Science & Industry

Well if you want to set a price you will have to consider the price of your competitors (mainly NPC lines) and with this 50000 isk would seem rather high.



Your main strenght is no wait time yet and a 0.75 multiplier on duration. On the other hand NPC lines run at a few hundred isk per hour but you have a queu for 20-40 days for copying and ME (PE is usually instant) and no reduced time due to the installation.

Assuming a NPC price of 500 per hour for PE this would mean a 30 day job would cost me ~360000 isk at a station or ~19.5 million with you while I would save a week in actual research time and upto 40 days in waiting time for copying and ME (depending on how much you look around). And just so you know I know a station that runs these jobs at 9 isk per hour allthought the wait times are considerably higher there.



So as someone that mostly dabbles in industry at the moment while persuing other interests in game that price tag would be well above anything I would pay. Especially if you consider that I don't mind putting a blueprint into a job for upto to 60 days while I run my production lines with bpo's that are already researched or require no research to begin with.

They do set their own rates.

Copying is a little trickier, as you have to be in the corp that owns the tower to do copying. I charge corp-mates 20k per hour for copying, but being in corp includes other perks such as dividends and duties such as ice-mining.

I added a pos calculator for research and copies to EVE IPH awhile back to capture the cost of doing copies at a pos into your invention runs. You can put in your setup and either choose buying blocks or building them to see how much the rate per hour is for all types of research. you might want to use that.

It really comes down to your setup. If you have a large tower with max labs and no guns, then it'll be cheaper per slot of course. A lot more risk though too.

I would not pay significantly more than the fuel cost per slot-hour of running my own research POS...


...but I do a lot of research. If someone needs a one-off research job done, I suppose they might be willing to pay a premium.

50k per hour sounds high, at least for "contracted" research where someone gives you a BPO and wants it researched to a specific level. Open market researched BPOs, the market varies a lot.

Historical POS fuel prices for a large tower have been in the 350-450M per 30 days range for a long time. So excluding the current isotope price frenzy due to HAG5, I'd plan your prices around a baseline of 450M/30d, which means that for every hour of operation, you need to cover 625k ISK/hr in fuel costs across the slots that you have active.

Caldari towers have 7500 CPU, mobile labs are 500 (3 ME 3 PE 1 COPY 5 INV), advanced mobile labs are 600tf (2 ME 2 COPY 2 INV). That gives you 24-45 ME 0-45 PE 15-24 COPY 24-75 INV slots. Assuming that you try to keep your ME/COPY slots 100% busy and run a mix of labs so you have some PE slots (say 12 PE slots kept busy), you'll be running about 50-60 slots full time.

625k / 40 = 15625/hr
625k / 50 = 12500/hr
625k / 60 = 10417/hr

That's the ISK/hr that you have to charge in order to cover your fuel costs. You then have to decide "what profit margin makes it worth my time". Maybe you charge only 16k/hr, but add a 100k install fee to make it worth your time to touch the slot.

I would be willing to pay 20K per hour Per blueprint for about 30 days on 60 prints.

I charge between 25k to 35k per hour for lab time depending on the size of the order and sometimes have to charge an install fee to make it worth your time. For copies, a lot also depends on how much "wasted" time there is between when a job ends and you can reinstall the BPO for more copies. I tend to keep all my POS slots running 23x7 which maybe 5-10 slots ending within the next 24 hours. I max out all the other slots.

For me, the copy business is not very steady. Some months I don't sell a single print, other months I do 3-4B worth. But it is additional revenue that you can get if you use your POS for other things as well (ie your own T2 invention lines, etc).