Those are only available on Beta, and the corps farming need them internally. They will never be worth selling, as the past has shown that it's never a good idea to have only 1 prototyper. Any alpha corp going over to ninja-farm, is only going to farm 5th star's for internal use too, again it's not worth selling them at any price, since the return on having a character that can make T4 medium weapons (among other Med. items) is worth more then the short term NIC gain.

Basically, if you want them you have to farm them yourself, or offer some stuipd large amount of NIC per kernel.

The drop rate isn't really the problem, it's just not in any bets corp's interest to sell kernels; and there are very few corp members that can solo the 5 star groups to sell them on the side, not to mention it being THE mortal sin.

"Thou shall not sell they kernels."

Very worth farming in a group. More profitable then solo farming. There just aren't enough small solo spawns. Taking 3 people to a high end mech spawns and making 20 million an hour isn't bad.

I am sure there are people out there that can do much much better.

There have been a lot of other Meta-game related incidents since the kernel nerf too. I'd suspect that a large number of those 1000's of kernels came from a corp(s) that already had the tech tree completed, but don't anymore.

Wait a few more weeks/months and you'll probably start seeing more coming to market. Although there's a lot more competition for those kernels now too.

I'd suggest not relying on the market, try setting up a deal with a Beta corp directly, as there are at least 3 large corps coming up the ladder that are going to have really deep pockets and a large appetite for kernels.

Imho the 50% drop was the worst change in Perp since launch.
Could be good in Alphas only, or drop only to +/- 75%,
K´s are pretty much out of market now and selling them beacame a sin .

Problem is money is worthless at the moment, nobody wants or needs your NIC. (nothing personal)

Any corp worth their salt produces the gear they need.  Not because its cheaper.. but just because there is nothing on the market to buy.

Try offering to trade your kernals for modules instead.

Avatar Creations have a lot to learn about economy.:rolleyes:

Nic aint worthless, ,. it worthless to stack 600M.
T4 items i produce for market ie. are still very expensive as big cops dont put these items on public market, why should i keep crafting them if have all nic i wish.
More researchers are needed, let market overflow with more tiered items, price drop and more use of them as intended. Mayb slow down the research for medium items, but this kernel drop killed the research for all non player-megacorps, and i would dare to say the whoole market with the internal corp orders.

So how about they change it to that 75% or 100% like it was before? You are in the hands of probability 2 times now, first for the kernel to drop then for it to give any research.

This is one of those damned if you do, damned if you don't debates. I farm my own kernals, solo. If I kept doing that through out my Perpetuum career, it would make me one helluva pile of NIC. That of course will drive up inflation though if I were a standard. I can in fact make more NIC farming Kernals than I do at the mythical triangle because the Kernals make up such a low percentage of what I am getting.

If they raise kernal drop to 1:1 I make less NIC because I stop farming Kernals earlier and turn to mining to begin Industry. It is worth pointing out though, I have virtualy no T2 and up prototypes in my sheet yet, even though I have farmed around 1000 kernals, 3 levels of light robot kernals, Assaults and a few Mech.

As a noob under a month old, the only thing right now I do in game that I look forward to is Kernal farming. I don't know how long that will last but I would rather be flooding the markets with modules TBH.

Whut?
Farming kernels is a deflactionary action, not an inflactionary one. At least if all you loot are the kernels, you are not doing an assignment and you do not use so much ammo/lose so many robots that the cost of the ammo and robots you lose becomes more than the value of the kernels.

Farming NPCs in general is both inflactionary and deflactionary (or eventually neutral) depending on what is being looted and the current economy values. Firing ammo, losing robots and fittings and selling plasma (and any mission payout) are inflactionary, looting kernels/ammo/modules and repairing damages are deflactionary.