I'm RL busy, and barely logged in this month. Unsold ships and blueprints are building up in my hangars because I haven't been putting them on the market.
I still managed to turn a profit, though, even after 4.3 billion in off-spreadsheet expenses from plex and from pimping my proteus.
I'm putting a temporary pause on manufacturing. It's been running for more than a year without a real audit, and I'm pretty sure there are some things in there that I've lost track of.
Possibly it's the Carrier rig change. Makes a lot of sense to buy a carrier and put rigs in it then sell it after the patch.
ReplyDeleteSeems you are not adding Run 112 to your total profit.
ReplyDeleteWhoops.
DeleteOh well. That number doesn't really go anywhere, so it won't break anything.
How do you constantly get such margins on BPO? Is it really just listing contracts or you haggle a lot in channels ?
ReplyDeleteFind in contracts. Sort by price. Put it up for just below the lowest priced contract which has equal or higher ME AND equal or higher PE.
DeleteThis month is a special month because blueprint prices increased two months ago and I am still using the old buy prices (because the blueprints sold were purchased at the old prices), but if you go back to e.g. the february financial report ( http://eve-fail.blogspot.com/2013/03/monthly-financial-report.html ) that's a slightly more normal situation. And the numbers aren't that different.
Basically, it's just that good of a business.
Would you consider it more profitable than capital construction?
DeleteI was starting my capital construction process and my BPOs are now ready, I find myself hesitating between actually just selling them instead of using them because of how profitable and low maintenance it looks.
Eh, I'll give that a solid maybe.
DeleteIt takes 11 days to build a capital, and 60 to research a blueprint even if you have a tower. The margins on blueprints are 2-3x, but the return over time is worse.
On the other hand, research is simpler, much less work to keep running, has a much lower barrier to entry, and you don't have to have tens of billions of isk worth of blueprints sitting around manufacturing things in order to make that percentage on mineral value.