Science & Industry

Hi, I just sold my first selfmade Cruiser with a net profit of 11. something%.

I am wondering, is this a reasonable value? Or can this be improofed as it took some hours of work (buying, shipping, building...) to get there.

Just now I am working on my Production Efficiency (now at 3), maybe this will help.

Us industrials are less concerned about the profit % but instead isk / hour. More expensive stuff might have less profit% but much higher isk/hour, and thats almost all that matters.

Hm, that makes roughly 250k/hour then. Its needs some improvement, I grind Lv1 Agents for more

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Ship generally have the slimmest margins do to heavy competition. Every one seems to want to make ships. Until you get production efficiency to V I would (and did) stick with modules and such.

I had great success moving my wears in mission and mining systems for greater margins and avoiding the trade hubs.

Just a lazy afternoon. It started with refining my whole cheap stuff, setting up the buy orders (+1 jump around the factory), adjusting them over and over, collecting the stuff, wait for deliveries, having dinner, watching Simpsons...

I could go and mine something myself but... nah

It feels good to get money doing nearly nothing.

You're not looking very hard at cruisers then. There is currently a very popular cruiser selling at 24% profit with PE 0.

I suspect the OP hasn't run the numbers and realized that he could of make more isk selling the minerals than building something. As I understand it his tactic is buy cheap modules -> reprocess -> make something -> sell it -> profit. I suspect that buy cheap modules -> reprocess ->sell it -> profit would result in more isk in his pocket. However maybe he is enjoying building the ships, or maybe ship prices in the area he is in are high compared to mineral prices. I use to make a fair chunk of isk in mission hubs buying cheap modules, reprocessing them, and making ammo, but was mainly due to the insane markup on drones and ammo due to mission runners being willing to pay higher ammo as they would have lost isk travelling to purchase ammo. Of course my real motivation was to make cheap ammo for me, and to annoy the price gougers in the hub.

Yup; although, they're being over produced right now to compensate so expect the price to tank in the next few days. Worth keeping an eye on in the future.

Eh, there are some spiked cruisers now, apparently, probably being used as cannon fodder in TEST kitchen-sink fleets.

So, it's technically possible right now, but naturally won't be a sustainable margin.

I don't really care about a per slot per hour figure. I'm not that efficient.

I focus more on the time to sell and less on the time to manufacture. I value a lower effort more.

I prefer to load-up low skill alts, let them manufacture for a month stuff that everybody overlooks, while earning 30% or more on the material cost. Earning 30% or more per month ain't bad for a few minutes work.

If you do care about a per slot per hour, and work hard for that same month, you will no doubt earn far more.