Install ISK PER HOUR
look at items you want to make
profit???

With the current cut-throat market environment, manufacturing profits are at an all-time low. By that I mean that there is plenty of competition on the market.

DonGÇÖt get me wrong. There is plenty of profit to be made in manufacturing and plenty of people are doing it but until you have your manufacturing system in place it can be just as time intensive as pvp. Once you have enough isk to, if it is the method you choose, set up buy orders and contract haul them to your manufacturing facility it becomes a lot less time intensive but until you get to that stage it will take a lot of time and effort.

One suggestion...

If you mine, make sure the product your making costs more then the mineral sell order value. I have seen to many items sold that are under what the minerals would have sold for separately.

Argh yes. The mindset that 'all the minerals they mine are FREE' has to be defeated at every turn. The biggest obstacle to realistic pricing levels in New Eden.

*Celgar waits for the argument to begin* Hehe.

One suggestion...

If you mine, make sure to stop mining. Minerals are on the market. If you want to build, then build and don't waste your time with menial labor

Only to buy minerals and still have a decent profit, I suppose you need to have some connections with some miner corporations that live in null sec. In hi sec no miner corp will sell their stuff under the regular jita prices. Or maybe I'm wrong and I just fail to understand how the fok you can buy minerals from the market, build stuff and still have a decent profit.

This.

ISK Per Hour is the single best tool I've seen in a year for mfg/indy work.

If you want to get started on 200mil look into scourge fury/precision missles. With such a low amount of funding you need to look things that provide a high return on capital (ie something you can make 50-100% on money invested)... they will probably take you longer to build but you'll get ISK faster because you don't run out of money scaling up number of concurrent lines.

The only real way to significantly profit on most of the stuff you'll build, is to haul it to a region where you can mark up the price - which means slower sales. But if you're patient, it works well.

Honestly with so little to invest I wouldn't even try to start manufacturing. Instead get into mining, or running anoms. You'll make more isk/hr if done properly, then when you've enough ISK try to get into manufacturing. I'd suggest at least 2b to start out, though if you don't mind tiny profits you could do 1b (hoping you already have the BPOs).

So here is a recipe that I think will help you out a bit:

1) start inventing scourge fury/precision bpc's... you can buy the BPC's required from contracts. Inventions costs are low. Don't pay more than 100k ISK per BPC and use caldari navy missiles to increase your invention chance.
2) make some of the missles and sell the rest of the T2 BPC's on contracts (you'll make millions)
3) at the same time you are doing this... find a decent place to setup P2 PI... you can set these up so they practically run themselves... in HS if you cycle them once a day you'll probably get about 2-3mil ISK a day from 4-5 colonies. Once setup these are close to zero effort
4) run missions that improve your Caldari faction and the caldari navy faction... this will be useful later when you start buying materials in the billions of ISK

I hope this helps.

I've read Beckie's blog a few times over the past few days now, and that has been a help in getting me to actually start manufacturing instead of keeping it as a dream.

I remember reading in some other thread about a chat channel where people sell researched BPO's, this seems like a good start for me as I'm unable to research myself at the moment. Does anyone know of this channel? Or if not the channel, people who sell basic BPO packs for ammo and the likes?

Whut? Manufacturing T2 scourge missiles may be good advice in general, but with the recent change to T2 misiles in the Retribution expansion, I'd imagine market prices will fluctuate a bit. Is it a good idea to advise a noob to start producing an item whose market price may be in flux?

1) start inventing scourge fury/precision bpc's... you can buy the BPC's required from contracts. Inventions costs are low. Don't pay more than 100k ISK per BPC and use caldari navy missiles to increase your invention chance.

Before you take the plunge into manufacturing, you best figure out how long it takes to get the skills needed to manufacture the items you want. T2 mfg skills take an order of magnitude longer to learn.

The reason I suggest examining the timeline of skills is you may not have that long to use them, assuming you are thinking of high sec T2 mfg.

It would be wise for you to read the forum threads in GD, features/ideas, and older threads even in this forum, and view / read some of Soundwave's interviews.
Then decide for yourself what is coming down the pipe for high sec mfg, and when.

If you want us to join your little headless chickendance, perhaps start by telling us what the hell you are talking about?

Not that i am overly optimistic that it's worth reading, given your track record, mind you. But please, humor me. It's a slow day. Why don't we have long to use our T2 skills?

Given how much the ISD likes to ban anyone who throws up "unsubstantated rumours", I really can't say specifically.

That's what i thought.

One more thing, please. Stop pulling this rumormongering crap in threads that up to there have been productive. You know, people with actual questions coming to the forums and getting actual help.

There's more than enough "OMG the sky is falling" threads in GD, try there and keep that **** out of here. Thanks.