THE JUMPGATE DEFINITIVE GUIDE - Tripod

of an item that will be produced if all the commodities required for production
are present. It varies by item and station: Two stations that notionally produce
the same thing may have different production indices. Production of large
quantities at one may be quicker than at the other.
Electronics Part I
Electronics are made using a combination of Aluminum, Chemicals, Copper,
Gold and Silicon.
Amananth produces Electronics.
If all five required commodities are present at Amananth station, production will
start. Up to 27 units (the station's production index for Electronics - subject to
change) may be produced each cycle. At the end of each cycle, the additional
units of Electronics will be placed on the station market. Production will continue
until one or more of the required commodities runs out.
Note that the required commodities may be present in the station's hidden
inventory, and not visible from the public market. For example, Amananth
stores up to about 200 units of Silicon in its hidden inventory.
Also note that cycles do not start the moment commodities are sold to the
market - they are already running. The first batch of finished product may
therefore take anywhere between a few seconds and six minutes to be
produced.
One unit of finished product is made using different volumes of each required
commodity. On average 0.1 of each required commodity is used to make one
unit of finished product. However, that average varies greatly.
Certain stations are more efficient in their use of commodities in production than
other stations.
Electronics Part II
One unit of Electronics is made from: 0.1 Aluminum, 0.1 Copper, 0.05 Gold, 0.2
Silicon, and 0.05 Chemicals.
If Amananth had a Tooling Center (see
http://www.jossh.com/database/buildings/tooling_center.html ), production
efficiency would increase, so the same volume of required commodities
originally used to make 1 unit of Electronics would now make about 1.1 units.
Non-station buildings are becoming increasingly important as sources of
commodities and equipment. There are three that are particularly relevant -
Nano Assemblers, Custom Producers, and Science Factories.
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