Science & Industry

just check contracts. most stuff is available there, if not, look for something similar, almost everything has something in its class that is worth approximately the same.

don't be afraid to ask for more collateral than what you see there (20% or so) since prices tend to fluctuate quite a bit

Value against contracts (what it would cost to replace) and set that as the collateral. Simple as that.

IDK how it fits with your resources and desire-for-complexity (not) but prior to my most recent rage-quit I ran a similar setup.

I was building capital ships and modules for sale to alliance / coalition in sov-null. I did not, however, move any of my BPOs to nullsec.
I felt, even tho I was a member of a fairly stable and powerful nullsec coalition, that the risk of losing them was too high to justify the benefits. I’m well aware of the various risk-reduction techniques for this but was not attracted to the possibility of, for example, boarding for a long international trip and arriving 36 hours later to find the station had been flipped.

My ‘solution’ was to maintain a hisec skeleton crew, with excellent industry skills, who staffed some quiet POSs doing my various BPO improvement and copying.

From time to time I’d ceptor-haul, or alternatively a covops frig or blockade runner if greater volumes needed, a collection of BPCs to my JF collection system. Then I’d move the BPCs out to my nullsec industry base as a small part of my routine resupply efforts.

Perhaps this approach will not suit you but it lets me keep many tens-of-billions worth of BPO assets relatively safe in hisec, while keeping a decent nullsec industry base active with minimal additional hassle.

A couple of times I did move BPOs to nullsec for friends. I ceptor-hauled them myself rather than entrusted them to contract haulers. When I hauled them from Jita I used a freighter to get them, only a couple at a time, out of 4-4 and into a quieter Jita station (where I also have undock instawarp BMs). I’d consolidate the load there and swap to a taxi-fit ceptor for the actual hauling part of the trip. Thankfully my JF jump-out systems were not terribly far from Jita.

I know it’s a bit of an OP-hijack but, hey, that’s eve forums :-)
As for the ‘value’ of BPOs, that’s a pretty simple question really … check the contracts window for the replacement cost of similar quality BPOs. My old BPOs, improved to perfect, were relatively inexpensive to improve. Today, however, it looks as if high quality BPO improvement costs almost as much as the original baseline BPO … gulp! … and takes forever.

Just my tuppence.

You could have done it in under 5 months and for under 100mil + POS fuel cost for that time. I did it.

Once the new structures system rolls out in Eve to a point where they are ready to delete control towers (So probably 4 years from now, given the rate of progress), you'll be refunded 100% of the npc price, so, there's that at least