Science & Industry

1. Join a Player Corp.
2. Blow up a POCO and replace it with your own.
3. ???
4. Profit.

Don't PI in highsec, go to lowsec, besides I've never found a private POCO in high or low with a tax of over 10%. Try being locked out at a tax of 100% in Syndicate, not very fun

FYI: I was looking for WT POCOs near Amarr recently and found quite a few as high as 20%. But, yeah, still doesn't make hisec PI really worth it, going through a POCO or not, really worth it.

You raise a potentially valid point about profits. Two things to consider though:

1. You may well end up getting taxes from other players using the planet.
2. How do you put a pricetag on the enjoyment of controlling your own exports?

Thx for the replies and mails.

Trying to shoot spots for my own POCOs doesn't sounds like there will be a return of investment in the near future. You have to keep in mind that you need a mercenary for it or you have field your own fleet + wardec cost, replacement POCOs and so on. There is also no guarantee that you will ever hold them long enough to break even or make actual profit.

Thats why ppl tends to use high sec planets for factory installations, not for extraction.

But even with low yield high sec extractors make profit on day 3. Of cause very low profit comparing to what you get in low sec, but it is also low maintanence activity.

I did not - the POCOs in Luminaire have 1% player tax. The overall tax for you, personally, is 11% because you don't have customs code expertise trained. Each level of customs code expertise will knock the NPC component of the tax down until, at level 5, the overall tax hits a minimum of 6% (5% for the NPCs and 1% for the player).

Unless you belong to a POCO-owning corporation or alliance, you will not find a lower player tax (and, by extension, a lower overall POCO tax) in all of high sec.

edit: Someone could, I suppose, be operating high sec POCOs at 0% player tax as a charity, but I highly doubt it.

Not a problem. :)

Don't do PI in high sec. Get a cloaky hauler like a Viator. Fit it with inertia stabs and nanofibres in low and a cloak in high and cargo rig it. There are no bubbles in low sec and it's very difficult to lose your ship as long as you take care with your choice of planets and check local when you go to your POCO. Make safe points with a ceptor beforehand; somewhere to warp to and cloak up if you don't fancy docking (also make an insta-undock at any stations you use just in case).

I honestly have no idea why people do PI in high sec or why given the terrible rates anyone would bother wasting their money anchoring their own POCOs.

If you're willing to take the plunge, I'm sharing J104335 with three other corporations, and they are open to bringing more in right now. It's PI rich with a high sec static, and you can easily clear 1 billion ISK each month with characters from a single account. we're active in the WH at all times, so aside from the occasional cloaker it's relatively safe, and the POCO tax is set at 4%, with no other rents. If you're interested send me an email and I'll run the idea of bringing you in past the other corporations.