Month End Update - September 2026

I made 25 billion is in September 2026, from this i made an accounting payment of 5 billion to Omega my 5 accounts.

Therefore, my wealth rose by 20 billion to 2.443 trillion isk.

I have been giving away my wealth since July 2023 and so far have given away 629 billion isk in that time vs the 1.8 trillion isk i have made over that time.  So arguably i have 1.2 trillion to give away still!  I wrote more about it recently in a prior post including the recipients of the distributions.

Total Sell Orders were flat at 2.6 trillion Buy Orders are now nil - i will need to get these back in action for my manufacturing.

Therefore, i have 2.6 trillion of Orders on the market.

Format of the Month End Review

I have shortened the Month End Update to what happened rather than the background to my strategy etc.  Those will be in other posts.  But lets move the waffle off here.

In future i plan to do a more in-depth analysis of what i am selling - setting up the spreadsheets to do the analysis.

2026 Aims: I discussed my aims for 2026 in this post at the start of the year and the half year review was in this post.

Omega / "accounting payments": I discussed this omega accounting in a recent post, a joy for all accountants (like myself) to read, i am sure.

My Sales Strategy within my Regional Trading Business: I discussed this in a recent post on my Regional Trading Strategy.

The basic numbers for September

In September had sales of 212 bn isk vs August of 194 bn.  So a rise of 9% vs August and still way below the of 325 bn i used to average.  For me, the markets are most certainly slower.

I fear that around 200 billion of sales per month may be the new normal.

Other than June, the market has been quiet since March.  I am rethinking my strategy a bit and being more careful where i try and sell an item that has not sold in a location before.  I used to do well by selling an item in a region that had not been sold there before.

June, i suspect, was boosted by the launch of Cradle of War.

This comes to average daily sales of 7.1 billion isk.  In other words, each evening i expect to see across all my accounts an additional 7.1 bn isk (less transaction taxes) sitting on the characters to be reinvested back into the markets.

Although my sales are lower I sense competition is also lower - so again points to a market slowdown rather than me losing market share.  I have a lower number of orders to update each day.  Therefore, margins are starting to recover.  i.e. i am not spending isk in Broker Relist Fees.

Item profits were 48 billion isk which is a margin of 22% (48/212).  So clearly above the target of 25%.

Right now, this is the issue of the day.  The structure of the rest of my Profit & Loss Statement is back to normal.  I just struggle to get the 25% item margin that i did before.  I suspect that whilst the competition it is more aggressive.  Hence, whilst i don't need to adjust the prices of many items each day i still need to make punchy mark downs to create sales.  Not easy to monitor this other than by feel and instinct.

Furthermore, part of me thinks that the items i hold in hangers as part of the manufacturing project (some 300 billion) could be moving up/down in value and i am not able to split this rise/decline out from the normal trading.  Hence, as the cost of items generally rises i will benefit from a positive mark-to-market profit, and of course get hit when market prices decline.  My solution here is to start to liquidate items i don't need, which will be a job for the rest of this year.

Taxes and Courier fees came to 23 billion isk.  Within this, the broker relisting fees came to 3.7% of sales.  Ideally i want to see this below 3%.  I have a number of former seeding projects which i put back up for sale - they may be creating a drag.  I am being careful on what i chose to reduce.  If an item has not sold in the last 30 days then i tend to leave it for now.

That takes the Trading Profits to 25 billion isk and so a trading margin of 11.6% (25/212).  My target is 16% so this is a miss.  But the miss is all down to the Item margin being 22% instead of the 25% target.

And then from this 25 billion profits i pay the 5 billion Omega.

I made no distributions this month.

That was how 212 billion isk of sales became 20 billion isk increase in wealth.

Manufacturing

I am doing what i often do, and giving this another shot.

The Oz Show had a great interview with Sir SmashAlot where he talked about his manufacturing activities to the tune of making over 1 trillion profits per month!

And the author of the blog I wanna be a Trillionaire, so frickin' bad... has moved into manufacturing and is making a good job of it.

