Info for future reference. They do seem to make a fairly good return. Average investment around 1bill, research to ME30, and copies sell for approx 1.5mill each. That's about 135 x 5 runs copies to sell before you break even assuming you never build anything with it (bearing in mind you need several copies to build a single ship, see below for more details). I see a lot of contracts for 4 x 5 run BPC's in Jita for around 30mill which sell quite well, or you can be more specific and sell complete BPC 'packs' for around 400mill. Drone Bay BPO's are very popular because the build uses a lot more (most cap ship builders own two for this reason). But of course this means they're more common and don't sell so fast.
Incidentally, SUH and Lyrus are planning to put together a full set of carrier, dread and freighter BPOs (around 35bill all told). Lyrus has asked if anyone would be interested in going into partnership with them and sharing BPO's. I've said that I like the idea in principle, either as a corp, as individuals or both. Using an extension of the original ISSHI plan it would be mutually profitable. You'd need to be reliable and accessible - they key to capital production is timely supply of components since one missing component can screw it up for everyone.
Costs:
Carrier/Dread BPOs sell for between 1 and 1.5 bill. Research to ME 1 take about a month.
Capital component BPOS:
- Armour plate - 1,162,089,720.00
- Capacitor Battery - 1,032,242,400.00
- Computer System - 1,105,558,920.00
- Construction parts - 904,944,600.00
- Corporate Hangar Bay - 1,503,706,320.00
- Drone Bay - 785,051,640.00
- Jump Drive - 1,497,568,320.00
- Launcher Hardpoint - 1,254,031,200.00
- Power Generator - 1,224,056,880.00
- Propulsion Engine - 1,128,565,800.00
- Sensor Cluster - 1,082,486,880.00
- Shield Emitter - 1,176,055,200.00
- Maintenance Bay - 1,527,625,080.00
- Siege Array - 1,389,029,760.00
- Turret Hardpoint - 1,316,341,800.00
Capital Component BPOs
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Rough guide to component usage. This is simply an average taken from a build of one of each ship type (carriers and dreads).
- Armour plate - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- capacitor battery - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- Computer System - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- Construction parts - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- Corporate Hangar Bay - 44/1644*100= 2.68%
- Drone Bay - 266/1644*100=16.18%
- Jump Drive - 88/1644*100= 5.35%
- Launcher Hardpoint - 55/1644*100= 3.35%
- Power Generator - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- Propulsion Engine - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- Sensor Cluster - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- Shield Emitter - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- Ship Maintenance Bay - 44/1644*100= 2.68%
- Siege Array - 154/1644*100= 9.37%
- Turret Hardpoint - 121/1644*100= 7.36%
Also as a rough guide, going by current empire mineral prices, you can expect profits in the region of 200 - 400mill per ship. It's possible to build 8 ships per month at max capacity, so assuming you can sell them all that's between 1.6 and 3.2bill profit per month.
- Armour plate - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- capacitor battery - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- Computer System - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- Construction parts - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- Corporate Hangar Bay - 44/1644*100= 2.68%
- Drone Bay - 266/1644*100=16.18%
- Jump Drive - 88/1644*100= 5.35%
- Launcher Hardpoint - 55/1644*100= 3.35%
- Power Generator - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- Propulsion Engine - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- Sensor Cluster - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- Shield Emitter - 109/1644*100= 6.63%
- Ship Maintenance Bay - 44/1644*100= 2.68%
- Siege Array - 154/1644*100= 9.37%
- Turret Hardpoint - 121/1644*100= 7.36%
Also as a rough guide, going by current empire mineral prices, you can expect profits in the region of 200 - 400mill per ship. It's possible to build 8 ships per month at max capacity, so assuming you can sell them all that's between 1.6 and 3.2bill profit per month.