Been trying to look into a simple way for us to get enough cashflow to pay for most expenses in fountain without requiring huge amounts of time and or effort.
The only way is moons.
First a cost of living in fountain has to be established.
I've estimated this at about 800m/month in fuels and fees (lower when mangs donates time to mine but none-the-less), I would ofc prefer if we were substantially above it but first things first.
Second I've used a inventory of the moons I know of and the minerals together with the simple reactions they make, there should be enough room for one reactor and silos with some effort on the z30 pos we will however need more than that to be able to get the profit up high enough.
As I've noted in the material acquisition thread there are only a few reaction involving what we have that seems to be profitable.
1. Alchemy (using chrom together with either van or cad)
2. Simple reactions, there are only two that has any kind of reasonable profitability currently. Ceasarium Cadmide and Platinum Technite, there are a few more but most are way out of our league currently.
The profitability of the alchemy reactions are similar but making hyperflourite is slightly worse than prometium. So best option is to buy cadmium to make that.
The profit should be with perfect refine:
10*80000+95*6900-100*6900=765500isk/h = 551m isk/month
Note that most of the cadmium is returned in the reaction, this would pay for that majority of the expenses and is simple to set up.
If the alchemy reaction is the base earner for us (it is reasonably simple to switch to another alchemy if prices change for some reason) then we need one more to pay for the rest.
Given that we want to have as few poses as humanly possible, less work, the best option is to use something we already have access to this would be caesium.
The problem is that we would need another pos, minium medium, to run the second reaction-
Caesium has one reasonably profitable reaction, Caesarium Cadmide, the other (solerium) is completely worthless as we can sell the ingredients for more than the reaction.
Profit from reacting caes-cad is:
200*4900-100*6900=290000 isk/h = 208m isk/month
We would in either case as noted need one more pos to make this possible.
The end result would be a income (after cad purchases) of about 750m isk/month, added expenditure (pos costs) would be about 90m isk/month so a total net profit of 660m isk/month from this.
Sadly to be able to run both a reactor and harvester (that doesn't feed said reactor) you would need a large tower which adds much more investment and running costs.
The total investment costs should be around 305m (1 med tower, 2 reactors, 6 silos and the reactions).
When this is setup the second stage should be to get the profit up a little more ofc, simply since the profit from these two reactions are a bit short of the goal.
The easiest would be to make more caes-cad since there are plenty of caes moons free in fountain. We would ofc have to clear this with alliance lead but well can't understand what problems they might have with it.
Focusing on these two reactions has the added advantage of simplicity, no need to import other minerals than Cadmium. The profit for each caes-cad reaction after the med pos would be about 110m isk/month.
The other option would be to use platinum-technite which has about the same profit margin but of course needs poses at plat moons and import of technetium.
I think that especially with the increasing costs of membership in EZ having this set up as soon as we can would be highly beneficial to us. It would remove a large part of the wallet problems we are having and let us get on with profit from manufacturing to improve the corp and members over time.
I'm not sure why I wrote this but since it would require a bit more effort from everyone in fountain (keeping tabs on poses with reactions and fuels) it would be nice to have a consensus on it. In either case I think we need to seriously consider it.
