Kousaka Otsu Shigure
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Posted - 2017.01.06 14:08:38 -
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1. Increase your buy order range, to increase the possibility that someone will sell cheap to you. Set to within the nearest lowsec area in The Forge region.
Using dotlan, with the security status layout:
http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/The_Forge#sec
You will notice that the nearest lowsec is 8 jumps from Jita, so place a buy order within that range, (not 8! or the items will land in lowsec areas and picking them up will be a pain!)
2. I first read of the 'burger method' in the eve uni pages:
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/How_to_identify_items_to_trade
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Lessons_Learned_By_A_Budding_Trader
Seems to be a good index of how to study the rise and fall of prices in the item history.
3. For small item pickups, use fast warping ships. I use either a:
a. Leopard with a 10m3 cargohold and 20au/s warpspeed
b. Dramiel with a 130m3 cargohold and upto 13.04au/s warpspeed with T2 hyperspatial velocity optimizers
c. Daredevil with a 140m3 cargohold and upto 8.69au/s warpspeed and 1.86 alignspeed with T2 hyperspatial velocity optimizers and T2 inertial stabilizers
Of course, you manually fly these ships and no autopiloting ever. Set your pickup points, add more waypoints, optimize waypoints (all available in the Route info panel plus assets window) and zip along hisec.
4. For bigger hauls, try to outsource your hauling thru Red Frog, Push and the Haulers Channel. This will open up time for you to study the markets and updating orders.
5. Watch eve-central for cheap items in the sell orders. You'll immediately see its on sale because of differences in price range (eg. I bought my Dramiel for 40M in the sell orders which was normally at 42~44M in my region Buy, and 50+M in Sell)
6. Seed neighboring regions with alts for quick buys and checking regionwide prices. Make more accounts/characters and even train some of their trade skills while you're at it. The alpha limitation of one client only is managable because you can log on all your accounts up till character selection, but not full into the game.
7. Watch out for patches, read the forums and log into SiSi. Sometimes changes in the game makes previous cheap items shoot up in prices (eg. Elite Drone Ai). If you can maneuver yourself into a good stockpile early, then you'll be good.
8. Read read and read more :D
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