Material Efficiency

[Gabriale]

If you have a blueprint that only requires 4 units of materials for manufacture, it seems that researching material efficiency to the max of -10% materials required would do nothing. 4 units - 0.4 units will get rounded back to needing 4 units.

BUT… what if you plan to do 20 runs? Suddenly you need 80 units and 10% of 80 is a big enough number that you could actually save on the required materials… assuming the game uses the same maths that make sense to me. 80-8=only 72 units required. Unless the game just decides that each run requires 4-0.4=4 units, And 4x20 = 80. So 80 units still required even though you bothered to research ME to max.

Which way does Eve Online calculate this? Can there be a benefit to researching the ME when the required materials is only 4 units or less?

[Geo_Eclipse_Oksaras]

I think this will answer your questions

Material Efficiency Research

Material Efficiency calculations are applied to the whole job, not individual runs. This means manufacturing a large batch of items will still give some reduction on Assembly Arrays instead of being simply negated. The formula is as such:

Job Material = Blueprint required material * Material Reduction factor

[Dark_Lord_Trump]

@Gabriale

80-8=only 72 units required.

This is how it works. The exception is items that the blueprint only requires 1 of. You’ll never be able to use less of those than the number of runs no matter how hard you try.