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Gerald Sphinx
Gallente
The Scope
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Posted - 2011.02.07 05:21:00 -
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I'm trying to setup a series of colonies across multiple alts that I have trained for PI along with my main (I have three PI alts). The commodities I'm aiming to produce are going to be strictly p4 since I want to produce control towers. The only thing that I can't produce with PI are the capital construction parts.
I'm aiming to use these specialized commodities (along with the capital construction parts) to produce Small Gallente Control Towers. But from what I see, they appear to require every known p0 material to produce p4 commodities. But I also notice that one doesn't really need every type of planet to produce. Only a large fraction of the planets types are required to produce them all. Of course, the blueprint material requirements are not even for every commodity (you need more of one commodity than the other).
So, here is the question.
Which planet types do you guys usually go for in producing all p4 commodities and how do you balance out the production chains? I know for a fact that I will need at least 1 (maybe 2) production planets to produce all p4 products, but how many of each planet type do I really need for harvesting?
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Gerald Sphinx
Gallente
The Scope
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Posted - 2011.02.08 01:33:00 -
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Hope this helped a bit.
A bit? Jesus Christ man you threw so many details in there you nearly scared me from going ahead with production. LOL But I'll give it a try though. XD
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Gerald Sphinx
Gallente
The Scope
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Posted - 2011.03.04 14:19:00 -
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First off, I like to thank Kolmogorow for pointing me in the general direction regarding my PI setup.
I finally realized that if I want to produce all the P4 components needed for a Small Gallente Control Tower without having to change schematics while still maintaining a sizable flow of imported P1 materials to my production planets, I have to use at least four of my characters in the following way.
Alt 1 - 5 Harvester Planets producing 5 unique P1 commodities
Alt 2 - 5 Harvester Planets producing 5 unique P1 commodities
Alt 3 - 5 Harvester Planets producing 5 unique P1 commodities
Main 1 - 4 Production Planets (each producing 2 of the 8 P4 components). This is the character that has the BPO as well.
So, in total, we're talking 19 planets. That's a lot of setting up, a lot of ISK spent for initial setup (not including the one wasted after tearing down old and inefficient colonies), and quite a bit of exporting/importing along with hauling. Not to mention training up each alt to not only do PI effectively, but also haul with sufficient upgrade modules (and lots of logging in and out).
It's extremely time consuming, yes. But it's the most cost effective setup I can think of because the time saved harvesting enough materials for P4 production will help the colonies pay for themselves when you find you are able to meet the demands in the competitive small control tower market. Overhead will be kept to just the cost of the BPO and the Capital Construction Parts (plus applicable build/import/export/broker fees - which is nothing). This will increase the margins and thus = profit.
At the time of calculating the profit/loss potential of building small gallente control towers. It would cost me around 46mil ISK to build the towers assuming I buy the P4 components straight from the market rather than building them while the towers themselves currently sell for about 80mil a piece. But if I build the components and keep overhead costs to a minimum, it will only cost me about 11mil ISK to build a small tower. That is about a 69mil profit. At what rate do I earn that profit? I don't know. I'm still in the process of setting up my alts. But the calculations I made were compelling enough to make it take the risk.
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