The Quest For 11 Figures, Day 35 Update

It's been 15 days since my last update on the quest for 11 Figures.  I'm not planning on doing a post every 15 days, it just kinda happened that way.

15 Days ago I had:
A: 100M ISK Liquid
B: All the capital components needed to build a Naglfar with ME 1.
C: A naglfar BPO in the cooker for ME 1, with a month to go.
D: About 100M ISK worth of raw materials still left over.
E: 2 PI Planets.

F: 2 stations stocked with LO/cynoes for sale.

Where do I stand now?

A: Down to 25M ISK Liquid.  I spent half of it on booze and strippers and I wasted the other half.  No wait, actually I spent most of it on pos fuel.  The posses were crying and wanted to be fed, so I fed them.

B: I still have all the capital components needed to build a Naglfar with ME 1.

C: My Naglfar BPO is still in the oven, about 2 weeks left to go.

D: I still have the estimated 100M ISK worth of raw materials left over.

E: I finally got off my ass for a bit (see below) and set up 6 planets for PI.  Im working on setting up another 4 on an alt to have a complete chain for nanite repair paste.  I used to do some heavy PI about a year and a half ago.  I don't think much of anything has changed since then.  For now I'm running 23 hour cycles, however, if I start to feel burned out (which happened 18 months ago), this may become 3-6 day cycles soon.  This has cost about 40-50M, but has been mostly offset by sales of mechanical parts, cynoes, and LO.  I will most likely close down the mech parts production once I have the nanite repair paste chain fully up and running.  

 

F: I also stocked a third station with LO/cynoes.  The income is still mediocre with 3 systems, but if i ever truly get off my ass completely, mediocre income at each of 20+ systems, should really start to add up.  

Proper Use of POS Labs

This is a primer for people who are new to using corp labs for research.  I use this method when researching my Capital blueprints, and you should too (when doing work on just about any blueprint of value).  We all know anytime you undock anything in space, it can, and often will, go pop.  The same is true when you are carrying blueprints, or when blueprints are placed in a POS lab for research.  Fortunately, there is a rather simple work around for this.

1: You will typically want to have tight security around blueprints, so having your own personal corp is the easiest (albeit not only) way for this.
2: Rent an office (look for cheap office space in the least used station in the system) in the same solar system as the POS (or desired future location of POS).  Office space varies greatly from station to station, so shop around.
3: Have the character that will be doing the research train up the skill "scientific networking" to at least level I.  You can train it higher, but even at levels II+, the bpo still MUST BE in the same solar system as the lab.
4: Put the BPO in the corporate owned hanger in the station (ie: stick it in the rented corporate office space).
5: Have your lab anchored and online at your corp's POS.
6: Install job.  Use the "corporation" filter (rather than the typical "public" filter) when searching where the work will be performed.  This will bring up your corp's lab at the POS as an option.  Keep in mind, any output will still be at the POS (ie: if you are researching (ME/PE) your BPO, it will still come out in station, however, if you are copying, any copies will be in the lab in the POS and need to be picked up).

Yep, it's that easy.  Now even if the POS is destroyed, your BPO is still safe in station.  This works both in highsec, lowsec, and nullsec, but typically has the most value in lowsec.  Be like Durrr, be safe. If you're going to research, research with protection.

The Quest for 11 Figures- Day 20 Update

15 Days ago I had:
1: A billion isk liquid
2: About half of the capital components I would need to build my first Naglfar
3: an unresearched Naglfar BPO
and 4: Most of the materials that I would need to build capital components from the 5 bpos I did have.

Where do I stand now?
1: I'm down to around 100M liquid.
2: If I haven't royally screwed up the maths, I should have all of the capital components I need to build Naglfar 1.

3: A Naglfar BPO being researched to ME 1. No, I did NOT do the smart thing and start researching the BPO right away, instead I waited 15 days.  And since they take a little over a month for 1 point of ME research, I shall be waiting.....

4: About 100M ISK worth of materials still left over.


So, Since capital construction is in a holding pattern for another 30 days, what about those other forms of isk making I mentioned I might be doing.

A: Station Trading: Hasn't happened yet.  Yep, lazy kitty.
B: AFK Ice mining: Since I got my retriever popped a couple of weeks ago I've been too lazy to replace it on that toon.  Yep, lazy kitty.
C: PI: I've set up 2 planets which bring me minimal dividends from time to time.  I hope to expand this in the future, and perhaps have a full chain going, but yep, lazy kitty.
D: POS Reactions: No progress, lazy kitty.
E: Plexing/FW missions: I haven't done any in a long time.  Yep, lazy kitty.
F: Station stocking: The initial goal was to stock 20 ish stations with LO and cyno generators.  I currently have stocked 2- yep, lazy kitty.  With only 2 stations stocked I can't expect much income but it has been trickling in with minimal effort, so I cant complain.
G: I did earn 10M ratting in low sec, looking for those special rats that drop sec status tags.  None found yet.

All in all, facepalm on capital ship construction, as it is delayed for a month, and lazy kitty on just about everything else.