So the public Raitaru I was researching out of in Hirtamon went low power, screwing me over for a third time in 7 months. This time all I was doing was researching ME on some blueprints in there, so all I lost is time and the job cost, but I'm not making this mistake again. The worst thing is I didn't have a character parked in there which means my assets had to go into asset safety, and I can't claim them for 5 days! This means I've lost access not only to some BPOs for that time, but all of my BPCs I was planning to invent from.
I searched around for a nearby high sec NPC station to move to where I could do the full range of production, research, copying and invention from. There are a few, and Vellaine looked like a good option with good system cost indexes. However there are no available offices in that station so I've had to go 1 jump over to Akonoinen.
As you can see this offers the full range of activities and has a system build cost of 4.74%, which is fairly average for Caldari high sec.
All this does make me want to revisit the idea of putting up my own private raitaru somewhere to operate out of, but it still kind of feels like I'm not where I need to be to make that a profitable idea at the moment. I'll run the numbers and see if it's worthwhile.
