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Quutar
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Posted - 2006.11.15 23:41:00 -
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Edited by: Quutar on 15/11/2006 23:49:19
Quutar Research and Blueprint Services
I am renting out my unused research slots. I have a high-sec POS in empire with mobile labs, and enough alts to keep the slots running at optimal usage. Every single alt has maximum skills for research*, and a POS Lab does research at 75% of the normal time, providing you with the very best research times short of a 0.0 Caldari Outpost.
* They have Metallurgy 5, Research 5, and Science 5
Products and Services
Blueprint Research (Price is based on the Slot Type)
- ME 400,000 isk per day
- PE 200,000 isk per day
- Copy 1,200,000 isk per day
The cost of the research is rounded down to the day, so a job that takes 4 days, 23 hours, and 59 minutes will only be charged for 4 days. Any materials needed for research must be provided (or paid for) by the customer. Any specialty skills needed may require a delay of service while an alt learns it, but the cost of the skill books are not charged to the customer.
Blueprint Transportation I have two freighters among my alts. My POS is located close to Jita. If you do not wish to move the blueprint your self, I can move the blueprint in the freighter. Costs are 400k per jump. Multiple blueprints at once will not be charged separately. Transportation might be slow, and is subject to a delivery or pickup delay. This offer is only good for High-Sec connected empire.
Insurance Taking a suggestion from the forums, I will offer an ôinsuranceö or collateral for blueprints if you wish. The insurance can be up to the NPC value of the blueprint (rare or hard to get blueprints can be negotiated higher), and will cost 1% per week of research. When the job is done, the insured amount must be paid back upon delivery. Each week is rounded up, unlike the slot costs, so a job that takes 8 days, will be charged two weeks of insurance.
Blueprint Purchase This may seam obvious, but if there is an empire sold blueprint that you would like researched, I can purchase the blueprint, research it, then deliver it. The cost of the blueprint would have to be paid up front, with the research and delivery fee paid upon delivery. This would be helpful to 0.0 dwellers.
Disclaimer All fees, unless otherwise noted are to be paid on blueprint delivery. When a job is done and the BPOs are to be delivered, a 7 day escrow will be set, and an eve mail will be sent to the person involved. This will be tried four times (28 days ~ 1 month). If after that, the BPO reverts to my ownership and I will auction it off. You then have until the end of the auction to claim it.
If you wish to withdraw your blueprints early, the research job can be cancelled and they can be returned. The full fee will be charged since the research slot is still tied up until the job would have finished normally. If a job would have taken longer than 30 days, then the fee will only cover the current ôtime leftö on the lab since any one job canÆt be longer than 30 days.
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Quutar
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Posted - 2006.11.15 23:42:00 -
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Edited by: Quutar on 15/11/2006 23:48:16
Security All blueprints are kept in a NPC station in high security space. The corporation that is doing the research is completely populated by one off my mains and my alts. Even then only directors (ie my main) will have take access to the blueprints hanger. In the event of a war, one of the freighter alts can be moved to an NPC corp to return blueprints safely. If the POS is attacked there is no risk to the blueprints themselves, and if the POS does get blown up, all that would be lost is the research time on unfinished jobs.
I have put up an ôEvE-Online Resumeö to try to show how I am, to show what type of person I am. I am relatively new to this game (almost a year), but I have been active and online in other communities, with a very high level of accountability. All of this detail can be verified externally, with many people who have met me in person, know where I live, blah blah blah. Ultimately, if you donÆt trust me, ask for the insurance. If there is any other way to add accountability, or help with the level of trust, I am open to suggestions.
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Quutar
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Posted - 2006.11.15 23:43:00 -
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Posted - 2006.11.16 01:21:00 -
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Originally by: Fliewatuet Hehe, i see a hole. You offer to pay a collateral for those who give you a bpo to research. Yet on the other hand you want all costs of the bpo up front if someone wants you to buy and research a bpo for him. Isn't that inconsistent? :)
Otherwise it looks good, good luck.
Regards, Fliewatuet
True... I can edit the main post to say that collateral won't be accepted in that case... since I would just be selling things straight up. Thanks.
