A belated update on industry. And another fairly flat month:
My net worth is 59.5Bn, that's an increase of 600mil, or 20mil ISK/day.
Well, it's not negative, but it's not really positive either. So what gives? Have I just forgotten how to make money with industry?
Not exactly. My usual medium rigs have been continuing their slow downward trend which makes profiting off them very difficult. I've been constantly chasing prices down just to get revenue. But I have been making money with them. The bigger thing has been starting a lowsec industry set up.
I've spent time and money getting a set of blueprints and reaction formulae to Auner in Minmatar lowsec, and working out the logistics and contract mechanisms. That all went fine, but I also found I had to spend hundreds of millions on skills that I was lacking across a couple of characters, which eats into my profits.
Also, building ships is slow. These first few runs have really been test runs to get the mechanisms setup, make sure my blueprints are in the right place, materials in the right stations, that sort of thing. This aspect has been a success, but actually selling the finished product has been a challenge.
Sabres have fallen in price, when I started my build run they had a 22% profit margin, but they have fallen to a 52 week low price where the margin is just 2%...I spend more than that on shipping alone!
T2 transports haven't been much better either. Though I'm just getting started with those. TBH I'm not thrilled with the outcome so far, but there's a lot to work out. Onwards!
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