aldhura wrote:lRedRevelationl wrote:Having been playing around with these for the sake of trying something new, I figured I'd record an hour's snapshot to show that the 200m ISK/Hr figure is entirely possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f73pSoAMjN4
This was by no means a perfect run, due to running low on standings I had to be a little less picky with the missions I accepted. I also took into account purchasing drones/ammo/MTU that I accidentally left behind etc.
Thanks for the guide!
Nice work, but you estimating income, to actually make that income you need to include the time of exchanging the lp and going to sell said items on the market..... still an awesome job, but not 200mil p/h
This is a common misconception at to how this works but understandable. Generally you blitz for a week or more, maybe even a month. You'd end up with say a mill or three LP. You'd grab your cloaky hauler, rigged with Hyperspacial velocity rigs and fitted with nanos and head on to the closest SOE station near whatever trading hub has the best prices. You grab the launchers/probes/BPCs/etc. and drop them off at the trading hub directly to buy orders. This all should take less than 30min.
Warning: Napkin Math ahead!
Lets say you spent 20h blitzing this month (Equates to 1.5 to 2mill LP). That means the 30 minutes spent doing your market stuff is only 5% of the the time making your money. Obviously the longer you can go without cashing out the smaller this 'wasted' %. Now personally I average around 225mill to 250mill/h so lets low ball it and go with 225mill/h. Take off 5% of that and we come to 213.75mill/h.
Now to head off your 'but he only made 200mill/h'. This is the problem with 1h benchmarks. Not to take anything away from the video or his mission running skills at all (He runs pirate invasion WAY more efficiently than me and I've actually changed how I run it as a result) but 1h benchmarks is not the most accurate. it's heavily susceptible to random spikes, high and low due to loot, missions, etc. I've found 3h runs to be relatively steady in terms of isk/h and this would indicate accuracy. A great loot drop would be evened out as would a bad string of missions. Not getting any team or good agent burners really impacted the run hard. I generally get at least a dozen or so team burners over the 3 hours, sometimes 4 or 6 in a row.
But yea, great video regardless.