Introduction

Most items in the EVE universe are player built, so manufacturing is a big part of the game. Manufacturing covers a lot of ground, from lab research, to building your goods, to selling them. Let's start off with the basics: the skills any production character really needs to have to be effective.

Skills

In order of priority.

• Production Efficiency - Train to level 5 - Reduces production costs by 4%.
• Mass Production - Increases number of factories you may operate by 1 per level.
• Industry - Reduces manufacturing time by 5% per level. Allows you to operate 1 factory (doesn't increase with additional ranks).

Waste

With any manufacturing reducing waste will increase profit. There are a couple of elements that can help with this.

• Your Production Efficiency skill (Reduces incompetence waste). Called PE.
• The Material Research Level of the BPO (Reduces design waste). Called ME.

Wastage is always added to the base mineral amount of what you are producing, and no skill level or ME level can reduce mineral cost below the base amount. Search the Item Database to find the base level.

The base incompetence waste is 25%. Therefore you can calculate a formula for incompentence waste as:

• 1.25 - 0.05 * PE lvl.

The above will not matter if you research Production Efficiency to level 5. Unfortunately the BPO has design waste which can be eliminated by researching the Material Level of the BPO. The design waste is listed on the BPO as Wastage Factor. The following formula calculates the material level to eliminate the design waste:

• 1 + Base Wasteage / (1 + ME lvl)

For example assuming a Production Efficiency of level 5:

• ME0 - 10%
• ME1 - 5%
• ME2 - 3.3%
• ME3 - 2.5%
• ME10 - 0.9%
• ME50 - 0.2%

Finding the Perfect ME level may help is deciding where to stop researching a BPO:

• Quantity * Base Wasteage Factor / 0.5 (Rounded down)

If we want to start producing a Kestrel this has a base mineral level of:

• Tritanium - 14,852
• Mexallon - 2579
• Isogen - 861
• Noxcium - 1
• Zydrine - 1

ME10

• Tritanium 1.25 – 0.05 * 5 * (1 + 0.1 / (1 + 10)) * 14,852 = 14,987
• Mexallon 1.25 – 0.05 * 5 * (1 + 0.1 / (1 + 10)) * 2,579= 2,602
• Isogen 1.25 – 0.05 * 5 * (1 + 0.1 / (1 + 10)) * 861 = 868
• Noxcium 1.25 – 0.05 * 5 * (1 + 0.1 / (1 + 10)) * 1 = 1
• Zydrine 1.25 – 0.05 * 5 * (1 + 0.1 / (1 + 10)) * 1 = 1
• Build cost 157,891 ISK

External Links

• EVE Online Facebook Application
• EVE Manufacturing Guide

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