So far on my industry journey I've stuck to high sec, and within that primarily rig manufacturing. What this has done is trivialise logistics, as Jita is only ever a few safe jumps away, my stuff is in NPC, and salvage and rigs are low volume, with a single stage of manufacture. It's industry on easy mode (which is why I've been surprised at how far I was able to squeeze the profits with it until relatively recently).
Lowsec ship productions, particularly tech 2, has a whole range of issues though.
Firstly, getting materials to lowsec. There is a corp, Citadel Hauling Solutions, with whom EVEGuru has a deal that makes this step easy, even though it involves a bit of waiting. It does add some cost though.
I say it makes it easy, but that's only partially true. Minerals such as Tritanium are very bulky. Indeed so much so that for my transport ship run I elected not to import the minerals for the Tayras I need. I will need to work out if either bringing in compressed ore works best (probably) or running it myself from Hek. I will need refining skills for this though, which I currently don't have.
Secondly, with these being multi stage projects having up to 5 stages Fuel Blocks and reactions are real time bottlenecks:
These are just for 1 type of ship! Then once I've done all that I need to do this:
It's clear that reaction slots are going to be a real bottleneck going forwards. Sir SmashALot said the same in his interview with Oz where he was going over his industry setup. I'm really starting to appreciate why that's the case.
Fuel blocks present their own relatively minor logistical issue. The inputs for fuel blocks are simple and the manufacturing is fast, but the end product is bulky and I need to move them from the Forge to the Foundry to run reactions. These 2 structures are aligned to you insta-warp from 1 to the other, which is nice. But today I had to move 250,000m3 of fuel blocks, in a Badger. I was able to fit it with all the expanded cargoholds and rigs I wanted as it's very safe. but it was a lot of back and forth trips. I think ultimately I'll want a freighter in system for this purpose alone.
So, how do I resolve these bottlenecks?
- Mineral capacity I need to train for refining and work out which compressed ores to import for what minerals. I'm sure there are tools for this. I'll find one and use it. I might even be able to do it in EVEGuru.
- Reaction slots, again this will involve training characters and bringing them down. I think I'm going to move a few characters down to support this and leave a smaller setup in high sec.
- internal logistics I think I will bring down my former null sec character with his deep space transport and use that for hauling between the structures. It can carry over 60,000m3, which is a lot better than the badgers 16,000m3
I'm enjoying this new challenge of working all this out! To be honest pumping out the same rigs in the same station in high sec had become dull, so it's nice to have a whole new set of challenges to work out.
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