In my ongoing search for a way to do reactions profitably as an in and out simple production line I've come across this tool: https://reactions.coalition.space/
It presents, in simple terms, the profitability of each type of reaction based on Jita prices. This is exactly what I was looking for, and after having a little poke around I decided to do a Carbon Fiber run:
I recently watched a video on OZ's channel where he interviews Sir SmashAlot, an extremely large player in the T2 ship and structure rig markets, who has scaled to a point where he apparently pays 6% of the universes install fees alone! And has revenue of 7.5 Trillion a month!
That is just...staggering. Inspiring, but staggering. It's a great interview where he talks about his setup, how he got where he is and what it's like to play at that level.
As someone who is currently struggling to get tech 2 production straight in my head, and grappling with scaling I think this is something I'll come back to to gain some insight and motivation. He describes null industry as having lumpy demand, which is definitely something I've experienced even at a small scale and become frustrated with. I have been tempted to simply revert to primarily highsec for a while but I think that what I'm facing is clearly surmountable, I just need to work things out properly to get there.
I highly recommend this if you're looking to scale industry seriously, and would be fascinated to find anything similar or how other people have done it as I haven't cracked it myself yet.
A while ago I was able to catch a stream of Oz_EVE where Fern Kitsuen was showing off an industry tool they've been working on called EVE Guru. Details of it can be found in this thread on the forums:
https://forums.eveonline.com/t/software-eve-guru-a-best-in-breed-manufacturing-planning-tool/464297
I don't use much in the way of tooling, I've downloaded ISK per Hour but haven't really set it up, and I use JEveAssets but that's about it. This tool though aims to combine a lot of information and functionality from other tools and present them in a easily consumable way, as easy as anything to do with EVE industry is consumed anyway.
The run through looked impressive, and a feature I particularly like is you can add a bunch of filters for items you want to build, T1, 2 etc. small, medium, large, rigs, component, whatever. You can then set a minimum demand (average daily trade), profit margins and other stuff, hit update and it will search all the items in EVE that meet your criteria, work out the build cost, taxes, profit, profit per hour or m3 and present it in a big sortable list, where you can drill down and work out what you needs and build shopping lists etc.
I've used settings like this to look for items to build, and, well, here are the results in my jEVEAssets:
One thing to bear in mind with this is you get a free trial for 30 days and then it's 200mil a month for unlimited characters and all the features. They're adding more on a near daily basis and have quite a roadmap of stuff to add. If I keep making money like this then 200mil a month seems like the deal of a lifetime for this much productivity!
Quick one this, for the release of Revenant CCP has put more login rewards in and also given people a free 10 PLEX and a 1 time offer of 1 week of Omega time for 10 PLEX in the NES. It's also reminded me to collect on the weekly 15,000 SP you get for going into the NES which I often forget. Especially as I'm skilling up for T2 production these are very valuable right now. So log in and claim your free stuff!
So in order to scale my industry effectively, in highsec at least, I've been exploring how to have assets accessible by anyone in the corp so that I don't have to make a bunch of item exchange contracts to move assets between characters on the same account. it seems what I wanted to do is possible, if a little unintuitive.
First, you need a corp, obviously. Then, in your station or upwell structure you need to rent an office. I am operating out of a Raitaru in Ikuchi that is not owned by my corp, but I am able to rent a corp office there for 10,000ISK a month. I just need to remember to have that amount in my corp wallet. This should give you a bunch of corp hangers to use:
My second Industry Update. I've done a bit of scaling here, and started out in Null. Enjoying it so far even though there is a lot that I need to learn! My current totals:
And here is my jEveAssets graph:
My current net worth is 854.6 Million ISK. That is an increase of 630.8 Mil, or 20.3Mil ISK/day. That's OK but slightly disappointing if I'm honest. I had really hoped to break the Billion, and 20 mil/day across what is now 3 characters is not amazing, though it has started spiking recently as the graph shows. I was also away for 4 days towards the end of the month. I suspect if I had been here for those I would have broken the Billion mark, so maybe not as bad as I think.
I have made several advancements this month though. First I created a new account and moved a character to null. The way things are done is definitely different in null. I have to do my industry 3 jumps away from Horde's main staging to take advantage of the Sotiyo for manufacturing and other structures for research/reactions, so I'm currently hauling in a Tayra. This isn't ideal, but it's working at the moment. There are alliance hauling services which I've primarily used to move things to or from Jita but they also do moves within null. I don't really feel I'm at the place where I want to utilise that yet though. My hauls are too small to warrant it. Also the hauling takes a day or so to go to/from Jita, which is slow enough. I'm not at the scale yet where I can wait that long for every job.
Secondly I have made another highsec character to get more job slots, and created a corp to share funds etc. I still need to work out how best to store Blueprints for corp use and pool the outcomes so I don't have to make item exchange contracts to get the stuff to/from my Jita seller. Very much a work in progress here but vital to get right if I'm going to scale this at all.
Early on with T1 manufacturing I have noticed a pattern emerging though. A gap of high profitability opens on an item, it can be ridden to fast profits for a while, then people realise and flood the market and the profitability drops off again. First month it was Cap Boosters that I got a lot out of, this month it was Mobile Depots. For almost the entire month I was able to build them for 1.6mil each from an unresearched BPO, 1.5mil researched, and sell them for 1.9mil. They would also fly off the shelves. I could put up 100 and within an hour they would all be gone. This was great and I scaled this to at one point 12 production lines, but the price has dropped to about 1.75mil. Still profitable with researched BPOs but not worth going crazy about. I've started exploring rigs as an alternative but I think this is going to be the nature of the beast with production.
So, how am I doing versus my overall targets?
Another interesting month for a couple of reasons, though I maintain it has been a good one. My current position:
