Research as Passive Income
As in real life, building up a steady stream of passive income is a worthy goal. “Passive” in that you set up the business or process, do a bit of care and feeding, and cash out once in a while. In EVE, a well known path to passive income is running R&D agents - every now and then you use up Research Points (RP) to buy up datacores on a range of scientific disciplines, from Hydromagnetic Physics to Amarrian Starship Engineering. Sell them on the open market so that others can use them to research T2 ships, rigs, and modules (I am far too lazy right now to do the research myself…someday though).
I thought I would give this one a try, so I set Daniella to grinding missions with Carthum Conglomerate to work her way up to Level 4 R&D agents, of which Carthum has a few in hi-sec space. As Daniella has good science skills already, she was able to try out four different research specialties to hedge a bit against the market value of one or more datacores plummeting - Mechanical Engineering, Laser Physics, Amarrian Starship Engineering, and Hydromagnetic Physics.
Once the grinding was complete, and the agents set to work, I wandered off to other adventures eagerly anticipating the cash flow. Checking in a few weeks later, and posting the resulting datacores to market in Amarr, it looks likely I’ll net about 30 million ISK - or what I could make running and salvaging a couple decent level 4’s.
The path to riches? Not at all. But 30-odd million ISK funds plenty of T1 cruisers and frigates for Furious to get blown up by the Minmatar’s, and is a very nice complement to any ISK brought in from the occasional level 4 with Ministry of War I get the chance to run these days.
I’ll let the agents run another 1-2 weeks and post a more detailed breakdown of ISK made then.
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