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Posted - 2006.11.16 14:26:00 -
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Originally by: Rumbaar If I choose the Blueprint Purchase option how do I know/find out how long it takes/cost to get to a certain level of ME and/or PE?
that is actually a good point. I am at work right now, so can't check in game... but I am going to take some of my blueprints and "test" them with 5ME/5PE/1Copy to see how long they take... and post that in the second section... to give examples on how long the research will be. Each gategory tends to have the same research time.
I could use a spreadsheet and do the math manually... but it is easier and more accurate I guess to get in game quotes from my POS.
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Posted - 2006.11.17 05:59:00 -
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Originally by: Rumbaar If I choose the Blueprint Purchase option how do I know/find out how long it takes/cost to get to a certain level of ME and/or PE?
OK... i updated the third post with some sample research times...
It will most times be best to send me an EvE mail if you have any specific questions... such as how long it takes to research a specific blueprint. I can always check in game with one of the research alts, and get an exact quote from the pos if i have the bpo my self, otherwise takes 75% of the "show info" listed research time for my alt (they all have rank 5 in the research skills)
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Posted - 2006.11.27 01:02:00 -
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Originally by: Aeaus I'm not fully understanding the insurance costs.
Say I have a BPO worth 700M I put in for 2 weeks of research, how much would insurance on that cost?
if you wanted 700 million insurance... it would cost you 1% of that per week...
two weeks of insurance would cost 14 million
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Posted - 2006.12.07 05:50:00 -
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Originally by: Fitz VonHeise Do you have any plans to rent labs to people and allow them to do their own research in those labs?
not really... it gets to be a security and permissions nightmare.
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Posted - 2006.12.07 05:51:00 -
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Originally by: Rumbaar Just read your online resume (I hadn't read it before posting here or getting service). Wow you wrote Decursive, that's a beast of a WoW mod. I'm in awe!
I can at least claim that I forced blizzard to change their game and adjust how they designed encounters with that thing.
I even went to blizzcon and apologized to the main UI dev... he thought it was funny.
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Posted - 2006.12.13 02:13:00 -
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someone sent me an eve-mail about researching two cruise missile BPOs, one already had some PE research on it.
Can you please re eve-mail me the request for a quote? due to the "wonderful" eve-mail ui your eve-mail was deleted instead of a DED notification... even though the DED notification was selected and your eve-mail was not.
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Posted - 2006.12.21 22:09:00 -
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Still progressing...
The rig BPOs are insanely popular to research... over half of the BPOs I am working on are rigs... blah
which means that all of my R&D alts have had to learn the rig skills... allot of account juggling... but that was said in my OP... some BPOs might be delayed as i learn skills... meh
my main researcher can now also research the warp bubble BPOs (got her to mechanics 5, electronics, 5, and engineering 5, so i can snag any science skill easy as i need it). Going to get every single research alt to those three skills to 5s after this rig skill frenzy is over... will make adapting to future BPOs jobs easier... in case A-Ko is busy, i can add a science skill to one of the other alts fast.
so far my main business has been people in 0.0 sending me isk to buy the bpos, getting them researched, the dropping them off in torrinos, agil, etc... Strange... but I guess it makes sense... isk is easier in 0.0... travel for them in empire is dangerous for them sometimes.
insurance has been on maybe 5 jobs so far... not taken as much as I thought... though I don't like the isk being tied up, the customer does pay extra for that.
thinking of changing some things around in the new year... stuff has settled at work so I am going to re write the OP to give more information, and better details... also adapt it for contracts... so far item exchange is all I have used... I tried working out how a loan might work... but it added to much complication. If things stay this steady I might have to put up a second tower
(my most expensive BPO researched has been a raven... almost researched a carrier, but I did not have the collateral for it and the customer found one for sale pre researched... otherwise ALLOT of small bpos and allot of the new battle cruisers... no Rohk)
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Posted - 2006.12.27 20:29:00 -
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Originally by: demonfurbie ill eve mail ya tonight ... what if the research i want doesn't last a full day am i still charged for the full day
yes... minimum charge is one full day
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Posted - 2007.01.05 15:16:00 -
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things are going to be delayed this weekend a bit
my wife and I are going to Shadowcon
I will be able to login there with my wife's computer (geek wife = win), but I won't be able to access my jobs database while away from my home network (hosted on an internal server... yes I am paranoid)
so i won't be accepting any new jobs until Monday, nor will any jobs that finish during the weekend be sent out until Monday.
