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This is not a particularly smart idea. This will let you bootstrap an insane number of new blueprints to perfect status without having to do anything but scoop up unnecessarily high level BPOs.

I disagree with the upwards scaling wall of the level progression.

In the current system ME/PE 10 can be obtained rather easily, in the proposed system it will take a long time.

The following numbers are using no modifiers on these research time to ME 10
Frigate 13D 21H 20m After 102.24 Days
Cruiser 27D 18H 40m After 204.48 Days
BS/BC 41D 16H After 306.72 Days
Carriers/Dreads 1.62Y After 11.94 Years
Supercarriers 3.25Y After 23.89 Years
Titans 6.49Y After 47.81 Years

Take into account these numbers are using no skills or pos to show base values, its possible someone could have bought a titan BPO and researched it in a pos for 3.5 years and gotten it to ME 10. The proposed new scaling system not only rewards players who invested heavily in the old system but punishes any new players trying to get into production.

Primarily the level scaling on levels 6-10, Rather than continued exponential increases it would be better to plateau out with minor increases per level, which is what we get now.

Since ME 1 currently is Now Level 5 then the research time from level 1 to level 5 should be roughly equal to the total research time of ME 1 which i think has been achieved, but the research times Level 10 is a nightmare, you're trading diminishing returns in material saved for soul crushing time wasting, which i believe is just bad policy, at least try to keep the soul crushing time wasting to what it is now rather than punish everyone that hasn't done something yet.

This is not a particularly smart idea. This will let you bootstrap an insane number of new blueprints to perfect status without having to do anything but scoop up unnecessarily high level BPOs.

I'm very alarmed that the consequences of this haven't already been considered.

Capitals are researched to low values ME 2-6, which gives great results currently but will see them having 5% waste post patch from my understanding.

Not to mention these levels have taken months to research and post patch will be the fastest to train.

So basically you move the clickfest from the industry ui to the overview ui .

To answer Greyscale's question:

We will need the formulas required to take the numbers from the SDE, plug in an arbitrary ME and TE (+ whatever is going on with Teams or anything else like that) and get out the same numbers which we get in EVE.

And to be able to work out the pricing used for run costs

Pretty much we just need all the little caveats like 'floor() here, round() here' so we can reimplement it.

Handy for things like blueprint calculators (far less important now, but still useful) shopping lists, etc, etc.

ME 2 = ~3% waste?

ME 2 = 8% post patch?

I just don't understand why such a trivially simple system needs to be changed. What is hard to understand about 0.1/(1+ME) really?

If you have an ME 2 blueprint pre-patch we will convert that into an ME 6%? blueprint on patch day. I need to go double-check my spreadsheet at work about this, it might be 7%. The goal is that all blueprints have the same or less waste after the change.

Any chance we will see T1 BPO ME/TE (finally) have an impact on the invetion result?

This would greatly help to even out the huge materials advantage T2 BPO's have over invention. This advantage, on top of the invetion cost itself is the real issue here, not the existence of the T2 BPO's as such. The gap is just to great as it stands now.

Actually, you know this isn't true. There is a widely held perception that BPOs, and thus BPCs, with higher ME/PE are worth more, and this perception creates reality.

You can see this in the BPC contract market, where players routinely pay more for BPCs with ME/PE values far exceeding "perfect".