Science & Industry

The reactor requires 0.3 or below (the restriction is < 0.4) and is such that you can't put loads of them onto a single tower, so to react everything that you'll need will require multiple towers which means a whole load of fuel and a fair bit of maintenance and hauling.

The complex reactor doesn't produce the construction components (Crystalline Carbonide Armor Plate, Fernite Carbide Composite Armor Plate, Titanium Diborite Armor Plate, Tungsten Carbide Armor Plate, etc), it produces the advanced moon mats (Crystalline Carbonide, Fullerides, Sylramic Fibres, etc).

Making the moon mat up into components requires a blueprint and either a station or a Component Array in a POS (and that has no anchoring restrictions)

I think you are mixing a bit the the advanced materials from reactions and T2 components. Complex reactor does not produce the construction components it only does the reactions.


You will have a hard time finding anyone that would do reactions for you cheaply. I mean why would they work for anyone when they can simply react for themselves and keep all the profits.



If that is the case than all the profit actually comes from the reactions. So why even bother producing the end product when you could sell the reacted materials directly on the market. Which leads me to my first point - a lot of people do reactions because they are profitable on their own and it makes no sense for them to work for someone else.

All that being said, you can still produce your own T2 components to drive down the production costs (you just buy the advanced materials from reactions).

My advice for you would be to find a different product to manufacture (or use a better invention setup - different decryptors). There are plenty of profits to be made with invention and T2 production even if you buy the T2 components straight off the market.

Hello this a serious reply:
I have been complex reacting for years now.
Its not easy, and requires lots of logistics and market watching to see what pays well and what does not.

Not all complex reactions are simple two ingredients in and one out. Some requires three or four ingredients.
The simple two ingredient complex reactions can get away with doing a simple reaction as well, either making your operational cost lower or your profit margins higher (whichever way you wish to look at it)

You cannot install a complex reactor in anything less than a large tower, making your fuel cost anywhere from 250M to 400M a month depending on racial tower.
Now if you want to simple and complex react on only one tower then you are stuck with Caldari based tower because of their CPU capacity, and that means no online E-War or anything else. It will leave you with zero cpu left. Also Caldari Fuel Blocks are the most expensive, roughing around 470M per 28 day cycle to run a large Caldari tower.

That said, why would I want to sell my materials cheaper to a single player? corp? or even at alliance level? I incur a lot of operational and material costs.

All that said
I just purchased the Gallente component bpo set and I am currently researching them to make them require less materials and less time to build ie; ME and PE.
But to produce any one item it requires so much input from various sources that it is NOT affordable for a one man operation, a corp perhaps, but even then who will incur the operational costs after all?

See the dilemma? unless you have a vast region with constellations that have system with all flavors of moons its just not an easy task. You are better off putting up fair buy orders and wait for them to be fulfilled.

Last I looked:
It required three large Caldari towers to produce one component from scratch, and with a vanilla bpo it was a net loss of 600 isk per unit.

you're totally confusing complex reaction moongoo (raw materials) with t2 construction components (intermediate materials).

They are totally separate. Get your moongoo off the market. Build construction components with an alt.

I dont know if he would appreciate it if i post his enitre list of things he is selling, so ill just give you one item he sended through a mass mail in his mailing list:

Crystalline Carbonide Armor Plate X units 8,141.25 isk

Average buying price in Jita: 9,801 isk http://eve-marketdata.com/price_check.php?type_name_header=Crystalline+Carbonide+Armor+Plate

So yeah, in some cases he is cheaper than either the selling or buying price in Jita
But i doubt that if you buy his whole supply and sell it to the highest bidder in Jita not long after that, that he will ever sell anything to you again. I think he does this mainly for ppl doing industry and not to ppl who are gonna stab him in the back by reselling it at a higher price on the market, but thats just a hunch on my part