Project Orca - the cost, time and materials

The Cost

I built a spreadsheet a while ago that would, for any item input, show the items required, whether it is best to manufacture them or buy (vs Jita prices) and takes it right down to the raw materials.

In terms of the raw materials required for any component or for the whole Orca i can use Cookbook.  A fantastic website that will show me what i need given the metrics of the BPC.

Bottom line is that with all raw materials and the range of manufacturing fees it will cost me 1.35 billion to build the orca.

Blueprint Copies

The first thing i did was to take my Obelisk to Amarr to stock up on BPCs and any raw materials i could not get in Kihtaled.

As luck would have it there was a contract listing all the BPCs i would need for an orca, costing me 50m isk (sort of looked an ok price to me, no idea).

Kihtaled had all the Minerals i required leaving to me buy the other raw materials required.

Adjustors to Material Requirements

There are two ways that i know of to reduce material requirements:

The BPC itself can have material efficiencies.  In this case the Orca BPC i bought has a 9% efficiency and many of the component BPCs have their own efficiencies of typically 10%

The station / structure i use can have its own efficiencies

Adjustors to Time Requirements

For times, threre are three ways i am away of to reduce the time taken:

The BPC itself can have material efficiencies.  In this case the Orca BPC i bought has a 16% efficiency and many of the component BPCs have their own efficiencies of typically 20%

My own  skills in Production.

The station / structure i use can have its own efficiencies

Components required

The orca is not made from scratch.  It is made by combining manufactured components together.

Hence, the first step is to manufacture the components.

For some of these one BPC will over the lot, for others i need a few BPCs to get them all done.  Overall, this required two characters manufacturing all these components to get all the manufacturing off running at the same time.

Materials required

Given the above component requirements and given the material efficiencies awarded this is the required material input.