I made 71bn profits in June 2025 and distributed nothing. Therefore, my wealth rose by 71bn to 2.359 trillion isk.
So a decent month.
I ended the month with a record level of Sell Orders at 2.0 trillion and buy orders of 0.1 trillion, so lets call it 2.1 trillion isk on the market.
And my plunge into manufacturing is paying off. 2.7bn isk profits in May and this month 6.2bn isk. I will do a monthly update on manufacturing later this month.
Distribution Policy
My plan going forwards is to have 50 billion isk spare in my wallet, on top of isk in my manufacturing operation, for opportunities that come up and therefore i will distribute every surplus 50 billion - i.e. when i get to 100 billion isk in my wallet (on top of the isk in my manufacturing operations) i will distribute 50 billion.
Distributions
These days, the aim is to distribute my profits to the Oz Tank Show or other ventures that generate content in Eve Online. Watching the numbers go up was great in the first trillion but lacks purpose onwards.
In June i did not distribute anything. ISK in wallet = 70 billion = 67 billion normal isk + 3 billion isk in manufacturing.
So far i have given 438bn to Eve shows:
The Oz Tank Show started in July 2023 and i have generated profits of 1.544 trillion in the July 2023 - June 2025 period and distributed 438bn.
So that leaves 1.1 trillion isk to distribute to some venture(s).
It is early days but the Oz Show is considering having some of its tycoons sponsor a new Corporation. Lets see.
Skill Farming paid for 1 year of Omega across my accounts
In June 2024 i went for the MCT / Omega deal and have now pre-funded 6 accounts (so the 4 omega accounts and 2 alpha accounts) for 12 months.
I spent 130bn isk on all that. The way i accounted for this was to say that the 130bn isk was an asset spent to buy Omega and as i made profits from skill farming i would reduce this asset.
In other words, skill farming would not contribute to increasing my wealth until i had made 130bn isk profits.
I achieved that goal in January and therefore all skill farming profits i now make is profit towards increasing my wealth.
That said, that 12 months of free Omega is coming to an during July 2025.
I had decided a few months ago not to pursue another round of Skill Farming given i perceive that CCP is turning against this strategy and making it harder to achieve.
Six Omega Accounts to pay for
I spent 143 billion isk buying 12 months of Omega for 7 accounts and another 12 months for one of those accounts because i was too far into a bottle of red to be paying attention (1 of these accounts is a manufacturing account which was an old account going back to 2012 that has been in alpha since around 2016).
My seven Omega accounts will come off Omega from July 2026 to September 2026 with one account going to October 2027.
Rather than being complicated and staggering the depreciation of this asset and figuring out how the extra 12 months will work - I will account for this in the normal way by saying from this month onwards (July 2025) 1/12 of the 143 billion will be recognised as a cost each month = 143/12 = 12 billion isk.
For the accountants amongst you that will mean come July 2026 i will have a number of free months of Omega to come including one account Omega all the way to October 2027!
If i did what i used to do which was to buy 3 months of Omega i would be spending 7x6.2x1200/3 = 17 billion isk a month. So the 20% discount and 12 month purchase was a good deal.
The basic numbers for June
In June i had sales of 482bn isk vs May of 447bn. So a rise of 8% and above my long term average of £325bn.
482bn sales is my second best ever with 516bn in December 2024 being the best. May 2025 is now my third best month.
This comes to average daily sales of 16.1bn isk. In other words, each evening i expect to see across all my accounts an additional 16bn isk (less transaction taxes) sitting on the characters to be reinvested back into the markets.
So, good news on Sales for May and June in 2025.
Item profits were 137bn isk which is a margin of 28% (137/482). So above the 25% target and as ever a pleasing result. There will be an upwards distortion from Skill Farming in here which i am sure i could work out if i had the time.
Taxes and Courier fees came to 65bn isk. I am facing a lot more competition in Blueprints which is pushing up my broker relist fees - they are now running at 5% of sales vs 1 to 2% historically. That takes the Trading Profits to 71bn isk and so a trading margin of 14.8% (71/482). So below the 16% margin target which rarely happens.
That was how 482 billion isk of sales became 71 billion isk of profits.
What is needed to get wealth to rise to 100bn in a month?
In some ways, i am there now - lets see if i can get this to work.
I would need to make daily sales of 18bn on my 25% item market - that has never happened. Therefore, to achieve 100bn profits a month i need to do one or some of three things.
1) Increase my item margin above 25% - possible but a risk.
2) Keep on doing Skill Farming - for the next 2 months i will be earning pure profits from Skill Farming, so this will be done.
3) Expand into station trading - i sort of do that but not to any big deal. So this is possible.
My Sales Strategy
I have redesigned how i operate each evening now that i use the Eve Excel Addin fully within my business.
it takes 10 minutes to go through my trading locations to work out what needs to be bought from Jita to be sold and also what Sell Orders need to be updated.
