Manufacturing Rigs

A rig is a module that cannot be removed from a ship without destroying it. Some rigs also apply penalties. Where modules and ships require minerals and tech 2 construction components, rigs require salvage, which is harvested from rat or player ship wrecks.To fit a rig requires certain skills, but once fit, the ship may be traded to a player without those skills; the effects of the rigs will still apply.

Requirements:

• Industry I
• Jury Rigging I
  • Mechanic III

Tech I Rig production is easy, and a lot of the Rigs are well worth installing. The best way to assess the market for Rigs is to simply check ship fitting suggestions and work from there.

Requirements:

• Industry V
• Jury Rigging I
  • Mechanic III

Manufacturing Tech II rigs is a trickier business proposition. The rig components are rare and expensive, and the market rate on these components make them a questionable investment.

Tech II rigs require different salvage than Tech I. This salvage comes from Tech II ship wrecks. To salvage these wrecks requires more time than a Tech I or rat wreck, and requires Salvaging III as a minimum. It's also said that officer spawns can also yield T2 salvage.

Because of the relative rarity of these ships, these components can be much more expensive to buy on the market. It also means that they aren't as frequently used.

Although rig production uses a small amount of salvage (compared to mineral requirements for T1 ships), waste will easily chew through the profit margins of rig manufacturing. Fortunately, it is quick and easy to research rig blueprints to eliminate all blueprint waste. Note that having Production Efficiency V is likewise mandatory to eliminate the 20% skill-based waste.

Rigs now come in three sizes: small, medium and large. Medium rigs use 1/5 as much salvage as large rigs and smalls use 1/5 as much salvage as medium rigs (or, 1/25 as much as large rigs). As such, medium and small rigs blueprints require less research, if any, to be perfect.

The following skills are required to do material research on a rig BPO:

• The Rigging skill for the Rig in question
• Metallurgy