June 2026 update

Apologies for the delay on this one. Good news is it was a good month, I was playing regularly and it shows across the board. After May's half-absent stretch, it's a relief to post numbers that reflect consistent effort rather than inertia. 

                          

The Numbers

• Total sales: 44 billion ISK
• Capital ships sold: 9
• Freighters sold: 2
• Battleships sold: 13
• T2 modules sold: 1,594
• PI sold: 1.7 billion ISK

Second Super Batch

I launched the second super batch this month: 30 freighters and industrial ships in one go. These were manufactured temporarily in a nearby rigged Azbel rather than my usual setup, since I needed the material bonus to keep the batch economical at that scale. That's also why anyone tracking my industry job counts or material inventory will see numbers that look inflated for the period, it's just where the production physically happened this cycle.

Most of this batch will move through Amarr, which remains my main market, with a smaller share going to Jita and Dodixie. I haven't pushed volume into those two markets in a while.

T2 Carriers: Still Deciding

I started a project to manufacture 2 T2 carriers this month. The T1 hulls are done and sitting in storage, but when I ran the numbers on taking them further into T2, the margin came unsatisfactory. That's frustrating given the material and slot investment involved in a carrier build, so before I commit more resources I want to rerun the calculation properly, checking current component prices.

If the numbers still don't work, this isn't a loss. The T1 hulls are already profitable as they are, so worst case I just sell them outright.

Second Account: Slow but Useful

As mentioned before, I bought a second account this month, the one built from my old mining corp characters. They're still a few weeks of training away from being able to manufacture most of what my main pipeline needs, so I'm not counting on them for T2 or capital output yet.

Where they're already earning their keep is reactions. The extra slots they bring let me run jobs that would otherwise sit queued on the main account, which has a direct knock on effect on how consistently I can feed T2 and capital production. It's a slow ramp, but the early signs are exactly what I hoped for when I decided to activate this account instead of starting from scratch.

Azbel Project

The Azbel project keeps getting harder to postpone, a permanent 2% material efficiency gain would translate into real ISK every single month. I can afford the investment now, which is exactly why I don't want to be reckless with it. I still don't trust public Azbels for anything beyond short term.

Invention

BPC reserves of my favorite modules are starting to thin out after months of running the pipeline hard without much fresh invention activity. I'm launching a new invention batch now specifically to stay ahead of this, rather than waiting until it actually creates a gap in manufacturing. Better to spend a few slots on it now than to find a module or component idle later because I ran out of blueprints to build against.

Reactions

This is where the second account is making the clearest difference so far, more than 20 new reaction slots added, and they're already in active use. I'm currently mixing alchemy chains with regular composite reactions to build up the material base for the next capitals batch, leaning on alchemy where the flexibility helps and composite where I need the straightforward yield.

With reaction capacity now meaningfully higher across both accounts, this side of the operation is starting to look less like a support function and more like a real profit center on its own.

Looking Ahead

Next up is finalizing the T2 carrier decision, if the reworked numbers show a real margin, I'll push forward, otherwise the T1 hulls go straight to sale. Alongside that, I'm planning a new capitals batch of 7 or 8 ships to keep that pipeline moving. T2 module production continues in parallel, restocking Amarr remains the priority there. The Azbel decision is close, and I expect the second account to start contributing more directly to manufacturing, not just reactions, as training progresses over the coming weeks.

The capitals manufacturing expansion to a new location is still there, Basgerin will be the chosen system, I need to wait for the second account to be able to manufacture capital parts before relocating the characters there, I will definitely inject SP on them to accelerate the training.

Mission failed successfully

 

Regional trading has always had a reputation as the most lucrative way to make ISK in New Eden. I can't really argue with that, most of the trillionaires I see got there moving goods between hubs, not building them. So a few weeks ago, I decided to become a trader.

I did what any reasonably paranoid industrialist does before committing ISK: I over-prepared. Many  YouTube videos on regional trading fundamentals. I went back through some of the longest running blogs in the space, Croda's blog among them, looking for the patterns. I subscribed to EVE Trade Guru, the 1B ISK subscription, and started digging through Discord servers dedicated entirely to arbitrage and hauling routes, trying to absorb whatever tips and tricks I could find.

