Science & Industry

I loved the Java Material Level Calculator by zatch when i was actively playing a couple years ago.
The reason was that it was simple & minimalistic, had a clean interface and most importantly showed me both the perfect ME as well as the next improvement and despite it's name it also did PE calculations and it runs natively on any OS.

(check out the screenshot: http://i1-mac.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Java-Material-Level-Calculator_1.jpg )

So i wonder if there's a tool or spreadsheet that can show me the next ME level for an improvement and prefferably has many or all the other traits that made JMLC so great!

i am aware of these sites:
https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/blueprints/index.php?
http://zofu.no-ip.de/bpo (this one is the closest i guess)
http://eve-tools.com/blueprint/

still i hope there's something even closer to JMLC! Is there? :)

Basically yes.
When you entered an ME level in JMLC it showed you the wastage at that level, the next higher ME level required to save another unit of any of those materials required and the perfect ME level where there is no waste for that particular material. I guess that is quite obvious to see in the picture of my inital post.

The reason i loved that is that i believe there's a lot of time wastage involved in researching BPOs to round numbers such as 50, 100 or 300. Sure it makes researching a lot of BPOs easier and might be nice for selling them but most BPOs are seriously over researched and especially for personal use i prefer to research my BPOs to a level where time and gain are on equal terms.

E.g. there is no major saving between ME 281 and 300 (for example just a couple units of trit but no mexallon) so you can save a day or two of research time going just for 281 which would happen to be a level at which you save a unit of mexalon (so one worth going for). yet if you research to 312 you would save one more unit mexalon so it'd be worth concidering. also at 313 you save a unit of nocx so you could just as well go for that and save a bit more..
in that example if i went straight for ME 300 i would've wasted a day or two with no real effect on the later use of that BPO.

JMLC offered that information without big efforts of manually testing levels and pinpointing it the best ME level for a particular material and then cross checking with other more expansive materials to see if there is an ME level close to that that might be worth grabbing aswell.