June Junk Drawer
Posted: 2012-06-20 Filed under: eveonline, nullsec, screenshot | Tags: anaconda, bpc, bpo, carrier, chribba, csm, csm7, lowsec, mine, sov, titan 7 Comments1. Interested in the current tone of CSM-CCP relationship, the future of industry, and hints into the Winter expansion? Listen to VandV Podcast: Special Edition: Spring Summit Wrap Up podcast which contains an hour of content with current chairman @Seleene_Eve.
2. Chribba posted a screenshot of his Titan mining operations in lowsec.
3. I gasped at the sov map for a minute before discovering that there was a zero in the name.
4. Endless Space, a 4X turn based space strategy game, has been recieving a lot of my attention over the past month. The Beta is available right now on Steam and patches have been coming out every week or so with balances, new UI elements, and bug fixes.
I’m really interested in this game because the same game format is XML that is compressed in a .bin file. You can uncompress it with 7-Zip and then edit it in Notepad++ to change planet or hero attributes, technologies, global events, or even star system locations. The mentality of the development team is one of openness with the community and they are very active on the forums while polishing up the Beta.
5. I’ve contacted some Tech2 manufactures and have started to buy in bulk. You can generally get 5-10% Jita price, which does nothing but increase your margins.
6. Since I haven’t been actively playing much this month, I put some idle BPOs into copy research for some very passive income. There are idle or low wait empire copy slots, you just have to look for them. Hint: go to lowsec. I just know one of these days I will encounter a smartbomb.
7. To help solidify my claim as a bittervet, I picked up some Anaconda Mines.
8. I have an itch for a large scale public investment project, but lack any type of formal finance training. I wish Eve had a stock market so people could invest in my trading and manufacturing operation. I don’t have any idea of where to start, what the payout would be, or how to manage risk when you start to work with other people’s money; I would not want to be Eve Bank 2.0.
Inferno 1.1
Posted: 2012-06-11 Filed under: eveonline, ships | Tags: inferno, Minmatar, v3 Leave a commentUnofficial change list is up here on the forums.
Patch Size: 718 MB
JonnyPew, one of my favorite Eve video makers, has some great videos of the Minmatar V3 update on youtube.
Trading 103: QuickBar and UI Layout
Posted: 2012-06-04 Filed under: eveonline, industry, market, screenshot | Tags: market, quickbar, ui 5 CommentsThe following items are some basic guidelines that I use when setting up the Eve client for my trading operation. Everyone is different, so take my suggestions into consideration when setting up your layout. There are a few ways to be productive with the current UI.
Window Layout
- Market on the top section. I merge Mail, Contracts, and Corporation windows into this section.
- Wallet with Orders tab open on the bottom merged with Inventory.
- Local isolated on the lower left and any special or intel channels above it.
- Station services left alone on the right.
QuickBar
This area of the Market interface is the lifeblood of my operation. Take the time to properly setup your lists with folders as it will allow you to quickly scan and locate items.
I’m only interested in around 400 or so items out of the thousands of items on the market — don’t spend time typing in the Search, have everything in your QuickBar!
I take one client and make it the master and when I have finalized a number of edits to the QuickBar, I copy it to other character’s setups. There is a unique .dat file for each character.
Location
C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\[eve instance name]\settings (Windows 7)
File
core_user_[eve user id].dat
Example of my organized QuickBar:
Order Highlighting
Enable this with the Market > Settings > Mark my orders option. I use this to visually show how I am controlling a market. It can also give you insight into how competitive the item is by how many orders have been updated since your last check.
Updating Prices
An update operation involves me going down the Wallet > Oders list, double-clicking on each row. If an order needs updating, I right-click on it and selecting Modify Order.
Scroll-wheel
Did you know that you can move prices from the Modify window up or down by 0.01 ISK by using the scroll-wheel? I discovered this by accident. Happy 0.01’ing!
May Financial Report
Posted: 2012-05-29 Filed under: eveonline, market | Tags: hulkageddon, implants, inferno, jump freighter, minerals, nocxium, subsystem, tech 3, technetium, vanguard, zydrine 5 Commentstl;dr Charts
Things are going great!
May Challenges
Since I missed my April update, this report will contain some events from April.
Overall the Inferno patch cycle brought a large amount of change in the form of market speculation:
Drone mineral drops were removed, market and macro bots were banned, RMT was again cracked down on, Vanguard sites were nerfed, Technetium prices were controlled, faction/deadspace/officer items were added to the market, Nocxium’s artifical price ceiling was removed, and datacores were moved to Faction Warfare. Whew.
All these changes combined with the Burn Jita and Hulkageddon V event meant that prices were volatile.
Major Points
I have joined TEST and have been working with their market division, which seems to be a perfect fit for me. TEST has a very savvy development group that has no trouble coding up sites to manage our efforts.
In April at a Eve meetup, I met another trader who mainly operates in the North with an operation about 8x my size. It was a lot of fun to talk shop with another trader. I think we bored the PVP’ers while we rambled on about margins, hauling, bulk orders, and general logistics. I have apparently made a name for myself because she said, “oh you’re the Blake I’ve heard about — yes, I know about you.”
Order highlighting has improved the speed and accuracy at which I can update orders. I spend about 20 minutes a day total broken into two sessions updating prices. I tend to update after downtime and around 23:00, which is US prime.
Stats @CCP_Diagoras Style
172,592,790,045 sold so far in 2012.
35,912,308,945 profit so far in 2012.
12,340 transactions so far in 2012.
2,921,500.42 average profit per transaction in 2012.
10,843,867.01 standard deviation per transaction in 2012.
Top item by quantity was Tritanium with 90,272,146 sold for a profit of 306,018,174.
Worst profitable item was 1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I where I lost 49,869,884.
Best trading day on May 5th with a total profit of 1.24 B beating out Oct 24, 2011 at 793 M when I sold a Jump Freighter I build from scratch.
The Future
Keep doing what I am doing and keep putting liquid ISK back into the market.
I spent some money and picked up 305 Tech 3 Subsystem BPCs. The return isn’t that high, so I might put this project off for a later date or work with a production partner to complete the batch.
The addition of officer/deadspace/faction items has opened up new area of trading. I have been having good success with these and am slowing building my list of items to watch.
New modules are almost always insanely profitable. The addition of the new Inferno modules have so far proven to be very lucrative.
Eve Dust Integration Begins
Posted: 2012-05-24 Filed under: dust514, eveonline | Tags: dust514, icons, inferno, mercenary, overview 3 CommentsWe’re starting to see the beginnings of the Dust world in Eve.
Included in the Inferno Image dump are a bunch of Dust asset images. What’s interesting to me is that they are included in the image set that is used for icons — like the Neocom icon or the Science & Industry icon. There is a different image series for all the unique assets such as the Drake or a 1MN MicroWarpdrive II.
These images are from Inferno_1.0_Icons.zip in the Community Toolkit. (Ninja edit: I also found these icons in the Escalation image dump)
Another interesting item is that there is now a ‘Mercenary Bases’ type on the Overview filter.
I haven’t found any Dust related items in the static SQL data so if you find something, let me know. Time to put on your tinfoil hats and let the speculation game begin!
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