I've been playing with numbers a little, trying to take a somewhat similarity between a printer and a cornucopia machine. I came with these numbers, taking the objective of make bullets very easy to produce and pistols fairly easy. Please notice that this is only about TIME, getting the mats would be another thing entirely. I broke the time requirements in three factors: Size, Complexity and Materials. Base time comes from the cost, and gets modified by the three factors. Time related to cost: Trivial - 5 minutes Low - 10 minutes Moderate - 30 minutes High - 60 minutes Expensive - 120 minutes for the first 10.000 creds or items without listed credits, duplicate per each 10.000 above that Size (see Gear Size in the EP core book): Nano - x1 Micro - x0.5 Mini - x1 Medium - x1 2 hands required - x1.5 Large (human size) - x2 Large x2 (up to 250Kg and 4x2x2 meters) - x4 Car size - x6 Bus size (small shuttle's hull) - x10 Complexity: Simple (no moving parts or very few: wrench, screwdriver...) x0.1 Mechanic (purely physics) x0.5 Electronic, simple (LCD screen or equivalent to a mobile phone of 5 years ago) x0.5 Electronic, complex (smartlinks, modern smartphones) x1 Electronic, micro (circuit board recently commercialiced in the second semester of 2010) x2 Electronic, nano (ectos) x3 Quantum x10 Materials: Common mats (iron, carbon, plastic and ceramic composites, steel...) x1 Exotic materials ("rare earths", Gamemaster's decision) x1.5 Radioactive materials (more for the housing of the plutonium than anything else) x3 Antimatter involved (again, for the housing. And notice that antimatter tends to need a cage thousands of times bigger than the amount of antimatter contained) x20 or more. With this, you can assemble a standard pistol in 10 minutes (5 if you don't want stuff like the smartlink or the safety features), 1 hour for the railgun version, and you can produce about 100 normal bullets in about 15 seconds. Now all this is just for the product, we need to take into account the size of the cornucopia machine. For the sake of simplicity, I'll use the Fabber (4L), the table-sized (40 L) and the Factory (bus size). Size difference is not really a problem: we can assume that any CM can make a "profilactic" to protect the building area, being the problem just the amount of building nanomachines that the CM can produce. The size of the CMs would be: Fabber - Mini Table - Large (human) Factory - bus-sized Take de number of sizes of difference and call it, for example, "N". If the CM is smaller, multiply the time for 2^N (this includes time to change the mat bricks). If the CM is bigger, then it can make 2^N items per timeframe, as long as it has enough materials. As for the materials needed for making almost any given item, they cost one less level than the finished product, or the minimun if it was Trivial (if the cost was Expensive, divide it in two). Remember that Biomorphs need a healing vat and about 2 years to be ready (a pod being produced "in one piece" woud take about a year or so). As for Synthmorphs, they would require, as a rule of thumb, about 1 week per 5.000 creds of cost, plus a Large-sized fabber and the radioactive mats option... and a cyberbrain would be in the "quantum" part of the components complexity. Finally, this is a rule of thumb I will be testing, not a fully tested version. While the costs are mostly time, remember that there is something called "Opportunity cost", which refers to what you can't make when you are making something (so if you are making a sniper rifle, you are not making an assault rifle, for example). While players won't notice this very much, large scale operations like the ones directed by Hypercorps surely will. And I'd like to hear opinions about this ^^