Profit so far

1. Profit Numbers So Far

This is my total profit since I started using spreadsheet, it really helped me keep track of profitable items and to wich ones to reinvest my ISK

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On the day 13 and 18 i bought PLEXs so that is why I am in such a big loss those days, on the day 19 I invested into some manufacturing, and on the day 25 I invested into some invention.

2. Invention

Tomorrow invention I started on the day 25, that  I invested a lot of ISK into it will be finished, and immidietly the production of those items will start, I had some really good success rates so it will be very profitable for me.

Introduction

1. The "new" Nikola Dorcolac

Hello all, first off, my brief EVE history. I started playing maybe two years ago, and at the time i was just doing missions, it wasn't long before I got into raven and started doing LVL 4 missions. After doing them for a while I gained some ISK and shortly after I got my second account and a noctis on him for salvaging. Doing missions was fun at first using two accounts, making what i thought at a time is a lot of ISK, but soon I got bored of that, I joined some 0.0 corp, after some ratting, which are basicly easier than LVL 4 rats, and same ISK, and no PvP at all, i decided to quit the game. When i got back I tried doing some mining, but I didn't like that, so I went back to missions.

I finally got my good RL friend to play the game with me, he was Nikola Dorcolac, you know his history from this blog, after seeing how he did with his trading venture, maybe two months ago I decided to try myself at trading, and I apsolutley loved it. Nikola gave me some tips, showed me the "trade secrets" and I was making a lot of ISK, at the time I didn't use any spreadsheet, I thought it is a waste of time to make and so on, but as my buisiness grew I realised the need for one. Since I am an excel noob, Nikola showed me the basics, and gave me a copy of his spreadsheet, which i started using right away, and i changed it a bit so it suits my needs (you will have screenshots later on when I get home).

After doing some great job at trading, seeing Nikola doing some manufacturing I wanted to try that out, he also tought me everything he knew about manufacturing and invention, I started traning manufacturing, but it was a long time for PE V to train, but I guess I had a bit of luck when Nikola decided to quit the game, and left me both his invention and manufacturing character, so I will be doing some serious manufacturing in the future.

2. Future Plans

My future consists of  trading and a lot of invention and manufacturing, I will be investing major part of my funds into this area. I inted on skilling that invention char also for manufacturing, and manufacturing char for invention, on him I just need lab operation so it won't be a problem. When I finish skilling lab operation, I will go into skilling for a freighter. So in the near future I will be transfering invention char, to the account where is Nikola Dorcolac, that way i will cut the cost of 2 PLEXs for a month and I will be able to sustain a large POS, for research and manufacturing, i don't want to be dependant on the free slots around the universe, I want a constant place for my operations.

3. Partnerships

I will NOT be looking for partners to build up a corp, I like to work alone, but in the future maybe, I won't say that it is impossible. However I am looking for some buisiness partners if you have some bulk sales, I can take some orders if you want something made, etc. Also i will be looking for large supliers of ship BPCs in the near future.

The End

1. Corporation and Partnership over

The partnership between me and Chin Upson is over, main reason is that I won't be able to play the game anymore, so we decided to cash out, he got all of the liquid ISK from the corp, and some assets, I have gotten around 900 mill of assets as a pay out, and i am happy with it.

2. The New Beggining

Due to some real life issues I will be quitting the game, but one of my friends will play on my accounts untill I come back, he wants to tryout the manufacturing side of eve, he is an acomplished trader and a pvper on his characters, and this is his chance to get into manufacturing without spending much ISK on invention and manufacturing characters. When he started trading he got my Excel spreadsheet, worked on it a liitle bit, added some things, which you will be able to see in this blog since he plans on taking over it, so expect some posts explaining everything by him on his plan.

3. Apologize


I just wannted to say sorry that I didn't update regulary this blog, but in the last month I had so much trouble in real life, injury, college, and so on, I just didn't have the time.

Return

1. Return

Hello all, I am ready for my return, so stay tuned for more posts soon.

