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I was doing a bit of mission running the other night and someone briefly mentioned a "datacore alt" in one of the eve client chat channels, I tried to get more info but their was to much going on. All I understood was this Alt once at a certain level could acquire ISK from certain agents on a regular basis in a "cash cow" sort of way. Thats as much as I know.
So what is a datacore alt??

It's an alt that has the special Science training to run multiple research agents that give it free datacores that can be resold in Jita. Once the training is done it doesn't have to do anything at all but visit the agents once in a while and collect the datacores.

It used to be very profitable but datacore prices have gone nowhere but down for the last year or so.  Still, it's free money.

You run missions for one of the corps that have Research and Engineering agents available (check in their agents tab, as usual), until you have sufficient standings to use those agents.  You train up a skill that matches what they need (say, mechanical engineering), as well as a couple of R&D skills for running the agents.  Then you set them researching for you and they build up research points, which you can cash in every now and then for datacores, which are used in invention.

Now you mention it, I've not cashed in my 'cores for four or five months, across several characters  :awesome_for_real:

They are still free isk makers, but they don't make as much as they used to.  As datacore alts get used more and more datacore prices keep going down.  I miss nanite datacores being at like 750k.  :heartbreak:

Are you sure you've been playing eve for 8 months?

How did you find us, anyway? Try using the search feature, as all your questions so far have been answered in threads of the past.

Using an alt for this seems like overkill, why wouldn't you just use a jumpclone?

Old money thread where people discuss datacores:
http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=12713.0