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Talon Dreyua
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Posted - 2010.02.10 23:28:00 -
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I am looking into polymer reactions. Are the reactions considered a BPO in the classic sense? Meaning, are they researchable? Also, are they persistent? Do they disappear after using them?
On a follow up question... Is it worth getting into polymers economically, or is the gas worth more than the polymers?
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XXSketchxx
Gallente Remote Soviet Industries
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Posted - 2010.02.10 23:41:00 -
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Edited by: XXSketchxx on 10/02/2010 23:41:30 Reactions do not need to be, and in fact, cannot be researched.
They do not deteriorate over time. The only reason to purchase multiple reaction prints of the same type is if you intend to run multiple reactions of the same type. _____________________________________________
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Celia Therone
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Posted - 2010.02.11 12:07:00 -
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Originally by: Talon Dreyua I am looking into polymer reactions. Are the reactions considered a BPO in the classic sense? Meaning, are they researchable? Also, are they persistent? Do they disappear after using them?
On a follow up question... Is it worth getting into polymers economically, or is the gas worth more than the polymers?
Reactions are reactions not BPOs. Completely different. Reactions go into a reactor, they don't degrade or disappear through use and can't be researched.
Once you have reacted the polymers there are specific BPO's that you can buy that let you make intermediate T3 components, which can be made in normal industry slots in station. You then use a reverse engineered blueprint in a subsystem assembly array to combine the items and the bpc into a finished t3 item. As far as I can tell the purchased blueprints don't benefit from material research.
The polymer and gas markets swing about wildly. There is an awful lot of randomness involved in both. Gas spawn sites are random. Pirate attacks are random. Wormhole exits are random. Market manipulation... It can be (for a POS reaction) really quite profitable at times, although I think the most profitable days are largely behind us. As recently as a few weeks ago I couldn't find polymer reactions that I wanted to do and switched back to complex but prices have moved again since then.
The high end polymer reactions require a lot of gas. C3-ftm acid burns 1,000m3/reacter/hour of c540. Which means you have to be tending your silos more than once/day.
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XXSketchxx
Gallente Remote Soviet Industries
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Posted - 2010.02.11 14:06:00 -
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Originally by: Celia Therone As far as I can tell the purchased blueprints don't benefit from material research.
Confirming this.
Quote: The polymer and gas markets swing about wildly.
There's only a few reasons to do polymer reactions:
1. Sudden price spike and you find you are in a position to make nice profits off already established infrastructure.
2. You and corp members are already harvesting gas. While it is generally more profitable to simply mine ABCs, the skills for harvesting are much much lower than skills for efficient mining. Gas is in abundance in whs so if you are there and just doing the sites and you have a POS, you might as well react them too; on almost all of the polymers you will make a profit reacting, in addition to lowering hauling capacity.
3. You are building T3 and refuse to import. _____________________________________________
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Tau Cabalander
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.02.11 19:54:00 -
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Edited by: Tau Cabalander on 11/02/2010 19:55:28
Basically:
two fullerene gases + mineral -> polymer reactor + reaction -> polymer polymer + T3 salvage + T3 component BPO -> component assembly array -> T3 components T3 components + T3 BPC -> subsystem assembly array -> subsystems + hulls
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