2. The deal

Today we finally got our hands a lot of T2 BPCs from our suplier, it has been a good deal for both of us, we found a fast selling item with a nice profit margin, in a couple of hours the production will start and it will be finished in 7 days or something like that. I am really happy that we did this because it is our first "big" deal with our partner, we hope to see ourselves doing buisiness again in the future.

The delay

Sorry guys but these days I had some internet problems and also had a lot of RL stuff to do, I am going to some  physical therapy, classes, and 1000 other things to do, in following days you will be updated on all things, I am sorry again that I wasn't able to update this blog regulary/

Day 19 of Month 2

1. Decision 

Today we reached the decision to stop station trading, olny to do bulk trades, and focus on expanding our manufacturing buisiness. We are looking to recruit manufacturers minimum requirements are Production Efficiency V and Mass Production at least IV. What do we expect from you, you buy your own materials, maybe BPCs (in some cases we will provide them), manufacture the items, that you find profitable (in some cases we will specificly ask you what to make), sell those items to the corp at jita buy orders price (in some cases slighlt highet). What do we provide, we provide free hauling, BPCs, everything you produce we buy. If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me (Nikola Dorcolac) or Chin Upson.

Day 18 of Month 2

1. Day 18 Analasys

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These are the items we traded today, we are suffering a loss, because we invested into manufacturing some items, which are now finished and waiting the delivery to jita to be sold, for some nice profit. Today I finished this spreadsheet on google docs so both of us can use it, just to keep track of our profit numbers. 

Today we had some buissiness talks with a couple of guys, which went pretty well, we have aranged some T2 BPCs for us to be invented, on a large scale. We got deal with two guys to mass produce some items for us which we will later on sell, overall looking back on today it was really god day, and I only hope we continue this in future.

2. Roles

Nikola Dorcolac - CEO, Director of Industry & Manufacturing

Chin Upson - Senior Director & Joint Partner

Kruper - Trading Partner

Ohaya Togenada - Director of Logistics & Intersolar Trade

Note: Kruper and Ohaya are Chin's alts.

With this we basiclly want to say for all manufacturing related stuff, you can contact me, and for trading stuff you can contact Chin.

3. Offers

We are still looking for mining corporations, also we are on the look for manufacturing corporations for bulk orders, we are willing to haul anywhere in high-sec. Also anyone who has some buissiness idea, proposal, wants to work with us feel free to contact us, we are opet to any suggestions.

4. Recruitment

We will soon be opening our doors to new members, more info on this soon.

Day 17 of Month 2

1. First Mistake

Today we made our first mistake in producing one item and dumping it into sell orders, needles to say this tool we used, showed us the right numbers, but we overlooked some facts, and I guess we were blinded by our greed, hahahahahaha :) we made a mistake, fortunatly, it was not a big loss at all and we go out of this with our heads kept high, despite our loss, we learned a valuable lesson that in manufacturing buissiness you have to keep an extra eye open for any mistakes you may make, double, triple check everything before you decide to go to that deal, but we were honest to eachother and accepted that we made a mistake, and we can move on with our buissiness venture, it only made us stronger! We practiclly immidieatly recovered from the loss, and decided while we are looking for what items to make, we will stick to our current plan, make the items we make at the moment, and start up station trading buissiness again while we search for profitable items to produce.

2. Spreadsheet

We will be looking for someone to help us build a spreadsheet for our needs or to give us a general idea how to make one, if you are willing to help us, contact me or Chin Upson, if needed I will pay from my personal wallet for some help.

3. Still Looking for Corporation Partners

We are still looking for mining corporations to be our mineral supliers, feel free to contact us, or if the reader of this blog knows some mining corporation, help us get in touch with them, thanks. Also we are looking for some steady supply of researched BPCs of some ships, contact us for more info.

4. Numbers

At the moment I am unable to provide you with corporation numbers on profit/loss, etc, because we are looking to build a spreadsheet to help us keep track of our profits, hopefully it will be up and running soon. For the weekend I will invest some time in it, and I hope I can make it work.