I see.

So your main does the final reaction while the others provide tier 2 or 3 items?

Actually you can do 6 characters on just 2 accounts.

Because PI is passive, you can actually make use of your alt slots rather than having to buy up whole new accounts for your additional characters. Sure you knock off some training time from your main while you train up your alts, but once they're done with their PI skills (and some basic hauling) you can resume training on your main and reap the benefits from them.

I agree that milking PI with extra characters is only really worth it if you are doing it in low/null and have access to/own POCOs with good tax rates. This is especially important with factory planets, as importing/exporting higher tier goods on 10% Concord planets will devour your profits.

At the moment I have the following setup.

1 Oceanic producing Viral Agents

2 Storm, the first is building superconductors and the second is making synthetic oil.

1 Temperate which is making Polytextiles.

Low sec space.

I'm still training the skills for the additional two planets. Not really sure what to take when I get them.

IC V and CC V aren't really worth the time IMO. If you really want more PI once you hit rank IV in both, roll an alt and train them up. You'll get a full set of 5 more colonies in the time it would take you to get a 6th with your main.

IPC V is debatable (extra planet means more money, but more work as well), but on anything but your main CCUV is a really good skill to have. More grid/cpu gives you more extractors, which is longer cycles, which is less work. That's definitely worth it, doubly so if you're running multiple PI accounts.

It's the only PI skill really worth having at V, though.

edit: this is of course assuming P2 setups (assumed b/c the person you quoted was producing P2's). I really don't know if it'd be a difference on P1 setups or not, as far as less work goes anyway.

to pull 2bn you would need to be in null with your own poco's on 5 planets with 2 accts (6 characters) = 30 planets worth of harvest

also need to relocate and cycle your extractors every 24 hrs on all 30 planets

it takes anywhere from 3-6 hours per day to do, closer to 3 the less distractions you have and the more skilled you get at it

then you need to haul it all on a weekly basis, about 500k m3 weekly (13 trips in a cargo rigged occator, or 41 trips in a viator) its ~ another 2-6 hours unless you have a JF and all planets in the same system

if that appeals to you, as well as losing about 45-75 days of training per account, have fun.

the 45-75 days depends on how much hassle you want to go into with training the scanning skills on everyone or using 1 person to scan and then having to find and transpose their scans on the alts without scan skills

after about 15 days of doing this, u will want to kill yourself, just push thru u will be fine im sure.

Yes it's completely possible provided you have multiple accounts and several PI alts to support high-end production. You really have to do it in null or low sec to make it worthwhile. Currently with my entire network running I'm bringing in 57,050,568.00 ISK per day after taxes, market costs, and transportation fees are taken into account. That's about 1.7 billion a month give or take depending on market prices. I make 4 different P4 products to ensure that there's pretty consistent demand. This is all done with 5 characters, 4 of which exist only to support my main.

after about 15 days of doing this, u will want to kill yourself, just push thru u will be fine im sure.

Im about to launch a PI endeavor into null sec and have a few questions:

With multiple PI toons how do i pickup one toons product with a seperate toon?
IE i have a toon trained to fly a viator and one who is not. They both will have 5 planets each and i want to have my viator pilot do the rounds and pickup for both. Same senario if i follow this threads advice and fill each of my accounts other two slots with PI alts. I have the potential of having 30 planets.

Can i give my viator pilot access to my other toons product so he can get it out of nullsec.

Also i am planning on setting up in npc null to avoid sov issues as im unknown and neutral. Is npc null fair game for PI?

I do PI with 5 characters in high sec, it takes me 1 or 2 hours a day to keep them running on cycles of 1day45 minutes. I extract and then produce to P2 materials on most of my planets.

If you can manage to extract 6000 P0 per hour (x2) you can keep one basic factory running producing 40 P1 per hour (x2) producing 5 P2 per hour. Let's say I waste some time or don't extract enough materials but still get 100 P2 per day on each planet.

P2 export tax is 900. Let's say you sell P2 for 4900 giving you 4k profit per P2.
4000*100*5 planets*3 characters = 6 million per day or 180 million a month.

I have five accounts with 5 mains and 2 alts on each acccount. I do PI with each toon for a total of 15 toons with 5 planets each. I put my extractors on a 14 day cycle but, I reset them every 3 days before their extraction curve falls too low. I do this all in a wormhole with POCO's that are set at zero tax. I make well in excess of 4 bill a month in PI income. I use my mains to do other things so the accounts arent just sitting there idle. Anybody that has open slots in their accounts and isnt doing PI is cheating themselves out of free isk.