Science & Industry

10% is what Interbus takes in addition to player corp tax, so you wont find anything less than 10%, unless you train tax code skill high enough.

Better yet - wormhole space.

Just a short Update on my experiment after about 14 days.

All planetary management skills are maxed. Without implants that would take about 102 days to max all 5.
So far i set up 2 colonies.

invesment:
skills - 9.750.000 ISK
colonies - 16.000.000 ISK

generated income:
1st colony - 7.870.000 ISK
2nd colony - 9.553.000 ISK

wallet: -8.327.000 ISK

Note:
I just started this and may not produce the best P2 products on my 2 colonies. The setup on the planets may not be the best as well. So beside max skills i'm performing like a new player.

The experiment will move on.

Well 10 days later. I'm out of the red numbers and generating profit.

I think i'll delve deeper into the art of setting up colonies before i start a new one. The forum and google should help with that.

Anyway. Compared to the investment in time and money to get the skills and the frist colonies runing, PI in highsec isn't very profitable (as alot of you pointed out). It's definitly no activity to point new players to. Atleast not if they want to try it in highsec.

As i said before i moved into PI a bit unprepared as a kind of experiment.

So i did some research on youtube and watched some recent guides:

• TigerXGame's PI Guide (57 min)
• Tactic Talisman's PI Guide (38 min)
• Wawaroxxelania's PI Guide (10 min)

Though the 1st one is the longest and oldest, which i watched, i found it to be the most interesting. The other 2 grant some addional info.

PI Websites:

• EVE Uni - PI
• EVE Planets
• Korai's PI Diagram (not all schematics included)
• Alysii's PI Scheme (not all schematics included)
• Fazenda - PI Scheme (not all schematics included)
• EVE Uni - Commodities (not all schematics included)

Circumventing Taxes:
PI Expedited Transfer Timer

Aeon's EVE

Good to know if you want to circumvent taxes a bit.

@Gecko415
Thx for the links. That pure industry planet PI sounds interesting. That is something i'm looking into in the next days. Time to update the SISI client.

After some time to think about factory planets and extraction + refining ....
My view of them:

1. Factory planets are good if you have the time to check them atleast once per day to refuel storage.
2. If you don't have the time every day it seems to be the best to stick with extraction and refining P0 to atleast P1.

Now that is interesting. Everywhere I read on PI says that launchpad export tax is 2/3 of CC export tax, and here they suggest to export through CC to lower taxes?
Anybody can comment on that? What tax to you pay for CC export?
I know launchpad export tax is calculated as:
(POCO owner tax) + 10% * (1- 0.1*(Customs Code Expertise level)).
How is CC export tax in highsec calculated?

It's slow progress but i'll hit the 100 million mark in early December.

The factory planet methode with bought stuff is something i can do at the moment. I lag the time to check them daily and haven't expanded my planetary empire beyond the 2 planets i'm using at the moment.

@Slvrsmth
Thanks for the development! I'll check it out as soon as i have enough free time available.

For those of you who are interested, I've dropped the player tax on my Luminaire POCOs to 0%, and I'm going to keep it that way for at least three months from this post, at which point I'll only raise it back to 1%. So if your interest is in manufacturing planets in hi-sec, Luminaire is a good spot for it, from the cost perspective.