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A Question About BPOs
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Maximus Hashur
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-06-17 03:18:39 UTC
What does the ME and research mean on a BPO?

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Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#2 - 2013-06-17 04:02:35 UTC
http://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/2013/05/20/manufacturing-102-research/ should answer your questions.

Short version:

ME reduces the 'waste' on a blueprint. Without having an ME above 0, you'll be using around 10% (depending on the blueprint) more minerals to create things. It's a little more complicated than that, but it's covered in the linked page. ME1 reduces that to 5%, ME 3 reduces to 2.5%, me 7 to 1.25%. So the higher you get it, the less effect it'll have.

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Tinu Moorhsum
Random Events
#3 - 2013-06-17 09:59:40 UTC
Steve Ronuken wrote:


ME reduces the 'waste' on a blueprint. Without having an ME above 0, you'll be using around 10% (depending on the blueprint) more minerals to create things. It's a little more complicated than that, but it's covered in the linked page. ME1 reduces that to 5%, ME 3 reduces to 2.5%, me 7 to 1.25%. So the higher you get it, the less effect it'll have.


Put another way, to a point, the higher the ME, the lower your manufacturing costs are.

I said to a point. As you can see from Steve's explanation, the fall-off in benefit is exponential so after about ME of 7 you don't get much further benefit on the whole.

Likewise you can also optimize blue prints for faster manufacturing (PE), faster copying etc.
Ekaterina 'Ghetto' Thurn
Department 10
#4 - 2013-06-17 13:22:18 UTC
Google 'zofu'. Smile

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#5 - 2013-06-17 13:58:23 UTC
You could use the Zofu calculator. It's a decent one. Or use the one on my site. I wrote it so I could see exactly where a relevant balance point with ME was, by moving a slider and watching the changing prices. Smile

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