Burned logic circuits and general null supply

 On my Null sec industry characters I build a lot of rigs. Well I do in high as well, but in Null I frequently face a problem. Not with profitability or revenue (these things are typically easier than in Jita) but with supply of raw materials. Specifically MJ- never has enough Burned Logic Circuits. These are a material that comes from Relic sites I believe, so should be something null has in abundance, but I find myself frequently limited in options because of lack of supply. 

Up to this point I had resisted doing much about it. Bringing in more is something my industry chars don't necessarily have the money for (at least to be tied up for potentially several days as it is brought in by alliance courier services). I do, however, have a trade character in MJ-. And bringing the circuits in is profitable in and of itself. So I bought 50,000 Burned logic circuits on my Jita Trade char, contracted to my Null trader and had them shipped in. Putting them on the market for a small profit. 

This keeps my 2 ventures still sort of pure, this is a trade transaction that will be profitable whoever buys it. It also creates a supply of a material I need for industry at a price that is profitable for me to make rigs with. Win-win really.

There are a world of efficiencies like this I could take advantage of, which is why when I finish up my targets I intend to combine both ventures into a "money making" goliath and see where I can leverage things like this. For now though I think there are probably more places I can do things like this to help myself, but I'll take them as they come.

Player Owned structures update for EVEGuru

 So, EVEGuru have updated the tool with my biggest wish for the tool which skyrockets its usefulness long term - pulling sales data from player owned structures. So long as you have a character with access you can get all the normal sales data, demand, sell price, buy price, the works - even in Null. And it works with the industrial calculator:

With this I see no reason to have a spreadsheet for day to day null industry, at least on the scale that I'm doing it. As I scale up i might find use cases where I would like more adding but this really does make building modules in null for sale in null vastly quicker and easier.

On an unrelated note, I have managed to bring my sell orders into a more realistic position that has resulted in me having over 1Bn in build at once for the first time:

The pink is the manufacturing line and the turquoise is sell orders. I'm trying to stop buying so many skills for my characters for a little bit and just focus on throughput for a while. I've sunk a lot into skillbooks (even bought some t2 ship invention skills which are ~20mil each) and various other bits recently which opens up my options horizontally but hasn't been directly increasing my throughput. For throughput I really need to focus on getting some more cash on hand so I'll try ands let this run for a bit and focus on training up the skills I already have.

January Update - Industry

 The picture here is similar (if slightly worse) than with my trading. I've not played much this month due to real life concerns and that is visible clearly in the numbers:

And the graph:

I currently have 3.67Bn ISK. That's an increase of -90mil or -3mil/day.

Clearly this is not what I was hoping for. One thing I have done this month is aggressively chase sell orders down, so a lot of what I was building was overpriced and as I chased the sell prices down my net worth dropped. The dangers of jEveAssets taking sell orders as gospel.

Secondly, in addition to spending 200mil on a EVEGuru subscription I also spent quite a lot of money on t2 skills for some of my characters. These are around 20mil each and you need quite a few to be able to build a range of items, primarily the "<insert name here> physics" skillbooks. This should allow me to produce a greater range of items. 

The EVEGuru subscription might be about to really come into its own, as they just released the player-markets pricing feature, allowing you get prices and base your industry calculation on any structures you have access to, including null! I am very excited about this feature and will likely post more on it when I have had time to play with it. 

For now, my plan for the month remains similar to my trading, play more, invest some of the money I have lying around and check out the null market module. I think I might try playing around with building small ships in null too, as t1 modules don't keep my slots busy enough as the runs only take an hour or 2. TBD here.

January Update - Trading

January has been a very stressful month for me one way or another. I've just had a weekend off from working 12 days straight, often into the evenings, along with my family being generally ill and big decisions pending around various things in our life. All that is to say I have had very little time or motivation for games, and that is reflected in the numbers. My current position:

Broken down further:

My current net worth is 1.054Tn ISK.

That means I've made 11Bn ISK, or 0.35Bn ISK/day. That's really really poor and reflective of how little I've played in the latter half of the month, but is at least a positive number. There are a few reasons to be positive though. 

