I've been kicking around Eve for a while - at first just dabbling but now spending more time in here and less in WoW. I started out with:
- 1st set of career starter missions (taking so long that I let a couple expire);
- L2 distribution missions (Ugg - so little ISK even for a complete newbie);
- completed both allied factions starter missions (well worth it - made L4 missions available - and gave a stockpile);
- Trying my hand at PI in a single 0.9 sytem, selling raw Aqueous liquids because they were the most abundant (Don't do that - really)
- Ground a little corporation standing with L4 distribution missions (and the occasional L2 to allow Connections to kick in)
- Tinkering with a bit of trading - in one region - with region wide buy orders of ore; converting it to minerals.
- I have been taking snapshots at random times during the day. The graph above shows the best of any given day's balance.
- I have margin trading so escrow does not equal buy orders but does represent readily available funds.
- I have chosen a 'liquidation' value of sales at 50% of the sell price. Given that the majority of my sales are currently minerals with buy prices at 90-95% of the current sell values this is incredibly conservative.
- I do not include the value of stock on hand (not in a sell order), ships, or training in the above graph. While stuff sitting in a dock somewhere does have value, it won't give me ISK until I get around to putting it on the market.
What happened:
- Week 1 was fantastic :
- doubling my ISK by trading - woo hoo
- Gallante based (largely Sing Liason) region.
- Buy orders on Veldspar, refine and haul to market hub.
- Week 2 was bad :
- Expanded into into new regions; Metropolis and Hek.
- Lots of work; running very hard just to stand still.
- not quite as bad as it seems as
- purchased Wholesale costing 25% (31M) of my funds
- Spent 10% (13M) on PI infrastructure. I may end up throwing some of this away due to non-efficient setup.
- But still bad
- 1 lightly tanked Iteron I (1M) no cargo (outward journey)
- One tanked Iteron IV (10M) with a 10M cargo load (return journey)
- All in the new regions that I expanded into. Mmmm There be pirates here.
- Train access to research agents.
- Get a (better) clue on PI.
- Add new buy orders to quieter regions for region. Miners like quiet; Pirates don't.
- Phase out region buy orders around Hek and Rens, letting the existing ones expire.
- For the ore buy orders fulfilled behind a camped losec system is to fly out to the station in a freighter, refine it, bring back any high value minerals that fit in the freighter and sell the remaining minerals at a discount. Freighters appear to be hard to pin down even when actively chased by pirates.
I am doing it the "other way", 90% pf my ISK income comes from making L3 Security Missions, in Hig Sec. Was also lucky t make a business to get 100 mil in a contact.
ReplyDeleteCurrently waiting for skills to train for using a dominix for some L4 missions.
So ISK from mission+ loot sold at maket =166 mil so far, cont complain for the few hour I have available to play.