Manufacture for profit?

[Lee Townage]

Anyone have any ideas what is best to manufacture for profit? Like whatever item has the shortest manufacture time with the greatest profit ratio.

[redcrossreborn]

I've had good luck with advanced grenade types as well as advanced ammo clips. (Advanced meaning plasma and beyond).

[Lee Townage]

I just found that particle pistol ammo, with 100 engineers assigned says it takes.. well I forget... but reguardless for some reason it only takes 0.5 game seconds to make one, so I just made a thousand in a matter of minutes real time. Sold them all for some serious walkin around money!

[Rhodry]

whats the 2nd number ($xxxx) under cost to build mean? any earlier stuff that good for profit making lol?

[DKATyler]

Fairly sure the second number is supposed to be the total cost. :S
After some experimentation, the second # is $64 * hours to produce + cost with some rounding to nearest $250 or so.

However, that doesn't tell the whole story:
Using sensor bomb to test:
Cost: 1,000 (7,400) time to make: 80hrs.
Making 20 using 10 engineers
20K manufacturing costs, 72K engineer costs = 92K total = 4.6K/bomb.
Making 10 using 10 engineers
10K manufacturing costs, 40K engineer costs = 50K total = 5K/bomb
Making 1 using 10 engineers
1K manufacturing costs, 8K engineer costs = 9K total = 9K/bomb (???)
Making 1 using 1 engineer
1K manufacturing costs, 4K engineer costs = 5K total = 5K/bomb
Making 0 (engineers idle)
0 manufacturing costs, 0 engineer costs = 0.

Engineering/Research costs are charged by the day with... more rounding. So, no specific formula really works.