And going back a few years there was a great youtube series Building my Industrial Empire (who is now back).

Early days, i am making some profits and will update this blog as i go.  So far i have experimented with small items like missiles and ammo but also larger ships such as Orcas.  So far i am not making enough to justify the effort.  I reviewed my poor efforts into manufacturing in this post.

Ideally, i want to create a process that i can scale.  Not there yet.

Seeding a player owned station

In the Khanid region, i relisted everything back into a NPC station.  And i have a new market seeding operating in Solitude (high sec).

In total now 397 billion sell orders.

Things are slow.  In total i made 11 billion sales of which half was in Kanid and half in Solitude.

For now the Khanid Sell Orders are me trying to run down the 300 billion of Sell Orders.

The Solitude seeding operation is more promising.

Planetary Interaction

I had restarted this but then stopped.

It is not worth the effort in High Sec.  So, on my "to do" list is to move it to low sec but, as you would suspect, i don't have the courage to fly into low sec - so i am thinking about how to do this.

Research

For now, i have stopped trying to make this work.

Station Trading

Down to nil.

Old Accounts

This is my third outing in Eve Online.  I still have the characters of the prior two attempts.  Some went to Omega status after the June 2025 Omega / MCT deal but are now all back as Alpha Accounts.

They are though available to me with plenty of skills to convert back to Omega if i need to.

To make life easier in September 2025 i decided to combine them all into one Alliance, the Merchanting Industry Finance Philanthropy Alliance.

Plex

I don't store Plex.  As a rule i don't invest in items that Fenris / CCP can control as part of the commercial inputs into the game.  When i come across a deal i like i will buy the Plex in the spot market.

Items in hanger for sale

There are a number of items that i sell that can only be sourced from Regions outside of The Forge (the home of Jita).

To make my life easier, i buy them from their home bases and have them couriered to Jita to be stored ready to be couriered to their final sale destination.  Makes life a lot easier for the cost of one transport leg.

That said, i am going to start to review all this - it causes annoying volatility in my earnings.

So in all, some 237 billion isk of items in Hangers.

I have decided to liquidate much of this before the end of the year.

Buy Orders

Right now, they are at nil.  But i expect to increase them again as i refocus on manufacturing.

ISK

I have 91 billion spare ISK kicking around.

And i plan to relaunch into manufacturing.  So hopefully making good use of surplus isk.

Current Wealth

Current wealth is 2.443 trillion ISK made up from:

• Plex held as an investment 2bn ISK
• Items in hanger for sale 237bn ISK
• Items in hanger for use in business 11bn ISK
• Omega brought forward 41bn ISK
• Buy orders on the market 0bn ISK
• items for sale 2.578 trillion ISK
• less a 20% provision 516bn ISK
• ISK in wallet 91bn ISK

When i add up my wealth, I don't count assets I use in the course of my business such as ships, fittings etc nor do I add back any expenses such as skills purchased etc.  The wealth I disclose is made up of items that are ISK or are in the process of being converted to ISK or are used to generate isk that can be readily resold back onto the market.  Any ships or skills or fittings etc i buy are counted as expenses in that month.  The only exception to this rule is Blueprint Originals i use for manufacturing.  They are held at cost.

* I take a 20% provision against the items I am selling.  Eve calculates wealth by adding up the value of the sell orders hence it is possible to increase your wealth by buying an item for 100m ISK and putting a sell order for 120m ISK (in this case your wealth would increase by 20m ISK).  For me, I want my wealth to be calculated at cost.  I know that the value of my sell orders will likely fall over time as I update my orders downwards as competition reduces their prices before my items are sold.  Hence the 20% provision is my best guess as to what the maximum reduction I would need to make to my sell orders as a whole before they are sold.  In an ideal world I would value my sell orders at the value which I bought the items for.

Month End Update - August 2026

I made 65 billion is in August 2026, from this i made an accounting payment of 5 billion to Omega my 5 accounts.

Therefore, my wealth rose by 61 billion to 2.423 trillion isk.

