I’ve taken the approach in which personally its more like doing something i’m enjoying for fun and pursuit as compared to treating invention like a job just to make extra ISK.

This allow me to personally exercise more patience with my failures and any frustrations yet enjoy and celebrate each of the successes. Its quite easy to get frustrated with invention as failures does cost allot and it adds up over time even more.

I guess anyone that does invention for a length of time realize to eventually become a good inventor and learn much your going to have to endure quite a bit of failures which if done enough will also have given you some successes. One just have to keep doing it.

Invention can indeed be like a slot machine or a a dice roll, you just never know how the numbers will come up next. And i guess that can be a source fun and frustration.

Sometimes you’ll get absolutely nothing. Sometimes 5 out of 5. It does even out over a number of rotations though.

btw that is with reasonably high skills too.

I know how it goes, and I feel your pain.

As a fellow inventor I too have had some recent setbacks with T2 ship invention.

My last attempt just a few days ago was 10 jobs installed, with materials totaling just under 62 million ISK total. When the jobs were ready I anxiously, and with some nervousness since I’d done this before and failed miserably, delivered them.

The results were less than satisfying; 1/10 success rate. The 9 failures were worth far more than the market value of the one success. So, there I was staring at this huge disparity between what I’d earned and what I’d invested.

Saddened and frustrated, I did the only thing an inventor could do: Grabbed more materials and installed another 10 jobs.

I’ve learned that success or failure in the world of invention isn’t determined by the results of X number of jobs, but instead by one’s willingness to do it all again even in the face of setback.

M. Alexander