Blueprint Originals (BPO)¶

Blueprint originals are like the name already suggest, originals, unlike copies you can use them as often as you want. Be aware that industry jobs can take at max around 30 days.

You can identify blueprint originals by their dark blue color:

Sourcing Blueprint Originals¶

Not all blueprints have originals, for T2, Story and Faction there are only copies. There is an exception for T2, but we will talk about that in the BPC topic.

From NPCs/Market¶

All Blueprint Originals that can be obtained are seeded in NPC stations. The easiest way to find a station that seeds a blueprint, open the Regional Market and search for the Blueprint.

[!TIP] You will always be able to identify NPC sell orders by their expiry date, it will always be more than 90 days, as player sell orders can be at max 3 months.

Be aware that player will sell BPOs in Trade Hubs on the market for some markup.

Some faction specific Blueprints are only available in NPC stations in their region. One example for those BPOs is for example Component BPOs that are required for T2 Ships.

Example: - Fusion Thruster (Amarr) is only available in Amarr space - Ion Thruster (Gallente) is only availble in Gallente space - Magpulse Thruster (Caldari) is only available in Caldari space - Plasma Thruster (Minmatar) is only available in Minmatar space - Fission Thruster (Upwell) is special and is available in all Faction spaces

From Contracts¶

You can also find Blueprint Originals on contract, often they are already researched.

When you see a contract that looks good, make sure that you double check the contract.

The contract shows you that it is an Original Blueprint, the Material Efficiency and the Time Efficiency. In thise case it is an Origianal, ME is 9 and TE is 18, the max values is ME 10 and TE 20.

Before you accpet the contract do you own research, how much would the original cost, how much is the time effort of researching the BPO worth to you, how much is the tax cost on researching.

TODO: add link to calc the time and tax cist

Using Blueprint Originals¶

Researching¶

Blueprint originals can be research in order to reduce their material and time requirement. Both Material Efficiency (ME) and Time Efficiency (TE) can be research 10 times.

• Researching ME to max will give you a 10% bonus to the required materials.
• Reserching TE to max will give you a 20% bonus to the time required to the build time.

The cost of Researching a blueprint is time and isk. Depending on the Blueprint you are researching the time and isk cost will be different. A Frigate BPO will for example be very fast and very cheap, where as a Super Capital BPO will take very long and be very expensive.

[!TIP] For some blueprints it doesn't add much value researching them to the max level. For example, researching a Capital Ship BPO's to ME 8 is usually already enough, as researching it higher doesn't give any great benefits, espacially considering the costs involved.

Copying¶

Blueprint Originals can be infinitly create copies with a limited amount of runs. The copies will always retain the ME and TE of the Original, but will have a limited amount of runs. The maximum number of runs per BPC is dependent of the original, for example, a Frigate BPC is limited to 30 runs, where as a Cruiser BPC is limited to 10 runs.

Usages of BPCs will be discussed in the Copies (BPC) topic.

Manufacturing¶

Of course you can use them to actually build stuff. Like with all industry related actions, you are limited to a max of around 30 days (unless one run exceeds that). Which also means, that depending on the skill and structure, a different person might get more or less runs of a BPO than you.