Science & Industry

Hi, i've been doing some PI in low sec in the last weeks. I tried to optimize my 3 planets, 2 storm and 1 barren. In one of them i tried to start p2 production...but it was so slow that making just plasmoids was more profitable. Producing only plasmoid i've made aroung 7-8mil/day on a signle planet. And i'm not happy with that. P3 production is energy limited (i've command center upgrades IV).
How can i make my PI more profitable? There is a way to make some serious isks in lowsec?

You may seem to make more isk per day with plasmoids but you would get more isk per load making a P2 such as coolant on storm worlds. In low sec less trips in and out will drastically reduce the logistics and time needed. you lose a little isk per day but only need to haul one load a week from the planet drastically reducing the amount of time spent doing PI increasing your isk per hour.

Every Planet can make at least 1 P2 without any imports. in low sec on a good planet with level 4 skills you should still be able to extract enough with two extractors to feed 4 basic factories which will in-turn feed 2 advanced factories making your P2 for export.
Keep in mind that a basic factory need 6000 units per hour (3000 per 30 min cycle) to keep active. So each extractor needs enough heads to extract an average of 12000 units per hour to keep two basic factories running.

Basic factories produce half the needed material per cycle required by the advanced factory but run 30 minute cycles while advanced factories run 1 hour cycles.

What this means is you need one of each basic factory to produce the materials to feed one advanced factory.

With your example of a storm planet I would produce coolant as it is a POS fuel and in decent demand. you will run 2 extractor heads one pulling at least 12000 units per hour of ionic solutions and the other 12000 units per hour of aqueous liquids too feed two water factories and two electrolyte factories which in turn will feed two coolant advanced factories.

This is possible with level 4 skills I am doing it on several planets in high sec. If it can be done in high sec it can be done even easier in low sec.

7-8 Mill/Day is actually rather high even for Low Sec. Consider yourself lucky.

Most efficient is to keep one planet as a dedicated factory Planet for all the P2 and above.

900millions every 5 weeks. 15 planets. It means 60million per planet every 5 weeks, doesn't it?

Good god people, move to low sec and find some low-tax POCOs.

This is senseless



so you are suggesting to buy raw materials and then use factory planet to refine them?

May as well look for the Holy Grail or the Jabberwocky.

Or you could buy some POCOs and set up your own. Really... just buy some POCOs.

So you're making those amounts per character? or it is a rotating scheme you use all characters for, so the amount is divided among the characters?

- As much as I spend adjusting my sell orders for all kind of products.
- Less than one day with Black Frog (These guys are awesome)
- I don't have problem buying materials, sometimes selling can be tricky.
- I am doing that in low-sec so there are the inherent risks of low-sec but since TL mainbase is 1j away, I can always call for help should I find myself camped.

All in all, I could make the same figures as Joshua if I had the same starting capital and that's the limiting factor here for everyone wishing to start doing factory PI.