I'm looking at making a small side income copying BPCs, but I don't have the capacity to manufacture the finished T2 good, so would it be better to sell the BPC or invent with it, and sell the T2 BPC?
I mainly do small items like ammunition and laser crystals.
Best Answer
The answer to this depends on several factors including market fluctuations so you can get different answers for different items and different answers for the same item over a period of time if the market changes or as you train relevant skills. There's no way around doing the maths for each item. Remember that when it comes to inventing, you'll also need to know what your chance of a successful invention job is. Inventions are hit and miss and you can go through good spells and bad spells but if you're doing large numbers, it should eventually even out to your predicted invention chance. To work this out, you can use either the formula or the online calculator here... http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/invention_chance.php
If you're going to try to make money from inventions, train all of the relevant skills up to 4 to begin with then consider taking them to 5 to increase your profit margins.