Science & Industry

Hello fellow industrialists,

Recently, I dipped my... head into PI, and set up a few planets. Admittedly, a few of the skills are still in the cooker, including commandcenter upgrades (III, currently going for IV). My main goal, though somewhat irrelevant for this topic, is a self-sustained production line of R0-P4, spanning six planets.

The problem I'm having at the moment, it that while setting up my extractors to cover for a weeked away, the uneven yield of cycles is causing my storages to overflow during the first few days, wasting the precious resources that are needed to keep the factories running during the last days of poor-yield cycles.

So my question is this: Is there any way of setting up a secondary, "buffer" storage?

I was planning something like:

[Extractor]->[storage]->[storage]->[processor]

With the materials from the extractor routed to the second storage, will they start to collect in the first one once the second is filled, or will the whole ordeal just be a waste of 250k ISK (and untold amounts of R0)? And if so, is there a better alternative?

Thanks in advance!

Launchpads use exactly the same PG as storage facilities, hold twice as much, and make it so much easier to move products to/from the customs office in orbit.

Their major downside is the hefty CPU cost, but that is rarely a consideration on an extraction/harvest planet (PG is your bottleneck).

As far I know it's not possible to link 2 storage.

So for a 'intial' storage bin you would also need to build an 'initial' processor. Eating into PG and reducing your production.

My advice would be stash your excess P0 at spaceport, launch and sell, you might not make as much per hour off your excess as if it where refined but it's something and won't eat into your powergrid.

/edit ok sorry my advise was based on the assumption you where just setting up the planet and your problem was with depletion after rereading your post I understand you want to 'take a weekend of' .

Now given that I would ask does the extractor not have this buffer already built in. There's another thread about asking why amount of 'product' at extractors doesn't equate to product/per cycle, this maybe because the extractor has a 'buffer' storage built in. EVElopedia mentions nothing of it but it seems logical that the items must be virtually stored somewhere before routing as they have diffrent 'tick' rates. Given this storage would be the same regardless of what security space you are in it must be fairly large, at least significantly larger than your standard high sec extractor could pull. So if that is the case what you want already excists.

I'm going to head ingame now and unlink on of my extractors and see what effect this has on my 'product' tab. I'll get back and let you all know what happens.

Oh ok cheers, you learn something new every day.

Which makes me wonder if anyone uses storage pads. If they were bigger in size than spaceports or had much less power grid, then they might be useful.

This is worth looking at too

http://www.kevinsthoughts.com/2011/10/eve-planetary-interaction-pi-after-incarna-very-long-post/

If you use 2 storages, you cal always route 50% to each one. This way you have one big storage.