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Best Region To Start PI
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Apollo Lyserius
Minerva Technologies
#1 - 2012-02-13 01:38:19 UTC
Greetings,

I've recently decided to start doing planetary interaction. Start first with a small and simple colony, so that I can little by little get to understand the whole process.

Although I've read a lot about the system, I'm still not sure WHERE to put my first colony. Type of planet, security level, etc.

Could I get some guidance on this, please?

Thanks
Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
#2 - 2012-02-13 02:41:54 UTC
Start with something in a 0.5-0.7 system, so you don't have to worry about POCOs or the locals. Try to find a system that is quiet (very few jumps per day, very few people in local), then look at which planets have what levels.

The calculation that I always used was to score the planet on a 0-100 scale for each of the five materials. Whether you do that by looking at the heat maps or by the length of the bars on the left side is up to you. Multiple that 0-100 score by the current market price (minus the 50 ISK/u export tariff) for the corresponding P1 product. Then look through the list of planets and materials that you created and figure out which ones have the best score.

http://www.evemarketeer.com/item/group_summary/1334

Example:

Aldrat I (Lava)
Base Metals (Reactive Metals) = 11 * 171 = 1881
Felsic Magma (Silicon) = 0 = 0
Heavy Metals (Toxic Metals) = 15 * 311 = 4665
Non-CS Crystals (Chiral Structures) = 8 * 475 = 3800
Suspended Plasma (Plasmoids) = 13 * 381 = 4953

So, out of the 5 possible, Plasmoids or Toxic Metals would be the best P1 products to consider harvesting from Aldrat I. And the market could always turn on you, or you might over-harvest, or there might be other people there. And if you look at the other planets in the same system, there may be better things to harvest on the other planets.

Stuff used in POS fuels, or T2 construction, or nanite repair paste are generally good bets.
Invictra Atreides
Toward the Terra
#3 - 2012-02-13 03:08:51 UTC
It's a work in progress, but might help you: Link

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Apollo Lyserius
Minerva Technologies
#4 - 2012-02-13 04:36:44 UTC
Thanks a lot for those informations, Bob. I'll put them to practice as soon as I get my first colony running.

Also, I'm reading your blog, Invictra, and it does help in a lot of ways. The step-by-step feel is really what I needed.
Mavnas
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2012-02-13 23:12:26 UTC
I find for early PI proximity to somewhere where you can dump the materials might be better than trying to squeeze a bit of extra profit out of high sec, but maybe that's just me.
Megnamon
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2012-02-14 18:08:05 UTC
Invictra Atreides wrote:
It's a work in progress, but might help you: Link


Very nice!
Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
#7 - 2012-02-14 19:15:15 UTC
Mavnas wrote:
I find for early PI proximity to somewhere where you can dump the materials might be better than trying to squeeze a bit of extra profit out of high sec, but maybe that's just me.


Yes, if your (5) planets aren't convenient to get to on a weekly basis, you'll eventually stop making the effort. And factory planets, generally need to be located within a few jumps of a major market hub so that you can buy/sell your inputs/outputs easily. Unless you've chosen a lo-sec area with low tariffs.
Molang
MyXGamer
#8 - 2012-02-14 20:38:41 UTC
If you are doing Pi in hi-sec then the real money is in manufacturing. Find yourself a nice barren or temperate planet close to Jita and start building advanced materials like broadcast nodes. It pays off way more than planetary mining in hi-sec.