Market Discussions

Depends what you're doing.

Just buying more stock of the same things probably won't increase your return.

Expanding into new markets with your profit, while keeping the older ones ticking over, may.


Also depends how you're thinking about it. You probably won't see a higher % return. But that's the same % on a far higher value.

Well, manufacturing isn't a bad way to supplement your income. Though I'd suggest you spread it across all the alts you can. and get supply chain management as soon as possible.

Building stuff away from hubs is the easiest way to find empty slots. Or go into T2 manufacturing, and use some spare space in your POS for manufacturing arrays. Yes, it costs, but you'll be running one anyway. And a 25% boost to your isk/hr isn't to be ignored.

Small manufacturing POS: you're talking around a 4 million a day cost to run it. which is around 166,000 isk per hour. So if you have a single manufacturing array (6 slots, say), that's less than 30k per slot. for a 0.75 modifier to time. So if you make more than 120k isk/hr with the POS modifier, you're making a profit with it (unless my math is /completely/ off). Of course, a small POS can support far more than a single manufacturing array.


Though you do make your POS a trifle more interesting to people. More stuff to drop.

There are people who run standing boost services so that you can set up a pos in highsec without having the standings yourself. Check out the Wants and Adds or Sell orders sub forums here.

Also, remember that you can keep the bpos inside a station in the same system and only need to move the materials to the pos

Depends really. You can use it to keep the fuel / datacores on a research pos. It's quite cheap anyway and fits without taking up any needed cpu.

But, play around with a pos planner somewhere online and see what you would like to have there. A Basic research pos usually has a mobile lab + 2x advanced labs for 7 me/pe/invention slots.

http://eve.1019.net/pos/

for instance

I find it to be percentage based and not linear. The percentage slowly drops over time, but not rapidly.

Margin Trading with aggressive reinvestment will give high revenue and allow you to scale very well into high capital before your income per unit of time starts to plateau.

I station traded til my monthly income was around 2b a month, from there it seemed to cap at that point. This may of been due to the time I had and that I couldn't squeeze any more out of it. At the time I only traded through 2 hubs (not Jita), if I'd maybe expanded to a couple more hubs (still not Jita) then I could probably have extended my income some more. This would also of opened up the opportunity for some inter-region trading ...which I did between Rens <--> Hek (6 jumps). I imagine being familiar in more than a few hubs you could probably find some great opportunities.

I've since moved onto Invention/Manufacturing/Selling my shiz, this now provides a double-digit billion income but it does require a little more of my time but maintaining it overall is probably easier than the station trading was (for me anyway).

A couple of people have mentioned using a POS, my feeling is ...stick with NPC stations initially. I invent/manufacture in hisec and copy in lowsec. Until such a time that my operation is pretty slick and I'm able to take advantage of the faster build times of a POS, a POS provides no real advantage as it will just sit idle for short periods.

In the future I do intend on some POS usage but it will likely be for RE (Reverse Engineering) and T3 production.

But the most important thing is READ, READ, READ. Research anything that springs to mind and be able to plan it all out without spending a single isk (if possible).

Fly safe. o7