Armed with all of that, I ran the numbers through EVE Trade Guru and picked two routes to start: Jita to Amarr, and Jita to Dodixie. Classic hub to hub arbitrage. I checked prices, checked volumes, checked transport costs and travel times, checked competition on both ends. On paper, it looked solid.

And then... nothing happened. Just a slow, grinding routine of updating sell orders, watching margins shrink every single day, and telling myself it would pick up.

That's when it clicked for me: regional trading is a game of quantity. Whoever holds the most sell orders wins, wins the visibility, wins the volume. My single account with a modest stack of orders just doesn't move the needle when competing against traders running many characters. There was no room to maneuver, and worse, no real way to correct a bad position once you were in it. You just sat there, watching it bleeds out slowly, or cancel it and swallow your pride.

The deeper issue was capital allocation, and this is the part that was unpleasant for me on the whole venture. To trade seriously, you need to be comfortable locking up 90 to 95% of your net worth in buy and sell orders at any given time. That's fine if you're a trader, your capital is your inventory. But it's a completely different mentality from industry.

As an industrialist, I never want to sit below roughly 30% liquid ISK, low Isk for an industrialist triggers emergency, I need that buffer to launch the next production batch, to react when a material spikes or a market I depend on shifts overnight, or to snap up cheap minerals and components when a good deal. Cash is king in manufacturing in a way it just isn't in trading. Locking 95% of my wallet into standing orders would mean my actual production, the reactions, the T2 lines, the capital parts, grinds to a halt the moment I need liquidity and don't have it.

I know, in the end, every industrialist is also a trader of sorts, we all must sell what we make somewhere. But engaging with the market as your core loop is a fundamentally different discipline than engaging with it to offload finished goods.

From my admittedly short and bruising experience, I think that (I stand corrected) a trader needs to think like a manager: zoomed out, tracking macro trends across regions, comfortable with thin margins at massive scale, and unbothered by capital sitting still and working slowly. An industrialist needs to be more technical, closer to the numbers, closer to the production chain, thinking in terms of input costs, reaction yields, and build efficiency rather than regional arbitrage spreads.

I'm not saying regional trading is a bad business, clearly it isn't, given how many people have built empires on it. But it's just not my business.

In the end I want to thank Ray Zolo from Eve Guru, who helped me in cancelling and refunding my 1 billion subscription despite consuming about 10 days of the month, he was very generous.

Finally a second account

After several months of operating with a single account, it's time to add another one. I couldn't resist the PLEX and Omega offers that were available, adding that account was inevitable anyway, as I found myself out of slots many times, especially reactions. Like I mentioned before, my T2 production just can't keep up most of the time. I was barely selling in Jita. Amarr has stayed my primary market since the beginning, and Jita is mainly for material acquisition.

There's still a long way to go before the characters in the new account can move the needle. This isn't really a new account, it's one of my previous Omega accounts from when I was in a mining corp, which went Alpha after I started my solo venture. All the characters have around 5 million SP, but they still have slots. Overall, I immediately added about 15 slots of reactions and industry. It's true they can't manufacture any profitable T2 items yet, but the immediate impact is in the extra reaction slots.

I'm now fully adopting the alchemy method into the pipeline, its downside of yielding fewer intermediate materials per 24h run will be offset by these extra reaction slots.

For industry, I'll train these characters to act as assistants to the main account's characters. They'll accelerate the fielding of capital ships in Huola or support the extension to a second base of operations, most likely in the Basgerin system, where a new industrial hub has emerged over the past few weeks.

I'm confident this new account could easily push my monthly profits above 6 or 7 billion, as the markets seem to be in constant need of what I usually manufacture. The fact that I can't keep Amarr stocked properly means I need to produce more. The expected increase in profits (I hope) will support installing my own engineering complex, to reduce manufacturing time and lower material requirements a bit. While I can afford it now, I just can't afford to lose it, maybe I'll go for an Azbel, since I just can't trust the public ones.

Also, the reactions market seems deep, with huge quantities traded daily. With 60 slots, reaction materials could become one of my main sources of profit.