Science & Industry

you will need 2 toons to do what you want.

if you are going to train lvl5 pi stuff your best bet is to just train a pi alt to 4 and hauler

it would take the same amount of time ISH and you get more out of it

You CAN do it on one character, though your factory planet will be idle unless you have a 2nd character supplying additional materials, or you are buying extras from the market and importing them.

This is assuming you are making a P3 that only requires 2 P2s... a Three-good P3 will certainly need a 2nd person.


I'll use robotics for an example. This is for a character with CCU IV and IC IV (5 colonies with level 5 command centers)

Planet 1: Extract Non-CS Crystals, process to Chiral Structures > Export
Planet 2: Extract Heavy Metals, Process to Toxic Metals >Export
Planet 3: Extract Noble Metals, Process to Precious Metals > Export
Planet 4: Extract Base Metals, Process to Reactive Metals >Export
Planet 5: Import the 4 P1 materials... process to their respective P2s(Consumer Electronics and Mechanical Parts)...and then process the P2s into Robotics on the same planet > Export


Again... your factory planet WILL be idle unless you feed it extra P1s...or if you live in null/WH and have insanely productive planets.

The best way to increase your daily isk generation of PI is to create P1 goods. Creating P2 goods from P1 prior to exporting is fine as long as the additional factories do not effect your ability to get the maximum possible yield on each planets.

If you really want to do P2 production you will need to do 3 - 4 day cycles for each P1 good. So for 3 days extract P1 Mat 1. Then P1 Mat 2. Advanced factories will start up. In 3 - 4 days you switch back to P1 Mat 1 and repeat. You're first 3 days your advanced factory wont be producing anything, but big deal. You will also want 1 silo and 1 storage. This setup should allow you to have 6 basic, 3 advanced, so you'll be making 360 P2 per day.

Also do NOT import P3 goods to a factory planet to make P4. You're losses to tax will be insane (if in highsec / 10% + tax). For example to export/import 18 P3 required for 1 P4 (of the 6 P4's that use 18 P3) you'r basically wasting nearly 5 P3 goods (189,000isk).

The best solution is to export P1 goods, and import them into the factory planet. Then export the finished P3 for manufacturing (and again do not re-import for P4).

This is my factory setup. It will yield 22 P4 goods every 24 hours, Or 396 P3 goods. It can be constructed With Command Centers IV. The launcher can hold the 24 hours cycle of resources but can hold more if you're lazy (roughly 520M3 of freed space once factories queue up mats). Pretty easy to really, simply undock and drag extra mats into the launcher from customs office once every 24 hours, or whenever you undock to keep it running at full production. If you're importing P2 then your yield of P3 per day will be much higher obviously (something like 1320 P3 per day), you'll need to change the basic factories to advanced, so you may lose the total number of factories.


24h P3 and P4 factory using CC IV