I have been giving away my wealth since July 2023 and so far have given away 629 billion isk in that time vs the 1.8 trillion isk i have made over that time.  So arguably i have 1.2 trillion to give away still!  I wrote more about it recently in a prior post including the recipients of the distributions.

Total Sell Orders were rose 474 billion to 2.6 trillion due to Seeding Stations being re-setup.  Buy Orders are now nil - i will need to get these back in action for my manufacturing.

Therefore, i have 2.6 trillion of Orders on the market.

Format of the Month End Review

I have shortened the Month End Update to what happened rather than the background to my strategy etc.  Those will be in other posts.  But lets move the waffle off here.

In future i plan to do a more in-depth analysis of what i am selling - setting up the spreadsheets to do the analysis.

2026 Aims: I discussed my aims for 2026 in this post at the start of the year and the half year review was in this post.

Omega / "accounting payments": I discussed this omega accounting in a recent post, a joy for all accountants (like myself) to read, i am sure.

My Sales Strategy within my Regional Trading Business: I discussed this in a recent post on my Regional Trading Strategy.

The basic numbers for August

In August had sales of 194 bn isk vs July of 209bn.  So a fall of 7% vs July and still way below the of 325bn.

That said, March and April were lower so i fear my sales may be making a new level around 200 billion rather than the prior 300 billion.

Other than June, the market has been quiet since March.  I am rethinking my strategy a bit and being more careful where i try and sell an item that has not sold in a location before.

June, i suspect, was boosted by the launch of Cradle of War.

This comes to average daily sales of 6.3 billion isk.  In other words, each evening i expect to see across all my accounts an additional 6.3 bn isk (less transaction taxes) sitting on the characters to be reinvested back into the markets.

although my sales are lower I sense competition is continuing also lower - so this feels like a market slowdown rather than me losing market share.  I have a lower number of orders to update each day.  Therefore, margins are starting to recover.  i.e. i am not spending isk in Broker Relist Fees.

Item profits were 66 billion isk which is a margin of 34% (66/194).  So clearly above the target of 25%.

But we must be careful in August.  I reseeded a couple of markets by putting up around 500 billion of Sell Orders.  That in itself creates a small profit (i put them up on a margin of 25% and take a 20% provision).  Hence, i estimated this created around 31 billion of profits.  Could have been more, could have been less.  We will get a better feel in September.

Furthermore, part of me thinks that the items i hold in hangers as part of the manufacturing project (some 300 billion) could be moving up/down in value and i am not able to split this rise/decline out from the normal trading.  Hence, as the cost of items generally rises i will benefit from a positive mark-to-market profit, and of course get hit when market prices decline.

Taxes and Courier fees came to 33 billion isk.  Within this, the broker relisting fees came to 8.0% of sales - again, we need to be careful.  The relisting of 500 billion of Sell Orders will inflate this.  I don't really know the true answer to i will leave this here and see where September takes us.

I am hoping for good news in September - my data shows that i have been competing on items where no sales are ever taking place.  i.e. making needless relistings on items that are not selling anyway.  That has now mostly stopped.

That takes the Trading Profits to 34 billion isk and so a trading margin of 17.7% (34/194).  Again, lets be careful of this margin, September will give a better guide.

And then from this 34 billion profits i pay the 5 billion Omega and this time add back that 31 billion of profits i make just by listing items for Sale.

That was how 194 billion isk of sales became 61 billion isk increase in wealth.

Manufacturing

I am doing what i often do, and giving this another shot.

The Oz Show had a great interview with Sir SmashAlot where he talked about his manufacturing activities to the tune of making over 1 trillion profits per month!

And the author of the blog I wanna be a Trillionaire, so frickin' bad... has moved into manufacturing and is making a good job of it.

And going back a few years there was a great youtube series Building my Industrial Empire (who is now back).

Early days, i am making some profits and will update this blog as i go.  So far i have experimented with small items like missiles and ammo but also larger ships such as Orcas.  So far i am not making enough to justify the effort.  I reviewed my poor efforts into manufacturing in this post.

