
Originally Posted by
Mr Blue
All in all after a few mothns you wanna slit your own wrists.
This man speaks the truth.
Having never done reactions before and wanting to try it out, I set up 2 large caldari towers, one on a cobalt moon, the other on a silicates moon, so I mine two of the four base ingredients for Crystalline Carbonide. I import Cadmium and Hydrocarbons from buy orders in Jita. The system my lowsec guy lives in is shit for moons and this was the best I could come up with.
Anyway, each tower has 5 silos, a moon miner, a simple and a complex reactor. There is literally no CPU left over on the tower with all this online. One tower produces Crystallite Alloy (from cobalt and imported cadmium) and the other produces Carbon Polymers (from silicates and imported hydrocarbons.) Every 5 days I need to swap the simple reaction outputs between towers and empty the complex output silos in each tower of their Crystalline Carbonide.
Profit? Yeah. On paper there's profit after POS expenses and the occasional fuel use for my JF. But worth it with the time requirements needed to babysit this? Ehhh, not really I have to say. This is shit-town Derelik and I'm using what I have available, and to make anything more profitable would require 1) more POSes, 2) more babysitting, and 3) more trips between Jita and Derelik to import what I can't mine.
With Crystalline Carbonide taking a dive recently, and the lack of will to run the logistics train in a more dedicated way, I'm just going react out my remaining stock of simple reactions and replace the 2 large towers with a small gallente or amarr and just mine the cobalt until that's not even seeing a profit.
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