EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hi

So im really into market trading, building and then selling on the market. First i was building afterburners, and made a profit of about 2 mill, then im making 1000 antimatter charges for a profit of about 2 mill also. But i mean, it takes about 2-3 days to make it, and the profit is to low. i can make that amount of money by mining and direct selling it in alot shorter time.

ive tried to analyze the market and calculating but apperently not enough, so i was wondering whats better to build, give more profit and general thoughts on how to build and sell.

I understand that it depends on where you trade and prices goes up and down, but general tips you guys have would be highly appreciated.

Best regards.

Understand that you're not really asking for general tips, you're asking for specifics (what's most profitable), and manufacturers and traders won't reveal that to you (they don't want you competing with them on the stuff that makes them profit).

You're going to have to think of manufacturing separately from trading.

Manufacturing deals with what blueprints you have and what blueprints you can acquire, whether you can research them to improve materials and time, and where you can find manufacturing facilities that are available right away. The decision of what to build is determined by what you need and what you have blueprints for.

Trading, on the other hand, deals with profits. In general, you have trade hubs, where stuff sells a lot but you're competing with other traders, and they 0.01 isk you; you have mission hubs where ammo and T2 modules sell well; you have entry-points to lowsec, where you can sell ships, ammo, and modules, and generally buy minerals and loot for transport to the trade hub; and you have null-sec where it's possible to have monopoly by virtue of the fact that your alliance will shoot everyone else who tries to set up shop.

You also have variations over time; whenever a blueprint is introduced, such as the recent Venture ship and micro jump drive module, if you can get the blueprint you can probably sell at huge profit for a while, until the masses of other manufacturers also start making the things in bulk.

I'd say that everything is pretty much researched and the profits aren't that big no matter where you look. Because there are a lot of manufacturers out there. But diligence and searching may find you something.

Tech 2 modules and ships require you to find blueprint copies on Contracts from the invention people. T1 ships and modules are easy to find blueprints for, but may not sell in bulk in high-sec because people don't lose ships in high-sec all that much (sometimes they do - check the market for retrievers and other mining barges during a Hulkageddon period). Same for rigs - rigs cost a lot, but in high sec they don't blow up all that much. Ammo does get used, but you're talking harsh competition where 0.01 isk matters.

I've had good luck building and selling consumables like ammo and drones. They tend to sell quick, which is good. As a primitive example, getting 1mil profit per day in quick turnover items is better than getting 5mil profit on a bigger item that takes a week to sell. That's 7mil per week as opposed to 5mil per week.

This site will give you a rough idea on the cost of building something vs. the current sell price. http://www.eve-markets.net/ But I don't think it takes into account the Material Efficiency of your BP, i.e. how much it personally costs you to build the item. And I think the data is from the whole EVE world, so it doesn't reflect your local costs and market prices. Or maybe there's a way to make it do that. I haven't thoroughly dug through the site, I just use it for rough estimates.

You just made that term up

We call them traders

That's never stopped me, I'll take the profit loss just on principal... I'll win

Set up shop just on the hi-sec edge of a really busy faction warfare low-sec system, like one jump away, and then crank out all the ammunition types you can think of.

Its simple. Ask yourself what am I buying right now to run these missions or mine.......there is your answer . Manufacture what you use the most of and branch out from there. If you are using alot of mining crystals and are tired of buying them on the market then make some, actually make alittle extra and sell the extras on the market then you kill two birds with one stone.

They also can afford to take a large short term cut in profits to keep you from stealing customers.