Revision as of 18:32, 18 February 2011

CAREER: Reprocessor

The Reprocessor lives to break down a bargain into core pieces and then turn those pieces into profit. As such they must be a jack-of-all-trades in order to recognize an opportunity and quickly take advantage of it. Keeping an eye on the markets in your region and finding out what's happening across it is just the start of process of making a profit.

Reprocessing is a combination of refining and recycling. Ore, manufactured goods, and loot are refined into their component minerals, and ice is refined into ice products. Nearly every item in New Eden has a base material composition. What an item can be reprocessed into is listed in the item database.

Tools of the Trade

Skills

The direct factors involved in reprocessing are:

• the recycling constant of 37.5%
• the refinery facility's reprocessing plant's base yield,
• your exact skilled standing with the refinery station or facility
• your skills in Refining, Refinery Efficiency, and the special processing skill related to whatever you are reprocessing
• due to the direct standing factor, your skill in Connections, Criminal Connections, or Diplomacy may be indirect factors as well

The specialized processing skills are:

• Ice Processing (all varieties of ice)
• Veldspar Processing (asteroid ore)
• Scordite Processing (asteroid ore)
• Pyroxeres Processing (asteroid ore)
• Plagioclase Processing (asteroid ore)
• Omber Processing (asteroid ore)
• Kernite Processing (asteroid ore)
• Jaspet Processing (asteroid ore)
• Hemorphite Processing (asteroid ore)
• Hedbergite Processing (asteroid ore)
• Gneiss Processing (asteroid ore)
• Dark Ochre Processing (asteroid ore)
• Spodumain Processing (asteroid ore)
• Crokite Processing (asteroid ore)
• Bistot Processing (asteroid ore)
• Arkonor Processing (asteroid ore)
• Mercoxit Processing (asteroid ore)
• Scrapmetal Processing (manufactured goods - basically everything else)

Facilities

To reprocess, you must be in a station or an outpost with a reprocessing plant, or a POS with a refining array. The Reprocess window will show what yield you will obtain from the station or facility you are in, but depending upon the quality of the facility, and the standings you have with the corporation that owns the facility, the yield will differ.

The Reprocessor at Work

Once you have found a facility to work with :

• You can select as few or as many items to reprocess or to refine at once as you like.
• Right-click on the selected items and choose reprocess if you're working with items or refine if you're working with ore.
• The reprocessing window will display with the items selected on one side and the exact amount of minerals you will receive from that facility on the other.
• At this point, you can choose to either reprocess or cancel to not do the operation.

Tips and Advice

In some cases, an item’s price will fall below the value of the minerals gained from reprocessing it. If this gap is sufficiently large, there is an opportunity for reprocessing arbitrage. A Reprocessor can buy the item, reprocess it, and immediately sell the minerals, or place sell orders, for a profit. This occurred in large quantities when shuttles were still sold by NPCs for 9,000 ISK and could be reprocessed for 2,500 Tritanium. When Tritanium prices rose above 4.0 ISK per unit, there was an opportunity for arbitrage since shuttle prices were below the value of their reprocessed minerals.

The currently known reprocessing percentage return formulas are:

• refining_factor = 1+(refining_skill_level*0.02)
• efficiency_factor = 1+(refinery_efficiency_skill_level*0.04)
• specialization_factor = 1+(special_processing_skill_level*0.05)
• Net Yield = station_equipment_base_yield + recycling_constant * refining_factor * efficiency_factor * specialization_factor

You can use the Net Yield formula to calculate the percentage return, or simply go to the facility and review the percentage before actually refining.

Reprocessing items one-by-one can sometimes save you some resources, because total reprocessing output is rounded to the closest integer.

Manufactured goods (such as modules, ships, and rigs) are recycled for their previous materials. For example:

• Tech I module/ship => minerals
• capital ship =>capital ship components
• rig => salvage
• a very small selection of items in New Eden may not be reprocessed