I have a lot of invention skills but don't have some construction skills. Because of this I can sometimes invent stuff that I can't build myself. Still, it seems that such stuff will yield a nice profit.
So far I came up with 2 options:
Which one would work better?
P.S. Training the skill is not currently an option as my attributes are currently remapped in a totally different way.
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Darina Smirayne
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Personally, I've found that selling the BPCs on is barely worth the effort. Firstly, the BPCs are difficult to build for many industrialists because of the skills required, and type and cost of materials involved, and secondly the majority of industrialists who developed the tech 2 manufacturing skills also developed the tech 2 invention skills beforehand and so invent their own BPCs.
There might be tech 2 manufacturers who would be willing to talk with you about building your tech 2 BPCs, but the profit margins are not very large so it is not as lucrative as inventing and building your own BPCs.
do won
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You need skills + bpc + datacores + decryptors + invention slot.
Run the numbers, for instance.
Onyx requires:
Moa BPC ~ 100k
Caldari Starship Engineering x 8 ~ 1M6
Mechanical Engineering x 8 ~ 3M2
I'm assuming all the required skills are at level 4 for these calculations.
And lets say you're using Tuning instructions which will raise your chance of success a bit, and get ME to an acceptable level ~ 8M
Total materials required ~13Million
Calculate how likely it is that invention will work Chruker Invention Calculator.
Divide material cost by chance as a fraction 13M/.3318, so thats a cost of 39Million to produce the T2 Ship BPC.
Without the decryptor its still ~16M for a single run with ME -4 PE -4
which to my mind isn't worth doing as you can buy the ship for less than the materials cost on the markets if you try manufacturing with lousy ME.
The other thing to consider is opportunity lost, even if you source some/all the materials yourself how much could you have made just by selling the necessary raw materials and doing something more profitable with your time instead?
Depends on your definition of rich. Just earned few tens of millions inventing, building and selling expanded cargoholds. Took about 2-3 days.
You have to do the whole process yourself, inventing t2 blueprints and selling them was the original question no?
That depends on what exactly I’m inventing. I can build modules and t2 frigates, but not t2 cruisers. The question was about cruisers.