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Posted - 2007.01.08 23:36:00 -
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back from the con...
was fun... but back to work.
I am going to adjust a couple of things this upcoming week, since I finally have a feel for things with the new contracts... nothing drastic, but mainly just a streamlining of the information.
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Posted - 2007.01.10 21:13:00 -
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ANGRY at the eve-mail bug where mails are still marked as unread... gah, makes it hard to track who I have already responded to.
anyway... ok... I updated the first post with some new info.
1) i have the skills to research the prototype cloak I now on one of my alts... going to work on the skills for the warp bubble I's as soon as i find who sells them.
2) all my alts now have the various rigging skills for researching rigs (it took a while to get rigging on all of the alts, and there was a large backlog of rig BPOs)
3) adjusting prices slightly. I am still charging 400k a day... the difference is the rounding. I am rounding up instead of down. For most of my customers, it won't matter all that much. What this does is make the massive amount of short run bpos i have been researching recently more expensive, but the long run multie week jobs no real change
I am now charing 5% for buying the bpos up front (been doing alot of the probe bpos... and they are sold in low sec)
and finally... i adjusted insurance from 1% to 3%. I do not like having my isk tied up in insurance. The option is still there, but it just costs more.
any quotes I have given out before this time are still valid (so far 5 accepted quotes... so not to worried). I waited until a "lul" to make this pricing change... been planning since late december.
other that... thank you to all of my customers, and I welcome all future customers. I have been able to keep 45 ME slots running 24/7 since I first opened up the business... tonight when I get home from work I will have a bit of statistics... how many compleated jobs, how many current jobs ^_^
(btw... i don't ask people to post here after a job recommending me. I don't mind, and I think it is very helpful and nice of them, I just feel funny asking people to do it. thank you to all of my customers who have responded, and those who have not, no guilt, no worries, thank you for your business and isk)
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Posted - 2007.01.11 05:20:00 -
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so far...
44 jobs compleated (job is a quote of one or more BPOs to a single person)
13 jobs currently being processed
9 quotes given but not accepted yet (some of these are new, some are old quotes that were redone or split between two new quotes)
most expensive BPO is the raven (still in research... but almost done)
most common is the capacitor control circuit rig BPO
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Posted - 2007.01.11 14:04:00 -
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Originally by: arghblargh id be looking for 6 frigs to me10. whats the quote? my own calc came to 16.8m i think
send me an eve-mail in game and I can get you a quote
I believe that each frigate will cost 3,200,000 isk (8 days to reach me:10) but when i build the quote I can get an exact number
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Posted - 2007.01.20 23:16:00 -
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One of my alts can now research the mobile warp disruptor
at least one alt has electronics 5, engineering 5, mechanic 5, and science 5... which means that any specialty skill needed (any of the R&D skills) can be gotten faster now. I don't know if research on any tech 1 blueprint requires anything beyond these skills (I know the tech 2s do... but not any tech 1)
Metallurgy 5 Research 5 Science 5 Electronic Engineering 4 Graviton Physics 4 Hydromagnetic Physics 4 Quantum Physics 4
meh... either way... i can research the protocloak and the warp bubbles now...
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Posted - 2007.01.28 02:41:00 -
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Originally by: Crestingmoon Greetings:
I am interested in using your research services. I am looking to have researched a drake bc bpo. I do not own the print so I suppose I could buy it or arrange to deliver it to your service spot. I am in the border region between amarr/caldari space and the in game toon to contact with a price quote will be Crestingmoon. I look forward to working with your bp research service.
BTW do you sell copies of capital ship component bp's?
Thanks Crestingmoon
EMail sent in game...
and i don't have cap ships parts... yet... need to finish with the battleships... have to buy 5 more then I move into cap ships
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Posted - 2007.02.11 05:42:00 -
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Originally by: Ryan Scouse'UK didnt Romeo or whatever he is called.. try this same thing ? Only his was a scam ;)
sadly yes.
