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Planetary Production Problems

Kename Fin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:07:12 +0000

On Using PI In Our Wormhole

What seems like a sure-win situation with the planets we had available before the release has turned into an annoying state of affairs that will need a lot more work to make it a production reality. Whereas we initially had a fairly good spread of lava, gas, barren, ice, storm – we now have lava, barren, temperate, plasma, storm. This is coupled with the fact that it would appear that any two given resources needed on a planet to manufacture a specific tier 2 product are in fact separated by a fairly large distance. This requires a lot of CPU for links and reduces a given colony’s effectiveness.

After polling the other pilots who are setting up shop in the w’hole, it seems that they are needing about 2-3 million per planet set-up in extractor and refinery costs. This is assuming that you get it right and don’t have to move anything around later. We’re still in the exploratory phase and will likely end tearing down and rebuilding several times before we get it ‘right’. This is also coupled with the fact that we’ll need to start co-ordinating our productions once people have a better handle on the process.

On the plus side, we have more than enough enriched uranium to last out the decade. Too bad we can’t set up a shop out here in the nether world for pilots passing through to buy from us. Corporate Sales Array anyone?

New Orca Work

Kename Fin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:26:35 +0000

Words fail
Buildings tumble
The ground opens wide
Light beams down from heaven
She stands before my eyes

– (TMGB)

Because I’m always a bit distracted and doing 20-30 different things at once, it often means that I hit things hard and hope I get enough to keep the project afloat until I get back around to it again. One of those projects is the ongoing Orca development project that manages to be purely theoretical in nature. All this means, I don’t actually produce Orcas, but I come back and look at their production costs in relation to the current ore/mineral prices. In update to a post of long ago [Orca Production Calculations], the following changes have been made:

An Orca can currently be broken down into its component pieces and then sub-costed into their mineral components. The overall picture doesn’t include any of the manufacturing costs and assumes NO Material Efficiency research. I am putting the picture of the calculations in this post, but I’ll try to summarise the numbers for brevity as well.

To produce an Orca requires 7 component blueprint and one ship blueprint that all average around 1.1 billion each to purchase from the market. Each of the seven components will cost approximately 4 million in minerals on average [3.2 million - 5.5 million]. Combined with the total number of each component, the cost to produce an Orca is currently approximately 310 million. Since I’m not selling Orcas, I feel comfortable in suggesting that market prices ought to be around 350m allowing for profit margins, research costs and capital paybacks.

If mineral costs continue to fall, Orca prices could stabilize as low as 325 million. Adding rigs to them will still push them up over 400 million. The cargohold optimization rigs are still running over 30 million each. The addition of the ore hold has drastically improved the Orca’s flexibility and original role performance.

Asteroid Value Chart

Kename Fin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:41:07 +0000

I like to be able to quickly evaluate a set of asteroid choices and decide what I want to mine. It can be confusing to me to have to get out the spreadsheet and calculator to figure out how much it’s worth to mine such-and-such if I refine it and sell it. To that end, I started the Isk Per Jetcan calculation that were originally posted on the front page. I’ve modified that a bit now to just be the Isk Per M³ calculations and then to know how much I can get relative to the others.

The combined Isk Per M³ and Isk Per Jetcan table is listed below. I try to keep these updated on a weekly basis for my own usage, but you are welcome to refer to them as you like.

Omber	61.83	1,700,364.81
Jaspet	63.20	1,737,866.53
Hemorphite	76.66	2,108,249.00
Pyroxeres	85.09	2,339,987.41
Scordite	93.35	2,567,046.59
Hedbergite	95.51	2,626,552.05
Plagioclase	103.01	2,832,832.01
Kernite	103.60	2,848,914.30
Veldspar	105.10	2,890,386.05
Spodumain	176.06	4,841,549.30
Dark Ochre	183.82	5,055,147.06
Gneiss	196.46	5,402,750.49
Crokite	363.37	9,992,732.56
Bistot	492.13	13,533,464.57
Arkonor	504.03	13,860,887.10

Late Night Math

Kename Fin — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:28:56 +0000

I’d like to introduce you to a new concept I’ve come to know very well. I like to call it late night math. I’m sure you all have a great familiarity with it. It’s the math that leads you to undock in a poorly fit ship because “it’ll do” and cause you to reprocess something because you just “know” you can sell the minerals for more. It’s the kind of math that leads you out into low-sec because you were ok there last time and cause you to see a market on an item at a great price, only to realize after you’ve bought it that the bottom has also dropped out of the demand as well.

Occasionally you’ll see minor variations of this. Some of the more popular ones include:

Emoragequit – blindly screaming at the computer, turning it off and saying you’ll never be back
Drunken Master – established player gives away stuff or blows it all up while drunk
EFT – Empty Forum Threats – favorite home of the whine and whinge that really mean nothing
Lovesick Loser – unrequited love blossoms in the deepest reaches of space

One or more of these may end up being combined into a sad state of pitiable pod pilot puke. Please ignore all of them and help stamp out Late Night Math.

How you might ask? Simple – don’t buy, sell or make major decisions after midnight, a couple of drinks or a fight. Simple. Really. No, honest.