Science & Industry

PI is simple.
doing higher grades of PI products does not means you make more money.
check on local market if you'll make P0\1\2\3\4 which one will give the best profit for your time.

Also something I learned the hard way, each planet has a size\mass which as it gets bigger the power-grid demands of the buildings is increasing and you won't be able to use same amount of infrastructure like you could on smaller planet.

Also good layout is space launchpad as main building connected to the extractors and factories in tight small formation.

also: https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Planetary_interaction

thank you for that. i purchased this character on the forums to learn science and things. I just tried to put a command center down for plasma. apparently i have too many colonies and such already in a WH. that would of been the previous owner in the WH corp. Will i always have those colonies? i have no clue where the WH is at. all i can do is upgrade Interplanetary to V for more colonies?

I think I discovered my solution. Decommission each item on each of the old planet colonies

now once that is done, i can use three planets to make rocket fuel. i will read up a lot first before i go all gung ho at it.

Thanks for the advice! I was reading that extraction is like x4 in low sec, over high amounts. I'm just sticking it out in high to learn it better, before i venture to low to do it. And are the taxes really that much of a difference between the two sectors?

Yes, visual helps me so much more. I just don't know what kind of timers to use on extractions. My fear of depleting the planet resources sticks to the back of my mind

http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Domain#jumps24
http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Domain#kills
some examples of what dotlan can do (it can also search by planet type etc)
i do some of my PI in FW space and get hunted a lot but other chars that have more choice on location do PI and almost never see another ship in system and usually it is an industrial if i do.
low sec isn't dangerous and the tax rate difference is huge and will get even bigger in a weeks time (as high sec will have NPC tax (high) plus player taxes and low is just player taxes)

Here is a nice link of a site i use as well.

http://picommodityrelations.comyr.com/pi.html


You can select the planets on the bottom and it will tell you what you can build with it.

For example:
Gas + Barren + Ice + Lava + Temperature = everything.
Storm only = up to T3 Ukomi Superconductors

One question I have, that I can't seem to find an answer to, is:

Does your colony consume more power/cpu if the buildings are spaced farther away from your command center?

On my planets (all in null), I have a CC in the general vicinity of several large hotspots, however it is not "connected" via a link to any other buildings, and some times the CC isn't any where near the other buildings. My extractors, spaceport, and processing plants are all adjacent to one another and are efficiently linked, but I can't quite figure out if I consume more powergrid/cpu if the command center is farther away from the other buildings?

No it doesn't but the distance between linked building does. Especially on gas planets (as they are often huge, even though they don;t look any bigger than any other) the links can be vital, so always build all buildings (except the CC) as close together as possible. I usually have my CC just outside of everything else so it doesn't get in the way, but is close enough to not default my screen to the other side of the planet.

This setup is.. not good.
Too many launchpads, unneeded storages and long links.
I'll link you a picture of a good basic setup later, but basically you need this
E=Extracotr
B=basic factory
L= Launchpad

............E
............|
B-B-B-L-B-B-B
............|
............E

(The E's are above and below the launchpad, spacing is weird on the forum)

Everything routes to the launchpad, then raw materials route from the launchpad to each of the factories. Excess raw materials will stay in the launchpad and be used if an extractor doesn't pull enough during a cycle.
All links should be as short as possible, and the basics chain off of each other in a chain of up to 3. You may need to upgrade the link on the extractors if they get too high a %.
(you can check the %. After setup, hover over the launchpad and the link % will display on all associated links. if it's over 90% you probably want to upgrade it. Don;t upgrade the links on the factories, just start a new chain from the launchpad if you run out of room on a link).

Yeah, you can run it on the same planet as long as your skills allow you to upgrade enough to have it all. You'll generally get better output from focusing your planets and mixing together on a factory planet, but a basic P2 planet like this is good enough.
I did miss one bit off of my diagram though, and that's that you need a set of AIFs to mix the P1s into your P2 (Rocket Fuel) too.
I would just chuck you a screenshot but I'm not at home. Here's a quick knock-together from word and mspaint though.
http://i.imgur.com/xODgqZ0.png

So yeah top E would get you Ionic Solutions, and the left B's would produce electrolytes. Then the bottom E would get you Suspended Plasma and the right B's would produce plasmoids.
The A's would then produce rocket fuel.

Everything would just be routed out to the L.
Then from the L (either from the storage or from the incoming routes section), you would route the electrolytes and plasmoids to the A's.

This produces 15 Rocket fuel per hour (I think), which should work out at about 85m/month before tax. Like I say though, this is a quick a dirty, no hassle setup, where all you have to do is restart the extractors and empty the launchpad. It by no means is the most effective setup, but it's incredibly low maintenance passive income.

Yep, that looks much better. The links could still be a little tighter. Squeeze those modules together as closely as possible. It' usually doesn't matter on a smaller planet, but on some of the larger planets that can be an extra extractor head or factory.

Also, with your robotics, you'd be better of figuring out which of your 2 other planets is able to overproduce compared to the other (so like if one seems to have a lot more excess, that's the overproducer), then chucking a factory or 2 for the robotics on there. It' means you only have to export and import 1 set, then the final product.
Otherwise you'll be doing 3 exports and 2 imports (so paying over the odds on tax), plus you'll be losing a planet that could be used for something else.

EDIT: Oh by the way, I take if you know how to use the scanner to find the resource hotspots on the planet? If you've just chucked your extract heads down chances are you'll be getting an inefficient pull.