Neo Gabriel
Gallente
Percussive Diplomacy
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Posted - 2010.06.10 11:42:00 -
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The people laying out stuff nazca line style are doing it wrong because it wastes pg on the links.
The only and most effective way of doing PI is to extract and process raw into p1 in the original planet for pickup for further manufacture in a highsec system with only factories installed ( is it true highsec factories produce at 2x the number?) because its safer to load Customs in a highsec system and ore rates there don't matter for production.
You can place your CC anywhere you want, but I recommend you place it in a far off resource node for when you choose to mine something else.
But like what others have already said, you want to place all your extractors, p1 BIF, and storage/spaceport in a hexagonal grid over the hotspot, in a way as to never having to upgrade your links.
extractor -> storage/spaceport -> BIF
So when you have the setup ready it should look something like a 4x5 blocky hex grid.
Mine only the most abundant ore from the planet, from the most abundant planet nearby. This way you maximize extraction rates. Single source only.
Also make sure you stock up on dirt cheap P1 and p2 items and extract only the things you cant purchase from NPCs and/or are the most abundant in your area.
I have wasted dozens of millions setting up colonies and buying hundreds of thousands of NPC available sources like Oxygen and water. Why? It frees up my 9 colonies to farm "unobtainable" ores and p1, without having to waste them on gas giants.
I will be buying oxydized whatever (from reactive gas fro gas giants) from the market. This is a bottleneck. So is silicon from lava (but atm npcs buy orders and sell orders sort of mess it up).
And finally, come more into lowsec. Yesterday a buddy caught a viator at 0 on a planet when he warped in a comet by accident and got 4 free advanced CCs. I can't wait to start popping viators full of goodies at customs with my arazu, the most vulnerable point of it all where you have to drop your cloak to load up for those precious few seconds (assuming you do the launch uncloaked from a safe).
Or you could do the Sebo Hic at perma gatecamps thing.
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