# Should I buy character for sp extraction and skillfarming?

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**Category:** New Citizens Q&A\
**Created:** [February 6, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/should-i-buy-character-for-sp-extraction-and-skillfarming/294084 "2021-02-06T23:53:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quickmawz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/quickmawz/32/250587_2.png) [@Quickmawz](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Quickmawz)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/should-i-buy-character-for-sp-extraction-and-skillfarming/294084/1 "2021-02-06T23:53:24Z")

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So, for example, I’m seeing this toon with 33.6M sp for sale for 25 billion. ([WTS 33.6M SP](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/wts-33-6m-sp/292100))

if I say (33.6M - 5M) / 0.5M = 57.2 Large Skill Extractors, and each large skill extractor is selling for 625M Isk, that’s 57.2 LSI \* 0.625B Isk = 35.75 billion is. so I profit 10.75 billion is by buying this toon and selling the extracted LSIs. Shouldn’t the toon be higher priced then? Am I missing something?

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**Author:** ![Mkikaden\_Tiragen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mkikaden_tiragen/32/243913_2.png) [@Mkikaden\_Tiragen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mkikaden_Tiragen)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 12:20am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/should-i-buy-character-for-sp-extraction-and-skillfarming/294084/2 "2021-02-07T00:20:16Z")

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You are missing the purchase cost of the skill extractors, which is what, ~295m each right now? So per-extraction profit is 330m isk, \*57 (the .2 is unextractable and thus ignored) for a total value of 18.8b.

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**Author:** ![Xuxe\_Xu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/xuxe_xu/32/464660_2.png) [@Xuxe\_Xu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Xuxe_Xu)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 3:00am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/should-i-buy-character-for-sp-extraction-and-skillfarming/294084/3 "2021-02-07T03:00:58Z")

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Also the last 5 mill skillpoints can’t be extracted.

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**Author:** ![Mkikaden\_Tiragen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mkikaden_tiragen/32/243913_2.png) [@Mkikaden\_Tiragen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mkikaden_Tiragen)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 4:57am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/should-i-buy-character-for-sp-extraction-and-skillfarming/294084/4 "2021-02-07T04:57:26Z")

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They already accounted for that.

33.6m - 5m = 28.6m extractable skill points.

28.6m / 500k = 57.2 extractions.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 4:58am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/should-i-buy-character-for-sp-extraction-and-skillfarming/294084/5 "2021-05-08T04:58:09Z")

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