Science & Industry

If you only want to check on them once a week then your best bet is probably to do P0 extraction through to P2 on each planet. P1 manufacturing will require you to move stuff more often than once a week and any sort of P3/P4 manufacturing planet will also need more than once a week of attention or have tons of wasted down time.

Edit: correction to my math. With two extractors, 4 basic factories and two advanced you can produce 240 P2 per day (48 cycles yielding 5 P2 each). Or about 7200 P2 per month. At the same conservative 5000 isk each that is 36m isk per month per planet. Or 180m for five planets.



Old post with bad math: With two extractors, 4 basic factories and two advanced you can produce 48 P2 per day or roughly 1440 per month. That's assuming you don't have any down time. P2 prices vary but let's say a conservative 5000isk each and you are looking at 7.2m isk per month per planet. 5 planets would net you 36m a month. The problem will be keeping the factories supplied with input materials.

Search for some good P2 you can build with the materials in your system, then just extract and build on the planet. Just plan a bit ahead when you're placing extractors, storage and factories and you get a nice low-effort setup.

For example, I've two W-Space "parasites" sitting in a wormhole-system, both with six planets each and I:

-Have to restart the extractors every four days, so essentially once a week.
-Empty out the colonies about once a month.

In the end, when everything is sold and tallied up, I get consistently something around 300-400 million ISK per month. (More on the lower end when I'm too lazy and just leave the colonies alone because I don't want to log in and more to the higher end if I actually log in often enough per month to keep them running all the time.)

Also, as a safeguard in case you lose your POCOs or use other peoples' POCOs (who could lock you out one fine day), include your command center in your set up, so you can in an emergency just shoot stuff into space. Getting your stuff out slower is still better then not at all.

Set up a P1 planet with an extra storage unit. You will get a hell of a lot more than 36 M per month for five planets.

Wormholes are good because of resource abundance and lack of taxes. Putting all-in-one planets down is sort of like dual tanking your ship. You easily have the ability to drop a single extractor with 10 heads which dumps to a storage unit. Have 6 to 8 P1 factories surrounding it which dump to a launchpad.

Several months ago, I set something up with 4 PI pilots. I was checking daily, but I pulled about 3B of PI out in 2 months.

Assuming good planets you can get a 2 Extractor, 36 Basic and 3 Advanced setup going with good skills. You might not make the full 360 unit per day however you can happily get around the 320 mark with most non gas planets.

Even at 5000isk per unit and 300 units per planet per day you are looking at 1.5mil per day per planet.

The problem is finding a WH with all good planets, a HS static , good Pocos ect.