Science & Industry

Hello everyone!

I would like to get into drug manufacturing and I have done a decent amount of research. I had a couple of questions I couldn't find the answer too and I am hoping to get help with.

-Synth is legal in hi sec however one reactor takes 40 gas and reacts it into 30 pure biochemical. You then use the blueprint in the drug lab to make one drug per 5 minutes or 20 per hour.

-The blueprint requires 17 of the pure per run or 340 per hr.

How much Pure does a medium reactor make per hour (what is the cycle time on it) and is the production increased if I use the full sized reactor?

If it is indeed 30 per hour that would mean I need 11.3 reactors to fully supply one drug lab BPC in constant production...that seems wrong to me considering you can only fit 3 medium reactors in one large gallente POS or 4 medium reactors in a large caldari pos but lose silo bonus.

By the same token, is the larger reactor on the same one hour cycle time per reaction?

Is their any tech2 BPC in the game that doesnt require moon minerals?

I need some experience and knowledge drop here!

Thank you so much!

-Sanic

Yes, your very basic question about reactions that could have been answered by any reactions tutorial or a couple of hours mucking about on SiSi has everyone at a loss.

Reactions always cycle hourly. Yes, they are a bottleneck. Boosters should really just be thought of as the retail packaging for the reaction products.

Quite, the reactions didnt say anything against drug manufacturing so I wasn't sure Thank you both for your informations!

I used to produce boosters so am familiar with the process, but don't expect me to quote numbers or production rates.


Doing the show info on the reactions (as noted by previous posters) will show you the reaction info on what is produced. You might have to click on the various tabs to get the exact information you are looking for.

The cycle time for a medium and large reactor (any reactor actually) is one hour. Production is not increased by using the full sized biochemical reactor, that is for producing the improved and strong boosters.


I'll leave it to you to double check your numbers as far as how much gets produced per hour or per month. But generally, yes it takes a lot of reactions to attempt supply the materials to constantly have a BPC in production. Keeping constant production can be a bad idea since boosters sell slowly. I would suggest starting small and don't over invest right away.


I believe this was answered above. All T2 ships and modules use moon materials. T2 rigs are the only things that don't.

I hope this was helpful.