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| | '''Industry''' is a catch-all term for all the industrial activities within EVE: mining, gas huffing, manufacturing, researching, invention, reprocessing, and reverse engineering. |
| '''Industry''' is a catch-all term for all the industrial activities within EVE: mining, manufacturing, researching, invention, reprocessing, and - relevant only to T3 ship construction - reverse engineering. | |
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| Industry is vitally important to the EVE economy and activity, as without industrial-minded players building the ships and modules and ammunition required for PvE and PvP combat, combat-minded players could not function. Virtually none of these items are seeded on the market; almost everything in EVE is player-built (you can identify NPC sell orders on the market by their >300 day duration). | | Industry is vitally important to the EVE economy and activity, as without industrial-minded players building the ships and modules and ammunition required for PvE and PvP combat, combat-minded players could not function. Virtually none of these items are seeded on the market; almost everything in EVE is player-built (you can identify NPC sell orders on the market by their >300 day duration). |
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| This page shows you a general introduction to each aspect of industry, with an overview of the Industry window: what it shows you, how to understand it and how to start a simple job. For further details on mining, manufacturing, research, invention, teams and other aspects of industry, see the links in the box to the right. | | This page shows you a general introduction to each aspect of industry, with an overview of the Industry window: what it shows you, how to understand it and how to start a simple job. For further details on mining, manufacturing, research, invention, teams and other aspects of industry, see the links in the box to the right. |
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| {{note box|Short link to this page: [http://eveuni.org/industry http://eveuni.org/industry]}}
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| == Production == | | == Production == |
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| [[File:Industry_Icon.png|left]]
| | Production refers to everything you can do with a [[blueprint]] in the Industry window: manufacturing of items, time efficiency and material efficiency research of blueprints, blueprint copying, invention, and reverse engineering. Production is a vital part of the EVE Online economy, and can be carried out in any security space, in any station with the appropriate facilities or in [[Upwell Structure|an upwell structure]] with the necessary service modules. |
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| Production refers to everything you can do with a [[blueprint]] in the Industry window: manufacturing of items, time efficiency and material efficiency research of blueprints, blueprint copying, invention, and reverse engineering. Production is a vital part of the EVE Online economy, and can be carried out in any security space, in any station with the appropriate facilities. You can also carry it out at a [[POS]]. | |
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| === Industry window ===
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| To start any industry job, click the Industry icon on the Neocom. The industry window will open, listing your owned blueprints in the lower part of the window. Alternatively you can right-click any blueprint (even one you don't own) and select ''View in Industry''.
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| To start a job in this window, make sure your blueprint and all required materials are in the station hangar, select the blueprint, select the correct activity, and press Start. That's all there is to it. If you want to perform multiple runs at once, change the number in the Job Runs box. You must have enough materials for all the runs.
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| [[File:Manufacturing job.png|800px]]
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| If you do not have enough materials, the icon on whichever material(s) you are short of will be highlighted orange and you will not be able to start the job until you reduce the number of runs or add more materials to the hangar.
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| The skillbook icon below the centre of the window indicates whether you have the skills required to carry out the job. If you don't have the right skills, it will be highlighted in red and you will not be able to start the job. Mouseover the skillbook icon to find out what skill(s) you need.
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| Once a job has finished, you need to re-open the Industry window, open the Jobs tab and press ''Deliver'' on the finished job, to have the result(s) and the blueprint (assuming it hasn't used up all its runs) delivered back into your hangar.
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| <big>'''In the Industry window, hovering your mouse over almost ''any'' part of the window will pop up a tool-tip with more contextual information.'''</big>
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| In addition, there are some other clever little things...
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| * the upward triangle in the top right will collapse the upper part of the window (the next/previous arrows behave like those in Show Info windows)
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| * the cog in the top left will change material displays to number missing, rather than total available
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| * you can spin the mouse wheel on the JOB RUNS box to alter number of runs
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| * you can click on the ME and TE displays to preview what the effects of [[research]] would be
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| * you can change the output and input locations - for instance, using input materials from a materials container, and sending the output to a finished products container
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| * the icon next to the TOTAL JOB COST enables you to change which wallet (personal/corp) the fee is drawn from
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| The tabs at the bottom show you a lot of useful information in four different tabs.
