Science & Industry

Do blueprints have an expiry date?

Some months ago I tried my hand at Manufacturing and had a station full of various blueprints. I decided to give it another go but I can't find any of my blueprints anywhere.

So, I need to know is that have the Tribbles been and chewed them up or were they 'improved' during a patch and turned into something like Dancing Janitors?

Another option is using something like jeveassets (http://eve.nikr.net/jeveasset ) for an out of game view of your assets (including corporate assets if you give it an appropriate key).

I'd start thinking someone has been playing with your account at this point

Check your cargoholds. You may have 'drunk-loaded' your Orca.

Also, are you sure they weren't only blueprint copies with a limited number of runs? If your account has been tempered with, try checking your wallet journal and contract history.

I also use EVE HQ a lot to check my assets out of game using the EVE API, and for managing blueprint research levels especially. Probably similar to the jeveassets application.

Thanks for the replies and now I am more confused than ever.

I know that I have never 'drunk loaded' my freighter before doing something daft with it. I have never had a POS in my life and, in fact, I have never visited a POS so I know that's not right.

I know that I had a pile of blueprints, copies and orginals, bought at various places including Dodixie and there's nothing there. I have tried looking at my assets in EveHQ (and can't get anywhere there mostly because I can't seem to get the API keys right) but the interesting thing is that I have gone through all of the Jobs in the Industry thing for all of my characters and I see that over a year ago I made four lots of Robotics.

I know for a fact that I created a lot more than four jobs and over the past year and a half because I was doing quite a trade at Dodixie and I see that all of these records are not visible.

So I can assume that something has changed and CCP has had to remove my blueprints and remove my records.

Thanks all for the assistance.

Trade and job records don't last forever. The jobs screen in-game shows me only stuff since April this year, even though I've been manufacturing stuff way longer than that (and that's with the filter set to show everything in the last 2 years). Transaction history is less than that.

It is exceedingly unlikely that CCP removed any of your assets.

You've said nothing about checking all and I mean ALL of your cargoholds. I've had this same happen several times in 3 years and the missing crap is ALWAYS in a cargohold.

Also. not to be harsh, but I'm kinda doubting your story as Robotics are a PI production and no BP's or jobs for it will ever show up in the science window EVER except in the PI planets tab, of course.

Have you checked the Industry User Interface? It will show you blueprints that are in a hangar, for both you and your corporation (if you're in one, they may be with your corp assets). It will also show you ones that are in process as part of a job but not yet delivered (I've done that before). And it will show you anything that might be sitting in a POS (not that you have one, but if you did). Nothing disappears altogether. I don't think CCP just blindly got rid of any blueprints. They usually just adjust whatever they make.

As someone else mentioned, BPCs get used up. Once built, they're gone.

No, it's a 3rd party tool (well, there's a few of them). Personally I use jEveAssets.