Science & Industry

It's literaly this much.

100bil is close to $1800 worth of plex if I am doing the math right. It is hard to imagine the effort that sum represents in the game.

I am having a hard time comprehending the magnitude of something like B-R.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab36h4aDUUI

How much collective effort is represented on that battlefield?

Checking the blueprint of a Leviathan, it looks like it takes 60-65 billion in ore to make. My rule of thumb is that highsec mining tops out at about 20 million of ore gathered per hour. Since the recent ore rebalancing, you can do better than that in null, but to keep things simple I am going to just divide 60 billion by 20 million and figure it takes 3000 man-hours just to mine the ore. To put that in perspective, a 40 hour a week paying job with 2 weeks off for vacation takes 2000 hours per year. So just mining the ore is like 1.5 man-YEARS of work. Far more than the apparent PLEX cost, because mining isn't really an efficient way to earn ISK in Eve.

Then it has to be hauled to various POSes to be assembled into capital components, and then the capital components have to be hauled to a central POS for assembly into the titan. All this work has to be defended from enemy alliances who have enormous incentive to keep you from finishing the job. And don't discount the great administrative effort it takes to get all these people to work together.

Losing one of these things is huge. In terms of labor cost, more than totaling a brand new real life car.

Review the Titan blueprint in question with regards to build time, Material/Time Efficiency research to get the big picture, then take the raw inputs, i.e. ME 5 Avatar BPO bill of materials is,



Look up the respective ore compositions, said ore availability, their volumes, mining yields per hour and also account for the refining yield.



Then look up the component build, research times. As Eric Raeder has said, first minerals, then components will need to be hauled on different stages of productions.

With component BPOs at ME 10 & Avatar blueprint at ME 5 mineral inputs are reduced further,



Volumes are self-explanatory.

Rough estimate 3750hours mining = 156.25days mining + 27day production + 41days component production (11 lines)
= 224.25 days to make a single Titan

This is with TE 20 (1k+ days reasearch on a Titan) and using 1 character manufacturing at a POS, add 3 days for Titan manufacture and we are down to more realistic TE levels on :)

So its takes around 7.5 month to make a single Titan (component production multitasked AFTER all the mining is done), this dont count the hauling that also takes some time...

OP, you dont want that titan anyway. :)