Since re-re-joining New Eden Research, I haven’t seen much research business. Not any, actually. I have plenty of labs available, and I’m burning something on the order of 50m ISK/week in fuel costs for my large tower. Before the disasters that befell NER, alliance chat stayed very active, with quite a few regular folks talking about trade, science, industry, and the news of the cluster. Now, my greetings rarely get any response, and when they do, I think only other lab operators respond. For various personal reasons, then, I hope things pick up. As much as I love life in a solo corp, I also like having occasional backup and such as needed, plus conversation with other pilots who have similar interests and expertise. No doubt, the lack of the reporting infrastructure and whatnot has had an effect, and I understand the executor has plans in that regard. I hope we see those things soon.
So, in the meantime, I think I may shake things up a little. Instead of continuing to operate a large research base in high-sec, I think I’ll put up a small tower with a few labs as (hopefully) alliance business ramps up. I can use the invention and copy slots myself, at any rate. CONCORD and local regulations don’t allow most industrial operations in high-sec, or at least not the ones for which I have equipment, so I expect to redeploy the current large tower to low-sec and engage in some reactions and such to explore some new market segments.
What about you? Any plans you’ve had to alter lately when things didn’t work out as intended?
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