Science & Industry

Alright, let's bring some actual numbers into this:

http://imgur.com/mK0NkjS

Battleships, good BPO/BPCs, minerals bought via buy orders, ships sold via sell orders.

That window looks like you REALLY should start building Hyperions, however, you first need to look at some other values.

Let's check the market for Hyperions:
http://imgur.com/GldxDhD

what does that tell you ? today, hyperions are spiking and at 220m ISK. a price of 200m ISK is a more reasonable price you need to expect at the moment of your sale. people are really good at driving down the margin. they panic and try to sell ASAP to catch it, driving down the margin by undercutting deep. some people have access to "free" minerals and don't care about the current price and sell at whatever they consider a "nice" price. a reason to be very carefull about making and selling hyperions.

what else do we know about hyperions ? is there a hyperion doctrine out there ? where lot's of them go pop ? nope. there is not. you can check zkillboard. Hyperions are solo/smallscale boats that never die in huge numbers. that is a reason why you may not want to sell them (in jita)

back to my first screenshot. the SVR value is interesting. it tells you how long it's gonna take you to build the daily turnover for the jita market (in the screenshot, it's the daily average over the last 7 days). An SVR value of 3.64 for hyperions tells you that you need 3.64 production lines running 24/7 to cover everything sold in jita. that's not very much. with 7m ISK/hr you can expect a lot of competition for a market with very little demand. do you really consider this a good market ?

Last, but not least: the Hyperion Alliastra Edition. That ship explains a part of the demand. people buy it to have it in their hangar, not to go out and lead it to a glorious death. The demand is a one time thing and not constant. Does that sound lucrative in the long run ?

Last but not least: Transport. You need two Freighters for a 1 day batch of battleships. That's a lot of work. You can't even go #yolo and put everything in one freighter, it simply won't fit. Does that sound like fun ? 2 (1.8 or so if you run it 24/7) freighter roundtrips per 24 hours. For Fuel Blocks, it's one Roundtrip every 3 Days. Yes, you can pay Red Frog or PushX to do the work for you, but it may take a while (during which you are not generating wealth) and it's gonna eat your margin.

I made Abaddons, Rokhs, Hyperions and Maelstroms a few days before the patch and sold them for absolutely crazy prices, but that was a one time thing.

TL:DR:

don't make ships for jita unless you are really sure that you can be online all the time for freighter runs and undercutting.

I believe there's a mistake in your otherwise helpful post: AFAIK, the SVR tells you how many manufacturers (producing on all 11 lines) it takes to satisfy demand in the region. There are about 40 Hyperions sold in Jita each day, a single manufacturer couldn't possibly deliver that.

I don't know what fuel blocks you're running but I use 2 freighters a day, not 1 per 3 days.

production is completely safe from AFK cloakies and hotdrops. however, production is not worth it, your margin is no bigger than in highsec and there are many factors that cut into it.

with current game mechanics it's stupid to make anything but caps, supercaps and maybe T2 production from BPOs in nullsec.

Okay but what type of ammo drones and rigs should I go for? I need specific ones to maximize my profits

Did you just suggest that he should produce something that never needs to be replaced once bought?

nullsec mining is something different.



moving T2 BPOs through null or lowsec is a bazillion times safer than moving them through highsec. you are safe as long as you always and under all circumstances keep a JC and a blops in the station with the BPO.