Science & Industry

It depends on your skills, the prices for PLEX and robotics, the POCO tax rate and maybe some other issues I can't think of right now.

Most importantly you will have to constantly restart the cycle, tear down old and erect new extractor heads, launchpads and plants to follow the depleted ressources.

But with all these things considered: Yes, it can be done and has been done.

I really want to say yes, but there are too many other factors and elements involved in the formula you will never know about - because it is in null sec.

I will go do some exploring because you asked, and will get back to you on it in-game.

I wouldn't try to do so under pressure - to pay for your account. I would learn the basic mechanics you need to know on an account that has been subbed for 6 months or so.

Do the math and keep track, and then answer your question based on that and your game play, IRL demands, etc..

I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, but it's definitely a no on the original question. An Advanced Lava Facility outputs 3 Robotics per hour. With Command Center Upgrades 5 you can fit two of those with enough other stuff to keep up the pace on Consumer Electronics. If you can keep up the pace on Mechanical Parts also, you can run 24/7 and you will get 144 Robotics per day. That is for one Barren and one Lava planet. At around 60,000 ISK per unit of Robotics that makes you 8.64m ISK per day. That's nearly 260m ISK per month.

Now if you can get two of each planet you could double that. If you use alts you can multiply by the number of alts. Ideally, running 3 toons with 2x Barren and 2x Lava planets each, you could make 1.6b ISK per month. The work required to maintain that would be quite substantial and that's assuming you had access to all the right planets and they weren't bleeding resources due to other player's PI installations. That's without taking POCO taxes into account at all, which I'm sure you will have.

Keep in mind that you will pay POCO taxes to bring the Mechanical Parts up from the Barren and again to send them down to the Lava. And then once again to extract the Robotics to go sell them.

You'll want to diversify. One pi product and you'll tap out quickly.

I had three characters doing pi and made all P4. Once you get it all set up you can pull p1 and dump to a production planet to get p4 if you want. Not super fast but steady enough and I didn't deplete my planets.

A factory produces at the same rate on any planet, regardless of sec status. Your profitability will be a reflection of the taxes at the POCO. In my experience, nullsec alliances charge as much or more than lowsec POCO owners. It's not more profitable.

The benefit of nulls is convenience. The planets have more stuff on them. So you can set your harvesters to run for 2 weeks and you only have to check them a couple times a month, rarely have to move your harvester arms, and this case persists even when others are harvesting on the same planet. In low, in general, you'll have to reset your harvesters every week and you'll have to move around things as the planets deplete and if others are using your planet they can jack up your consumption. So lowsec takes more work and monitoring.

However, profitability is generally the same.

One character no. One account Yes but you will have to have good skills and be on top of things. Also look at what the cost of importing and exporting is where you plan on setting up. As to getting material out of null some corps will buy the PI things that are needed to build fuel blocks.

You can buy some P2 items cheaper than you could make/sell them and then combine those with higher priced P2 items that you create... turn those into P3>P4 . With 2 accounts and 11 planets (10 prod/1factory), and the right combination of extractors/factories, and a cycle time of 2 days, one can make 36 P4 and 216 P3 items a day clearing well over a billion a month after costs and taxes...of course YMMV