Engineering (Apocalypse)

Engineering with X-Com Apocalypse is the discipline of 'making stuff'.

Units

The total quantity of Engineers across all bases at any one time is fifty. If it is reduced for any reason, more Engineers will become available to be hired.

Facility

The workshop is available as Small in the beginning, and when relevant research is completed, a Large facility will be an option. Placing small or large labs would be ideally spread across all bases to limit the possibilty of losing all manufacturing capability if one base were to be attacked.

A compact Workshop base which will wipe out all manufacturing capability if it were to be lost.

Workshop Manufacturing

X-Com will need to build facilies to enable the manufacture of advanced weapons, crafts and devices, armors, etc. Constructing an item will allow a profit to be made when sold on the market. Optimising production allows larger profits!

Completion And Timing

Time to finish anything built is always completed on the hour. Small items with short build times should be optimised to best use the small workshop and five engineers, to complete a manufacturing run on the hour, however:

• multiple small items built over a multiple day production run, more efficiently use workshop space and engineer skills instead of short stop-start projects.
• massive projects, usually taking many days for just one item, may not profitable if those items can be recovered from a mission since higher-profit items should be X-Com's priority.
• An idle workshop is not making money!

Overheads

or, Costs Of Upkeep
Engineers receive a salary and maintenance of facilities (living and workshop) will reduce your profits by a certain amount, each and every week. Once a project's profit is calculated without interuption then matched with the size of the facility, profit totals will become more accurate:

• Small Workshop costs = 250

living quarters is half filled, so maintenance can be halved as well.

• Large Workshop costs = 500
  

Note: an idle workshop should make something even if it is barely profitable but flooding the market may turn it into a eventual loss.

Flooding The Market

Every item is (usually) profitable to manufacture, but your sell price is determined by market forces. If you sell so much (ie: flooding) that you drive the price down in the proceeding weeks, you will have to re-evaluate each manufacturing run using this new sell price of the new week, to find the best profits.
Items have differing amounts in the Market Capacity column which is a rough indicator of how many you can sell before you heavily influence the Sell Price towards its lowest value.
eg: selling x25 Dimension Missiles may slightly reduce the new-week sell price, but selling x25 Disruptor Guns will be classed as 'flooding' and will drive the sell price down, faster with a 'flood' every consecutive new week.

Profit Per Build Time

The only important thing!
The higher the decimal number, the better the profit. The best item may not be researched yet! Find another suitable item from your current manufacturing list.

Note: Everything is profitable (no negative decimals) as default until you start flooding!

Chart Definitions

• Manfacture: no know = no no
• Build Cost: internal cost to build one item
• Build Time: one unit
• Build Time: one unit in hours (rounded up) to make it easier to understand.
• Facility: small (250/week) or large (500/week) in maintenance costs.
• Market Capacity: how much to sell before price starts to gets affected every week.
• Sell Price: typical of the market.
• Raw Profits: sell one-something to get this many credit-dollars, without paying your way or time.
• Profit Per Build Time: portion of a credit-dollar you get for each tick of the build clock if using large workshop with 1000skill:

Using small workshop only: raw profit ÷ (build-time-in-hours x0.5) = Money/Hr (or halve the Build Time Per Profit).

Using large workshop only: raw profit ÷ build-time-in-hours = Money/Hr

Manufacture Item	Build Cost	Build Time	Build Time¹	Facility	Market Capacity	Sell Price	Raw Profit²	Profit Per Build Time³
Bio-Transport Moudle	700	4000	8hrs	small	4	950	250	0.0625
Boomeroid	230	3000	6hrs	small	15	840	610	0.2033↓
Vortex Mine	250	5000	10hrs	small	25	1130	880	0.176
Disruptor Gun	600	7000	14hrs	small	10	2100	1500	0.2143↓
Devastator Cannon	1200	12000	24hrs	small	20	4500	3300	0.275
Dimension Missile Launcher	1200	5500	11hrs	small	25	3100	1900	0.3455↓
Dimension Missile	400	4000	8hrs	small	30	1300	900	0.225
Personal Disruptor Shield	2000	14000	28hrs	small	30	5770	3770	0.2693↓
Personal Cloaking Field	3000	18000	36hrs	small	30	8300	5300	0.2944↓
Personal Teleporter	6000	25000	50hrs	small	40	18200	12200	0.488
Toxigun	1200	3000	6hrs	small	8	2780	1580	0.5267↓
Toxigun A	200	800	2hrs↑	small	16	500	300	0.375
Toxigun B	300	900	2hrs↑	small	16	700	400	0.4444↓
Toxigun C	400	1000	2hrs	small	16	900	500	0.5
AAG Heavy	280	1200	3hrs↑	small	15	700	420	0.35
AAG Mini	360	1600	4hrs↑	small	30	900	540	0.3375
AAG Grenade	250	1000	2hrs	small	15	600	350	0.35
Disruptor Armor - Head	1500	3800	8hrs↑	small	20	3480	1980	0.5211↓
Disruptor Armor - Chest	1500	3800	8hrs↑	small	20	3480	1980	0.5211↓
Disruptor Armor - Arms	1200	3400	7hrs↑	small	20	2830	1630	0.4794↓
Disruptor Armor - Leg	1200	3400	7hrs↑	small	20	2830	1630	0.4794↓
Inversion Launcher	3000	8000	8hrs	large	8	7000	4000	0.5
Inversion Missile	1500	4000	4hrs	large	25	3500	2000	0.5
Stasis Launcher	2000	6000	6hrs	large	10	4760	2760	0.46
Stasis Missile	1200	2000	2hrs	large	20	2650	1450	0.725
Multibomb Launcher	4000	10000	10hrs	large	14	9260	5260	0.526
Multibomb Missile	1800	5000	5hrs	large	30	4230	2430	0.486
Light Disruptor Beam	2000	12000	12hrs	large	5	5600	3600	0.3
Medium Disruptor Beam	4000	20000	20hrs	large	10	10500	6500	0.325
Heavy Disruptor Beam	8000	35000	35hrs	large	15	20500	12500	0.3571↓
Small Disruption Shield	5000	20000	20hrs	large	10	12500	7500	0.375
Large Disruption Shield	8000	30000	30hrs	large	15	19800	11800	0.3933↓
Cloaking Field	6000	35000	35hrs	large	17	16450	10450	0.2986↓
Teleporter	11000	45000	45hrs	large	20	27700	16700	0.3711↓
Advanced Control System	4000	15000	30hrs	small	6	8000	4000	0.2667↓
Dimension Probe	6000	25000	25hrs	large	2	10000	4000	0.16
Bio-Trans	12000	35000	35hrs	large	2	34000	22000	0.6286↓
Explorer	22000	55000	55hrs	large	2	44000	22000	0.4
Retaliator	35000	75000	75hrs	large	2	70000	35000	0.4667↓
Annihilator	50000	100000	100hrs	large	2	100000	50000	0.5

¹ when using all engineers with 100 skill. (Small=500, Large=1000)
² not regarding time, salary, maintenance.
³ all based on using large workshop and 1000skill.
↓ shortened to four decimal places.
↑ to next full hour, recalculate with quantity without rounding up to get accurate time if building multiple.