Science & Industry

Hello, fellow industrialists of New Eden.

I am an odd fellow, turned shipwright. That's right, the first ship that I have ever made just came off the production line - a Raven. Now, I plan to upgrade that into a Golem later on, but for the moment, I am currently building a Charon. I have already purchased the blueprints for all the pieces, since I don't have the money to buy one, but I seem to be a bit short on building materials.

You see, I mine all the minerals by myself in a Retriever in high-security space, but I'm struggling with the high amount of required metals for the job. After all, the Charon is not a small ship, eh? To make matters worse, my sister kicks me off my computer (although it's mine, theoretically) every 30 minutes, so I only make a pretty pathetic load of 50K cubic meters of Veldspar each day.

Many people told me to buy the minerals, but I really do not want to spend a dime. After all, I'm on a budget. How do I get the minerals I need for my Charon? How long will this project take me?

Assuming no BP research, high sec ore will take you about 7.8m m3, at 50k m3 a day, 156 days of mining. Add 25d for building and you have a long 6 months to look forward to.

Buy the materials. Pay for them by doing something slightly more profitable than mining for 6 months to make ~1 billion ISK, like level 4 missions. That way you should be able to cut this endeavour down to maybe 3 months.

Edit: Oh, and don't forget the golden rule. "Don't fly what you can't afford to lose.". Freighters do get blown up.

I know that, I'm just trying to say that my sister doesn't let me mine; she always cuts in on me.

As for buying the minerals, I'm refraining myself from buying the common ones. I'm trying to spend as little as possible, and I do that only on the rare minerals, you know, the ones that you can't find in high-sec.

Any donation would be appreciated.

Mining 2 hours a day this will litteraly take entire months if not a year to mine enough for a charon, plus, a "factory" only anchorable in low or null sec can produce capital components using less materials that any highsec station or "factory" deployed by players. You're better mining, selling the ore and buy the capital component and then only build yourself your charon in a station.

About the golem, doing T2 stuff is great in my opinion for solo industrialist (this is what I do but T2 cruisers only), but don't forget that you're not only gonna need minerals, you will need to produce T2 components (not the same thing than capital components) using advanced moon material (no way to obtain these yourself) bought on the market.

As an advice, don't bother with a POS if you're on your own until later on, stick to not too much populated systems to build in stations.

Update: through some sort of bargain, I have now won a total playtime of 8 hours a day.
Today I bought 40 million worth of ore off the market, and I mined a grand total of about 230 thousand cubic meters of ore I have also received an extra 50 thousand cubic meters of ore from various donors. I now have enough ore to make 5 Capital Propulsion Engines, that's a start.


Note: the BPCs that I'm using have 10% ME and 16% TE.

You know that the minerals you mine are NOT free, right?

The general idea is they cost what your time is worth. If you can make 100m/hr doing x and buying minerals or spend an hour mining the same minerals, your minerals cost you 100m - mineral cost.

If you already mine for a profession, the math is easier and your mineral cost market value.