Reprocessing

Industry is arguably, the most complex career path available to a new pilot in New Eden, and to be successful requires detailed research before making skill and infrastructure decisions. Finding the detailed and informed information is not a simple task, and many players have wasted hours of game play and isk to find that there decisions where based on incorrect or uninformed information. As a result, a number of players with a wealth of industry knowledge have created this wiki section within the university. It has been designed to be user friendly, so as to not overwhelm a player interested in making the move into industry. Below is a list of industry topics that have been broken down into easy to digest topics. If a topic is confusing then please inform us on the eve university forum either here <Mining> or <Research and Production>

Refining

Refining is a miner’s second best friend, the first being powerfully mining lasers. Refining allows a miner to refine there raw ore into usable minerals that can be sold or used for personal production. However as a new player, it is unlikely that your skill set will allow for the efficient use of a refinery, and large portions of the refined minerals will be lost as ‘waste’

A pilots ability to use a refinery is affected by three attributes, the equipment efficiency, refining skills and the equipment usage tax.

Equipment

In New Eden there are two types or refining equipment, npc owned and Private Corporation owned. For the purposes of this guide we will only examine NPC refineries that can be found in almost all systems of empire space. If an NPC station is capable of refining then its equipment will have an ‘efficiency’ of either 30% or 50%. Obviously using a station with 50% equipment is better so pilots should take care when choosing a refining station and check this value before use. Now confusingly, you would think that you would receive 50% of the minerals using this equipment, however at this level you actually receive 87.5% of the minerals refined, with 12.5% of the minerals lost as ‘waste’

Pilot Skills

There are two generic skills that affect a player’s ability to refine. ‘Refining’ and ‘Refinery Efficiency’ which are available from NPC stations. ‘Refining’ is the first skill you will need to improve efficiency, and will cost approximately 45,000isk. Each level will increase the equipment efficiency by 2% for a maximum of 10% increase. Using commonly found 50% empire equipment will now give you an output of 91.25% with 8.75% of the minerals being lost. Refinery efficiency has the largest impact on refining efficiency; as such it has a longer training time taking 3 times as long to train as Refining, as well as requiring Refining Level 5 as a prerequisite skill. This skill costs 252,000isk. reaching level 3 with this skill gives an output of 96.2% Due to the mechanics of the game, when using an NPC station this is fixed to 95%

Equipment tax

So far it is has been possible to refine a batch of ore and receive 95% of the minerals, skills can no longer be used to improve this value. This is because there is a cost or ‘tax’ for using the equipment. At its default value, 5% of the minerals will be taken by the NPC Corporation that owns the station. It is of course possible to reduce this value to zero so that a perfect refine will result in 100% of the minerals given to the player. Within the university there are many players who have already attained this ‘perfect’ refine and offer a free service to newer players. In order to reduce the tax level the stations corporation standing needs to be improved, there are already guides available to do this, however to reach zero tax requires a standing of 6.7. Obviously having a faction standing of 6.7 will give perfect refine at all corporation stations that belong to that faction, however this is considered to be quite difficult to obtain.