Market Discussions

I've searched here, on /r/eve & googled the rest of the web but nobody seems to have asked this question before. Ever.

EVE-Central shows absolutely no buy/sell orders for any size of this rig's BPO.

So where the hell are they all? I thought all T1 BPO's were npc seeded on the market:

EVElopedia wrote:

Blueprints for Tech I rigs can be bought on the market

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EVElopedia wrote:

The blueprint originals for the Tech I version of each rig are available cheaply on the market

but I've not been able to locate any orders in any of the regional markets.

There's a bunch of BPC's in contracts but these are all ridiculously overpriced for even the small rig size.


EDIT: in fact I just checked the other Armor Rigs group in the Market browser (in-game) & on EVE-Central, and it seems like all sizes of Armor Rig BPO's have gone AWOL.

https://eve-central.com/home/typesearch.html?search=Pump+I+blueprint
https://eve-central.com/home/typesearch.html?search=nanobot+accelerator+I+blueprint
https://eve-central.com/home/typesearch.html?search=Transverse+bulkhead+I+blueprint

WTF is going on?

You can find the according NPC stations here: http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/market.php?group_id=944

They are regional, or rather - Factional, just like the ship hull blueprints.

A notable new example is the Entosis Link BPO, which currently can only be obtained from Carthum Conglomerate corporation stations in Amarr space, as they are the innovators and researchers of this particular module.

Thanks for all the replies folks, I'd completely forgotten (been away for over 2yrs due to RL issues) that BPO's are/can be regional.

Eve-central works fine for finding NPC blueprint sell orders, including rig blueprints. I searched for medium nanobot accelerator I blueprint and had no trouble getting a response showing numerous NPC sell orders scattered around Amarr space. But there are a couple of quirks that you need to understand.

The first is that you must correctly spell out the name of the blueprint in full. This throws experienced eve-central users because you only need to search on partial names for non-blueprint items, but eve central will not recognize partial blueprint names. "Nanobot accelerator I blueprint" returns nothing because there is no such item. "Medium nanobot accelerator I bluepritnt" or "large nanobot accelerator i blueprint" work fine. Though spelling must be 100% correct, the checking isn't case sensitive. Be sure you use an "i" character not a numeral one to designate tech one. Blueprint names can be a bit long and counterintuitive, it doesn't hurt to look up the blueprint on your in-game market window (with "show only available" unchecked) to find the correctly spelled name.

The other thing is that the default 24 hour search often fails because it is too short. People don't look for blueprint orders all that often and they don't get as regularly uploaded as orders for other items. if your first search fails, and usually it does, change the default 24 hours to something much longer. I usually enter 2000 hours and it works like a charm.