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* Higher meta-level Tech I items can also affect success significantly: while optional, always try to use meta 3 or 4 items if you can. Meta 4 items can be expensive, but you might judge them worthwhile for some high-value T2 items. You can place buy orders in the market to get some of these at very low prices from mission-runners who want to dump their loot.

* Decryptors can virtually guarantee success, but can also be very expensive: in general, use these only for big items like Tech II ships.

* '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 in driving down the invention costs per manufacturing run metric, as well as increasing your invention throughput.

* 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, meta items, 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, meta level items, and decryptors. Many inventors tire quickly of depending on public resources for blueprint copying, which are always in short supply. If you are going to be a serious producer of Tech II items, you will eventually want to establish a research POS, so that you always have labs available - with significant time saving bonuses - for copying and invention jobs.

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 * Higher meta-level Tech I items can also affect success significantly: while optional, always try to use meta 3 or 4 items if you can. Meta 4 items can be expensive, but you might judge them worthwhile for some high-value T2 items. You can place buy orders in the market to get some of these at very low prices from mission-runners who want to dump their loot.
 * Decryptors can virtually guarantee success, but can also be very expensive: in general, use these only for big items like Tech II ships.
+* '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 in driving down the invention costs per manufacturing run metric, as well as increasing your invention throughput.
 * 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, meta items, 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, meta level items, and decryptors.  Many inventors tire quickly of depending on public resources for blueprint copying, which are always in short supply.  If you are going to be a serious producer of Tech II items, you will eventually want to establish a research POS, so that you always have labs available - with significant time saving bonuses - for copying and invention jobs.