Ideally, i want to create a process that i can scale.  Not there yet.

Seeding a player owned station

In the Khanid region, i relisted everything back into a NPC station.  And i have a new market seeding operating in Solitude (high sec).

In total now 407 billion Sell Orders.

For now the Khanid Sell Orders are me trying to run down the 300 billion of Sell Orders.  If it goes well i may keep it stocked.  Sales in August were 13 billion spread over 4 characters.  So not great.

The Solitude seeding operation is more promising.  One character with sales of 11 billion.  I am keeping this stocked and plan to add to it as a get a better feel of the demand.

Planetary Interaction

I had restarted this but then stopped.

It is not worth the effort in High Sec.  So, on my "to do" list is to move it to low sec but, as you would suspect, i don't have the courage to fly into low sec - so i am thinking about how to do this.

Research

For now, i have stopped trying to make this work.

Station Trading

Down to nil.

Old Accounts

This is my third outing in Eve Online.  I still have the characters of the prior two attempts.  Some went to Omega status after the June 2025 Omega / MCT deal but are now all back as Alpha Accounts.

They are though available to me with plenty of skills to convert back to Omega if i need to.

To make life easier in September 2025 i decided to combine them all into one Alliance, the Merchanting Industry Finance Philanthropy Alliance.

Plex

I don't store Plex.  As a rule i don't invest in items that Fenris / CCP can control as part of the commercial inputs into the game.  When i come across a deal i like i will buy the Plex in the spot market.

Items in hanger for sale

There are a number of items that i sell that can only be sourced from Regions outside of The Forge (the home of Jita).

To make my life easier, i buy them from their home bases and have them couriered to Jita to be stored ready to be couriered to their final sale destination.  Makes life a lot easier for the cost of one transport leg.

That said, i am going to start to review all this - it causes annoying volatility in my earnings.

The Asset Safety items from the prior destroyed stations for my Seeding Operation were all relisted.

So in all, some 223 billion isk of items in Hangers.

Buy Orders

Right now, they are at nil.  But i expect to increase them again as i refocus on manufacturing.

ISK

I have 79 billion spare ISK kicking around.

And i plan to relaunch into manufacturing.  So hopefully making good use of surplus isk.

Current Wealth

Current wealth is 2.423 trillion ISK made up from:

• Plex held as an investment 1bn ISK
• Items in hanger for sale 223bn ISK
• Items in hanger for use in business 11bn ISK
• Omega brought forward 46bn ISK
• Buy orders on the market 0bn ISK
• items for sale 2.580 trillion ISK
• less a 20% provision 516bn ISK
• ISK in wallet 79bn ISK

When i add up my wealth, I don't count assets I use in the course of my business such as ships, fittings etc nor do I add back any expenses such as skills purchased etc.  The wealth I disclose is made up of items that are ISK or are in the process of being converted to ISK or are used to generate isk that can be readily resold back onto the market.  Any ships or skills or fittings etc i buy are counted as expenses in that month.  The only exception to this rule is Blueprint Originals i use for manufacturing.  They are held at cost.

* I take a 20% provision against the items I am selling.  Eve calculates wealth by adding up the value of the sell orders hence it is possible to increase your wealth by buying an item for 100m ISK and putting a sell order for 120m ISK (in this case your wealth would increase by 20m ISK).  For me, I want my wealth to be calculated at cost.  I know that the value of my sell orders will likely fall over time as I update my orders downwards as competition reduces their prices before my items are sold.  Hence the 20% provision is my best guess as to what the maximum reduction I would need to make to my sell orders as a whole before they are sold.  In an ideal world I would value my sell orders at the value which I bought the items for.

Turning off Aura

What is Aura

From Eve Online:

"Aura is the name of the most popular personality skin for the onboard computer AI utilized in capsuleer ships.

She serves numerous purposes, such as guiding new capsuleers through their first hours as a fully independent pod pilot and issuing warnings and handling docking requests.

