Science & Industry

Go Market.
Take Blue Prints
Select whatever you are looking for (like a specic ammo)
Click View Details and you'll see all the offers

Search for it at http://eve-central.com/

Well as stated you can buy them directly from the market at 0ME / 0PE.

If you're looking for a NPC retailer (who could be cheaper or more expenive) you can go to the Corp information for each corp (Sucks i Know) and go to "Market Activity" It will show what they seed and how much for in all of their stations.

For example ORE seed all the Mining Barge BPO's but only have stations in Null Sec, yet you can buy it cheaper in certain regions than if you went to an ORE station and got it from an NPC and then try and get back to High Sec.

All T2 ones do need to be Invented from a T1 BPC (There are TECH 2 BPO's out there but they are very rare and highly unlikely to be for sale, if they happen to be they'll be way up in the billions)

Also the link Rattus provided allows you to search for the BPO and tells you what NPC corp sells them




When you check the attributes it will state "BLUEPRINT ORIGINAL" or "BLUEPRINT COPY". Note that Copies cannot be sold on the market, only via contracts / direct trades etc.

Also, thanks for letting me know that you can only sell originals on the market, here I was thinking you can't tell the difference, but they are only BPOs!

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Researching_blueprints

Copies can be bought from contracts, they cost pennies compared to some bpos, and most are pre-researched so you don't need the weeks and months required for larger ships to train up time and material efficiency.

Another quick way is: the BPOs are deep blue, the BPCs are washed, brighter light blue. Plus if you right click and Show Info the BPCs say "Blue Print Copy" and have "Runs left".

PE or PL stands for the Production Level of the Blueprint, and as you increase PL, you reduce the amount of waste time, so that the item can be produced faster. PL isn't too important. I try to consistently call it PL to distinguish it from the Production Efficiency skill, which can also abbreviated PE.

(Note that you want to train PE skill to 5 before you produce anything significant.)

ME or ML stands for the Materials Level of the Blueprint, and as you increase the ML, you reduce the amount of waste materials, i.e. minerals. As ML increases, you move asymptotically towards an ideal or perfected production process where there is 0.00% wasted minerals so that your profit margin is maximalized.

In adition to mineral waste from ML, you also get additional minerals wasted if your PE skill is lower than 5, and you absolutely do not want that.

So, when you buy an PL0 ML0 BPO, you want to research on it to improve its ML at least a little, but don't fret too much about PL.

This won't help you find blueprints.

It may help you work out if a blueprint is profitable for you to work with:
http://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/blueprints/

You can also see that it's an NPC seller, because the time Remaining column says more than 90 days. PCs, Player Characters, cannot put up Sell Orders (nor Buy Orders) with a time of more than 90 days (although the timer resets if you change the order's price), while NPCs, Non-Player Characters, routinely puts up Sell Orders with 364 day limits (maybe Buy Orders too - I don't know personally) whenever CCP decides to "seed" items or when such items are automatically "re-seeded".

Also note that you can buy everything in Jita. But usually at a markup. Well, actually, always at a markup, but sometimes the markup is so tiny that you shouldn't worry about it.

Just bought a retriever BPC with 150 ME, 10 runs, 7.999m ISK. Thought I was getting some sort of deal. When I started the manu process and looked at the required materials, it looked like this :

Raw Materials

Item / Waste

Isogen............105,536..............32.3%
Megacyte................104..............25.0%
Mexallon...........62,200..............31.5%
Nocxium.............1,915..............17.8%
Pyerite............105,315..............48.4%
Tritanium.......683,224..............24.9%
Zydrine...................489..............17.3%

Extra Material

Isogen...............26,869
Megacyte................177
Mexallon...........39,907
Nocxium.............1,827
Pyerite............455,721
Tritanium....1,187,716
Zydrine...................446

This makes the mineral cost of the ship just over $30m ISK - hardly enough to justify manufacturing it, even with decent skills.

What was my mistake here? I didn't look at the materials requirements of the BPC in the contract, just the ME level. But, is it the case that ME doesn't matter as much as the skill of the person who made the BPC? In other words, did the seller more or less deliberately rip me off by offering a high ME BPC for this item, when their research skill was basically crap?

As I suggested, I probably made a noob mistake here, and would appreciate any guidance or help.