12-22-2015, 10:05 PM
(12-22-2015, 08:53 PM)Comito Wrote: Is it fun being an industrialist? Gathering materials, building ships and stuff, and selling them for big money?
It takes a LONG time to be able to do this profitably, your competition is well entrenched and has been doing this for years with maxed out capabilities.
But if that's what you fancy, sure.
Usually the Indy player is effectively a truck driver, buying low and selling high as they fly large but durable freighters around moving cargo for profit.
I'm working the miner's path myself, stripping asteorid belts as part of a fleet and piling them up for sale at the stations to the highest bidder- usually an indy player intending to haul them to be sold again for people to manufacture with.
Though I do some manufacturing of my own, namely Catalysts and ammo for them. Its funny really, because gankers buy the Catalyst in large numbers to gank the miners.
So ultimately, I am getting paid to mine the minerals their ship is made from, paid when they buy a ready to fly ship from me, and paid a third time when the ship they bought from me blows up my miner and I collect the insurance payout.
Which if you can handle the grindiness of being a miner, is amusing in profitability.
Feel free to PM me if anything is broken