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anarogen
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Posted - 2010.01.27 13:42:00 -
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i'm trying to start into manufacturing/trading looking over BPO's on market and then running a calculation on the cost to produce compared to what the item goes for and all my calcs currently put me in the negative
i'm seeing all this on ME and PE but i dont understand how to research sometihing without having to wait 2 months for a research slot to open up at a station. is this regular or is there a way around this?
i also hear about R&D agents, are they to fulfill the purpose listed above or are they for something else and how do i use them? i see so many posts about them but never any explanations on what they are for >_< very confusing lol
any advice on the subject is greatly appreciated and my thanks go out ahead of time for those that help
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Jovialmadness
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Posted - 2010.01.27 13:56:00 -
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Edited by: Jovialmadness on 27/01/2010 14:01:59
Hey you have two choices for researching. Stand I line for the slots in empire or buildstandings with a faction so you can anchor your very own pos in hi sec and research with it(labs).
Research agents used to give you points for a lottery system inwhich you had a chance to get a tech 2 bpo. These bpo's still exist but aren't given out anymore and has been replaced w/ invention. These agents now provide research points for Data cores which can be sold on the market or used for production
edit: oh and to answer your original question. You need production efficiency to level 5. You also will need to carefully place buy orders in the markets for minerals inwhich you want to produce with. These buy orders should, obviously, be lower than sell orders so you maximize profits. Lastly, find a product that makes atleast some profit with just prod eff 5 that with your purchased minerals should make you some isk. |
Aphrodite Skripalle
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Posted - 2010.01.27 14:41:00 -
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To workaround the problem to get the faction standing, you can buy a corporation with enough standing to be able to anchor a pos in high sec.
I am making corps like this, just to sell them (200 mill, 9.6 standing to Caldari).
You may find others doing this for your Faction, too.
Or you have to do a lot of missioning and doing storyline missions until you have enough standing to do that yourself.
Of course you can anchor a pos in low sec or 0.0 but then you need to defend it.
To get RP-Points from R&D Agents you have to do missions until you have enough standings and you need the skills that you can do what they want you. This will take a lot of time, but its worth doing it, because once they work for you they will do it forever and you only have to collect the Datacores later.
If you have a pos with labs and the invention skills you need the equipment and the quite expensive Datacores to invent from Blueprintcopies. With good skill you have a chance of 1:3 to get a tech II bpc.
Just selling those wont make you rich. Building tech II items needs lots of Moon Material, because you need the components which are made out of moon material.
Buying all this component will melt your Profit significantly.
As a noob there is possibly not much Profit to make, if you lack all of this. Building up the production chain needs a really huge investment and pretty good skills. You need to haul a lot (jump freighter skills are recommened).
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RaTTuS
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Libertas Fidelitas
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Posted - 2010.01.27 15:03:00 -
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 Originally by: anarogen
... without having to wait 2 months for a research slot to open up at a station. is this regular or is there a way around this?
a quick look in empire and I find several 13day waits for a ME research slot [lowsec]
and several < 20 days slots in high sec
so 2mnths is Meh
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