and ship research is tripled (3). Don't worry about this one too much.

Skills Effecting Research Points per Day:

Negotiation: The Negotiation skill directly improves the effective quality of your agent, and is the most efficient skill for raising the number of RPs you earn each day. Negotiation IV, for example, raises Effective Quality by nearly 20 points.

 

Connections: Not terribly efficient (but very useful in grinding standing to be able to use agents), Connections can minimally raise the effective quality of your research agent.

 

Area Specific Skill (Mechanical Engineering, etc): Each level of your skill in this area increases the "Your Skill" part of the equation listed above. I would recommend getting this skill to level 4 (level 5 is just a bitch).