Margarite Liberte's Engineering Career in Eve Online.

Margarite sold the Orca she built and bought a friend a Pilot's License Extension. She had 80 million in change after this and proceeded to build more tractor beams.

Posted by robot17A5 at 08:08 AM | Permalink

The tractor beam market seems to be way down. Mind you minerals are cheaper. Also Margarite's alt flies a Hulk mining exhumer now, and can mine for her. Along with this gain, Margarite's corp has had some regular mining operations in Empire pulling in millions of isk an evening.

Posted by robot17A5 at 10:41 PM | Permalink

Margarite was trying to earn enough to buy her alt a Pilot's License Extension (PLEX). She almost made it then the alt decided to buy a Hulk mining ship which he now flies. So Marg started again earning isk for her own PLEX and now has two Ishkur's being built and these will sell for 26 million ISK each and make up the remaining 50 million ISK she will need for her license.

Posted by robot17A5 at 11:09 PM | Permalink

There was only one war target in system in Jita when Margarite logged in today. She had arrived in Jita last night with an escort. She had brought 1 million units of tech II ammo to sell. She made all this ammo. She bought some moon materials in Jita and was ready for the flight home. She predicted the war target at worse would try to target her Occator when she undocked but that she could get into warp and sustain damage and still make the first gate. In fact, the one war target did target her but he did not even get a shot off before Margarite was in warp and away. Once out of Jita no further war targets were seen.

Posted by robot17A5 at 08:22 PM | Permalink

With a balance of only 212.16 one corp member said she had set a record. Another told her to give him the 212 so she did. He then returned her 500,000 ISK but she gave it right back. So smallest balance recently was 0.16 ISK.

She got into this state of finances buying minerals. But within the same day she was back up to at least 1.9 million ISK and bought more minerals by buying minerals she and another player had mined. So she had her modest share and then paid the player 1.9 million for more than her share of the mining. This then gave her enough tritanium for 35 tractor beams.

Her player taught this partner who is a newbie player to set names for containers, to transfer minerals to containers while mining and warping to bookmarks.

Margarite also gave the partner all the salvage from the pirate ships they killed while mining. Other players have done this kind of lopsided partnerships with her when she was starting out, so she did likewise with this new pilot.

Posted by robot17A5 at 08:50 AM | Permalink

Using the first few steps for her plan she is able to make ISK income with less mining on her own. So really cooperating is the key to keeping the business plan functioning. She has repeated step 1 a few times and just this weekend repeated step 2 and actually had 50 tractor beams for sale at the end of the weekend. Just before this she bought a Keres. She has about 25 tractor beams for sale now. She is just about to start buying minerals for her next production runs. She will try to make another step 1 and then 2 before the coming weekend. She must pay for a Viator this weekend. A more experienced pilot was saying this was not a good choice but she is stubborn and will be trying to buy the transports skill book before the weekend and the purchase of the Viator. This means she needs an extra 25 million ISK outside of the production ISK she must maintain..

Posted by robot17A5 at 07:20 AM | Permalink

Margarite has a growth plan that should work if she can continue to buy minerals and make more ISK then she starts with by building Small Tractor Beams. Her plan includes about 20 steps, where she ends up supporting a learning plan that allows her to buy the skill books for Advanced Space Command, Freighters, and Transports. If this business plan works she will move on to the skill books for Jump Freighters, and finally Titans. All the training with be about 200 days but some of the training will only be a few hours once she has a few hundred million ISK to buy the skill books. Her plan with the twenty steps should allow her also to buy an Obelisk and a Gallente transport ship or two. The 200 day training plan allows Titans and clocking devices for these ships. So the 20 step plan does not buy the Titans or the Titans skill book but does allow her ISK growth to about one billion ISK and supports the purchases of Freighters and Transports.

Of course, following this plan may not be easy. Here is the plan:

1. Buy enough minerals to make 25 tractor beams and sell these for 25 million ISK
2. Buy enough minerals to make 40 tractor beams and sell these for 40 million ISK
3. Buy enough minerals to make 70 tractor beams and sell these for 70 million ISK
4. Buy enough minerals to make 130 tractor beams and sell these for 130 million ISK
5. Buy enough minerals to make 200 tractor beams and sell these for 200 million ISK
6. Buy the skill books Advanced Space Command and Freighters
7. Buy enough minerals to make 75 tractor beams and sell these for 75 million ISK
8. Buy enough minerals to make 120 tractor beams and sell these for 120 million ISK
9. Buy enough minerals to make 200 tractor beams and sell these for 200 million ISK
10. Buy enough minerals to make 300 tractor beams and sell these for 300 million ISK
11. Buy enough minerals to make 300 tractor beams and sell these for 300 million ISK
12. Save 150 million ISK
13. Buy enough minerals to make 200 tractor beams and sell these for 200 million ISK
14. Buy enough minerals to make 300 tractor beams and sell these for 300 million ISK
15. Save 150 million ISK.
16. Buy a second Small Tractor Beam BP.
17. Buy enough minerals to make 300 tractor beams and sell these for 300 million ISK
18. Buy enough minerals to make 300 tractor beams and sell these for 300 million ISK
19. Buy enough minerals to make 600 tractor beams and sell these for 600 million ISK
20. Buy an Obelisk Freighter
21. Start again.

Posted by robot17A5 at 03:31 PM | Permalink