Thursday, August 16, 2012

Capital manufacturing update: Getting there and oh bugger

I'm still short one building character (haven't gotten around to creating it...), but as of now all four of my current building characters have their manufacturing slots full. The blueprint sets I chose seem to be working out pretty well; it's been slightly bumpy, but components are finishing before the hull blueprints come available, and 12 out of 13 current in hull blueprints are currently building hulls. I'm still short one archon, 1 nidhoggur, and one drone bay blueprint from my goal blueprint set, but I expect those to be taken care of within the next few weeks.

Also, the station I'm building in currently has wait times on manufacturing slots. This was expected; my goal is to drive the other builders away.

Unfortunately, with the mackinaw buff it looks like there might be rough times ahead for manufacturing. If low-ends follow the example of isotopes at all, they could be in for a dramatic drop in the near future. I currently have 56 billion isk of minerals-and-things-made-out-of-minerals in my manufacturing process, so that could end up sucking. It may be necessary to put a hold on buying minerals for a while.

On a related note, profits since minerals went up have been substantially higher than pre-inferno. If they drop back down, I might expect profits to return to that baseline as well. Which will also suck.

4 comments:

  1. I happen to have some manufacturing slots available as I can't find what to do, maybe we can find a deal until you create that last buiding char :)

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    1. Alas, I'm not confident enough about hangar permissions to let anybody else interact with my blueprints. Thanks for the offer though.

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  2. I'm looking to try out Freighter / Orca production before I jump into Carriers and above, however I am also waiting for the minerals to reach a stable price. I abit of capital BPO research on the sideline, and I do have a Archon at ME 2. Give me a heads up if you would be interested.


    - The Blackprince

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    1. If it's 2/1 we could work something out, but not 2/0 as I would be looking to put a potential blueprint straight into production.

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