Industry 101
A Noob’s Guide to Hustling in Outer Outer
Space
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Thumplex Bumpitron
Old man
Blows up lots of his own ships
Dad
Sysadmin
SPACE HUSTLER
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Why SpaceHustle 101?
Addressing non-combat related noob questions about
making ISK in nullsec
Industry in nullsec is more diversified and leaves more
questions about specialization
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Why Not To SpaceHustle...
You see it as an ISK faucet
Not without making friends and doing some legwork
It sounds like easy money
Ratting in nullsec is more profitable by a large margin
for newer players
You think it’s safer
For the most part, it’s more dangerous
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Why SpaceHustle?
It’s a huge part of EVE as a game, it’s part of the
experience
Starting your own business without losing actual
money
Other constraints keep you from StratOps and the like
You’re trying to keep the game more interesting than
ratting
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So What is Industry?
Mining
Production
PI
R&D
T1
T2 & T3, Rigs
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What?? (continued)
Refining
Import / Export
Loot
Logistics (Space Trucking, not Space Priesting)
Marketing
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Spacehustling in Nullsec
Choices, Planning, and the SpacehustleFactor
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Spacehustling 101
How much time do you have to put in?
How difficult is this schedule-wise?
How much do you have to work with others?
How much analysis does this involve?
How likely are you to die from this?
What’s the payoff?
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Core Industry Concepts
You’ll need some basic skills for your specialty
You’ll also need some market skills
SP-Type Skills
Good analytical mind
Success relies on a good balance of social, analytical,
and decision-making skills.
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Core Contrasts in Null
The Obvious
RESOURCES, RESOURCES, RESOURCES
DEATH, DEATH, DEATH
Volume isn’t the same
We rely a lot on Import/Export
T2 Production
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Core Contrasts in Null
Not So Obvious
Getting started is not difficult
Consumption differences make nullsec rock, and
suck.
Higher skill ranges mean you need to specialize early,
you shouldn’t try to do it all.
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Explanation and Analysis
...with Spacehustle factor!
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Mining
Shooting Rocks with Lasers!
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Getting Started in Mining
Go with a group, safety factor in a noob mining outfit is
low.
Feel free to start in a destroyer class ship
Ice, Gas Clouds, and Asteroids
Fun Social Activity, Really!
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Nullsec Contrasts
There’s some dangerous rats!
Much better minerals available
Less of a solo activity
Fewer people mining overall
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Mining SpaceHustle Factor
Total Time 5/10
Schedule 7/10
Teamwork 6/10
Analytical Skill 1/10
Likelihood of Death 5/10
Payoff Varies
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Planetary Interaction (PI)
... the clear alternative to station spinning!
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What is PI?
Connect the dots
Using planets to
harvest resources,
refine them and create
items the refined
materials
Collecting things from
spacewhisky flasks
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Getting Started With PI
Skills have a very low barrier to entry
By all means, use the other two toons available to
your account
Requires no blueprints, lower cost to entry
Take a class
Watch the Youtube videos from CCP
Don’t worry, you WILL do it wrong at first
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Nullsec Contrasts
Planets are a lot more abundant
You’ll sometimes find entire systems with uncolonized
planets
Immediate consumers in Nullsec
Pricing can vary
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PI SpaceHustle Factor
Total Time 1/10
Schedule 8/10
Teamwork 1/10
Analytical Skill 7/10
Likelihood of Death 2/10
Payoff 4/10*
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Blueprint-Based Production
T1, T2, Rigs, etc.
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Blueprints, etc.
Get Minerals
Obtain Blueprint
Manufacture
Profit!
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Getting Started
Skills scale with complexity of produced items
Analyze market data of what you intend to make
Get involved with your corpmates
Don’t try creating big things without Production
Efficiency trained up first
BP-Based production is 30% logistics and 30%
marketing
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Nullsec Contrasts
Blueprints are harder to come by
There are completely untapped markets available for
some things, like types of ammo.
Market demand is significantly lower on many items
This is the home of high priced item manufacturing
We have haxoring and dinosaur bones
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PROTIP:
Examine markets for narrow Donchian channels
Looking for buy orders as close in price to sell orders
as possible
See what items your fleets are using and if you can
make items cheaper
Start small, with things like ammo
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BP SpaceHustle Factor
Total Time Scales
Schedule 2/10
Teamwork 7/10
Analytical Skill 9/10
Likelihood of Death 2/10
Payoff 8/10*
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Marketing and Logistics
Break it down... OOOOoooOOOOOo
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Refining
Requires a bit more
skill
Get Stuff
Melt Stuff
Profit!
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Getting Started
Requires skills to do efficiently
Find a station that lets you refine, dotlan is great for this
Strategize your business
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Nullsec Contrasts
Better rat drops equals better scrap meltdowns
Since resources can be limited at times, reverse
engineering assembled items is a good skill to have
Lower station capabilities mean you need better skills
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Loot!
Go ratting for a few hours, collect all drops
Hit both anomolies and belts
Analyze what your drops were
Place buy orders for items based on a fraction of
reprocessed value
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Reverse Engineering
Requires patience and spreadsheets
Finding the base metals of items and importing them
for meltdown because the assembled items are smaller
than the sum of their parts
Not always profitable, check wiki sources, etc for good
items for meltdowns based on mineral need.
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Refining SpaceHustle Factor
Total Time 2/10
Schedule 6/10
Teamwork 5/10
Analytical Skill 10/10
Likelihood of Death 2/10
Payoff 8/10*
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Marketing and Logistics
Ancillary Industrial Skills
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Marketing and Logistics
Everyone does this a
little bit
Doing this a lot bit
requires lots of skills
Basics: Buy/Sell/Move
stuff based on market
analysis
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Getting Started
Start with your own things
Make yourself familiar with 3rd party market analysis
sites
Read forums and other EVE news sources
Start small with a short range, skills will limit you here
anyway
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Tips
Don’t overextend yourself, you will be tempted to be a
spacemogul
Make Jump Freighter Pals and have a Jita toon
Diversify
Keep high and low margin items
Types of items
Know your reverse engineering formulas for refining
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Marketing SpaceHustle Factor
Total Time CAN EAT YOUR SOUL
Schedule CAN EAT YOUR SOUL
Teamwork 8/10
Analytical Skill 10/10
Likelihood of Death 9/10
Payoff 10/10
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The Overall SpaceHustle
Keep hustling all the time
Make sure you have an actual business strategy
If this is your long term career path, fill out real small
business paperwork to define your goals
Make lots of friends and good business relationships
Don’t be afraid to go steaks & strippers on folks