I do offer full npc value insurance... mainly for peace of mind. If the customer is worried that it is a scam, they get to hold the full npc value of the bpos.
meh... I am not worried one way or another. my main form of income is BPCs... the renting of the ME slots is a way to get some extra money on the side using the resources I already had setup from my own research (500+ bpos my self)
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Posted - 2007.02.25 18:57:00 -
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Originally by: Kyril Aeris Hello,
It would be nice to know when a BPO maxes out for ME. (or when diminish returns becomes to little to be non-existant)
For example , "You would recommened ME 15 for maximum savings/research time."
Something of that sort would be awesome.
thanks
for personal use, I tend to recommend me:9 to people. That is about 1% waste, and seams to be the optimal for time vs savings. For some of the faster items to research I normally recommend 1 days worth of research if it is higher than me:9
for more general use, such as selling bpcs, or for mass production, me:15 is the minimum I recommend. I have found that BPCs below me:15 don't sell, if at all, and with ships, the current sweet spot for bpc selling seams to be me:30, which is what most customers seam to expect.
to find when a BPO maxes out for ME research, take the highest mineral value in the bill of materials, divide by 5, and round up, that is "perfect" me. Some say round down, but when i tried this with some rig BPOs, it was still not perfect, not until I added one more level of ME, so rounding up worked on all things. If you don't care about wasting a trit or two, use the highest mineral value of the minerals you care about, and get quasy perfect BPOs
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Posted - 2007.02.28 17:30:00 -
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Originally by: pulse1976 Edited by: pulse1976 on 27/02/2007 15:02:48 I use this spreadsheet by FUBAR to calculate the "ideal" ME to research to. It will show you how much approximately you are saving per ME level and approximate time it will take (it doesn't take into account that you get a bonus on the research time from a Research Lab!) This sheet will save you time and money (sorry Quutar!) on your research but should allow you to maximise your profits from needless research. It may also help you, Quutar, to get more customers in!!
Edit: actually added the link this time!
I tend to use Tinkymouse's Production Calculator, but it is not hosted anymore on a website.
and I don't mind that people would be looking to maximize their profit based on the research, I will research as much or as little as the customer wants. I had one person who wanted to research a set of heavy missile BPOs to absolute perfect... for personal occasional building for mission running. showed him the price difference, and he decided to go with a much lower me level.
basically I do what the customer wants, and if things seam a bit odd (a customer asked for two and a half months of research on one BPO), i double check with the customer before proceeding (he confirmed that he knew it would be that long).
I am not trying to maximize my profit with this business venture. Most of my money comes from BPC sales (that is why copy slots are so expensive), from mission running, and from trading. I had setup the labs and trained all my alts to handle my own BPO collection (I have 500+), and once they were all well researched... though on how to leverage the now unused assets.
I was going to either buy bpos, research them, and then resell them, or rent out my spare slots. I decided, obviously, to go with the rental, since I remembered how much of a pain in the... it was to find empire slots.
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Posted - 2007.02.28 17:30:00 -
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Originally by: pulse1976 Edited by: pulse1976 on 27/02/2007 15:02:48 I use this spreadsheet by FUBAR to calculate the "ideal" ME to research to. It will show you how much approximately you are saving per ME level and approximate time it will take (it doesn't take into account that you get a bonus on the research time from a Research Lab!) This sheet will save you time and money (sorry Quutar!) on your research but should allow you to maximise your profits from needless research. It may also help you, Quutar, to get more customers in!!
Edit: actually added the link this time!
I tend to use Tinkymouse's Production Calculator, but it is not hosted anymore on a website.
and I don't mind that people would be looking to maximize their profit based on the research, I will research as much or as little as the customer wants. I had one person who wanted to research a set of heavy missile BPOs to absolute perfect... for personal occasional building for mission running. showed him the price difference, and he decided to go with a much lower me level.
basically I do what the customer wants, and if things seam a bit odd (a customer asked for two and a half months of research on one BPO), i double check with the customer before proceeding (he confirmed that he knew it would be that long).
