All About EVE Online

Making Mountains of Molehills (3 of 10)

 

	Objective:	Produce/Manufacture 2 units of a Civilian Afterburner
	Given:	Blueprint copy of a Civilian Afterburner (2 runs of 1 unit per run)
	Reward:	“Expanded Cargohold I” module
	Bonus:	101,000 ISK

 

Mission Log: Reginald Mental (that’s me), Capt. My agent is still testing me, but he is giving me more to do each time. This time I need to manufacture 2 civilian afterburners, but I need some more ore so it’s back to the asteroid belts. Once I had all the ore I needed in station, it was just a matter of running it through the processor plant. Ok now that I have the Tritainum that I need I need to rent some space at the manufacturing plant and set up the system to make these afterburners. Fortunately this station had a manufacturing plant. I selected the plant, found and open slot, plugged in the blueprints and where my minerals where and where I wanted the product delivered and the number of runs. Then it was just a matter of checking over the summary and accepting the quote. I only had to wait a few minutes before they were ready, and sign for the delivery. Unfortunately the Blueprints only had two runs on them and so I never got them back. Once I had everything ready I checked in with the agent and got my reward and bonus.

- End Log -

 

• Ok this is going to be a bit of a work up, but I covered the gist of it in my story.
• Each Blueprint will tell you what it needs to build an item, how many items it can build at one time and if it’s a copy, how many runs (or items) it has left.
• You should be ok now with mining and processing ore to minerals. Now it’s time to do something with them. Open the “Science & Industry” window by clicking on its icon. Select the ‘Installations’ tab and set the drop downs to the following settings: Activity to Manufacturing, Location to Any, Range to Current Station, and Type to Public. And click on the Factory that comes up in the top window. If no installations appear adjust the range out more one at a time, but you should have one at the tutorial agent station. To find and open slot (or the earliest one to open up) click on the heading in the second wind ‘Next Free Time’ until and up arrow appears. You should see a list of ‘Now’ in green appear (or yellow text with the time the next slot will be open). Select one of these slots and hit the ‘Install Job’ button. Now to select the Blueprint, simply hit the ‘Select Blueprint’ button and find it in the list that appears. Click ok. The following are easy to understand ‘Input/Output’ is the locations of the raw materials need to build the item and the location for the delivered item. And the number of runs you what, in this case 2. Click ‘ok’. A new window will come up telling you what materials and skills are needed (red ‘X’ will show you are lacking this item), how much it will cast to use the slot and how long it will take. Select eh ‘Accept Quote’ button and the job will start. Open the ‘Jobs’ tab of the ‘Science & Industry’ window and hit ‘Get Jobs’. Once your job is ready the ‘Cancel Job’ Button will change to ‘Deliver’. Hit that and you items will be delivered to your hanger (or where you specified in the output).
• A few things to know about Blueprints. Some items are built in multiples, missiles for example can be built by the hundreds and hybrid ammo can be by the 1000’s. You will see this number after the ‘Item Built’ in the first tab of the blueprint info. So before you ask it to run you missiles 1000 times just take a look at the number per run (unless you want 100,000 missiles right now)
• Blueprint copies (BPC) have a limited set of runs; once those runs are used the BPC goes away. If there are more runs available or it is a Blueprint Original (BPO), the BP will be delivered back to your hanger (or Corporate Hanger) when the job is finished.