"Aura is voiced by Excena Foer, a Gallente entertainer and poet.

Her personality is noted for being dry and slightly black-humored, earning her the affection of the capsuleer class."

Whilst useful for new players and perhaps returning players starting again, for the rest of us starting a new account this can be a bore.

How to turn Aura off

On the left hand side of the UI, beside the Opportunities set: find the 3 dots and click them to bring up a dropdown menu

Select "Skip Tutorial"

and then confirm the choice

Friday night stale order update

The Strategy

I put my Sell Orders up for 90 days.

It costs me 1.50% to list each item for sale.

If i update the price it costs me 0.30%.

Therefore, i don't want my Sell Orders to go 90 days without being updating.  If they expire i will need to pay 1.5% to relist.  And i would need to remind myself what i bought the item for in the first place.  This has a long night written all over it.

Hence, my standard operation is to update the Sell Order when it comes ot 21 days to expiry.  I choose 21 days because it allows me to go on holiday for 2 weeks and not come back to a truck loads of items delisted.

The Practice

I review the time to expiry of my Sell Orders every Friday night.

I do this my accessing the Market Orders:

and sorting the Expiry:

And then anything with less than 21 days gets updated from this screen.

Much quicker this way, you can go down the list of items here and update the sell price (i reduce the price by one tick).

It's quick to do.

The Shuttle - the very cheap ticket to fly around New Eden

I was relocating one of my characters to another station to seed new markets in when i was reminded about how easy it is to fly around New Eden in the huble shuttle.

If you are like me, the idea of flying outside of High Sec fills you with dread.

But, Eve is not Eve if you don't at least poke our nose outside of High Sec and eventually you may need to set up shop outside of High Sec to make your billions.

It took me a while to work this out but the easiest way (for me anyway) to fly from highsec to an NPC station (or any accessible station) in Low / Null sec is to fly the boring old starter shuttle.

Any player can fly any faction's shuttle.

They are the only ship that are naturally immune from warp bubbles.

Let that sink in.

Base time to warp is 2.22 seconds which, with skills of Evasive Manoeuvring and Spaceship Command, can be brought to below the critical 2 seconds.  Mine is at 1.73 seconds.

They only have 10m3 cargo - but still, can carry blueprints et al in that.  For sure, they can be caught in gate camps with smart bombs.  So i only use the shuttle to move myself from Point A to Point B rather than haul fancy pants blueprints on the cheap.  And when i am in systems that look crowded in low/null sec to don't fly directly from gate to gate.

So far. this has never failed me.

Insurance Fraud - This made me laugh

The Utility Function

This is a cheeky post about the utility function (more below but don't give up read now!).  It uses Eve Online ingame insurance fraud as the example.

In economics the utility function is the measure of satisfaction, pleasure, or benefit that a person gets from using a good or service.

Which is why, in real life, not everyone is trying to make billions or become the great ruler.  Some people are perfectly happy at a low level of wealth or have other pleasures like family.

And this applies to Eve - never forget that not everyone is travelling in the same direction as you!

The background

There is a post on reddit where the OP points to making "easy" isk by mining the ore, building the ship, insuring it and then destroying it.

At least that's how i read it.

So i would guess making more isk from the insurance payment than selling the Ore or selling the Ship (or perhaps quicker isk).

and a helpful image was put up:

So, looks like making 27k isk a shot.

First take

That is a seriously the equivalent of wading through treacle to make a serious small amount of isk.

Time cost of money

Now, don't get me wrong here.

Before i spout out about this being a seriously poor and dull use of time to make isk i have to recognise that this is a sandbox game and caters for everyone of all tastes and desires.  In other words, i have to understand that everyone has a different "utility function", ie the measure of satisfaction, pleasure, or benefit that a person gets from using a good or service.

So a miner, like TheOneAndOnlySidar loves mining, does twitch shows about it and i love watching them.

But the above insurance "fraud" is pushing that, i think.

Sandbox

That said, this is a sandbox.  And if the OP loves doing that then go ahead.  From small things grow great empires.

