Comparing time / cost when researching blueprints in another system?

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Hi,

Apologies if this is a frequent question.

Ingame I can fly out / drop a blueprint into a station, and see how long / how much it’s going to cost for the material / time upgrades.

Is there a way of then comparing to another system easily? Without going to each system directly?

And based on that I’d then potentially go and do the research elsewhere.

Cheers,

G.

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  1. select your blueprint
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  2. place it in the industry window
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  3. go in the “factilities” tab, select the required service and sort by index cost increasing, and select one
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  4. compare with another
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very good explainer!

what makes the difference is the System index SCC charges (in structures) and taxes.

if do research on mass, its maybe feasable to put up a pos in a system that has no other research facility, the index will be almost zero then,
we have one in a school system, far away from the newbies … system index 0.05% … that’s neat.

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surcharge is added to the cost index
alpha surcharge is added to the cost index
owner tax is added to the cost index

so 4% surcharge, no alpha, 0.25% owner tax in a 1.0% cost index => 5.25 % job installation tax.

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That’s really helpful, thank you for explaining the system.

I knew there had to be a way, I was trying to click the Facility in the top right and getting nowhere.

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