Industry

If you’re more the stay-at-home type, then perhaps manufacturing and industry is more your speed. Strike deals with local miners for materials, decide what blueprints are most in demand by the alliance, and get those production furnaces burning. Shipping can be expensive, so local manufacture, especially of ship hulls, can be extremely profitable without needing to overcharge your corpmates. And every time someone loses a ship they’re going to need to replace not just that hull, but guns, ammo and modules as well.

After a while, you might even decide to venture into T2 manufacture, a complex web of skills and invention percentage balancing that can (if the random number gods are on your side) bring in huge profits.

There is a basic summary of manufacturing in EVE on the Brave Dojo's wiki here: Manufacturing

Unfortunately industry and manufacturing in general is such an incredibly deep subject that it's impossible to cover every aspect of it in a single article. Fundamentally, it boils down to three things:

1. Research: what do people need, and where do they need it?
2. Skills: what skills do I need to manufacture something?
3. Profit: if I make this thing, can I sell it for more than it cost me to produce?

While virtually everything in-game can be manufactured by players, in general it is a good idea to pick one or two specific areas in which to specialise - there are just too many skills to train otherwise, plus you only have a limited number of potential industry job slots - and only expand once you are confident you have found your niche to exploit.

In Brave Empire's home system of Elgoi, the Brave Empire Research Facility offers a convenient location in which to perform blueprint research and invention.

You can of course simply manufacture items to sell on the general market, either locally or by shipping them to the market hub systems such as Amarr or Jita. But as a member of Brave Empire, a more profitable market is available to you by shipping your goods to Brave's nullsec home, where many items sell for a premium due to lower availability.

Shipping to null can be carried out using Brave's jump freighter service, Brave Little Toaster, or you can do it yourself (or go into partnership with a corpmate willing to fly into 0.0 space carrying your produce).

Some useful tools and articles relating to industry:

• Steve Ronuken's Fuzzwork Enterprises is a fantastic site full of useful tools and calculators
• EVE University: Industry
• EVE University: Manufacturing