How to Profit from New Ships
Posted: 2011-12-06 Filed under: industry, market | Tags: battlecruiser, naga, oracle, talos, tier 3, tornado 6 CommentsNew items in game, especially ships, produce a huge market opportunity if you can stage and plan out your production properly. Here are some pointers on how to make a lot of ISK.
1. Get on the test server as soon as possible to lookup the BPO requirements. This workup on the unresearched BPO shows that the build cost is about 43.6 M per Tornado.
2. Stockpile minerals in a location close to Jita that has open Manufacturing slots.
3. Before the expansion comes out, have a freighter or Shuttle character in a NPC station where the BPO will be seeded.
4. After the expansion has been deployed and you are back in the game, buy the BPOs and burn to your production system.
5. Build a few BCs with the unresearched BPOs and get the ships to market. Here is a screenshot of the Tornado market about 6 hours after they were seeded on the market.
Despite the markup, they were moving. People were making a 170M+ profit on each Tornado because the demand was so high.
6. After the market has become competitive, place your BPOs in research and start the ME grind in order to stay competitive.
Crucible Fuel Blocks
Posted: 2011-11-17 Filed under: industry, market, pos | Tags: caldari, crucible, pos, tower 7 CommentsIf you haven’t read the upcoming POS fuel change, check it out on the CCP Devblog. Also read over Jester’s review of the upcoming change as he outlines the modification of each fuel type.
Caldari Towers
How much, how big, and how long? Here are the estimates for running the three sizes of Caldari towers at current Jita fuel costs.
For one month a Large Caldari Control Tower will cost 360 M to run, 144,000 m3 of Fuel Blocks moved around, and 1.5 days of build time for the Fuel Blocks.
Icon Change
The current icon set doesn’t differentiate the racial fuel blocks with color very well. James at k162space came up with more colorful icons to match the racial color styling as seen with the ECM modules.
CCP Proposed Icons
K162’s Proposed Icons
James has posted in the comment thread for the devblog and we’ve received some feedback from CCP Dropbear on Twitter. Perhaps the art department will give it a second pass. We would be happy to send along the 256×256 transparent PNGs!
[Edit] As Poetic Stanziel pointed out, color-blind people will have an issue with our proposed icon set. I think if CCP were to add our colorization to the existing icons, which have different metal bases and frames, we could have a real solution.
Shrinking Profits on Implants
Posted: 2011-11-10 Filed under: market | Tags: implants, market, trading 3 CommentsAfter a break from Eve and trading in September and October, I am back in the flow of the markets. Below are some screenshots from my Wallet Manager. Since I have added the ability to report on our historical prices, I have greater insight into the big question of Eve trading — what to trade.
Here is some information for Basic Implants. Overall my margins have been shrinking since I started trading in November of 2010.
I’ve spent some time creating a item dashboard that can show performance for an individual item over time. This has greatly helped with profit projection.
PI Customs Office Changes
Posted: 2011-10-19 Filed under: industry, market | Tags: bpc, bpo, concord, construction blocks, coolant, customs office, devblog, enriched uranium, industry, lp, mechanical parts, PI, robotics, trade 5 Comments
Another iteration of PI is coming to the server. The existing Office structures in orbit around planets in lowsec, nullsec, and wormhole space will disappear. Players will have to build their own player-controlled Offices in order to move PI items on and off of planets. Note: Highsec will not be affected.
For 6,000 Concord LPs and 20 M ISK, you can get one Customs Office Gantry BPC. Interesting move that the BPO will not be released. This means that people will have to continually engage in Concord LP activities such as Incursions or Faction Warfare.
Jester went into detail about the gameplay changes due to the hit point values, reinforcement timer options, and LP requirements, but I wanted to cover the market aspects of the changes. You might be able to make a lot of money off of the changes. When PI was first introduced, I was able to turn 2 B into around 5 B by playing the speculation game.
Disclaimer: Everything I say and quote could be entirely wrong so do your own research.
As soon as the devblog was posted, the market speculators began to buy up the component items. The consensus is that when this goes live all existing PI in lowsec, nullsec, and wormhole space will be affected. There is going to be a delay to get the new Customs Offices in place because people will have to obtain a BPC from the Concord office, build the Gantries, and anchor them in place. Additionally, there will be a wave of people that will consider this effort to high and give up on their existing PI production. Prices for the parts that made the Gantries, items for POS fuel, and T2 production are going to increase.
| Manufacturing the Customs Office Gantry | Upgrade to Customs Office |
|---|---|
| Integrity Response Drones: 5 Nano-Factory: 10 Organic Mortar Applicators: 10 Sterile Conduits: 14 Capital Construction Parts: 1 |
Broadcast Node: 8 Recursive Computing Module: 8 Self-Harmonizing Power Core: 8 Wetware Mainframe: 8 |
If you want some hard speculation numbers, a 40-60% increase short-term in the first few months and a general 20% increase over the long-term seems reasonable to me. Take a look at the speculators in action in The Forge.
Now is not a good time to have to buy POS fuel. I hope you have 6 months to a year in reserve!
September Financial Report
Posted: 2011-09-30 Filed under: industry, market | Tags: bpo, capital, financial, income, isk, networth, nullsec, profit, report, tengu Leave a commentOverview
This month saw two major shifts for me. With the fall of Imperial 0rder, I lost a lot of access to nullsec stations. I had spent a lot of time in Catch playing with AAA and now that time has drawn to a close.
I’ve since withdrawn to highsec and have started up a manufacturing line with a corpmate. My hopes are that some rebalancing and sovereignty changes will hit with the Winter expansion and my desire to return to null will come back.
Also, a lot of real life events kept me from playing. I finished up with my last Triathlon of the season, had a fun open water swim competition at the end of September, and moved into a new apartment complete with no Internet access for a few days! Real life > Eve.
Notable Events
Shift a lot of liquid ISK into BPOs:
- 2x Archon
- 2x Thanatos
- 1x Chimera
- 1x Charon (in research)
- 1x Obelisk
- 1x Providence (in research)
Sift of ISK into raw materials for production to start production lines.
Locked up 5 B in Jump Freighter Production.
Purchased a fancy mission Tengu.
Capital Project
I wasn’t on Ever much to update prices so only 4 Carriers sold. I am looking to ramp up production in October since I will also be adding a researched Chimera BPO to the factory line.
Long-term Growth
Over the past few months, I’ve seen a steady groth in net worth with a slowdown in August and September due to real life commitments combined with stagnation in game.
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