What are the GÇÿstagesGÇÖ involved in a T1 manufacturing process
- Finding a system to use as your home base
- Getting the blueprint(s)
- Getting the minerals
- Spreadsheets in space pt1: Doing the research
- Spreadsheets in space pt2: What values to look at
- Spreadsheets in space pt3: Doing the math
- Differences between item groups (modules, ships, rigs, ammo)
- Where to sell your product pt1: General thoughts
- Where to sell your product pt2: HiSec vs LoSec vs NulSec
- Transportation
- Metagame

What are the skill sets a manufacturer should have
- Skills directly related to industry
- Ships and fittings
- Overview over the three main paths that synergize with manufacturing
- GÇÿSynergy PathGÇÖ 1: Mining
- GÇÿSynergy PathGÇÖ 1.5: Reprocessing
- GÇÿSynergy PathGÇÖ 2: Trade
- GÇÿSynergy PathGÇÖ 3: Research

Other
- Time is Money or: Why mining and hauling is for peons
- Why we are superior to the working class or: How i learned to love my monocle
- Common items for new industrialists
- Moving on into T2/T3 production
- Alts
- Commonly used 3rd party tools

You've got pretty much everything covered. You could add (super)capital construction to the list as it is a bit different from T1 supcap and module manufacturing, and maybe POS assembly array and laboratory operation in general.

if you insist on using a static background like that, please at least use this: http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7494/hangar1dark.jpg

Right at the beginning of the life of a manufacturer, he has to make a difficult decision. EVE has a few thousand star systems, and even when we look only at the ones in Empire, thereGÇÖs still a host of possibilities. As an industrialist, you are often working with an inventory that either has large volumes (like a stack of Tritanium), making it a hassle to move around, or with stuff that is worth way too much (like a well researched library of blueprints) to fly around too often. So moving your base of operations around too often is usually not a smart idea, making your home base very stationary when compared to other professions. To help with the decision, I will now go over the various factors that you at least should consider before settling down.

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So letGÇÖs start planning our skill queue. There are a lot of skills that will help the industrialist at his job and we will look at all of them. However. this post is going to look at those few skills that are immediately related to T1 manufacturing. These should get a very high priority when deciding which skills to trade first.

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When you get to higher end production you could add in something about the Bulk Trade mailing list. I say higher end because most of the WTBs IGÇÖve seen on the list have been for t2 items but not always. It may not make the most profit but it is always an option and occasionally you do get good deals either buying or selling.

Also you may want to mention 3rd party programs that are out there such as isk per hour.

If you think that mining doesnGÇÖt take much attention you obviously have never done wh mining. Personally I started with my mining fleet while having my main on the side doing other more interesting things. Now that I have moved into industry I can support my own industrial endeavours while supporting my corp as i can mine the materials to produce a carrier a day.

Granted the minerals I mine arenGÇÖt free but they are cheaper then if i were buying them on the market.

You have to remember that new players, who you say your guide is geared towards, do not have billions of isk to sink in start up costs. In order to make a profit industry you need two thing. Well-researched blueprints and enough isk to buy the minerals for your first production run. You seem to be suggesting a go it alone approach which my work for someone who already has a collection of blueprints and enough start up capital but not for the new player who has one rookie ship.

Looking at the ships that are interesting for us industrialists, we will immediately notice one group of ships that are even called industrials. They are a group of ships that are meant for hauling stuff around. No matter what you produce, you will find the need for a hauler now and then. Most likely, you are going to haul some stacks of minerals to your home station. So obviously, T1 industrials offer large cargoholds. On the other hand they are slow and easy to kill.

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When looking at commonly asked questions about manufacturing, it becomes apparent that there are three, maybe four types of industrialists. A few of them see building things and selling them to others as their main profession, their purpose in EVE. Their main character is the indy char and they spend most of their EVE time figuring out how to best run their business. Maybe they have an alt in RvB or enjoy some LoSec exploring on the side, but that'll always be secondary for them. The other types are those where the priorities go exactly the other way round: They found something else to do in EVE and are looking at industry as a way to fund their PLEX and/or PVP addiction. some of them will have their industry skills outsourced on an alt and will want to spend as little time with that char as needed. In this update, i am going to look at a few possible setups that are common and about what might be special about them.

Often, aspiring industrialists come to the forums and ask the same question: GÇ£What to produce to get into the indy life?GÇ¥ The question is understandable, there are tons of different things that could be produced and without a few helpful pointers, you can get lost when trying to randomly figure out what could be profitable. As the market changes a lot from region to region and from week to week, i canGÇÖt give you exact items to produce. I can however tell you at which kind of items you can start looking.

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Before you can start throwing minerals at your manufacturing lines, waiting for them to spew finished product at you, you will need to acquire blueprints. Blueprints determine how costeffective you are at what you are doing and how much time you spend on a given manufacturing job. Blueprints bought from the market are hardly fit for mass production, as you will need way more materials and also time to produce what someone else, your competitor, could produce in less time for lower costs. So, we will want to use researched Blueprints, but how do we get them?

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Need some help? I can do a bit of writting for moon mining. I am hectic with school two more weeks to go, but after that I will have squat to do and would be willing to do a collaboration.

Let me know if you would be willing to accept some help and I will contact you with my main.

Very well thought out, nice work. Probably could use a bit more. Dont let it end there either. Keep adding and updating. Maybe put in what you did wrong making stuff and how you corrected it. Once again, very nice work.

Yes, certainly! Moon mining is actually a topic i know next to nothing about, since i never bothered with it. If you want to write something up and add it, you are more then welcome to do so.



Thanks. I know that a lot of what i write is fairly basic stuff, but one of my goals is filtering the basics out and making new guys aware of them instead of swamping them with every detail. Yes, i'll absolutely continue updating. I am aiming for more than one update per week, but sometimes RL gets in the way. Other times, i update twice on a weekend *shrug*

EVE is a game where you have complete freedom over the skillpaths you take. ThereGÇÖs no such thing as archetypes, classes or races like in other games that limit your skill progression. In an earlier post, we looked at the skills that directly key into the manufacturing side of EVE and we saw that itGÇÖs really not all that much. That directly leads us to the next question: GÇ£What else are we going to train for?GÇ¥. Well, that depends on what else you are going to want to do. If you are looking for another profession you can take up that will support your manufacturing, look no further. Here are three suggestions of how to build a synergistic skill queue that will get you closer to becoming a fullblown industrialist worth that name.

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