Science & Industry

It is? I guess I should stop copying and selling BPCs then....

ME has a diminishing return, which you should already know if you're selling BPCs. Some people can't do maths and buy the highest ME possible. Some can and don't.

Cartels, really? You sound like Dinsdale...

I'll give you an example, Charon BPC, if you got it at ME 5 that's nice researched ones, but if you find someone selling this BPC at ME 15 or 20 at same price, then you have no chance to sell yours till that guy finish his stock.

Put yourself in buyer shoes 2 BPCs one at ME5 and another at 15 at almost same price, which one you are going to pick ? If I want to compete with that seller I need almost 1.4 year if I'm going to start from scratch.

You could always do the same.
They don't have some magical device which enables them to research faster than you, they'll have a pos with labs like you can have, they might even have a MY-705

So they've invested in POS & Labs, Possibly implants, paid for fuel etc.

Nothing you can't do, but instead you're whining on the forum

Or are you one of the "They don't play the game the way I play the game so they're doing it wrong" brigade?

I've got several blueprints researched to max ME, why? because the last time I checked, the money comes from my bank account to pay for my play time, not anybody else's bank account, and I like to do it.

Yes there is probably no reasonable reason to get a Praetor BPO to ME1532 or Antimatter XL to ME3300 but hey if I want to spend 18-26 weeks with it in research then surely it's up to me. And if that means that if I were to start copying them and people chose them over your bpc's then I'd say it was worthwhile in the end, I've been playing the game long enough to realise it isn't an instant-gratification game.

All said and done, it's a game, and if your way of playing isn't working for you then it's up to you to change your way of playing - not the rest of the players to change their way of playing.

M.L. 19 is perfect (no waste) for a Charon.

For what it is worth, I still have four Charon BPO at M.L. 9 (waste = 1x Capital Cargo Bay), but I've just been stockpiling the copies.

When I was manufacturing jumpfreighters, I'd just buy whatever BPC were at a decent price. I never looked at the M.L.

It might be my thread looks like a whine but I'm not, I'm only afraid from wasting ISK buying BPOs to find myself took nose dive into cutthroat BPC trades that I have no chance to compete in it, that's all.

I was in your shoes many moons ago. I took the plunge knowing that i would have to research prints at the same time as turning a buck on them. I worked bloomin hard to get my BPOs to a market worthy level and i sell them at a fair price so now - eventually i can relax and let the prints work for me.

Good luck!

Anyone who actually takes 2 minutes to research whatever they're building will know that those insane levels don't help for sh*t and might save you like 50.000 ISK on a good day over the entire production cost of the blueprint. Totally not worth it and anyone paying extra money because a blueprint has a needlessly high ME doesn't know how things work.

Price your blueprints properly and it shouldn't matter if the ME level is 100 or 1000 or 1000000.

If they have higher ME then undercut them.

well in that particular case I would be looking at the difference in cost between the 2 unfortunately most people will not pay attention to the difference (if any) in waist and will go for the higher one even if the waste is exactly the same. (ps) in the packs the me and pe of the parts is going to be the main driving factor as the difference between me 2 and me5 is minor and also anything above me 6 is pointless if I remember correctly (away from my home computer at the time). But if you are competing you need to have your prices lower by the amount of the cost of the additional waist or you will have no chance of selling.