So after Mynxee got me thinking about my numbers on the invention run I had a bit of emo rage last night.  So I lost 175m in this attempt, and that number will only be so nice once once the remaining ships sell at current market value.  Chances are given the market in EVE that I will lose more on this venture.  After reaching out to my invention consultant Mode, he quickly pointed out my many flaws in the process.

I now have a solid plan that I am code naming Operation Falcon.  There are some iffy things with this plan that I still need to sort out.  The most important part is that I am going to need a POS to do this correctly.  Funding a POS will mean that someone is losing some stuff to generate the ISK.  While it isn’t a secret that Larz and Nam are very well off ISK wise, it is not know that Larz and Nam do not keep the ISK laying around, it gets invested or things get bought with it.

So how do I go about getting a POS together?  Option 1 which has been very slow going was for Nam to grind up Amar standings and just anchor a tower on our own, Larz is nuetral to Amar faction so it wasn’t going to be that hard.  The problem with this approach is that Nam is only about 3.51 with Amar right now and I don’t think I have many more L4′s in me.  Option 2 was to bring someone into the corp that had the required standings and wait the 7 days.  This wasn’t so bad of an idea, but I don’t want to pay for this service and my buddies are all busy in 0.0 ATM.  Mode offered his new copy alt corp as an option, but that would involve no PVP for Nam (more on that later) and we would need to close Larz Corp.  The copy corp would have a tower to do my required copy jobs, and the alliance towers would handle all my ME/PE work.

So what is this great advice/plan Mode developed for me?

First he has bought and is researching T2 BPO component prints for me, these will be used to build and not buy required parts for my Falcons.

Next is to purchase a total of 9 Blackbird BPO and research the crap out of one of them.  The other 8 will serve to make BPC’s for invention and the 9th one when not in a copy slot will build the Blackbirds required for the Falcons.

Finally it is alt time.  Larz will serve as the Falcon builder (install the T2 BPC of the Falcon for manufacture), and he will also do the invention job on the BB BPC’s.  This leaves me short on having someone to run the copies on the Blackbird BPO’s and someone to build parts.  Thankfully the BB BPO doesn’t require skills to copy so I am taking the alt of Larz (Beth Smith) and she will handle the BB copy jobs.  To train this alt from nothing currently to BB copy alt is 12 days of training without implants.  Now I need to figure out what to do about part building, and that is where Nam comes in.  Nam has many of the starter indy skills inplace already and it wouldn’t take terribly long to get him up to part builder.  He also has a null alt (dir in a diff corp atm) that might be used to supply parts as well.  The only downside to this is that it would stop Nam’s combat training for a while to get his skills in the right location to build parts.  This will also sting because he won’t be able to leave the general building area as he will need to continue running jobs.

Most importantly is a change in lifestyle for Nam if this goes down, no more low sec PVP or anything to draw attention to the indy alliance.  Not sure how to choke that one down yet.  Nam will be needed by Larz to build parts, or I have to make another alt on Larz and train all the building skills up.  While that is an idea it moves the start date of the op to later as all these alts will have to share training with Larz who also still needs to train skills.  It will appear that I will need to close Larz Corp and move Larz and Beth to the new corp, that also leaves the question of what to do with Nam?  He could move into HellHounds or he could stay in Larz Corp as the only person.

What to do, what to do?