Science & Industry

This post is directed at everyone interested in making money from planetary interaction.

I have created a new tool that makes you see whether, for example, making p2 (e.g. bio cells and silicate glass) -> p3 (e.g. neocoms) and selling the p3 is more profitable than just selling the p2.

This helps you making sure that your time and resources are spent on making profit, not on losing ISK.

Please preview the tool in demo mode at http://sleeve.neweden.biz/app/tree.php

I am trying to deliver this as a service that is paid for in ISK. Think starting from 1m ISK.

Please contact me in-game by evemail if you want to know more.

David Ygra.

I do not calculate P2->P4 for three reasons:

- Displaying the cost would overload the interface. As it is, it almost fits on a 1920x1080 screen.
- There are lots of ways to do P2->P4 production. for example, you might produce one of the P3 on a different planet, or you might even buy it.
- In order to find out about your P2->P4 production, you can look up the single production steps qucikly in the tool, and it will tell you if and how you are making profit in each step by the color of the boxes. For example, if you have four P2, call them a2,b2,c2 and d2, and the step from a2,b2->a3 is in grey, you know that while you are not making money with this step, you also are not losing any, If you look at the steps c2,d2->b3 and a3,b3->a4, and both are green and teal, you know you are making profit.

Further future features might include a volume planner, which also would allow calculating costs precisely.

The wetware mainframe cost to produce 1 unit is calculated as the sum of the prices for 6 Supercomputers, 6 biotech research reports and 6 Cryoprotectant solution.

The price for each of these products is considered to be either:
- The ask price if there are products sold on the market
- The bid price if no products are sold on the market and there are buy orders
- The base value for customs office taxes as it has been set by CCP, if there are neither sell nor buy orders on the market.

I am aware that the latter two misestimate the price, but i am trying to get the best out of the data.
On a well-filled market like Jita, Amarr, Dodixie, Rens or Hek, there are usually sell orders for most PI products, so it is not a major issue.

The actual ask or bid price used is calculated from the top n market prices that the tool fetches by a secret sauce-algorithm that satisfies that the resulting price is somewhere between the top 1st order price and the top nth order price. I'm not giving out the n and the algorithm, since I don't want to encourage market price manipulations. Market prices are fetched about every 30 minutes and thus should not be more than say 2 hours old in general.