So for the second time this year, Horde staging is moving, as laid out here:
I don't like the title of the thread but the content is true, Horde have announced they are moving to a new staging system, R-AG. This just so happens to be 1 jump from where I've been doing my industry in XU7, so in theory makes my life easier, but as outlined in my last post I'd already taken the decision to wind down my operations, and this really solidifies my decision.
Not that moving is the end of the world, it's part and parcel of null sec life and I'm not complaining per se, but it adds to the inconvenience of industry in null and I think I just want to simplify at the moment. So the builds that are in progress will be my last. What I will probably do is cancel all my sell orders in E8- and then sell my wares to my null trader, since he's going to be moving over to new staging anyway, and take those funds to my high sec operation.
You could argue that this is cheating a bit and for the "true" experience I should stay and sell those myself or have them shipped to Jita and cash out that way. To that I say, you're right, but I think I'd rather just divest and get back to what I'm enjoying about this whole thing.
On a sort of related note, I watched this video recently:
SquadB Gaming's How to get started in Manufacturing
Where SquadB, an industrial Trillionaire, goes through his setup and offers advice to people getting into industry. I'd thoroughly recommend it to everyone. In it, he explains how he is based out of an NPC station a few jumps from Jita, just like me. He also had bad experiences with player run freeports and losing assets. I find it interesting that he came to the exact same conclusions as me, and I may just end up running a scaling manufacturing outfit like him in high sec out of an NPC station for the safety, security, easy logistics and certainty that nothing is likely to change, other players cannot scam you out of your assets or blow the place up.
The only things making me refrain from that decision permanently are that a low sec sotiyo could offer me reaction slots and the capacity to build capitals. Reactions are a potential good income stream on their own or profit multiplier, and capitals are just a goal of mine long term.
For now though, I'll sit tight and see what sells over the next few days while I'm away, then move everything to new staging and my industrial character out of null, one way or the other.
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