Eve Online - Manufacturing Tech 2 items, how to make ISK 

The thing about being an industrial character though, is that I actually quite enjoy the process itself, of going out and getting the material I would use in the various stages of T1 and T2 invention/manufacturing. Case and point, right now I'm out in a Lowsec region doing mining, exploration, and PI. I'm not getting everything I need to do T2 manufacturing, but I'm actually knocking quite a large amount off of what I need to buy to produce the things I need. I consider this a very win-win strategy, as I have an incentive to go out and actually undock and play the game I'm paying for, but also I get much larger profit margins when I turn around and sell products.

Thanks. Basically, gave an idea how to make a non-zero isk, if your production lines are idle.

This was another good one. TY!

Great video again! Best information for eve online manufacturing and industry in general! Keep up the good work.

Great video. I enjoy watching you. Keep going! :)

market quickbar... always cycling through mine as i travel... constantly picking up low quantity but great prices... takes a while to build up enough inventory to justify running a gathering-route, but well worth it when it makes sense

if you set up the industry job to simulate the cost you should manufacture all 10 then do the buy cost and divide the amount by 10 instead of doing one at a time, this shows what the actual cost would be not since you are not saving the full amount of materials unless you build the full amount of the bpc if it has any me.

Hey there strangenet. Could you make a video about tech3 manufacturing please and thanks..!

I’m a little confused from 3:30 to 4:00. It seems like you say, “If I have to buy the items to make something straight off the market then it’s not profitable,” but then say, “I have to buy these items and it’s profitable to do that.” I’m finding that the invention is easy but the industry of a Tech II is almost impossible without buying all sorts of rare items (and lots of them) straight from the market. How am I mishearing you? I’d love to get into invention and manufacturing but the buy prices seem totally unrealistic to the sell portion. Even with high skills in market orders, accounting, retail, etc., the cost/profit ratio seems like such a waste of time. For instance, I have a Heretic BP. The ship is going for around 54 in Amarr while the cost of buying all the supplies is around 50. So we’re talking about a 2-4 (maybe) profit, right?

Hey! One minor remark. So you always say, that if you have to buy something on market to be profitable its not profitable. Its true, its trade income. But you calculate your profit on sell price and you didnt take into consideration that you tie up X amount of money for some days or weeks. If you would just use that money to trade you potentially would make more profit out of it. The second thing is an another collateral damage, but if you dont dump your manufactured good for buy orders (which you shouldnt), then you have to use a trade slot, probably for a long time if it doesnt sell really fast (since you'll get undercut, worst case you even need to change the price). You could make money on that slot while you waiting to sell the manufactured product. That trade slot what you use for sell your product is a trade profit and its not come from manufacturing. Moreover that profit would be made just by buying the product from the market and selling it back. So in my books the item is only profitable if I could buy the required material from sell order, and I could sell the product to a buy order, and I would still make a profit. (And again this doesnt mean you should just dump your product to buy orders)

3:30 Did you mean buying items from buy orders ?

Lmao yes I was yelling at the screen that you ddint include invention price. Its by far the most confusing part for me so thanks for going over it

3:30 (and following) ... I've listened to this a few times, but I still don't understand what you're trying to say with regard to the need of buying or self-producing items. Can you explain this in some other way? I feel dumb for asking though!

Tranquility Research Labs has an insane index tax....is it still advisable to manufacture there?

"If you have to buy from sale orders or produce yourself to get the item profitable, it's not profitable" then when it's profitable please? I just don't understand how you can produce without buying mats from sale orders or getting them yourself.

13:35 onwards pretty much me, doing stupid things

perhaps an update to 2022 since things have changed a bit decryptors, space junk, datacores all up in price.

I recommend never drop a bunch of items on the market at one time. If they don't sell quick people will either build or buy from different markets to undercut you flooding the market out on that item. If you have the isk to play with you can force the price down buy them out, then wait a month or 2 collect several items below building cost, for later resale. What I heard from someone sometime ago.

Oh btw, when building T2 don't build something so specialized that the average player T2 can't use it, right now I'm losing isk on a T2 warp bubble, the T1 is selling higher. Research your item, don't just build to show off your strong science skills.

If it were only so simple,

Why don't you mine the goo your self and make everything instead of buying from Jita Sell orders. This is not how you do T2 production properly. Atleast make buy orders for the materials if you are not actual manufacturer. You are giving bad advice to players starting the manufacturing business. Buying from sell orders is bad.