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Posted - 2012.03.07 08:10:00 -
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Industry is easy to get into, simple to start doing somethings, but takes a very long time to be able to sell anything at a profit (Production Efficiency 5 will take you about 12-14 days, which you really need to make a profit manufacturing).
My suggestion would be to train Science V and what ever other skill you will need to V for R&D agents (level 4 agents only if you can). This will get you a steady income/flow of R&D points. This would take roughly 8 days.
After this you could train laboratory Operations 4 in about 2 days. This will now allow you to start making BPC's from BPO's, since Science will give you the fastest copy time, and Lab Op 4 will allow 5 copies to be made at a time.
I'm suggesting that you do this because doing runs of BPC's can take 1 - 2 months to complete (10 - 30 day wait time for station install to be available, plus time for the copy to start). This means in 6 months (or whenever) you could come back to industry you could have a good number of BPC's to get you started as well as have a few hundred million isk worth of R&D points to use.
If you are totally serious about getting into manufacturing Another suggestion would be to stop training on your main character for about 15 days and train up 2 additional characters on your main account (science V, lab ops IV). This way you could have 10 more BPC runs happening, so in 6 months if you came back to it you would have x3 BPC's available. If you really really are serious you could train the characters another 5 - 10 days each so they could each be also generating you R&D points. These R&D points are pretty much free isk at this point (to pay for more BPO's, or do massive manufacturing).
This is exactly what I am doing. Yes I will be losing roughly 25 days training to my main character. But after that 25 days I will have 2 more characters doing PI, generating R&D points, and making copies to use for T2 items (or reselling).
And as someone else said you could always start a second account and do this setup so you don't lose those 25 days. In the long run that loss of 25 days will really pay off though.
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