Originally by: Kelmor Malbeth

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Edited by: Kelmor Malbeth on 08/06/2008 20:58:22
each item is diffrent, and will depend on 2 main things:
1 the wastage factor of the blue print
2 how many materials are need in it`s production

For each Blue Print you will have a Perfect Material Level (PME), thats is a Certain ME when adding extra lvl`s of ME research will make no diffrence on the ammount of materials required.

there are a lot of spreadsheet`s and webpage calculators that will do the maths for you but basically the PME for any given material is:
= Base Material / 5 (this means that you will have a diffrent PME for each material used in the blue print)

to work out how much of a material is required at a given ME lvl you can use the following forumula:
Base material + base material*(wastage factor/(1+ME lvl))

this means that for each ME lvl you research, the given benifit is a lot less compared to the previous lvl.

allso it`s important to consider that while getting to the PME for a costly material like megacyte may be usefull, saving yourself 3isk per trit. really isn`t.

edit: typo in formula

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Originally by: Elhina Novae

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Also about wastage. When you actually produce/manufacture something it's rounded up correct? So when making a Rig i will always loose 1 of each salvage component nomatter what ME i have?

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Originally by: Pwett

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if you have the time, capital components are much appreciated near the 50 mark :)

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Originally by: Kelmor Malbeth

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currently the manufacturing is rounded down, so that for example if you want 2 rig`s of the same type and the BPO says you need 60 AP`s

making 1 rig then another rig afterwards will mean you use 120 AP`s
making 2 rigs at once may mean you will need 121 AP`s

so in a sense you are peanilised for making multiply runs of an item at once, which really is a bit of a arse over tit way of doing it.

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