Lately I haven’t been very active in Eve, just been doing some missions for the La Dai Corporation to gain standings in order to get access to better research agents. Just like The Ancient Gaming Noob I decided to give Invention a try. Though the cost to get into it, is still pretty high, it has lowered quite a bit since the racial encryption skill books, like Caldari Encryption methods have become more common drops and thus are a lot cheaper these days.
I decided to not start too ambitious and just tried a few Tech II missile BPC’s. And out of 5 tries, I got 3 BPC’s and my hacking / related research skills were at II. After that I tried my hands on Tech 2 drones, but both tries failed, even though according to the failure message I was really close. I have no clue whether those messages are even serious though, think I saw a forum thread about that once and what different messages people got. No one seems to be sure whether they are just random or have some meaning.
After the two failures I decided to skill up the related hacking and science skills and then try my hands on a Drone T2 BPC and maybe some other parts, like Ballistic Control II. And since I can use some datacores now, I will also get the skill to use more than one research agent. Shame it’s 40 Million though :(.
In case you’re wondering how Invention in Eve works or want to know more details, there is a great guide at eve-production.org: Invention Guide and the Eve-O forum thread on the Invention Guide.