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Researching Material-Effiency on Blueprints with Components

Lets say I buy myself a blueprint original that only uses Components for materials. In this example, I will use an Amarr Control Tower Blueprint. Will researching Material Level reduce the number of Components needed?

I realize that there is no such thing as parts of a Component. However, if the blueprint uses 32 Integrated Response Drones and has a wastage factor of 10%, would it be possible to improve the blueprint to use 3 less Integrated Response Drones?

Looking at some researched tower blueprints in Contracts leads me to believe there is no gain for Material Level on these kinds of blueprints. Is this the case?

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melissa blick [ Editor ]

Yes, it does make difference. I use the program eve-meep to get the ideal material efficiency values for blueprints. For the Amarr Control Tower Blueprint for example, it tells me the ideal ME is 6, and there is zero wastage for any component at this ME level.

eve-meep will show you the ideal me w.r.t each component used in manufacture. Typically you just want the ideal ME where you are wasting zero high end ore or components.

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This seems to only apply to towers. All POS module BPOs seem to have no benefit to ME research.

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As far as I can tell, control tower blueprints are not affected by material research.

More generally, the way blueprints work is that they require raw materials and extra materials. Raw materials are affected by the material level of the blueprint, and if you reprocess the product you will get the (ideal, without waste) raw materials back. Extra materials are not affected by waste, and if you reprocess the product you will not get extra materials back.

When you get a quote for manufacturing, raw materials, extra materials, and skills are split out into separate sections. If you want to know if any given blueprint is affected by material research, try to build from it (even if you don't have any of the materials required), and check to see if there are any raw materials in the quote.

One of the best examples of the difference between raw and extra materials is the various bomb blueprints. The Concussion Bomb requires over a million units of tritanium to build, but recycling it yields only 10,000.

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