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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/

Not a joke post.

Some good advice there, i have already started to make a few spread sheets for my ammo builds it really does help out.


Although i would suggest LibreOffice, its Opensource! (Linux, Mac, Windows)
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/

:=D

That was mind as a advice "excell" you can use even google one if you like :)

If youre new a tip : usually people while building stuff have almost perfect skills , so they get a profit where you could be in loss , just be carefull , maybe its more profitable just sell the raw minerals , while you get youre refining and manufacturing (core skills) higher :)

Now there is some great advice, thanks dude. I am already working on Refining and production efficiency, any other skills you would recommend?

For Building Stuff:
Industry
Mass Production
Advanced Mass Production
Supply Chain Management

Rigging Skills (If you want to build rigs)

You can also invest in the Research related skills, but if you don't have regular access to a POS or research slots, you're probably better off going the BPC route until you can buy researched BPOs.

Unresearched BPO's are not the better option on most occasion, as the amount of raw materials needed is larger than the amount needed on the researched BPC's, and skills haven't been taken into account yet.
In most cases, you'll soon realise there's not a loftof ISK to be made with that.

But the process you are referring to is simple research.
To do research, you need to acquire a slot for either ME (Material Efficiency) or PE (Production Efficiency).
This process costs money and, depending on BPO and current researched level, can take up anywhere from a few hours to days for 1 level of ME/PE.

On the matter of short amount of runs, that's BPC's.
Generally, BPC's available on contracts have been copied from researched BPO's. For these BPC's you'll have to use less raw minerals to build the item in question, and they'll more than likely take less time to build.
These BPC's will have a maximum run amount of X, where X stands for the amount of times you can use said BPC, where you can thus produce X amounts of that particular item/ship.

Even if you factor in the cost of BPC purchase, you'll quickly notice that producing from researched BPC's is more profitable than producing from unresearched BPO's.
This will all have to be factored in for deciding the amount at which you will sell said item/ship.

Another thing you might want to take into account is the difference between selling to buy orders, and setting your own sell orders.
Selling to buy orders might net you, for example, 100 ISK per unit sold, whereas setting up your own sell order might net you 120 ISK per unit sold.
However, getting

Emma d'Acques thank you as well, some solid in depth advice there.

Rainbow Moose thanks a lot, all this information is really helping. I have made a list of all the skills you suggested, and i will queue them up in my skill tree.

Also i will be logging into eve in a bit, i will add you to my friends list.

Thanks