Talk:Engineering (Apocalypse)

Chart format stolen from Quant page!! This eventually will be the Profit Per Item chart.

Time to build is always completed on the hour:

• one simple project may be take three minutes to make one item, but your 'Construction Complete' screen appears only on the new hour - all the other idle minutes waiting for the new hour transtitution, was wa$ted!
• starting a project anytime within the current hour will also depend if it will be on-the-next-hour completion. It may take only a few minutes to build, but if that time stretches into the next hour, you will still get your results on-the-hour, wasting up to 59minutes of manufacturing time. (your project should have taken one hour, but you guessed wrong and it took two hours, wasting alot of time)
• optimising time versus output is best when calculating the quantity possible so that it completes just before on-the-hour:

eg: there is no point in building one simple item (eg: takes five minutes to build) if the "building completion screen" only appears on-the-hour.

Example in quantity optimisation:
The total amount possible (eg: takes five minutes to build) in one hour, and every hour thereafter is:

{60min / 5build = 12qty}

but if the project is started at (eg:) 27minutes into the current hour, then optimal time VS quantity in the remaining hour would be:

{60min - 27min = 33min}

of build time available, which would give:

{33mins / 5build = 6qty}

with 3mins remaining before new-hour-transtition, meaning: 6qty versus 1qty built inside the current hour.
...and if sold, x6 the profit!

If the project were to be optimised for a multi-hour production run, the calculation would be:
eg: four hours production time and using that example above.

quantity in remaining hour time + (quantity build each hour x hours you want) = Total Project Quantity.

{6qty + (12qty x 3hrs) = 4hours, or

{6qty + (12qty x 3hrs) = 42qty.

...with three minutes wasted out of four hours!

Manufacture Item	Build Cost	Build Time	Facility	Quantity Day¹	Market Capacity	Sell Price	Raw Profit²	Profit³
manufacturable	buildcost	buildtime	small/large	quantday	marketcap	sellprice	rawprofit	money
Bio-Transport Moudle	700	4000	small	quantday	4	950	250	money
Boomeroid	230	3000	small	quantday	15	840	610	money
Vortex Mine	250	5000	small	quantday	25	1130	880	money
Disruptor Gun	600	7000	small	quantday	10	2100	1500	money
Devastator Cannon	1200	12000	small	quantday	20	4500	3300	money
Dimension Missile Launcher	1200	5500	small	quantday	25	3100	1900	money
Dimension Missile	400	4000	small	quantday	30	1300	900	money
Personal Disruptor Shield	2000	14000	small	quantday	30	5770	3770	money
Personal Cloaking Field	3000	18000	small	quantday	30	8300	5300	money
Personal Teleporter	6000	25000	small	quantday	40	18200	12200	money
Toxigun	1200	3000	small	quantday	8	2780	1580	money
Toxigun A	200	800	small	quantday	16	500	300	money
Toxigun B	300	900	small	quantday	16	700	400	money
Toxigun C	400	1000	small	quantday	16	900	500	money
AAG Heavy	280	1200	small	quantday	15	700	420	money
AAG Mini	360	1600	small	quantday	30	900	540	money
AAG Grenade	250	1000	small	quantday	15	600	350	money
Disruptor Armor - Head	1500	3800	small	quantday	20	3480	1980	money
Disruptor Armor - Chest	1500	3800	small	quantday	20	3480	1980	money
Disruptor Armor - Arms	1200	3400	small	quantday	20	2830	1630	money
Disruptor Armor - Leg	1200	3400	small	quantday	20	2830	1630	money
Inversion Launcher	3000	8000	large	quantday	8	7000	4000	money
Inversion Missile	1500	4000	large	quantday	25	3500	2000	money
Stasis Launcher	2000	6000	large	quantday	10	4760	2760	money
Stasis Missile	1200	2000	large	quantday	20	2650	1450	money
Multibomb Launcher	4000	10000	large	quantday	14	9260	5260	money
Multibomb Missile	1800	5000	large	quantday	30	4230	2430	money
Light Disruptor Beam	2000	12000	large	quantday	5	5600	3600	money
Medium Disruptor Beam	4000	20000	large	quantday	10	10500	6500	money
Heavy Disruptor Beam	8000	35000	large	quantday	15	20500	12500	money
Small Disruption Shield	5000	20000	large	quantday	10	12500	7500	money
Large Disruption Shield	8000	30000	large	quantday	15	19800	11800	money
Cloaking Field	6000	35000	large	quantday	17	16450	10450	money
Teleporter	11000	45000	large	quantday	20	27700	16700	money
Advanced Control System	4000	15000	small	quantday	6	8000	4000	money
Dimension Probe	6000	250000	large	quantday	2	10000	4000	money
Bio-Trans	12000	35000	large	quantday	2	34000	22000	money
Explorer	22000	550000	large	quantday	2	44000	22000	money
Retaliator	35000	75000	large	quantday	2	70000	35000	money
Annihilator	50000	100000	large	quantday	2	100000	50000	money

¹ when using all engineers with 100 skill. ie: the best possible scenario.
² not regarding time, salary, maintenance.
³ basic cost per time.