The Planetary Interaction Experiment

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Not too shabby.

[Morganti]

That's a very underestimated value, just what I got out of the hole to sell. Sold some more P1 stuff last night for another 200mil.

[lorddread]

not bad at all how many chars and planets you got going to make that much in there?

[Morganti]

41 Planets doing extracting and P1 construction and 4 planets doing P2/P3 production. I extract extra on the more profitable P1's and carry them to hisec to sell. The super high yields in wormholes are the key to my success.

[lorddread]

wow nice setup 41 planets. need to redo mine since i always forget to do stuff every day or not around to do it, think i need to change for once a week instead of every day. At least on the harvesting part.

[Morganti]

I didn't get to do all the selling that I wanted last night due to a couple of bubbles being placed inside our hisec hole entrance (thanks Russians!) but my latest haul was sold and plexes were bought for 2 out of 3 of my accounts based almost solely on PI. I officially declare the Planetary Interaction Experiment a success and completed.

[lorddread]

Awesome morganti and good job. To bad it takes wh space planets to make it work that well, though still worth doing in high sec though I think. I probably should train alts on my accounts as well to do it. How do you move the p1 stuff on alts etc? Did you train industrial on them so they could fly iteron or some other ind. ship?

[Grondir]

each alt has industrial ships to 3 or 4 I think (that's what i've done to copy him ).

My setup is nowhere near as good as Morgs but I can get 200mil per haul from PI and variuos loots.

[Morganti]

Yes, the "base" alt training should include the ability to fly indy ships (level 3 industrial) and fit expanded cargohold 2's (level 2 hull upgrades). Other than that I believe it's all PI stuff (which requires science for one skill iirc). I always run a 2 day 1 hour 30 minute schedule on my extractors, so resetting every 2 days and picking up material every 2 days left me making usually 2 runs on the smallest indy ship to get all the P1 materials off of 5 planets. If you let stuff stack up and don't go do pick up runs every few days you WILL be spending a painful amount of time flying back and forth to customs offices on indy ships with small cargo holds. In hisec I did have a freighter to collect and move everything in mass, but coming out of the wormhole I use transport ships, itty 5's, and rigged badger 2's.

You can definitely pull this off in hisec, your profit margins are just tighter. My original projections from hisec put me running 3 accounts (45 extraction P1 planets with 9 toons) and being able to buy 2 plexes with a little left over every month. That's if ALL I was doing was PI for money. Wormholes are not required to pull this off, and indeed have their own pitfalls (much harder to move stuff around easily, more chance of losing a big load of material while trying to get it out of the wormhole, etc). If you're not interested in buying PLEX and just want supplemental income PI is great for that too. It's like dailies in wow except it's "every other dailies". PI makes flying around in that HAC or T3 feel not so dangerous....you can literally pay for a new HAC hull every few days, so why sweat the loss?

[leroyreborn]

i have been doing little PI in a 0.5 system and been doing ok not great. was thinking about trying some WH space. but from what i read they only last a day or 2 before the WH shuts down and you can no long use it to get out. how long have you found the most of the once you use stay open