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| ==== Blueprints Tab ====
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| {{main|Blueprint}}
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| [[File:Industry window.png|800px]]
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| In the blueprints tab you can see your currently owned blueprints, either originals (BPO) or copies (BPC), in your current location. If you are not docked, then it will show you blueprints in all locations. Use the drop-down boxes to view corp blueprints, or blueprints in other locations. Click the column headers to sort by that column. Faded-out blueprints are ones currently being used in a job. The cog in the top left of this section will let you show/hide blueprints that are currently in use.
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| Time Efficiency (TE) and Material Efficiency (ME) columns show you how researched your blueprint is (researched blueprints take fewer materials and less time to build).
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| Runs Remaining tells you how many times you can use the blueprint in manufacturing (or invention). Original blueprints have an infinite number of runs, whilst copies have a specified number. Once you use up all the runs on a BPC it disappears.
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| The Activities column tells you what you can do with that blueprint.
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| You can filter the list using the drop-down boxes and the text box to the right.
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| ==== Facilities Tab ====
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| [[File:Facilities tab.png|800px]]
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| The Facilities tab gives you an overview of the industrial facilities available to you. If you have one or more corporation owned POSes (as we do in E-UNI) you can also view any POS-based facilities, by setting 'Corp-owned facilities' in the drop-down box. You can see which activities you can perform at each facility by the highlighted icons.
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| Each of the activity icons has a red bar along the bottom of the it. This shows the [[#System Cost Index|System Cost Index]], which can be expanded by mouseover. The system cost index is a rough indication to how much your job will cost, relatively, to install. The more of the icon is filled with the red bar, the more of that activity is being carried out in that facility, and thus the more expensive the production lines will cost.
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| You can reduce your industrial costs by carrying out your jobs in systems where few other people are carrying out that same activity.
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| ==== Jobs Tab ====
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| [[File:Jobs tab.png|800px]]
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| You can view all of your currently-running jobs in this tab, plus their duration, end time, location, activity and similar useful things. Research jobs have blue duration bars, manufacturing jobs have yellow bars. You can also see jobs installed by people in your corporation, so long as they are using corporation-owned facilities. You will need to use this tab to deliver completed jobs back to your hangar.
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| ==== Teams Tab ====
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| The [[teams]] tab gives you an overview of any teams that you can employ to assist your jobs. You can also bid on teams (in the Team Chartering section) to move them to your system so that you can use them to carry out your jobs.-->
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| {{important note box|Teams have been discontinued by CCP, and therefore this tab is currently unused. If/when Teams are revisited for development, this section will be updated.}}
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| === System Cost Index ===
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| When you install any industrial job - manufacturing or science - you need to pay an installation cost. This installation cost is calculated per system, and is dynamic, being based on how many other people have been using that system for manufacturing over the last 28 days (measured in job-hours, not # of jobs or # of people).
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| [[File:System cost index.png|right]]The system cost index is calculated by the number of system-job-hours, divided by total-universe-job-hours, and then square rooted for better numbers. This value (measured as a percentage, generally in the 0.01% to 5% range) is then multipled by the job base value, which is:
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| * Manufacturing: actual estimated value of the input materials
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| * Research / Copying: 2% of the estimated value of the input materials required for manufacturing from the BPO
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| * Invention: 2% of the estimated value of the input materials required for manufacturing from the BPC(s) you are hoping to get out of the job.
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| NPC stations have a 10% tax on top of this final value.
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| {{example|1=For example, if we build the [[Rifter]] from the earlier screenshot, it has an estimated input value of 470,000 ISK. If my hi-sec manufacturing system had 0.085% of the universe manufacturing activity, then the installation cost would be 470,000 x 0.085% x 1.10 (tax) = 439 ISK installation cost.}}
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| {{example|1=If instead we were [[Invention|inventing]] from a [[Rifter]] BPC, we would be hoping for either a Jaguar or Wolf BPC. Looking at the required materials for those T2 BPCs, gives an estimated input of roughly 20m ISK for manufacturing a Wolf or Jaguar. If my hi-sec inventing system had 0.13% of the universe manufacturing activity, then the installation cost would be 20,000,000 x 2% x 0.13% x 1.10 (tax) = 572 ISK installation cost.}}
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| You can find out the system cost index for nearby systems by using the Facilities tab of the Industry window. Each activity at a certain facility will have a red bar at the bottom of the icon, indicating relatively how expensive it is to install a job there. Mouseover will show you what can be built there, and a more detailed indication of the system cost index (see image to right).