SquadB Gaming

I wrote about this content creator in a prior post where he is taking a character from Alpha to Omega without using real money and using the full range of Eve Online gameplay, not just trading.

Having looked further into his youtube videos (he looks at a few games but mostly Eve Online).

What catches my eye is he talks about what he is doing, why he is doing it and assumes very little prior knowledge.  So a great place to learn how to play Eve Online.

The videos worth focusing on are his playlists for:

Playlist

Playlist

Playlist

Alpha to Omega Venture

The creator has launched a project to take an Account from Alpha to Omega.

The first episode is on youtube, called EVE Online Hardmode:– Episode 1: 0 ISK, No Help, One Character

Starting by creating a new Account and going from there.  No help, no loans.  So starting from scratch.  Seems he will explore a number of routes to get there - so will be interesting which he uses the most to gather the isk.  My bet is on trading but lets see.

Playlist

The creator is doing this as a break from his normal game style and wants to document the journey.

Episode 1 sets the tone for the entire series as with creating the new account, the starter missions, the first income sources, and the mindset needed to grow from nothing in New Eden.

the 15k Free Skill Points is not at the top of the page

Short Public Announcement

Each week Omega accounts get 15k free SP.  Normally this is at the top of the New Eden Store.  Today it is not.

Infact, its fair to say the sorting of the New Eden Store does not seem to help.

In "Services", Price Ascending does not put free items at the top nor does it put the cheapest at the top.  It sorts by Group and then within Group.  So "New" is first, "Hot" is second.  "Bundle" is third.  And then everything else of which the 15k skill points is first in this fourth group.

Not ideal but with counselling i will get over it.

Month End Update - July 2026

I made 14 billion is in July 2026, from this i made an accounting payment of 5 billion to Omega my 5 accounts,  65 billion of costs do to with a Seeding Station being destroyed (more on that below) and no distributions.

Therefore, my wealth fell by 55 billion to 2.363 trillion isk.

I have been giving away my wealth since July 2023 and so far have given away 629 billion isk in that time vs the 1.7 trillion isk i have made over that time.  So arguably i have 1.1 trillion to give away still!  I wrote more about it recently in a prior post including the recipients of the distributions.

Total Sell Orders were fell 366 billion to at 2.1 trillion due to a Seeding Station being destroyed and so all the Items for Sale no longer being for sale.  Buy Orders are now nil - i will need to get these back in action for my manufacturing.

Therefore, i have 2.1 trillion of Orders on the market.

Format of the Month End Review

I have shortened the Month End Update to what happened rather than the background to my strategy etc.  Those will be in other posts.  But lets move the waffle off here.

In future i plan to do a more in-depth analysis of what i am selling - setting up the spreadsheets to do the analysis.

2026 Aims: I discussed my aims for 2026 in this post at the start of the year and the half year review was in this post.

Omega / "accounting payments": I discussed this omega accounting in a recent post, a joy for all accountants (like myself) to read, i am sure.

My Sales Strategy within my Regional Trading Business: I discussed this in a recent post on my Regional Trading Strategy.

The basic numbers for July

In July i had sales of 209bn isk vs June of 329bn.  So a fall of 36% vs the average of 325bn.

Other than June, the market has been quiet since March - or i need to change my strategy.  To that end, i am focusing more on selling into at least some market volume rather than putting items up for sale where no market volume exists (i.e trying to create a market in an item where none existed before).

June, i suspect, was boosted by the launch of Cradle of War.

This comes to average daily sales of 6.7 bn isk.  In other words, each evening i expect to see across all my accounts an additional 6.7 bn isk (less transaction taxes) sitting on the characters to be reinvested back into the markets.

I sense competition is continuing to lessen - so this feels like a market slowdown rather than me losing market share.  I have a lower number of orders to update each day.  Therefore, margins are starting to recover.  i.e. i am not spending isk in Broker Relist Fees.

Item profits were 42bn isk which is a margin of 20% (42/209).  So getting back to the target of 25%.  That is good news.

