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rain9441
Big Head Want Dolly
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Posted - 2010.07.26 22:11:00 -
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I will check this out for sure. If there is good profit to be made, there is nothing more to be said.
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rain9441
Big Head Want Dolly
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Posted - 2010.07.27 13:46:00 -
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No tritanium and 114 pyerite in Frerstorn. Not a whole lot of good can come out of 200 manufacturing slots if you got nothing to build with!
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rain9441
Big Head Want Dolly
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Posted - 2010.11.09 20:32:00 -
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No need for policing. Low sec is perfectly safe if you have the basic tools of the trade (and a brain). A single low sec hub will never be as popular as a choke point/bottleneck between major hisec hubs (Cough Amamake cough) so there will never be significant pirate actions going on. Furthermore, Frerstorn is not between anything of major importance, so there is not any significant traffic going through Frerstorn gates.
Honestly, the only thing you really have to worry about is AFK cloakers .
Plenty of things still missing in Frerstorn though. Hop in the frerstorn retail channel.
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rain9441
Big Head Want Dolly
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Posted - 2010.11.17 18:01:00 -
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I just want to jump in here and give another nonchalant bump with an update.
I've put up nearly everything I could possibly imagine relating to small ships (Frigates/destroyers) except for the T2 ships themselves. I've got a nice pile of minerals down there and am pumping out T1 frigates/destroyers to meet demand. The list includes: T1 ammo, T2 ammo, faction ammo, T1 ships, T2 modules, select few metas (armor plates, ab and mwd), popular T1 rigs, T1 frigates, T1 destroyers, and scripts. I can't manufacture T2 ships and I don't have the ISK to to keep them in stock.
T1 Ships I sell at cost and keep stocked up nicely (I swear I get noobs from Hek jumping into low sec to buy cheap ships because I sell a LOT of thrashers/probes). All else has markup. The idea is sort of like ink jet printers except prices are flipped on the ink/printer; 40$ printer, 200$ ink.
At first I wasn't selling a whole lot. Some people bought just a few things, eg restocking ammo. Now that the full package is there I've found people buying more full packages. Some people buy multiple ships (like Diesel pointed out) right away, others JIT them. Sometimes I see the same guy buy two ships 20 minutes apart. Later I see his wreck at a nearby gate. It's also kind of fun to search killboards for names that appear in the wallet. You can check out their favorite fittings then. I'm now also seeing names reappear in the wallet transaction log. Repeat customers.
I saw in local chat somebody talking about how they lost a ship and were going to try and reship 'here at frerstorn.' They mentioned this very post. Since I just happened to have an alt online at the time I striked a conversation up. He/she was happy to be able to reship in a cruiser (Some minmatar t1 cruiser) and found everything except for faction fusion M.
So things are looking pretty good in terms of potential. I chose the small ship market due to the extremely low isk requirement to 'fill the market gaps'. Making a medium ship market (battlecruisers, cruisers, T2 cruisers) is going to take many billions of ISK. Even small ship market is very thin (I have only 2-3 of many mods, and 'just enough guns to fit a destroyer'). More people = merrier at this point. It's not about profit margins yet, it's about getting some acceleration/traction on movement.
If you're just a T1 manufacturer - I can put up sell orders for minerals. Yes people do buy T1 mods for PvP ships. I don't have enough order slots to do it all. It's much easier to stock 500x T1 gun than it is 15x T2 gun. If 15x T2 gun runs out, theres always T1 guns. I haul down 800mm arti's and have someone reprocess them at another station (Ishukone is 30% refining, ugh) for minerals and I have plenty to spare. Someone with perfect refining for the republic military school corp would be a nice addition to the crew.
If you're a station trader with some extra isk - Consider putting up buy orders for popular PvP items players would get off looting other PvP ships. Keep it at station only, get people used to going to Frerstorn to buy/sell. Looking at killmails I've seen a lot of cruisers getting destroyed with small T2 mods and ammo. After a fight half the gang goes to reship, the other half can go to sell the loot. I take a BR from Frerstorn to Jita and back twice a week. Diesel uses a JF. If you want it hauled to Jita, someone can do it for you.
That's about all I can say about the Faction Warfare hub aspect of Frerstorn. I just don't have the ISK to add to the capitol hub aspect. I'm sure diesel could use a hand in that regard as well. If you want to take part of the small ship market for yourself, that frees up my ISK to focus on something else (like keeping the other half of the small ship market intact). More = merrier.
PS: One of my S&I alts needed some new cheap Int/Memory implants and I noticed someone put up basic int/memory implants at frerstorn. I laughed. Pretty good stuff :)
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rain9441
Big Head Want Dolly
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Posted - 2010.11.18 16:14:00 -
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Originally by: Ambo (the perfect example of this is (non-navy) cap boosters
I knew I forgot to do something. I even have all of the cap booster BPOs researched already. I can make 'em in station. Saves hauling. That's the nice thing about Frerstorn, it has 200 manufacturing slots.
Luke: Theres a picture in this thread on page 2 that shows what is stocked. What isn't there isn't stocked. If you need further assistance I suggest you go to a faction warfare killboard site and start taking notes.
Bear: Auga would work as a hub. Anyone who would even think about going to shop in Auga knows that they cannot ever buy a ship in rens and bring it back through Amamake. The Amamake gate is always camped, and you can always expect to get your ship and your pod smashed should you try.
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rain9441
Big Head Want Dolly
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Posted - 2010.12.07 16:54:00 -
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Someone bought over 300 T1 frigates from me and did not put them back up for sale. This is not the kind of awareness I was looking for. There is no profit in T1 frigates, they are there to be there, not to be bought out.
... What would anyone do with 300 T1 frigates out in Frerstorn anyway?
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rain9441
Big Head Want Dolly
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Posted - 2010.12.07 18:32:00 -
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Originally by: Steijn reprocess for mins
By now he surely has come to the realization that he has 400+ T1 frigates sitting in a station with a 30% refinery and likely no standings to the corp either. I wonder if he now knows that he has to move over 1,000,000 m3 in low sec for a lousy 2-3 mil profit.
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rain9441
Big Head Want Dolly
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Posted - 2010.12.08 14:24:00 -
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Over 60 of my sell orders were fulfilled by the same guy again -> Shadow Infiltrator. Member of the Royal Amarr Institute for 1 day. This time he has crept into T2 mods and ammo (Faction, T1, and T2). The only clue is a creepy bio:
Quote: In the end, only the Master profits.
You are all trapped in his web of deceit.
A seeming gain to lure the greedy,
towards which in the end is your downfall...
Even with truth laid bare you are none the wiser,
and you will not cower because of your greed.
You are all pigs to the slaughter,
a sacrifice for the manic madman.
Manic madman or attempt to snatch attention? Either way, I'll bite. Gets a bump for the cool story.
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rain9441
Big Head Want Dolly
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Posted - 2010.12.09 03:34:00 -
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I have some minerals up for sale. I can arrange for more to come down I just haven't bothered since my minerals aren't really selling.
Trit: 8,000,000 @ 2.39 Pyer: 2,000,000 @ 4.60 Mexa: 1,000,000 @ 34.49 Nocx: 10,000 @ 569.99 (Not much of this left as my big stockpile got bought out at 399) Zydrine: 10,000 @ 1329.99 Megacyte: 9,700 @ 3499.99
Prices are marked up because I compressed the minerals to get them down here and we don't have a perfect refiner yet. I'll have that in a week.
That's enough to get started I suppose. I mainly use it for manufacturing frigs/destroyers due to their difficulty to haul into low sec.
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