Science & Industry

if your asking these questions ill take a guess and say your new to invention/manufaturing t2.

start with mods and work to ships imo, mostly less time/isk investment to get started.

get a decent invent/build program, i use eve meep. this allows you to see what you need to buy for each of the items you need to build. as well as giving you costings and break downs.

moon mins are used to make the t2 parts you ask about. see eve meep for details of what you need for each part of your t2 build.

i use indy alts in empire to amke life easy with manufaturing, doing t2 production in 0.0 is a pita at best. too much importing of crap for my liking as yourll never find it all in one place. unlike the mighty jita.

Basic Tech 2 production process;

(using "Sensor Booster II" as example)

1. Obtain BPO of the base Tech 1 item. In this case Sensor Booster I. You need this because the invention process needs BPCs. Lots of BPCS

2. Make a bunch of max-run BPC copies of the BPO (In the case of Sensor Booster I, that would be 20 BPCs, each for 300 runs if I'm not mistaken). The important bit is "max run copies" for modules. For ships use just single run copies.

3. Look up what datacores are required for the invention. (For Sensor Booster II, that is 2x Datacore - Electromagnetic Physics and 2x Datacore - Electronic Engineering). These can be either obtained from R&D agents (requires standings and time for the RPs to accumulate) or from market. Try Jita. You need these per BPC you are inventing. For a batch of 20 BPCs, multiple by 20, so 40 of each datacore

4. Set up Invention runs (uses laboratories like copying) - you need the datacores and the BPCs and "Esoteric Data Interface" (an item that isn't consumed, easiest just to buy off market, not expensive). This item depends on the blueprint - there are four different (four different EVE races) plus separate versions of the item for ship invention and rig invention.

5. Out comes 10 run Sensor Booster II BPCs (ME -4, PE -4). Out of 20 BPC Invention attempts you usually get something between 5 and 15 successes. Depends on your skills and luck. With level 4 skills in the relevant science skills (in this case, Caldari Encryption Methods, Electromagnetic Physics and Electronic Engineering), the odds are around 45% per attempt so, on average 8-9 success out of 20 tries.

ALL OF THE ABOVE requires, in practice, access to POS laboratories. There just isn't free laboratory capacity anywhere in the empire. So to do that, you need a research POS with labs. Small POS is fine (can fit 3 labs).

Then to the manufacturing of the BPC...

Sensor Booster II requires (per unit, multiply by 10 for amounts per your BPC)

89x Tritanium
15x Pyerite
2x Isogen
2x Nocxium
---these are normal minerals. Mine or buy from market

1x Sensor Booster I
---T1 item required for building. Build some with the BPO you have or buy from market

3x Transmitter
---Manufactured via PI or buy from market

7x Miniature Electronics
---Manufactured via PI or buy from market

1x R.A.M. Electronics
---T1 item built with BPO or bought from market (requires normal minerals to build).

4xGravimetric Sensor Cluster
---T1 item (A tech 2 item component) - built with BPO which in turn uses...
20xTitanium Carbide
1xNanotransistors
2xHypersynatic Fibers
...which are complex reaction products produced in POSes from moon minerals. Most likely buy from market.

3xQuantum Microprocessor
---T1 item (A tech 2 item component) - built with BPO which in turn uses...
12xTitanium Carbide
1xPhenolic Composites
5xNanotransistors
...which are complex reaction products produced in POSes from moon minerals. Most likely buy from market.

So as you can see, even a simple T2 module requires a small libary of BPOs used to build parts for it which in turn require materials that range from normal minerals to PI goods and complex reaction products. In theory you can buy all the required parts off Jita market (just look at the blueprint requirement list) but you will be offloading considerable amount of your profit to other builders who made those components.

Ships are slightly more complex as they tend to require a larger number of different tech 2 item components - all which require their own blueprint to build and so on... they also take a lot longer as the BPC copy process is a lot slower for ships. Ships also tend to be worth it to invent with decryptors - these are special items found as loot (and sold on the market) that modify the invention change. They add to the invention cost but can modify the chance of success, number of runs the BPC has and the ME/PE values. For modules, ignore the whole decryptors, not cost effective.

More here: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Invention

And yes, for the Invention and manufacturing steps, you need many science skills that are not needed with T1 production. The whole process also consumes blueprint copies at such a rate that Tech 2 production is not really viable using purely station laboratories (they are always taken). Building itself can be done at a station.

I've also found this site to be excellent for "breaking down" each T2 item invention/build process:

http://www.eve-market-guide.com/invention.php

However, note that the price data used by the site doesn't seem to update so any cost and profit information should be disregarded and you should do the math yourself to see if the whole process is profitable. (In general, with level 4 skills it is for any high volume module but this is not true for all Tech 2 items)

Jarnis,

Just wanted to say awesome reply, very informative.

Don't forget, when your invention profits seem low/non existent, make sure to make a thread in here requesting CCP remove T2 blueprints.

Also note that if you are serious about T2 manufacturing, there can be found pre-researched racial tech 2 component BPO packs on contracts at a reasonable cost - saves weeks of BPO research (in exchange for some ISK over ME0 raw BPOs, obviously). Yes, in EVE anything can be had for a little bit of ISK and someone is doing business with everything... including things like researched Tech 2 component BPOs.