However, I have been thinking about my margin fluctuations.  Part of me thinks that the items i hold in hangers as part of the manufacturing project (some 300 billion) could be moving down in value and i am not able to split this decline out from the normal trading.  Hence, as the cost of items generally rises i will benefit from a positive mark-to-market profit, and of course get hit when market prices decline.

Taxes and Courier fees came to 27bn isk.  Within this, the broker relisting fees came to 5.4% of sales vs the spike of 8.0% in September and the more normal range of 2.9%.  My data suggests this is driven by competing on items where no sales are ever taking place.  I am taking action on this and hope to report lower fees in for the August update.

That takes the Trading Profits to 14bn isk and so a trading margin of 6.8% (14/209).  So a hit this month from the spite in Broker relist fees.

And then from this 14 billion profits i pay the 5 billion Omega and the 65 billion of Seeding Market destruction costs.

That was how 209 billion isk of sales became 55 billion isk decrease in wealth.

Seeding Station destruction = 65 billion cost

I covered this in a prior post.

But in summary:

I had 342 billion of items up for sale which all went into High Sec Asset Safety.

Against this 342 billion i had a 68 billion provision (i always have a 20% provision against my Sell Orders to cover Transaction Taxes and price movements).

So that's 273 billion.

Marking those items to market (i.e. marking to the prices in Jita) cost me 48 billion.  In other words, prices in the market over the last 11 months or so had fallen a long way for the items i had for sale).

Asset Safety only cost me 1 billion (this is High Sec).

Courier Provision cost me 11 billion (nothing quite like a disaster to soak up as much negative costs as i can think of).

And then a relisting provision costs me 5 billion.

so 48 + 1 + 11 + 5 = 65 billion.

Manufacturing

I am doing what i often do, and giving this another shot.

The Oz Show had a great interview with Sir SmashAlot where he talked about his manufacturing activities to the tune of making over 1 trillion profits per month!

And the author of the blog I wanna be a Trillionaire, so frickin' bad... has moved into manufacturing and is making a good job of it.

And going back a few years there was a great youtube series Building my Industrial Empire (who is now back).

Early days, i am making some profits and will update this blog as i go.  So far i have experimented with small items like missiles and ammo but also larger ships such as Orcas.  So far i am not making enough to justify the effort.  I reviewed my poor efforts into manufacturing in this post.

Ideally, i want to create a process that i can scale.  Not there yet.

Seeding a player owned station

More news on this in the next update but i will relist all my items back into the Khanid region, same system - lets see how that goes.

And i have found another station to seed in Highsec.

More on this later.

Planetary Interaction

I had restarted this but then stopped.

It is not worth the effort in High Sec.  So, on my "to do" list is to move it to low sec but, as you would suspect, i don't have the courage to fly into low sec - so i am thinking about how to do this.

Research

For now, i have stopped trying to make this work.

Station Trading

Down to nil.

Old Accounts

This is my third outing in Eve Online.  I still have the characters of the prior two attempts.  Some went to Omega status after the June 2025 Omega / MCT deal but are now all back as Alpha Accounts.

They are though available to me with plenty of skills to convert back to Omega if i need to.

To make life easier in September 2025 i decided to combine them all into one Alliance, the Merchanting Industry Finance Philanthropy Alliance.

Plex

I don't store Plex.  As a rule i don't invest in items that Fenris / CCP can control as part of the commercial inputs into the game.  When i come across a deal i like i will buy the Plex in the spot market.

Items in hanger for sale

There are a number of items that i sell that can only be sourced from Regions outside of The Forge (the home of Jita).

To make my life easier, i buy them from their home bases and have them couriered to Jita to be stored ready to be couriered to their final sale destination.  Makes life a lot easier for the cost of one transport leg.

And then there are all the items that were in Asset Safety now back in my inventory.

In all, some 517 billion isk of items in Hangers.

Buy Orders

Right now, they are at nil.  But i expect to increase them again as i refocus on manufacturing.

