Project Foo Closing

I closed the doors on my Project Foo initiative last week, not due to any problems in the wormhole or with Foo Holdings but because I want to ramp up my importing business in the warzone and I could use a couple alts for cyno chains and freighter runs.

So the question is, was it worth the time and effort? Well, for about 15 minutes a night from December 15th to April 20th I made this much ISK:

2012.12.15 12:08:38	12,000,000.00
2012.12.18 23:11:57	40,000,000.00
2012.12.23 04:00:02	55,000,000.00
2012.12.27 03:41:22	55,000,000.00
2013.01.02 03:26:59	94,000,000.00
2013.01.09 00:32:04	97,000,000.00
2013.01.12 03:50:01	108,000,000.00
2013.01.18 03:13:35	114,000,000.00
2013.01.27 03:35:05	141,000,000.00
2013.02.07 03:50:38	172,000,000.00
2013.02.11 03:34:57	68,000,000.00
2013.02.14 03:35:02	74,000,000.00
2013.02.16 12:52:52	72,000,000.00
2013.02.24 12:54:55	134,000,000.00
2013.03.11 10:26:00	379,000,000.00
2013.03.27 02:15:15	158,000,000.00
2013.04.13 13:03:51	247,000,000.00
2013.04.20 14:33:11	124,540,000.00
TOTAL	2,144,540,000.00

I lost zero ships, in fact only saw a neutral Cheetah once, and had no effort in terms of transporting them to market or anything. I was not the easiest 2 billion I've made in Eve, but it ranks up there.

Thanks Foo! And good luck.

Project Foo Update

So its been half a month since I started working in Wormhole Foo on my new Planetary Interaction project so I figure its time for an update.

I started with five planets and about a week and a half ago added a sixth. I have four extraction/basic processing planets, two producing the Toxic and Precious metals for Enriched Uranium and two producing the Water and Electrolytes to create Coolant. A fifth planet is the advanced manufacturing hub that takes the inputs and creates the uranium and coolant. My late-added sixth planet is simply producing Coolant from start to finish on its own.

Setting up these planets including a couple extractor re-positions (and a one time purchase of Electrolytes because I forgot to hit submit one day) cost me approximately 64 million ISK. I've made approximately 256 million ISK since Dec 13th as of last night for a profit of around 191 million ISK.

Not bad for about 15 minutes of work every night (not including setup and extractor movements) and will definitely ensure my PvP habit remains funded.

Now its not all bells and roses. Depletion is starting to play a major factor into two of my extraction planets and may require a reconfigure of who produces what over some lunch hour to maintain acceptable production rates.

But in terms of effort and risk to ISK generation, this ranks easier than anything else I've bothered with in game. A lot of that is due to the setup I have with Foo Holdings in that I don't need to worry about POS fueling and material transport out of the wormhole. He buys my materials at 90% Jita prices and I can just focus on PI production and not worry about the extraneous stuff while he gets a 10% cut to help offset business costs. Win-win if there ever was one.

I plan to expand a little bit with a second alt once training is complete, running a couple more planets on a long schedule to supplement production input resources.

Project Hades Out, Project Foo In

A couple weeks ago I talked about how I was thinking of restarting Project Hades, my wormhole planetary production venture. I logged in my little holding alt I have in that system and realized I had completely forgotten about Player-Owned Custom Offices. Sure enough, every planet was covered and had a 100% tax installed.

Well shit.

Fortunately, I was directed in the comments to that post to Foo's Eve Musings, a small industrial corp that might be willing to have my alt on board to do PI for them in a wormhole. I talked with the CEO and we worked out the details: he would ignore Kirith's murderous tendencies and allow my alt into the corp, and I would be able to do PI and sell it to him at a discount price under trade hub prices.

This works for me because it means I get access to good quality planets but don't have to stress over the getting-products-to-market or product storage which was the real killer for the original Project Hades.

So Project Hades is out, Project Foo is born.

First step is to get the command centers I will need and find out where the wormhole exit is next time I am logged in.