Science & Industry

Hi all,

Having recently returned to EVE after a couple of years since I last played, one of the most interesting additions I found was Planetary Interaction.

I read a few guides on the topic and frankly found them a little overwhelming, I felt that I had to sift through a lot of information in order to get my first simple colony set up.

So I wrote a guide intended to be the most basic imaginable: how to set up a simple colony that extracts one resource and processes it into one processed material. Totally step by step. Something that will make it as easy as possible for an absolute beginner to try it out.

Minimum cost, minimum skill requirement (Remote Sensing level 1 and nothing else), nothing you can't do on a trial account even.

Now, of course, as a noob to PI myself, I know its a little presumptuous to tell people how to do it. So it would be much appreciated if anyone would like to have a glance at what I've put together and tell me if anything is wrong, or if they have any suggestions on how to improve it:

EVE Online - "my first colony" Planetary Interaction guide

Thanks for the tip Lunkwill! But looking at eve-central prices, the pimped-out Magnate looks like it would be more expensive than a Primae, roughly 5 million for the cargohold mods & rigs? I'll add a mention, anyway.

Just got an alt up to L4 on all Planetary skills, and thought I'd start a Robotics production in high sec. Four raw mats planets, one factory planet. Initial investment around 28mil +, and given a market price of 48k per unit on Robotics, the total taxes to produce said Robotics was about 32% total (import and export costs). Not nearly the profit margin there used to be. Now I'm sitting on the fence as to whether it's worth the time. That and rumored changes expected to hit Industry soon have me considering making bigger decisions about my time dedication.

I personally wouldn't bother with PI for one second, if I had to pay outrageous interbus tax rates. As it is, I do PI in a wormhole with 0% taxes, and sometimes wonder if it's worth it.

I have been using PI since it started and one of the best things I came across is you don't need to link the command centre to anything.

It can be anywhere on the planet and you can place extractors, production anywhere. Another thing is ditch the command centre as your launching point and use a spaceport instead.

Here is a general setup I use for PI on just about every planet: extractor-launchpad-factory.

This way you have more storage space in the launchpad 10km3 if I am not mistaken and you can still launch stuff up to the customs office.

With my above setup I can have 12 extractor heads 2 launchpads and 6 basic factories on a planet with skills to max the command centre.

Another tip make sure stuff is as close as you can get it to keep the link costs down. Ohh and I never use the storage silos there next to useless imho.

PI in high sec can still be profitable just not as high as before the tax changes.