Something that’s come up a few times from people is the ability to set the ME for components especially on capitals.

Previously the way that I calculated the raw mineral need was to assume that all capital component BPOs were ME 0 giving you the worst case scenario and then the project would recalculate it’s need as you added industry jobs from the API. I didn’t add an option to set the ME levels of sub components because, well basically I hate administration and just wanted a rough estimate for getting the job done.

Well after getting the blueprints section up and running, I’ve begun to integrate those features into other areas of the site and the most obvious one is projects. If you’re not using the blueprints feature, read the wiki here and the blog above on what it can do.

After the initial set up, the next time you go into a job that requires components, you will notice that the mineral need for the project is reduced. On the components tab is now an ME column so you can see what the latest blueprints values were. The algorithm favours BPOs over BPCs and looks for live items which are currently either in the industry queue or in your assets. This is so that it doesn’t give you values for a BPC that has long been used thus throwing off your current mineral need.

If the project is a personal one then it will check your personal asset store or if a corporate will check the corps assets and use those BP values.

the Manufacturing calculator will still assume the ME is 0 for sub components as this section of the site is for a rough calculation only.