Mid-month update.

* The month began with a wardec, which has affected production. The war has now ended.

* As a precaution, all manufacturing was moved to NPC stations, which is safer, but slower.

* Sales have been abysmal, though I finally managed to dump last month's inventory.

* I've taken steps to insure interest will be paid regardless, at the expense of manufacturing efficiency and profits.

Hopefully the second-half of the month improves.


On an AFK note, I signed today to purchase the condo I've been renting. Deal closes May 14th. My first property. Not financed, so no mortgage to pay. *\o/* However I did ransack my savings and investments.

Would any of the investors be against me extending this bond indefinitely? You can cash-out in full at any time after the official end date of May 31.

Reason: it looks like another slow sales month is looming for me. I could sell directly to buy-orders, and pay off the bond, but I'd rather not have to. I also haven't manufactured anywhere near what I had originally planned as a result.

If any investor objects, or doesn't get back to me before the end of this month, I will cash you out in full at the end of this month as originally announced.

Otherwise I'll continue to pay you interest monthly.

Your choice.


Proton Power has told me at least twice he was okay with an extension on his 5b.

This past weekend, I realized that I had no idea where the markets would go with the industry changes, let alone how I would be continuing to manufacture (i.e. POS or station, or would I have to move systems, etc.) after June 3, only 3 weeks away. There are just too many variables and unknowns.

So I liquidated most of my in-production stock as prices were favourable. I also sold some of my PLEX stash, and some of my T2 BPC, to reach the 20b bond principal amount.

I also threw my BPO into research, hoping to get them to ME 10 by June 3, or at least hoping ME 10 was in-progress before then.

I then had a surprisingly good sales weekend, which added nearly 7b on top of that, and then about 2.8b finished manufacturing and went up for sale. I still have about 13b left in production.


I hate Mondays.


Now comes CCP's announcement of pushing-back industry changes to Crius on July 22 and NOT June 3.

*sigh*


On the bright side, Proton Power helped me realize I was earning nearly 3 times more than I thought I was. Durn spreadsheet errors... and I get to re-do them after July 22.