Firstly, I moved all of my goods from Tash-Murkon prime to Amarr and put them up for sale. The difference in sell prices amounted to a 15Bn ISK write down, but a lot of it has sold as is visible from me having over 200Bn ISK just sitting in wallets.

Secondly, I've started cashing out on some of my HyperCores. The price took another slight dip, people have cashed them out to cash in on the Omega + MCT deal, which unfortunately coincided with my hiatus so I missed that opportunity. Not the end of the world but would have been nice to make my Omega pay for itself for a year.

Aim for this month is to play a bit more, and plunge as much of that 200Bn into new items to trade as possible. I think I'll take a look at some blueprints in addition to the usual stuff on my list.

Using the production ledger to manage alts

 So I have had a problem with manufacturing where I'll sift through my blueprints, decide on what I'm going to build, transport the materials to where it's being built and then I'll forget half of what I was going to build. This leads to wasted materials from building the wrong things and general inefficiencies. This is compounded with alts where I have to trade things around.

EVEGuru has a solution for that though, and I have changed my process a bit. Once I have all the blueprints I need I can go to the options and untick "not owned" so it will only look at the profitability of my actually owned blueprints, then as I decide what to build I can update the quantities and tick that item. 

When I have enough for all my slots (or all my money) I can add these to the production ledger and call it something like "14/01 high sec". This tells me which characters it relates to and when I started it. I then buy the stuff (I still use the buy all window in the in game industry so I don't get wasted mats) and when I get to the other end I can use the production ledger as a reference to kick off my jobs!

Once I have all of the runs going I can mark the run as complete, it's served its purpose by that point. For multi step production (e.g. tech 2) I can keep the stages up to date correctly to help me manage. I've already found this leading to a greater utilisation of slots, which is huge for me.

New year, new PC

 I've just taken delivery of a new PC. My old one is nearly 8 years old and I was starting to get freezes and graphics issues that suggested the graphics card was not entirely healthy, so getting out ahead I decided an upgrade is due.

One thing I always find baffling with new desktops is they never come with more than 1 HDMI slot. My last one had an old AV slot (not even sure what type) that I used an adapter, this one has 3 HDRs, so until a HDR adapter arrives I'm down to one monitor. Annoying but I can make do. 

It does however mean setting everything up again, including EVE and all my tools. I exported my market quickbars to a spreadsheet and I'm in the process of transferring them to my accounts on my new PC. I've managed to transfer my jEVEassets history across, by copying my .jeveassets folder over to my new PC and it works a treat. 

I've installed EVEGuru and added my character but it hasn't picked up my subscription. I'm only a few days out from needing to renew it anyway so I'll just add subscription time and start from there. I've seen others experience the same issue on their discord and they've been able to sole it, but for the sake of a few days it just doesn't seem worth the hassle for me.

On the game front someone spiked the price on Mobile Depots, and during the rush I was able to make out with about 400mil profit over a few days. The price is now settling towards normal and I'll look elsewhere but it was a pleasant surprise to come back to

End of Year 2024 - Industry

 First end of year here! It's only been going a few months, and December has been challenging as I'll go into before. I also have had quite a period of barely playing, which my jEveAssets graph shows. My current position:

And here is my jEveAssets graph:

I currently have 3.78Bn ISK. An increase on last month of 741Mil or 23.9mil ISK/day.

That's very disappointing. I have spent 200mil on a EVEGuru subscription, so I've made operating profits of 941mil but that is still heavily down on last month. I seem to have struggled a lot for throughput this month, especially on the selling front. I think I need to really strongly focus on making sure my items sell so I have more money each day in order to keep my slots busy. I have a lot of slots empty at any given time which is a killer in industry.

So a bit of a bumpy start to my Industry challenge in 2024, but I'm really enjoying it and learning a lot about a game I've been playing on and off since 2009!

My main target for 2025 on top of my overall goals for this challenge is to hit 100Bn by this time next year. Seems a stretch but I think I should be able to do it. Got to have goals to push myself! 

Onwards to a near year, let's hope it's a good one!