Science & Industry

I've noticed a few posts recently about how there is no profit in manufacturing and invention so I decided to dispel that myth and give you nice Sci. & Ind. people something to read over the weekend.

I'm going to tell you how I've been making 6 - 12 billion a month making T2 rigs in Jita.

I buy T2 salvage off sell orders and build in the 4-4 CNAP station. I use Augmentation decryptors, which probably accounts for why they have crept up in price from 480k each to the current price of 700k+ over the last few months as I've been buying 300 a day for months now.

I have 3 inventors and 4 builders with 10 slots each and invent in a station nearby, a pos is too much hassle for me.

I have a single character that does all the copies and I do 10 run copies as that fits into a day but I should really be doing 12 run copies, 10 run just makes the mental arithmetic easy.

If I was to invent without decryptors I would be doing, per character, 10 slots of 10 per day at 48% probability and getting ~48 1-run copies. The problem with that is that to build them I would need to log in 4 or 5 times a day every 2.5 hours and I'm lazy. So I use Augmentation decryptors which give me for 10 slots of 10 copy bpc = 28 10-run BPC. This way I can run 10 build jobs of 10 in Jita and only need to login for a couple of minutes per character to complete jobs and start new ones and I can build 100 T2 small rigs per character per 24.5 hours.

So I'm building 400 T2 small rigs per day. The decrytors cost 70 or so mill for 100 and add in the datacores, makes ~90mill, spilt that over the 280 runs I get as output and that works out to ~300k additional per run. So my build cost is the salvage (1 unit of each) plus 300k. Typically I make 500k on the cheapest rigs and to 1 mill or more on the more pricey ones which works out to 6 - 12 bill. a month profit.

I've only dabbled a bit in medium and large rigs but they can be quite profitable as well. I made 600 - 700 mill a couple of times just dumping T2 large projectile rigs into buy orders in Jita. Next I want to concentrate on filling some of the holes in the medium and large T2 rigs markets.

The rigs I've build most of are Small Hybrid Burst, Collision, Locus, Small Energy Burst, Collision and Locus, and Projectile Burst, Collision and Locus. Small Anti-EM, Anti-Therm, Anti-Kin and Anti-Explosive Screen. Transverse Bulkheads, Gravity, Drone Speed, Drone Scope, Targetting System Subcontroller, Salvage Tackle, Emission Scope, & Signal Focusing Kit.

The entry barrier isn't really that high as you only need two of the engineering and physics skills to work on say Energy weapon rigs as a minimum.

I've focused on Jita but there is a huge amount of scope to serve the other hubs so there is plenty of room in the market for others.

Although I've optimised and streamlined my operation over the last few months so that I do all this with a few clicks per character per day there is still room to squeeze more profit out of it, for example by buying T2 salvage using buy orders or getting it cheap elsewhere, so although I would call that trading profit rather than manufacturing profit, it's not much effort and can add 10 - 20% to your bottom line.

My trademark is selling stacks of 100 rigs and I've noticed a few others coming on to the market in the last few days so it looks like some other players have figured this little gig out. Hence I'm not losing much by telling this story and it gives me some motivation to try some other things out that I have in mind.

Hope you found that interesting.

I have a T2 module business and find it quite profitable though there are times when I need to sit out the low points in the cycle. Generally the products I sell are at different points in their cycle so my income is fairly consistent. While T2 manufacturing time is short, the copy and invention time is not - especially if you're working in a station!

I've been playing in the T2 rig market - getting to know it at this stage and have been using Parity decryptors when inventing T2 rigs. With the skills of my invention ALT probability of success increases from 48.7% to 73.1% and you get a 4 run bpc. Augmentation would give a 10 run bpc but only 29.2% chance. A couple of minutes with a calculator tells me that you will need 7 runs to reliably produce 20 rigs using either decryptor and the saving compared to the 40 odd runs needed with no decryptor easily justifies the cost.

a while back I was watching slicer pvp videos and seeing the price of t2 energy locus rigs I quickly checked them out in the industry window and built a whole bunch of them. Later seeing fed navy comet fits moved into small transverse bulkhead IIs.

honestly I'm too lazy to build t2 rigs, I was tempted to make a spreadsheet or program to optimize production, but again lazy. I think I was using the +4 run +some percentage decryptor, because having 1 run bpcs is just really annoying.

I'm loving this post, mostly because I'm heavily invested in decryptors and the spike of demand caused by it has led to my stock increasing in price.

I have further market plans related to this post but they are #opsec

Indeed. Over the last 3 years I made about 500b doing T2 production with 4 characters and constant but low effort.
EDIT: About a tenth of that was from cap production, but that died with the compression nerf.

I want to get into T2 production simply because I am a crafter gamer. I'm pretty confused about something.

I invented some Acolyte II and Hornet II blueprints.

These require a Wetware Mainframe to manufacture.

Jita price on Wetware Mainframe is just under 1.7M.

Hornet II sells in JIta for 300k.

What? How is this possible? Why would anyone ever make them?

Thanks. I must have missed something.

OP - Thank you for sharing this secret and getting more people into this market so that there is now overproduction in the T2 small rig market.

I'm watching for opportunities to profit from the inevitable market crash.