I am not trying to maximize my profit with this business venture. Most of my money comes from BPC sales (that is why copy slots are so expensive), from mission running, and from trading. I had setup the labs and trained all my alts to handle my own BPO collection (I have 500+), and once they were all well researched... though on how to leverage the now unused assets.
I was going to either buy bpos, research them, and then resell them, or rent out my spare slots. I decided, obviously, to go with the rental, since I remembered how much of a pain in the... it was to find empire slots.
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Posted - 2007.03.26 20:44:00 -
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Still open, and still researching.
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Posted - 2007.05.02 18:29:00 -
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Still researching, still working ^_^
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Posted - 2007.06.24 17:42:00 -
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I am going to begin training my R&D alts to have cybernetics 5...
5% reduction in ME research time is going to be nice.
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Posted - 2007.07.04 15:25:00 -
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I will be on vacation until the 12th of July. My internet access during this time will be... unreliable.
I am taking the notes of the existing jobs, so I should be able to deliver them when done, but I will not be accepting new jobs until the 12th of July.
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Posted - 2007.07.12 17:58:00 -
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ok, back from my vacation.
All current jobs that finished while I was away have been delivered. I have 4 jobs that are currently running, and won't be done until tonight (for one of them) and a couple more weeks.
I am now accepting new research jobs.
two of my R&D alts will have cybernetics 5 "soon" which will then get the 5% ME, PE, and copy implants. I can only work on two alts at a time, but eventually all of my R&D alts will have those for the best research outside of a Caldari outpost.
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Posted - 2007.07.20 19:57:00 -
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Edited by: Quutar on 20/07/2007 19:58:18
Well... one of the jobs finished is now unclaimed by "0kina 0sume"... I am going to auction them both off... I am only posting this person's name in the hopes that they will see it and claim the job. Normally I never publicly list my clients.
So far the only other time this has happened... the customer had quit playing eve all together, and he allowed his corp to claim the job in his place.
The contract with the BPOs has been up and not claimed. The person who contacted me is in a noob corp, and has always been in a noob corp. I have no other way to contact this person (not unusual).
Every time I try to eve-mail the person... I get "You, your corporation, or your alliance has been blocked from that recipient or mailing list (Mode: Disallowed)" I have tried from a completely new character... it looks like he/she ignores by default.
Even though I could not eve-mail the person... I still put both contracts up in the hope that he/she might login and see it... even though I could not eve-mail.
It is obviously an alt (member of noob corp)... but I don't know the main.
At this point, I will publicly auction off the blueprints to try to recover the cost of research and insurance.
Auction is here.
Rokh - me:30 npc cost - 1,485,000,000 5% fee - 74,250,000 research fee - 28,400,000 Minimum Bid (rounded down to the nearest 5m) - 1,585,000,000
(the user requested insurance) 11 weeks of research, 4 weeks of "contract wait" = 15 weeks of "insurance". - 45% Insurance value is 668,250,000 Buyout (rounded down) is 2,255,000,000
Hyperion - me:30 npc - 1,584,000,000 5% fee - 79,200,000 research - 28,400,000 Minimum Bid (rounded down) - 1,690,000,000
(the user requested insurance) 11 weeks of research, 4 weeks of "contract wait" = 15 weeks of "insurance". - 45% insurance value is 712,800,000 buyout (rounded down) is 2,400,000,000
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Posted - 2007.10.31 19:56:00 -
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I am going to be moving my research services out of the caldari space, and move into domain...
also... almost every research alt now has the 5% ML and the 5% PL implant... I will adjust the front text when they do Quutar Research Services Selling Amarr Outpost BPCs ME:10 |
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Posted - 2007.11.19 17:03:00 -
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ok... OP updated with the fact that all 6 of my research alts have the 5% ML and the 5% PL research implants to give that little extra edge.
I have also moved into domain. I am not longer doing research in Otela (nice highsec pos location for people. I could recommend that system highly... 3 jumps from jita). I have moved into capital ship production, and wanted to make sure that my R&D corp was close to support it.
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