Science & Industry

I have two alts doing nothing but PI in a somewhat sleepy Null Sec system. I am doing enriched uranium, the price of which has increased by about 1,500 isk per unit since december.

I have two alts doing 11 planets. Both in the same system at the same station. Only one of the planets is not in that system. This makes it really easy to move materials around and check customs offices. I am two jumps from lo sec, where I have a large industrial parked. I don't like flying a big slow boat in null, so the two fly out to the lo sec station together. I drop off my loot from ratting at this station and they take both the material and loot to a hub.

If I run to a hub once a week, with prices at about 11,500: i can gross 320,000,000 a week. My taxes are about 4% per station, but I have customs office trained to level 4. I get about 80% of that, the balance the alts use for taxes, and what not.

It took me months to get a PI setup that works for me. I tried Hi and lo sec which just didn't pay off...couldn't keep the AF planets full.
I got lucky finding a system that had all the planets I need. Now I got the routine down and it is rather easy money

I thought the customs office skill only affected taxes in high sec offices?

I've been doing PI since it launched and find it to be rewarding. My tips would be the following:

-Max your skills

-produce frequently in demand items

-Set up in low, null, or WH

-set you extractors for extended periods e.g. 9 days to max

-Choose planets in an area you are comfortable making X amount of jumps to and from whatever trade hub you frequent (preferably choosing planets in no more than two neighboring systems)

-Do other stuff while your goods accumulate and scoop them maybe once or twice a month.


Pro tip: you don't have to attach your command center to anything.

Never mind, I figured out the slider bar at the top of the scan screen can manipulate the colors.

Well now I'm curieus. How do you do that?
The only way I can think of is to manufactor p2+ items, maybe even up to p4?

Yes, pure factory worlds making P2-P3-P4 can make a lot of money. 1.2bil a month sounds quite low, actually. Here's the problem though, the meaningful part of making that money isn't doing PI. It's tending ten to twenty buy orders in Jita with a stockpile in excess of a billion isk. Playing the 0.01 isk game to get your buy orders filled and output sold. The PI part consists of dumping a pile of stuff into a factory planet then coming back a couple days later to collect more valuable stuff. Not that setting up the factories is trivial, but once you've got it down you still have to do all that market work whenever you want to make any money.

If you try and skip the part where you tend buy orders and just buy what's selling, it's entirely possible to lose money. Rather likely you won't make much. A spreadsheet that pulls data from someplace like eve-central is nearly required if you want to compete well. The PI part, not really important compared to the playing with numbers part.

I have to say I am interested in your PI :) 1b per month PER CHARACTER? can you confirm that that is correct? I am doing PI in WH space, 6 toons over 2 accounts and 17 planets and I am estimating between 1 and 1.6b a month in total, If you make 1b a month per toon then I beg and pray to bob for your knowledge :)

It's quite achievable with no-tax pure factory setups. I'd call that fairly low, even.