I know I know! I have promised to not post monthly updates, but I find myself doing it, as a comment from Croda made me rethink a little bit about the decision, and also having lot of time at home due to working from home policy because of actual geopolitical situation.
The large-scale manufacturing campaign of the capitals ships was successful in its building phase, manufacturing parts and hulls was smooth and almost without errors, thanks to various industry tools like ravworks.com and eve guru.
I can’t say it was successful during the sales phase, as expected these hulls need patience and financial comfort to be sold at the right price, capitals business needs to be supplemented with another isk generation activity, for me it is T2 mass manufacturing.
Regarding the sales, they are above average at 31 billion isk, and they include: 4 Combat capital ships, 3 Freighters, 2321 T2 modules (new record!), 5 large skill injectors, and some PI materials, these sales increased my net worth by 9.4 billion isk (10%), which I can qualify as a good result.
Due to isk shortage after the launch of the capital ships phase, I was forced to sell PI and a freighter to buy orders to be able to start T2 manufacturing, at some point I got less than 200 million isk as cash.
From these numbers I can confirm that there is a slow down in capital ships movement, I expected to sell more than this, I still have 17 capital ships and 1 freighter between contracts and stocks, with this much ships still unsold, I will surely stop combat capitals manufacturing, and shift to T2 modules for the whole upcoming month.
I want to point again the high cost of the manufacturing operations this time also, which is raised to the staggering amount of 7.7 billion isk, including copying invention and reactions, it is mainly the cost of completing jobs much faster, but!…as I did a simulation before about the manufacturing location, if I relocate to an 0.14% industry index low sec NPC station, I can lower these 7.7 billion to 4.7 billion, but!...your slots will be busy for a longer time for the same capital productivity result, which will considerably lower the available time for T2 manufacturing later, hence lowering the profits, but!...(that’s a lot of buts!) I can go the middle ground and manufacture the capital components in a low index location and the hull in the fastest one.
So, it is a game of balance between time, location, profit, and effort, only a well designed excel sheet with different scenarios can give an answer.
In the other side the T2 business was doing great, I just stick to my golden list of modules, I noticed that I was unable to supply continuously the markets, I have a problem in my supply chain for T2 modules, I can’t always fill my 30 slots of industry with jobs, sometimes there is a component which is missing, it is really underwhelming, I will find a solution to track materials and manage restocking efficiently, SquadB the youtuber has a free excel sheet for manufacturing and stocks tracking, I will pay visit to it.
The invention slots were very busy during this month, I was mass-inventing BPC for T2 modules continuously, I have invested some skill points to increase success probabilities across my characters, I added some large and capital modules BPO to my library and start initial BPC copying for invention, during the next month I will invent and bundle these T2 capital modules with the available capital ships for better results.
For reactions, I just stopped it completely, I already have a good stock of needed composites, also ARDCO are starting a good reactions business and as usual I am one of their customers, I am thinking about relaying on them for composite reactions and leave my slots for T2 related reactions.
I started acquiring raw materials by using freelance jobs, I am paying a good price and the orders are filled reasonably quick except for kernite ore (low sec ore), by moving these ores to lowsec T2 tatara, having good refining skills and the best reprocessing implant, I can secure minerals at a good price.