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| Choosing a system with a low system cost index is important, but it must be weighed against the possible impact of having to move your materials and/or products to market. Picking a very low cost system at some distance from the market hubs may seem attractive at first glance, but your transport costs for that further distance will be increased instead.
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| == Industrial Activities ==
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| === Manufacturing ===
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| [[File:Icon Manufacturing.png|left]]Manufacturing is, in basic terms, the production of items from materials, using a blueprint. Blueprints can be copies or originals. You must have the blueprint and the materials present in a hangar containing manufacturing facilities (or, in an assembly array at a [[POS]]).
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| The vast majority of items you see for sale on the market are manufactured by players. NPC orders are identifiable by their >300 day duration, and are limited to skillbooks, original blueprints, PI command centres, some structures and certain components. EVE could not function without player manufacturing.
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| Manufacturing can be an extremely lucrative profession, especially for high-demand and expensive modules and ships.
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| === Research ===
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| {{main|Research}}
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| [[File:Icon ResearchMaterial.png|left|clear]]Material Efficiency (ME) research reduces the amount of materials you need to build the item. The maximum level is 10% (in 10 steps of 1% each).
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| [[File:Icon ResearchTime.png|left|clear]]Time Efficiency (TE) research reduces the amount of time taken to build the item. The maximum level is 20% (in 10 steps of 2% each).
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| Both of these research activities are important to running a profitable manufacturing operation; clearly the less time and the fewer materials your builds require, the more profit you can make. Note that each step of ME or TE takes exponentially longer to finish than the previous run. With some large ships, researching to the maximum level may take too long and be too expensive to be worthwhile (example: an Archon carrier takes 311 days to research to maximum ME in standard POS research laboratory).
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| [[File:Research time.png]]
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| The exponential nature of this graph is the same for either time or material research, for any blueprint. The specific numbers are for a carrier, researched with maximum skills at a standard POS research laboratory (no implants).
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| You can only perform research on an original blueprint, not on a copy. In most cases you do not need any materials to perform research; simply select the blueprint, input the number of runs (1 to 10) and press Start. Most manufacturing operations start by either researching BPOs, or buying pre-researched BPCs (which is an entire market in itself).
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| === Copying ===
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| {{main|Research#Copying}}
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| [[File:Icon Copying.png|left]]Copying a blueprint original produces a number of a blueprint copies with a specific number of runs. For example, in the image below we have chosen a [[Blackbird]] BPO, requested 5 runs, and each resulting copy would have 10 runs. The final output would produce 5 BPCs with 10 runs each, from which you could build 50 total Blackbirds.
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| [[File:Copying.png]]
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| You cannot research BPCs, so make sure your BPO is researched to the level you require before you copy it.
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| There are many uses for blueprint copies, including:
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| * producing things in a POS, whilst your expensive researched BPO resides safely in a station
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| * producing things in various different places from a single researched BPO
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| * producing things more quickly than otherwise - a single BPO can only produce one item at a time; make 4 copies of it and you can now build 5 items at once
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| * [[Invention|inventing]] T2 items - this can only be done from a T1 BPC
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| * selling to other people (or giving to corp members) for their own manufacturing - buying pre-researched BPCs to run a manufacturing business can still be profitable
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| You can check the [[Guide for Copying from Industry Hangars]] to understand how to operate with the campuses BPO libraries.
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| [[File:Icon Invention.png|left]]Invention is the producing of T2 BPCs using T1 BPCs (for example, you can invent a Gyrostabilzer II BPC using a Gyrostabilizer I BPC). The base materials required are a T1-variant BPC of the T2 item you wish to produce, and two different types of Datacore. Inputting all these into the Industry window results in a chance-based job, where you have a possibility of receiving a T2 BPC (and a possibility of failure). Improving your science skills will improving your invention chance. | | |- |
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| The majority of T2 items on the market are produced through Invention. A few years ago CONCORD auctioned a number of T2 BPOs, but these are no longer available. The few T2 BPOs still owned by capsuleers sometimes exchange hands for vast amounts of ISK.
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| [[File:Icon ReverseEngineering.png|left]]This is part of the extremely complex process to make Strategic Cruisers. It is an activity that can only be carried out at an Experimental Laboratory anchored at a POS.
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