Science & Industry

What stuff do I need to buy & bring, to whereever it is I want to give PI a go? (I already have the skillz, I started another thread about those, yesterday)

I know that I need a Command Center per planet, and that they're specific to planet type. So, say I have my hopes up for a Lava or Plasma planet, I buy one Command Center of each type, and put them in an Industrial, together with a Shuttle for fast movement.

I tried looking in the Market categories, for blueprints, but I couldn't seem to find any blueprints for PI processes. Yet I seem to recall having read elsewhere that blueprints are needed. What gives?

Anything else I need? I'll be doing this in an out-of-the-way spot in high-sec, so it's much preferable if I can anticipate any need and bring the stuff with me, so I don't have to move 15 jumps back to civilization again.

I'm thinking that for the first several days, I'll just use Storage Facilities to store R0 stuff, then move up to P1 and P2, and P3 if I can. I have plenty of cargo capacity, though, in the form of T1 and T2 Industrials, and an Orca and a Freighter, for later use.

But I don't need any kind of blueprint, to produce P1/P2/P3?

Thanks for the help!

So, to reply to each of your points:

An industrial is what you need for PI, but the size of the hold you need will depend on what tier of item you're planning on producing per planet. If you have to haul 1m units of raw materials, you'll need a 10 000m3 cargo hold. If youre planning on exporting Tier-4 items, a frigate could do you (not actually, but you know what i mean)

As for the command centres, you're right, just make sure you UPGRADE them the moment you install them on your planet.

As for the blueprints, its not like manufacturing in the rest of EVE. All processing plants come with every blueprint pre-installed. You just select it from a menu. (Once you've placed the factory, click on it to bring up its menu, and click the left-most button on the menu to pick the item to make.

And lastly, as for your plan to produce P0 and THEN move to p1, i don't quite understand what you mean. If you mean to say that you'll extract everything, then feed it into a silo and let it sit there for days, and then feed it into processors, theres absolutely no point to that

Lets assume you have command centre upgrade 4.

Place 1 extractor close to the hotspot of the resource you need. Then open it up and place 10 extractor heads. Then , as close as possible to the extractor, (but leaving about two inches of screen space) build a spaceport, and create a link between them. Then route all your extractor resources to the spaceport. Then build 6-ish Basic processing facilities all around the space port, connect each one to the port with a route, and pick the appropriate blueprint for each one. Then, route all your incoming material from the spaceport to EACH of your processing plants, and THEN route the produced product from your processing plants BACK to your spaceport.

Confusing, i know.

By this point, you're extracting p0 materials, and refining them directly to p1. In order to go higher and make P2, you'll need to get another resource. So this would mean that you would initially build TWO extractors, but only give each one 5-ish extractor heads. You would place the spaceport roughly halfway between the two extractors, and make 3 basic facilities on each side. (So 6 in total, with 3 making the p1 of the first resource, and then another 3 making the p1 of the second resource)

And lastly, add two advanced facilities (or however many you can fit) and route all those p1 materials from your spaceport to the facilities to make p2 items, and back to the spaceport for final extraction.

Voila.

:)

MSG me ingame if you want some help (but im not online always)

Switching what your extractor is grabbing every other day means you have to reinstall a different schematic into your factories every other day, doesn't it?

Plan out what you want to produce carefully. Don't just start dropping command centers, extractors, and factories. Find out what you want to produce, analyze your market areas to see what you need to sell it at to make money, and adjust accordingly. These are two sites I use often when planning new installations:

Overview (http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/w/index.php?title=Planetary_Interaction)
Commodities (http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Planetary_Commodities)

If you plan to do the production in high sec, be SURE you plan for the taxes. (My test installation of 5 planets producing Robotics runs an overall 32% tax rate, start to finish, in high sec, for example). If you plan to have factories in low/null, plan to move the materials around safely, AND find the planets to use with a reasonable tax rate on the POCO unless you plan to install your own POCO.

Once again, check your markets for the materials you plan to sell (unless you plan to use them yourself). Too many people just blunder into it without knowing what they're doing, and ragequit PI here shortly thereafter.