EVE New Citizens Q&A

Some 10M per planet, usually not a big deal. You can setup everything and only when you press submit, the buildings will be "bought" and placed (except the command center, which needs to be placed and submitted first). Re-placing the extractor unit costs ISK, moving just the heads does not.

Setting up a planet is a clickfest, you don't want to move often ...

In addition to the answers above, for this it's not difficult at all.

Once a Command Center is placed on a planet, there is no way to recover it. You can however decommission it:

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So if you are running the maximum number of planets for your skills and want a colony on new planet, you can decommission the one you don't want anymore and then proceed to start a new one.

The decommissioning is quick. You just click and confirm and then that colony is removed.

Thank you, you all have been immensely helpful. :)

In highsec there is a NPC tax levied 5% import and 10% export in addition to whatever the POCO owner charges. The tax rate you see is combined. You can reduce this tax by up to 50% (10%/level) with the customs code expertise skill. It's a rank 2 skill - a couple of days to train to level 4 - well worth it if you intend to do PI in highsec.

The NPC tax does not apply in low or nullsec.

I structure my colonies to make P2 - it is reduced workload. In highsec I use the P2 I harvest in T2 module production. In nullsec I send it to a factory planet that makes P3 and P4 for drones and mobile structures.

PI is ideal for multiple characters on the same account. My PI ALTS are also trained to research and copy blueprints which I sell on contract - a couple of months training and they'll produce 150-200 million/week forever with an hour or so attention each week to update PI programs and harvest.

That's a big if.

And, some T1 industrials do not have enough powergrid to install the (appropriately sized) medium MWD. Those that do, you have to completely remove any buffer tank to make enough powergrid for the MWD. You're lowering your defenses from (pathetic) 30k EHP, to (non-existent) 9k, so you can do a dance move.

Some extra information, you should decide where you are going with PI,

1. Selling raw materials - easiest way to earn a small weekly profit (few million), every week, cheapest set up.

2. Refined materials - still easy, P-2 offers better returns bit more clicks (time), and small investment to get more power/CPU to have an extractor, and basic, advanced facilities to produce products.

2A. If you plan on getting into the game as an industrial player or just want to cut cost for T-2 modules then at this tier level you can stop here and just have your advanced facilities make products for your T-2 builds as many T-2 builds will be covered by advanced facilities.

3. Tier 3 and 4 products, more clicky, longer waits for profit, doesn't make sense to be at this level unless you are actually building stuff with it, such as a POS (might be going away soon), and related labs/structures, moble depots, etc.

----note---- because of the changes coming soon (POS removal), and all those things related to run a POS products prices may not hold for 3/4 products at their current level because a drop in demand as those items that use them (3/4), are not in higher demand.

4. Final product, tier 4 high tech products, as above, not worth it if you are not building serious products as you will find unless you are in a WH or Null keeping your facilities running with products will be a big challenge in high sec set ups, I find myself buying millions in base products just to make a few tier 4 products and have grown tired of the running around to get stuff, this is the price of making these products in high sec tho.


Final thoughts, if you want stuff purely for profit then produce stuff related to weapons, guidance systems, robotics (T-2 drones), etc, produce products that are consumed by the game play of others by combat and you will see more movement of products, I found that because I do make many T-2 builds that it is better for me to build up to tier 3 products, I have numerous basic and advanced facilities but only 1 high tec facility, it's mostly idle.

That sounds..... a little out of my league. I'm a person that's dabbled in eve across 10 years, but only dabbled. After siphoning off a couple million SP to give to a hauling alt, I only have about 15mil skill points to my name.

Wormholes? I've never been to one in my life and POS? I can't do that I don't think. I suppose I could look for a corp that operates out of WH space. But I've been trying to avoid jumping in and joining a corp that's out of my league.

In previous stints in EVE I rushed right out to nullsec convinced good corps to take me in, then got my noob butt handed too me, embarrassing myself because I don't even have some of the basics.

THIS TIME.... I want EVE to last. I am willing to start from the beginning and go slow until I really learn fundamentals. I went back and did all the career missions, I'm sitting in highsec slowly relearning all the facets of eve.

I just now think I can responsibly set up some PI for myself..... but I feel like if I try to go all elite WH and stuff I will just fail because I dont have the foundation to support stuff like that yet.

I can fly transport ships, fit cover ops cloaks and micro jump drives and such. I don't plan to do any of this in nullsec unless down the road I make a move to a nullsec alliance. In lowsec I would make more trips with a blockade runner rather than make less trips with something with more cargo space but more easily targetable.

I know you still have to be careful in any ship, even a cloaked one.

You will love wormholes for exfiltration. Seriously, my farm is in deep nullsec, the only safe way out are wormhole chains ...

My recommendation, stick to simple P2 which can be build on one planet for now, saves the hassle of exporting/importing P1.

P0 -> P1 allows you to find one resource and maximize its collection; some P1 mats are in demand, and even though they're priced cheaply, you can take advantage of volume. With only 1 extractor, you have enough CPU/Grid for 5-8 processors, meaning you process 5-8x the rate of mats that others process. If it's a rich resource, this works out well. It's a lot of material to export, though, so if the POCO taxes are high, this won't work.

P0 -> P1 \
P0 -> P1 -> P2 requires 2 extractors, so you'll likely only have power and CPU for a single line of processors, meaning you get 5 - 8x less than the scenario above. You also have to find a planet that provides BOTH P0's, which isn't easy; most planets in high sec have one of the P0's in abundance, but the other is rare / low quantity.

Third option is to find the richest P0 -> P1 planets and apply 5-8 processors, and then export and import the mats into a barren or some other terrestrial planet where you can do the higher reactions (P1 -> P2 etc), also with multiple processing lines. Also very dependent on the POCO taxes; you pay taxes when you export (lift stuff off the planet) and when you import (drop stuff to the surface).

Fourth option is to find profitable end tier (P4) reactions, buy the P3 mats from the market, and use a bunch of planets with as many factory lines as possible to make the P4 product. This works because the end tier is the most expensive in the whole P0 - P4 chain, and so the variation in price from day to day be HIGH. Kinda like daytrading in PLEX; you're flipping high-value materials, the profit can be huge. Loss can be huge too.

Otherwise, keep in mind, for expanding your operations, that each character is limited to a maximum of 6 planets. It's arguably faster to train 2 alts to do 5 planets each, than it is to train 1 character to 6 (because taking the skills to 4 takes less time than training to 5). You can make a PI alt (PI skills, trading skills to reduce taxes a bit, and ability to fly a T2 transport with covops cloak) with under 5 million skillpoints, so injecting skills is an option. It's expensive, but you get the full 500k points from each injector, no loss. You also don't need to activate multi-character training or anything like that; you can just apply the injectors one by one without the need to activate a skill queue.

It depends on market prices and what taxes you find on planets, but I'd say typically 100 mil per week per character (5 planets) should be possible.