Science & Industry

Hello,

I'm kind of new to Eve and after exploration I am now looking into getting into the manufacturing business. several Youtube videos suggest starting with ammunitions, which makes sense.

I found this: http://eve.aeonoftime.com/index.php/2011/12/09/printable-npc-damage-types-cheat-sheet/

And also this: http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/VerxInteris/serpentis_are_weak.png

I am producing Mjolnir, Inferno and Scourge heavy missiles, as well as Medium Antimatter charges (because hey Gallente are cool).

Question is, where do I sell them? If I sell them at Jita/Dodixie I get like 100k profit off of 10k ammunitions, but where else do I find stations that move a lot of units?

I thought setting up sell orders in systems close to low-sec with the relevant missiles matched up to the relevant rats, but I have moved literally zero units in the past 2 days.

Agents seem to be bloody everywhere too, so i don't know if there are any popular agent hub stations that might want ammunition.

Help please. I have no idea where to find the information i'm looking for.

Hisec fw stations are a good market for ammo. T1 ammo is traded in fw lp store for faction ammo. You can profit from convenience by supplying ammo on the spot.

So supply rockets and missiles to caldari, hybrid to galente, autocanon to minmatar and crystals to amar. This is made easier by a limited number of hisec fw stations, im not familiar with all of them but i know that amar has only 2 stations and from what i hear caldari have only one

NPC FW corporations:

Amarr: 24th Imperial Crusade
Caldari: State Protectorate
Gallente: Federal Defence Union
Minmatar: Tribal Liberation Force

Dotlan will show where they have stations. For example http://evemaps.dotlan.net/npc/State_Protectorate/stations

As far as I know, all the stations have LP stores.

Another thing to consider is your target market. When I ran missions, I worked up to using faction and t2 ammo quickly as do many others. Your market isn't high end mission runners but lower level ones looking locally. Setup orders around starter systems. Look for stations that have level 1 or 2 security agents present. The orders may move slower but you can charge more.

in highsec, producing ammo has always been a terrible idea. the margins are next to zero if you source your materials at a market hub and sell your ammo at the same place.

if you actually want to make money of ammunition, buy it directly at the markethub and sell it elsewhere.

if you want to make money from manufacturing, try a different product. small rigs have always been a solid starter project, the BPOs are cheap, the materials are easy to find and they sell really well.

Seconding this. Additionally, the BPOs research pretty quickly, and the margin is high enough that you can manufacture in an NPC station without hurting your profit much.

It might help to think about your overall business plan as separate businesses. For example, if your strategy is to:

• manage a set of materials buy orders in Jita
• haul materials nearby and manufacture ammo
• haul the finished ammo to FW systems and sell there on sell orders

you're not really running one business, you're running three:

1. station-trading in Jita (and the FW system)
2. ammo manufacturing
3. Jita --> FW hauling

That's fine, but if most of your profit comes from one of the three, maybe you should specialize in it and save time by dropping the other two. For example, if it turns out the most profitable part of that business is the high margin that FW players will pay for ammo, then maybe: