Manufacturing - going for it

Manufacturing experiment so far

I have been trying out manufacturing over the last few months.

The Oz Show interview with Sir SmashAlot really did it for me.

I have put a character in Low-Sec to manufacture.  And i have a character in Jita to manufacture.

I have manufactured items that have sold well and i have manufactured items that have not sold at all.

My main success have come from manufacturing items that are not popular - so i am generally the only seller.

I have not tried reactions.

I have got to understand very quickly that a fair amount of the success in this venture is being able to access cheap materials.

Overall, my profits have been in the billions though my cashflow has been negative so far (i.e. i have increased my wealth but much of it is made up of items still for sale on the market).

Going to make a real effort to make this another revenue stream

Therefore, i have decided to go for it and try and make it work.

. . . . . . from the start of May (i am on holiday for 2 weeks during April so i don't want to try and start something during this time).

And what i want to do is to be able to keep a full track of what i am doing and how i am doing.

To that end, i have decided to resurrect an old account that was one of my first when i stated playing Eve Online.  I know that one of the characters is well trained in the manufacturing skills (with the other 2 characters being fully traded in Trade).

I will station this character in Jita and use this character to buy all the materials and make all Jita sales.  And i will station the other two characters in this account in two stations that i will also sell the manufactured items from - likely Dodixie and Amarr.

I will likely use existing characters to manufacture in Low Sec (and Jita) but all buying and selling will be done by this old account.

This will allow me to keep a proper set of accounts and so determine the wealth generated or not.

It will cost me an Omega each month - so that is the near term target to recover.

The strategy

I have not decided if i want to start with zero ISK like Stranathor did in this blog I wanna be a Trillionaire, so frickin' bad... when he started Industry or just finance it from my existing isk.

I like the idea of starting from zero isk - that will keep it interesting for me and allow me to move along the learning curve.

But, i know there are items i can manufacture for a few billions from time to time that will sell and make me a nice profit.

So, i think i will go for a mix.

How to fit this into my daily routine

The one thing i have found hard is to fit the manufacturing into my daily routine.

Therefore, i am likely to either do manufacturing every other day or every three days.