Science & Industry

EPM tracks every cost that eats into your margin: freight, factory, broker, etc. Go into the Market Research Report, click on Show All, and if all of your ammo shows at a loss, I would put money on it being a loss proposition. I drilled into the Scourge Heavy Missile in Amarr to sanity check, and it's selling after direct costs at about 1.6% before taking into account factory and freight costs which would put it solidly into the red. For years on end, ammo as a profit maker has been consistently bad advice unfortunately. Do some grinding to pick up about a bil in capital, pick up a large purger, and you will see much better results than you're seeing available to you now.

It doesn't seem to work anymore, tried setting up a account, and the only thing I'm able to do is set up my API and go to the configuration screen (in which I can't enter the system I'm buying/selling and producing in. The dashboard just keeps showing the loading wheel and all other links give this error (with a lot more stuff below it):

An unhandled exception occurred while processing the request.

InvalidOperationException: Sequence contains no elements
System.Linq.Enumerable.Single[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)

It was working for me, or seemed to be, a couple days ago when I read handige's msg, but it's down hard now. Something about the proxy server not talking to the real server.

From what I've seen of it (which isn't much as so far it has been flakey as hell), that seems to be incorporated into "Build Items" now.

It seems like maybe EPM has some caching issues, as so far, any changes I've made in build items are roundly ignored until I log out and back in. Same for configuration.

Yeah, it's a bit wonky. Make sure your BPs are in your factory station, make sure the API sees your BPs, and click the little checkbox. Should get a list of your BPs, then you can set quantities, then you'll probably need to log out and back in before they actually show in your build queue.

The whole thing seems finnicky as hell so far.

Not sure how this is supposed to work. All my BPs are in my factory station, and the api sees them. So I go to "build items" and the list is empty. Click the "show all" box, and my BPs (that aren't in research) show up. But the only thing I can change on that list is batch size — the "quantity" column is not editable. Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

My current list of BPs is frigates (all of them, I think), mining crystals, scanner probes, hybrid ammo, projectile ammo, and a couple of missiles. About half the list is red, with negative profit margins and markups. Build them and lose money, I get that. But a couple of the red ones have positive, though small, profit factors. I don't get that. Can I make a small profit building those items?

The ones that aren't in red should be profitable, although the profit factor is small. Under 1,000,000 for most items, under 100,000 for about half, though mining crystals seem to have good margins and two of those have profit factors over 1,000,000. Best is Crokite at 3 million plus.

Should I trust EPM and build the top ten items on this list, at least until i get some better BPs off the Market Research list?

But my real concern is understanding this "quantity" thing. If I should be able to edit it, why can't I?

BTW, last night I waited 20 minutes for "refresh api" to finish. It didn't, so I went to bed. It was finished when I got up this morning, though. Not sure why the slow-down.

One other thing: the last three items on this list are Victorieux Luxury Yacht, Thalia (new T2 frigate — I made the BP as an experiment), and Council Diplomatic Shuttle. On these, the profit factor is blank. Not enough information to compute it? Do I need to change something somewhere?

Error 503: Service not available. :-(

I'll try again in a bit.

Working again! :-)

I wasn't complaining, just reporting. And I figured you were spending time with your family. :-)

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=463102&find=unread

It runs fine for me at the normal link.