It takes 10 minutes to buy the items from Jita and set up courier contracts and adjust all the noted Sell Orders.
And then 5 minutes to put the couriered items up for Sale when they arrive later.
What used to take 45 minutes now takes 20-25 minutes.
And then once a weak i do a deeper dive into each trading location to see what new items i can sell. That can take a full 20 minutes.
My overall strategy remains to Buy from Sell Orders in Jita to sell in the trading hubs in other Regions.
I don't sell consumable items such as ammunition given they tend to be high volume and very competitive. That includes ships.
I rarely sell items used as components in manufacturing because the end buyer tends to be cost conscious (and armed with spreadsheets) and able to manufacture the items themselves if market prices are too high.
I sell items that are in low supply and sell very slowly. These items tend to have very low competition - sellers want to get cash quickly and so don't bother in these items. If i put an item on the market and it sells in 15 days that is fine with me.
These items also tend to be price insensitive - players will buy the item almost whatever the price. The Buyer is much more interested in getting the item to use now rather than setting off to Jita to get it cheaper.
I sell items that are typically bought to kit a ship as a player progresses or has to replace a destroyed ship / pod.
Each month i sell 20-30% of what i had to sell at the start of the month.
I have a rule that the minimum profits have to be 100m isk. It is no use me buying items for 5m to sell them for 15m. The profitability may be great but that won't move the dials. That said, it is surprising how many items i can buy for 120m from Jita Sell Orders and sell for 220m in the other trading hubs. At that isk level, players re-equipping don't care about spending an additional 100m isk to save time.
And in the secondary trading hubs Amarr / Dodixie / Rens / Hek buyers will not travel even one jump to buy a cheaper item. For example, i can post an item for sale in the main Rens Trading up for 300m, and even if one jump away the same item is for sale for 250m the item in the main Trading Hub will still be the item sold.
Also, i recently moved to only selling items that sell over at least 500 million isk.
Therefore, i mostly sell Implants, Blueprints, ship equipment and some structure modules. And more recently Large Skill Injectors.
What is selling well in June
Amarr for the third month in a row is the best sales location, followed by Dodixie then Rens and Hek. So a traditional order.
Dodixie had a welcome pick up after a few months be being quiet.
Whilst Blueprints remain hyper competitive other items seem to have less competition.
Hence, in June sales were good in Implants, ship equipment and i am now selling mining equipment for the first time in a long time (May was also good).
Manufacturing
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!
Early days, i am making some profits and will update this blog as i go.
Ideally, i want to create a process that i can scale.
Planetary Interaction
I have re-started this. 18 planets for now, set to staggered 14 day cycles. During July / August i plan to redesign all this and perhaps move out of High Sec.
Research
For now, i have stopped trying to make this work.
Station Trading
All in Jita. I focused a bit more on it and made sales of 30bn isk which is inline with the long term average.
I don't really have a process up and running that is scalable.
My idea of station trading is not buying items when they look cheap. For me, station trading is about sticking to the slow moving items and quite often i am the only person in Jita trying to sell an item. Almost always Selling for over 1bn isk.
What i don't do is Investing. I.e. i don't buy an item now i think is cheap and hold onto it to sell it a few months later when the price has risen.
Alpha Accounts
I have 1 Alpha account with a character in Venal left. All the others were upgraded to Omega last summer to start Skill Farming.
Old Accounts
This is my third outing in Eve Online. I still have the characters of the prior two attempts and i have resurrected them all. One account is Omega and does manufacturing the rest remain as Alpha for now.
Plex
I bad 18,300 Plex at the end of May and spent all of that buying 12 months of Omega across all my Omega accounts (and another 12 months on one account because i was too far into a bottle of red wine to notice). So i have around 260 Plex left. Thinking about whether or not to rebuild.
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.
In all, some 408bn isk of items.
Buy Orders
Buy Orders have varied over time and peaked at around and are just off the high at 104bn. Whilst i am not focusing on Station Trading in Jita i am taking more opportunities in all this,
Once i get a grip, Buy Orders will also increase as i ramp up the Station Trading in Jita.
ISK
I have 71bn spare ISK kicking around.
For the last 12 months the average ISK in wallets has been over 100bn compared to around 50bn before this.
The reason for his is purely real life being busy and so not having the time to make sure everything is invested.
That said, i now have a new distribution policy where i will distribute all blocks of 50 billion isk above 50 billion + manufacturing isk in my wallet.
Current Wealth
Current wealth is 2.359 trillion ISK made up from:
- Plex held as an investment 2bn ISK
- Items in hanger for sale 408bn ISK
- Items in hanger for use in business 11bn ISK
- Omega brought forward 143bn ISK
- Buy orders on the market 104bn ISK
- items for sale 2.03 trillion ISK
- less a 20% provision 406bn 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.
