Another High Sec move

 So I've moved my high sec manufacturing for a second time.

When I first started off I was building and researching out of a public Raitaru in Ikuchi. I was fairly shortly locked out of the structure as it went low power and I lost the materials of what I was building, thankfully not much in that case. 

I then moved to a NPC station in Ikuchi for building, and a public Raitaru in Hirtamon for research. This is a bit risky as there is a chance I can get locked out of the Raitaru, but at least I won't lose my production materials. However when I logged in today I noticed that the build costs seemed a little high. Upon closer inspection the system cost index had jumped up to 8.69%. This is still a lot lower than Jita or Perimeter but is a significant hit to margins, especially when combined with the increase in Sales tax.

So I've moved again, to an NPC station in Hirtamon, where the system cost index is currently 4.94%. I could build out of the same Raitaru I research/invent in, but I don't like that risk right now. Also they are charging 10% tax on manufacturing. I need to do some working out of the cost of putting up my own Raitaru at some point to take advantage of the bonuses and lower tax, but for now the NPC station will do. 

I am still building the same sort of thing, primarily rigs both tech 1 and 2, some modules and in null I've even built a few Raptors. 

I've also started scaling up Reactions a bit. Initially when doing reactions I tried to do one step and sell the output. In that instance it was Carbon Fibre, which had a on paper margin of 30% and seemed like a good call. However, selling it involved shipping it to Jita, and micro managing the sell order and it still took 2 weeks to shift. Not ideal. Going one more step to Reinforced Carbon Fibre though, while only adding another ~7% in terms of margin had a much greater demand. So I've been able to sell the output in MJ- for a similar price to Jita! I'm now skilling up to get beyond 6 reaction slots to expand this.

I've also added another character in High Sec. I was running out of immediately useful skills to train on my main character that does my hauling and I am increasingly finding I have excess cash that I could use for more slots, so I've started a third character on that account, remapped Int/Mem and am skilling up initially for 10 build/science slots and then towards tech 2. 

All this has contributed to me really kicking on in net worth this month. This is already my best month so far with 10 days to go already being 2.5Bn up on the start of March!