Candice Bormardin
Caldari Jouvulen Enterprises Inc.
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Posted - 2008.05.01 01:26:00 -
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The blue prints are cheap but if you buy the materials some of them aren't.
Mostly, it takes a good bit of time to accumulate the materials to build a rig.
I first started looking at this thinking about increasing the power grid on one of my frigates and came to realize that that was not a good idea.
All in all, because of market forces on the materials involved and the work it takes to accumulate them, rigs are very expensive.
Mostly, as a new person, you can't afford rigs - but - you could start working towards building them. Since it takes time to accumulate some of the components you might need, no reason not to start now.
Get yourself a Salvager and start salvaging wrecks. Do a show info on the Salvager in the Market Place window to see what skills you need for it.
I run my level I missions in Destroyers with 4 weapons, two salvager's and two tractor beams but as you move up into higher level missions, you can take the guns off the Destroyer, put on more salvager's and tractors and just go get it (or have a guy on a second account waiting with it) to salvage your missions.
While you are doing that - you want to do Material and Time Research on that blue print so that it will be more efficient. The Metallurgy Skill will reduce your Materials Research time and the Research Skill reduce your Time Efficiency time.
All in all Manufacturing is the type of thing you would do with a character you made as an Engineer but anyone can do it.
If you've actually found something you could make where you could actually BUY the materials and still make a healthy profit instead of salvaging them yourself - congratulations! Just make sure that there is actually a market for that rig before you spend a bunch of money to make one.
As with a lot of other market related things - you probably want to keep things like that to yourself - as if you tell someone - then everyone will do it and - oops profit picture has changed. Trouble is ... if you've figured it out ... someone else has too.
You might want to do some market research in various Regions to see how wide spread the popularity of that rig is.
Just because someone is asking a lot of money for a rig - doesn't mean that people are paying it. There's a history function in the market window you can us to see what the volume of sales for an item has been and how it's price has fluctuated over time.
What I did - was to pick a couple of rigs I wanted to build for myself and started working toward being able to build them. Then, if I have some extras I'll sell them.
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