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More Planets for PI!!!

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Vyktor Abyss
Abyss Research
#1 - 2011-11-17 14:48:52 UTC
Hey CCP,

I'm quite liking PI now, but alas as a solo character/player I am finding it quite tricky to produce some stuff by myself through PI because I can only have 6 planets.

How about another skill to add 5 more planets? I doubt we'll run out of room, and profits per unit will come down as more people do more PI. You can always increase usage of PI goods by adding more blueprints for stuff (you're doing this already).

Cheers.
Orlacc
#2 - 2011-11-17 15:26:53 UTC
You aren't doing it right then. I have 5 planets and do quite well.

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Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2011-11-17 15:37:46 UTC
PI is always better with MORE! :)

(I love my 1.7bil a month in coolant)

The quickest way to get more planets is to take the alts on your account and train them up. I don't go past lvl 4 as I dont want to pause my mains training any longer than necessary.

Now I'm doing WH PI so accuracy doesnt seem as critical (the planets are so rich).

So I just trained

Hauler of choice. All of mine fly an Itty3, so I don't need a fleet of haulers
Hull upgrades 2, to take advantage of the cargo expanders
Remote sensing 1
Planetary consolidation 4
Command center upgrades 4

Should take maybe 6 days tops?
Saru Koji
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2011-11-17 22:24:03 UTC
Can you have an alt doing PI and another alt hauling the stuff to market places? Or is the stuff you've gathered with your first alt bound to him?
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#5 - 2011-11-17 23:34:28 UTC
Vyktor Abyss wrote:
Hey CCP,

I'm quite liking PI now, but alas as a solo character/player I am finding it quite tricky to produce some stuff by myself through PI because I can only have 6 planets.

How about another skill to add 5 more planets? I doubt we'll run out of room, and profits per unit will come down as more people do more PI. You can always increase usage of PI goods by adding more blueprints for stuff (you're doing this already).

Cheers.


The reason is that DUST is coming. If you could have an arbitrary number of planets, then any individual planet would be worth much less to you.

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Vyktor Abyss
Abyss Research
#6 - 2011-11-18 11:22:08 UTC
Malcanis wrote:
Vyktor Abyss wrote:
Hey CCP,

I'm quite liking PI now, but alas as a solo character/player I am finding it quite tricky to produce some stuff by myself through PI because I can only have 6 planets.

How about another skill to add 5 more planets? I doubt we'll run out of room, and profits per unit will come down as more people do more PI. You can always increase usage of PI goods by adding more blueprints for stuff (you're doing this already).

Cheers.


The reason is that DUST is coming. If you could have an arbitrary number of planets, then any individual planet would be worth much less to you.


Increasing my planets from 6 to 11 for example does not mean each planet means less to me. In fact it is the opposite, more planets would mean more to more people because they have invested more, and hence it would provide more 'battlefields' for DUST.

And thanks to those pointing it out.... Yes I know alts allow me to control more planets, but that is more of a workaround. I prefer not to use alts unless I am forced to (cyno alt being the only real need).
Nerath Naaris
Pink Winged Unicorns for Peace Love and Anarchy
#7 - 2011-11-20 11:49:41 UTC
Saru Koji wrote:
Can you have an alt doing PI and another alt hauling the stuff to market places? Or is the stuff you've gathered with your first alt bound to him?


I don´t think you can have someone else to haul your produce.... at least not until it is in a station where you can trade it to your alt the usual way.

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Alisarina
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2011-11-21 00:54:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Alisarina
You can have an alt haul it away as long as they are in fleet with the other character.

Character A (the one doing the PI) takes PI stock from the CO into their cargo hold, then jet cans it.

Character B loots Jet can.

Both move onto the next planet.

This way you dont need to 'waste time' skilling up to do haulers. It's even more efficient if both characters are using the same planets for their PI, be it extracting or factory.

Edit: Also if you want it back to character A, you can just contract it to them for a paltry sum of 10k ISK
Obsidiana
Atrament Inc.
#9 - 2011-11-26 19:26:43 UTC
My advice is to snag the Power-of-Two deal, train up two PI alts, and move the main account to the new account in six months.