I am going to retry Manufacturing.
In Eve, manufacturing is the process whereby raw materials are taken and combined to form new items which either are the final end product or components to combine further to make the end product.
There were three drivers of this renewed attempt at going into Manufacturing:
In Eve, manufacturing is the process whereby raw materials are taken and combined to form new items which either are the final end product or components to combine further to make the end product.
There were three drivers of this renewed attempt at going into Manufacturing:
1) A blog i follow I wanna be a Trillionaire, so frickin' bad... recently started manufacturing
2) The Eve Excel Add In makes creating spreadsheets so easy
3) The Oz Show interview with Sir Smashalot (podcast version)which i found to be an eye opener on manufacturing. It is literally the only podcast i have saved to listen to again and again.
Just experimenting at the moment. Rigs for now. Manufacturing a bit in Jita and just trying out a low sec location - which makes serious savings in the Manufacturing taxes.
In the first few days, as i experiment and get used to it all, I have spent 9 billion and made 100 million profits. Low margins so far but i am not fussed. This is a learning part for me.
I'm really interested in how you approach this. Are you just using your own spreadsheets? no external tools? How much/how many characters are you throwing at this?
ReplyDeleteA bit differently from you. I am using existing characters that are already skilled up in much of manufacturing. Not yet using any tools - I want to understand the basics. So spreadsheets only. The Excel Addin has allowed me to get some useful spreadsheets up very quickly and also I now only need one character in Jita to buy for all my trading characters for my main business. Hence, I can send the other Jita characters out to low sec to manufacture. In terms of time and characters - 15 minutes a day for now and 2 characters. One in Jita just to get the basics off the ground and one in low sec who will now take over. Not yet decided if I want to sell in Jita or send the items out to my wider trading locations. Usual ops - I don’t do the logistics. If this goes well I will deploy my 4 spare Jita characters into low sec and if it really starts to go well I will omega some old accounts who were skilled up also.
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