Blueprints Originals
All items produced by players in Eve, require a blueprint. These blueprints are essentially manufacturing instructions and material requirements.
There are two types of blueprints, originals and copies, this section will focus on Tech I blueprints only.
Blueprint Originals (BPO) are seeded by various npc traders throughout New Eden, the cost of which differs greatly. A simple ammo BPO can cost no more than 100,000 isk where as the BPO for a titan can cost 72,500,000,000isk
All BP's contain a list of material and skill requirements, that without the will not allow for the manufacture of the desired object. In some cases, it is necessary for standalone skills to be known before manufacturer can commence. As such, it is essential that before purchursing a BP, the skill requiremnt me examined along with the cost for the required skill. This can add considerably to the prerequiste cost.
Blueprints have a number of attributes that affect the efficiency of the BPO. All newly purchursed BPO's have a degree of wastage associated with them. Two such attributes are:
- Material Efficiency Research (ME Research)
New BPO's will allways use 10% more material then ideal, this figure is independent of character skill and is solely attributed to the BPO. The level of material waste is controled by the ME level, researching this at a laboratory slot will reduce the wasted material during manufacutre.
- Productivity Efficiency Research (PE Research)
As with the ME, the amount of time needed to produce the item, will take x% longer then ideal. As before this is independent of character skill and is solely attributed to the BPO. The level of production time waste is controled by the PE level, researching this at a laboratory slot will reduce the wasted time during manufacutre.
- NOTE Using a BP will be covered in a different section, this is for explaining what a bpo is what can be done to it, anything that affects bpc should be bundled with that, so i.e. copy time research NOTE
- NOTE add links to production resources, but discuss on forum first, to find the best practise option, as there are certainly alot of options out there
