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I do not run near that short of cycles, so I cannot say for sure, but I am guessing that you are meant to dry them out that fast. I run from 2 - 4 day cycles, depending on the planet and my mood. On a 3-4 day cycle, I usee 2x ECU (same P0, though) and 6-7 factories. I usually run a total of 12 heads on the planet, sometimes split 6/6, sometimes not, depending on the hot spots. In any case, I kill the hot spots over those three days, or at least hurt em pretty bad. Using two ECUs allows me to not move them as much, and 7 processors can generally just keep up over 3-4 days (although they fall way behind at the beginning).

In any case, yeah, you are going to kill your hot spots.

It is normal to get -30% after 2 weeks on 1h cycles. The area stays that way for maybe 2 months.

How is it as intended? Doesn't the wiki say longer cycles are gentler on the planet. So longer cycles should take longer to deplete, but longer cycles are depleting FASTER, so this is the reverse of the apparent intention as far as I can tell.

I'm in WH space, not High.

Newsflash - goons have somehow stolen POCOs from every low sec entity in the universe. Their stealthy maneuvers allowed them to seize control without reffing a single POCO or firing a single shot. They then conspired with CCP into modifying the server so that people would only think that they still had their own POCOs.

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I was using my POCO just like I do every day, and everything was going like normal. Then I looked on the forums, and I was shocked to discovered that I have been bamboozled. Despite what my overview and wallet were showing me, Goonswarm controlled my POCO. I was so upset to discover that CCP was hiding this from me! I asked all my friends and they also agreed that CCP had been preventing them from detecting Goonswarm's invasion. We tried to buy some tinfoil hats to protect us, but they were all sold out.
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Low sec denizens everywhere are in a panic after discovering that they are all suffering from some sort of mass hypnotism induced hallucination which causes them to think and act in unison as if they still owned their POCOs. More at 11.

Nah, everyone else is making coolent in the WH, I'm the only one making Data Chips. Besides, since the only people in the WH are people in our consortium, I always check before planting extractors anyway.

That's your problem right there. All those extractor heads in a bundle will dry up a hole real fast.

You should try to spread them out between hotspots, even have more than one extractor control unit.

Planet size matters aswell. I was depleting the only lava planet we had in our W-hole faster then it was generating. After 6-7 weeks I wasn't able to extract enough Felsic magma to keep 8 factories working. However, the other planets (which are much bigger than lava's) seem to suffer much less from this problem.

I also produce Rocket Fuel using two storm planets as sources. The moment my extraction rate drops below 200 units/hour/head I swap them around for the next 2/3 months.

I like to use 1 day cycles on weekends and then 5 day cycles during the rest of the week where I may not have time to do all of the clicking PI requires. Even still, I live in an area where half the time I try to haul my goods I'm forced to switch to a combat ready ship in the middle of it.

Hotspots (CCP calls them "nuggets" if you're looking to search back through the dev blogs) are temporary "bonus" yield.

Long-term, don't expect to live off of hot-spots alone. Pick (and compare) planets based on the heat-map, excluding the hot-spots. That way, if the nuggets are too far away you can still get passable yields from the regular resource levels.

If you're moving your ECU more then once a week, you're working too hard. If you're ripping up your BIF/LP complex more then once every 2-3 months, you're working too hard. (Working as in "too many clicks for not enough gain".)