ISK

I have 99 billion spare ISK kicking around.

And i plan to relaunch into manufacturing.  So hopefully making good use of surplus isk.

Current Wealth

Current wealth is 2.363 trillion ISK made up from:

• Plex held as an investment 1bn ISK
• Items in hanger for sale 517bn ISK
• Items in hanger for use in business 11bn ISK
• Omega brought forward 51bn ISK
• Buy orders on the market 0bn ISK
• items for sale 2.106 trillion ISK
• less a 20% provision 421bn ISK
• ISK in wallet 99bn ISK

When i add up my wealth, I don't count assets I use in the course of my business such as ships, fittings etc nor do I add back any expenses such as skills purchased etc.  The wealth I disclose is made up of items that are ISK or are in the process of being converted to ISK or are used to generate isk that can be readily resold back onto the market.  Any ships or skills or fittings etc i buy are counted as expenses in that month.  The only exception to this rule is Blueprint Originals i use for manufacturing.  They are held at cost.

* I take a 20% provision against the items I am selling.  Eve calculates wealth by adding up the value of the sell orders hence it is possible to increase your wealth by buying an item for 100m ISK and putting a sell order for 120m ISK (in this case your wealth would increase by 20m ISK).  For me, I want my wealth to be calculated at cost.  I know that the value of my sell orders will likely fall over time as I update my orders downwards as competition reduces their prices before my items are sold.  Hence the 20% provision is my best guess as to what the maximum reduction I would need to make to my sell orders as a whole before they are sold.  In an ideal world I would value my sell orders at the value which I bought the items for.

Another Seeding Market destroyed, 65 billion cost

Over the last 11 months i have made sales of 208 billion isk in the two stations i seeded and so profits of around 34 billion.  But all the costs associated with those stations being destroyed came to 93 billion meaning i have made a loss of 59 billion in my Market Seeding ventures.  Damn.

I plan to relist all the items in two more stations.  Both in High Sec, stay tuned.

Market Seeding

For several months i was seeding a market in Khanid and also Drone Lands.

I started in September 2025, and discussed it back then in my first market seeding post and again in February in an update on market seeding.

In total i was seeding two stations, the one in Khanid and one out in Drone Lands run by the team from DeclarationsforWar podcast.

In total i made sales of 208 billion isk and if i assume my normal margin structure (big ask) then i would have made around 34 billion isk from 4 characters.  That was quite respectable.

The First Destruction cost me 30 billion

I had 105 billion of assets up for sale.  Which all went into Asset Safety outside of High Sec.

The first station went down back in April, cost me 30 billion, and i wrote about it The Fall of UAJ5-K = 105 billion Sell Orders into Asset Safety = 30 billion cost to me.

The 30 billion cost is made up from:

1) the cost of releasing the assets from Asset Safety = 10 billion.

2) the mark to market costs = 18 billion (prices had fallen in Jita since i had listed the items for sale and so now worth less)

3) courier costs of those items to the next place to put them up for sale 2 billion

This destruction cost me 65 billion

I had 342 billion of items up for sale which all went into High Sec Asset Safety.

Against this 342 billion i had a 68 billion provision (i always have a 20% provision against my Sell Orders to cover Transaction Taxes and price movements).

So that's 273 billion.

Marking those items to market (i.e. marking to the prices in Jita) cost me 48 billion.  In other words, prices in the market over the last 11 months or so had fallen a long way for the items i had for sale).

Asset Safety only cost me 1 billion (this is High Sec).

Courier Provision cost me 11 billion (nothing quite like a disaster to soak up as much negative costs as i can think of).

And then a relisting provision costs me 5 billion.

so 48 + 1 + 11 + 5 = 65 billion.

The bottom line

Profits over 11 months = 34 billion

Costs of Asset Safety, mark to market, couriering etc 93 billion (30+63).

Net loss 59 billion.

Data warning

I will be the first to admit that i am not confident that my spreadsheets properly pick up all my assets or value them correctly.  It is quite possible that the value of my assets is understated.