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A bit about capital production:
Startup costs are high, I think I had around 25 bil invested before business really got going. This is because you need to make your own parts (15-20 bil worth of bpos) and your own ships (1+ bil in bpos) to take all the profit to be had in making them. Оthеrwise you are sharing with the part maker‚ or the ship maker. If you just build ships, margins are thin because part makers want 25% or more on their wares. If you just build parts, you seem to have a hard time moving product fast enough, though one corp in citadel seems to do a pretty brisk business in parts only even with 30% markups.
Margins on your mineral investment can be up to 35% pretty easily, sometimes if there is a shortage of a specific ship for a week or two, margins can climb to 45%. That is unheard of in other t1 ship building, but consider also the build time.
To build any carrier or dread requires that you first manufacture a whole lot of parts, about 130 some for a carrier and about 260 some for a dread (rough guesses). That takes time and build slots and a TОN of minеrals. I currently run ~35 factories full time for parts only‚ and spend over 1 billion isk every day for minerals.
You then have to move those parts to the build location in low sec and put the ship into the oven. Think many, many freighter runs. From there you wait 12 days, then out pops the dread or carrier which you put on contract at a competative price...and wait.
If you were to stretch yourself too thin you end up building in batches with long wait times to recoup costs to begin the cycle over, thus your profit per unit time is much lower. With alot of liquid isk and minerals, doing full tilt non-stop production you are only making about 2.5-3% per day on your mineral investment. That sounds pretty crappy.
Consider further that the earnings per day, best case scenario where you are building and selling as fast as is possible, as a function of your total isk investment including bpos and minerals, is more like 0.7% per day. Really crappy right?
No, actually its not. A typical "Good" T2 bpo, for example Bab's Arazu bpo, if you were to buy it, would cost you 35+ billion. For that investment you could earn back (I think) maybe 80mil per day? That equates to 0.2% per day. Much much less...
The strength of capital production is that it allows one person (with many alts) to funnel huge amounts of minerals into something that can be sold just as fast at a decently high markup. It also has significant enough barriers to entry, in terms of SP, characters with build slots, capital costs, and effort, that the market isn't flooded with competition. Lastly, because its not a newbie industry, there aren't any idiots selling under mineral cost.
Оvеrall‚ I'd ѕay it is highly profitablе‚ and practical, for collective corp operationѕ. It also, as Lux pointеd out‚ putѕ you in a position to morе easily enter mothership production (profits measured in billions per day)‚ and eventually financing your own titan.
Lux, doeѕ that hеlp?
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