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Icon of the Prototype facility

Every facility has 'Production Points' ranging from (0 to 375), shown in each facility window at the top right corner as material ratio, time ratio or efficiency increase. Production points determine the efficiency of the facility, the more production points the better its efficiency. Alpha islands (Safe islands) have a maximum of 50 points, Beta islands(PVP) have a maximum of 125 points and Gamma islands(PVP) 375.

Note that facilities are not the only factor effecting efficiency. Calibration templates (CT) Relation ratio (Faction Standings) and extension points (EP) all add up your production points, that determines your agent's efficiency. You can find out the breakdown of all production points by hovering cursor at the top right corner of any facility window, where the production points are shown.

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At present, all facilities can only handle raw materials and commodities that are located in your private storage, so you need to store required materials there for any job you want to run.

The facility

The Prototype facility can be used to create an item without the need of calibrating factory lines with a calibration template. Prototypes are also superior to regular items - they have slightly better statistics in one or more areas. The drawback to this method, however, is a dramatically higher cost than standard mass production. The Prototype facility is generally the only option for items that are either too rare from NPCs, or too expensive on the market. Note, however, that you can only create a prototype of something you’ve already researched to 100% in your knowledge base.

Although better than normal mods, most prototypes never see the field of battle because of the expense involved in their creation. The primary purpose of a prototype is to be used up in the creation of Calibration templates in Reverse engineering.

Creating a prototype is simple. If you have the required amount of commodities and - in some cases - fragments (alien parts) in your private storage, you can start prototype creation. Note that you can only run 1 prototype per job, so increase the number of parallel manufacturing processes by installing additional levels of the appropriate extensions if you wish to create multiple prototypes at the same time.

Facility ratios

Additional parameters that affect your total efficiency.

Relation ratio - Improve this factor by reaching a good relationship with the owner of the facility.

Material ratio - The material efficiency of prototyping is improved with the Basic/Advanced/Expert Efficient Prototype Production extensions..

Time ratio – The speed of prototyping is improved with the Basic/Advanced/Expert Intensive Prototype Production extensions.

Parallel Runs – The number of prototyping jobs to be run simultaneously can be improved with the Basic/Advanced/Expert Extensive Prototype production extensions.

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