Rebuilding an EVE Corp...
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Some months ago (around July 2011), I had the misfortune of losing a POS to a pair of thieves in High Sec whilst I was busy transitioning into my new role at work. Unfortunately, the POS theft happened unknown to myself until I tried to warp to my Labs to collect T2 BPCs and found the whole thing was missing.... Yeah that was an angry day.
Since then I have been working on building standings for my corp so I can re-anchor in high sec space again, it took a while, and a lot of ISK in ships, and a hell of a lot of T2 ammo too! I may have been floating the profitability of T2 missiles for a while too with the amount I was dishing out.
Essentially, I a couple of weekends of heavy play time, I found a station in a system with 5 agents ranging from LVL1 to 4 (all agents of the Security division), and I grinded those missions until my fingers bled / eyes watered, and to add to the pain, I was playing on a Wireless 3G internet connection with -100dB of signal strength..... essentially the connection was shit!
Luckily, my occupation is somewhat in the area of communications and I was able to building something to assist in better signal quality (and all it cost was a $2 can of coffee and some copper wire).
Anyway, I have gotten away from the story. So a month ago I re-deployed my POS into a backwater 0.5 system several jumps from Jita and re-commenced invention and manufacturing from my BPOs with avengence!
I now have 4 accounts, 12 characters in total, 10 of which are members of my corp. All of whom have trained (or are training) to expand my corp's Invention / Manufacturing capability. So far this week, I have turned a profit of 300M ISK in invention/manufacturing of some rather cheap T2 modules.
Unfortunately monitoring the profit and slot utilisation of the POS has been especially taxing with my time. And more so, using EVEHQ to determine which characters can do x activity with y blueprint has been quite annoying. That said, I have a new resolve to develop more EVE related scripts and applications and then market them back to the EVE community.
Keeping in mind Time is Money, I have a plan to license the applications through the use of clever licence management in concert with pricing to reflect PLEX value (i.e $15 = ~448M ISK), so to sell an application I would sell at $15USD, I would place a price of 448M ISK (or whatever the daily PLEX value was) for that product. Or I could even utlise the Contracts system with the API to accept payment in the form of PLEX itself!
CLEVER!
With these tools supplied to developers such as myself, it makes the ability to process and sell information to other players oh so much more fun :)
Happy Flying, and Happy New Year pilots!