Science & Industry

WARNING!!! SOME MAY CRINGE AT THE FOLLOWING PICTURE!

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Or some may not think anything of it. I am new to Planetary Interaction, and this is what most of my setups look like. I manufacture T2 goods at this point, maybe I'll go higher maybe not.

My biggest problem is power consumption. I can upgrade the command center to level 4, but I'm always left wanting for more power. After reading a few posts on a thread about 7 pages back, I found that I should be routing most of my things through a launchpad in order to save power on things like storage.

So the point of this thread is, before I do an overhaul on my three planets, what all should I change?

Also, what effect is there to changing extractor cycle times? They're currently set at 14 day because that's the least amount of maintenance on my part, but what would lowering it to 1 or 2 days get me?

Also, it seems I don't know how to post pictures. Help?

Thanks for your response!

1. The reason for the overlap is that when I was placing each head, I would watch the output per cycle, and where it is it currently is what that number showed as being the best. If that is not the case, then I have been mistaken

2/3. That's what I thought, and that's going to be my next big change.

4. I use the cc to launch the products in to space. Is this inefficient?

Also:
Planet Depletion - That's a thing? So am I going to have to eventually remove that setup?

1. So what exactly happens when a planet depletes? Edit: Ah, that answers that.

4. I think the time is one launch of 18 minutes. But I'm on every day or two so it wouldn't be a problem. But if I start doing 1-2 day cycles, my production will increase, correct?

You don’t say where you are doing PI so I’ll assume its high sec as your just starting out.

I’ve been doing PI almost from the start and now unless you want a sort of passive income with high initial spend and low profit income then PI in high sec is almost a waste of time, the high import and export tax almost killed it.

From your picture as others have said don’t overlap your heads, if you watch the left side of the window you will see the red % reduction in output you get when overlapping.

Always run a link direct from each extractor to your Launchpad to save power (I usually run 2 extractors because of the power requirements).

Cluster your factories around the launchpad and use short links to connect them to the launchpad again to save power.

Route extracted P0 from extractor to launchpad, to factory, output of P1 from factory back to launchpad.

If you have a high extraction rate that fills one launchpad with P0 quickly then route the output of your factories P1 to a second pad (note that both launchpads will appear in your customs office on a drop down list).

From my experience running a 4 day cycle in high I get around 5,000 to 6,000 output from a single extractor depending on the planet, remember the diameter of the planet has a large bearing on the amount of power a link needs (Gas are the worst).

Don’t forget the command centre can be anywhere on the planet, you don’t have to connect it to anything for the rest to work, but the initial planet opening will spin and stop at the command centre.

Hope some of that helps, and good luck.

Sorry did not get back to you until today; message daughter was taken to hospital, home now, all ok.

Anyway to answer your question, I only have experience of high sec myself but my son runs a large production system in 0.0 to fuel a group of pos.

The problem was the recent change to the import/export tax of the customs offices in high sec, this has put us at a small disadvantage over players in low and 0.0.

Low and 0.0 give an increase in extractor output per unit (in that order) but are influenced by the import/export tax set by the owners of the customs office at any given planet.
If you decide to investigate doing PI in low or 0.0 it can be very profitable but, there is always a but, you will need co-operation of the locals, negotiation skills to deal with the custom office owners (to get the lowest tax rate and permission to use it), and will probably need to join a corp or alliance owning or protecting the space.

And if you’re thinking of trying low sec, good cloaking skills and a ship to pop in and out of the systems is a must. 0.0 well best of luck with that, my son is in a good corp/alliance and purely does PI (and makes a lot of isk doing it), but it takes all his time on-line. He also uses a very complicated spreadsheet out of game to keep track of the production so he can meet the requirements of the corp as required.

The choice is yours and depends on your skills and commitment as to where you want to end up. I just use mine as passive income now and it makes a small profit, just a few million per month.

But, if you 'Dare to be bold, pilot' and take the risk then profits can and are made.