Planetary Industry: Difference between revisions

* (Planet Management) {{sk|Interplanetary Consolidation}} - Increases the number of planets you can install command centers on up to 6

* (Planet Management) {{sk|Remote Sensing}} - Allows a player to scan planets remotely. Each skill level increases the distance at which it's possible to scan.  Requires level 1 to scan at all, so train to level 1 before starting PI.

* (Planet Management) {{sk|Advanced Planetology}} - Increases the precision when scanning planets for resources. Note that {{sk|Planetology}} allows you to see more details while {{sk|Advanced Planetology}} allows you to have a more accurate idea of where the resources are located. See the skills page for more info.

* (Trade) {{sk|Customs Code Expertise}} - Reduces the NPC tax rate of Player Owned Customs Offices (POCOs) in high sec. It does NOT, however, have any effect on tax rates with NPC customs offices either inside or outside of high sec.

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[[File:PlanetModeIcon.png|thumb|View in Planet Mode]]

== Resources and Products ==

The items involved in Planetary Industry are known as Resources (extracted from [[Planets]]) and Products (produced from Resources or other Products on planets)

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Aside from leading to higher tiers of planetary Products, some PI goods can be used for T2 blueprints, Starbase / Sov structures, nanite paste, or POS fuel. For more information on the involved items, see [[Planetary Commodities]]. To find out how to get started looking for your initial Resources, read on!

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| Extractor Control Units (ECUs) allow the installation of extraction programs and the building of extraction heads. To make use of the extraction programs, you must select the resource type for all heads, a duration for the program (up to 14 days), and a route for the raw material to follow once extracted, lest it be lost. Additionally, you must manually initiate the extraction of a particular "seam" of the resource and submit your action before extraction begins.

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| Extraction of resources is done by extractor heads that are installable via the ECUs. The heads can be placed within the ECUs area and can be moved via drag and drop to resource hot-spots for a greater extraction amount.

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| These come in three different types, [[Planetary Buildings#Basic_Industry_Facility|Basic]] (used to transform raw materials (P0) to processed materials (P1)), [[Planetary Buildings#Advanced Industry Facility|Advanced]] (used to either transform processed materials (P1) in refined commodities (P2) OR refined commodities (P2) in specialized commodities (P3)), and [[Planetary Buildings#High Tech Production Plant |High Tech]] (used to transform specialized commodities (P3) in advanced commodities (P4)). The latter can only be built on barren or temperate planets.

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| About as simple as a planetary building goes, these hulks simply store materials or goods, potentially as part of a larger logistics system.

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| A building dedicated to moving materials and goods to and from the planet. This building operates in a similar way to the rocket launch function of the Command Center, but it benefits from its connection to a Cargo Link in orbit above the planet. From there, the owner can import and export goods, albeit at great expense.

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| These can be thought of as railroads, connecting different structures. In addition to their construction (which has a base cost plus a distance cost), routes have to be defined using the links to route specific products across your planetary network. They have a finite capacity in m3 per hour and can be upgraded.

After you've familiarized yourself a bit with planets and resources, you'll probably want to extract one from the other. Finding a planet that is simply abundant in a resource you want is only the first step. Now you need to find out where on the planet you'll want to place your stuff. To get started, get yourself into Planet Mode and make sure you're on the "Scan" tab. You should see the five available resources, a "NO FILTER" bar, and a colorful "heat" bar. Click any one resource and you'll get a heat map showing where on the planet that resource is abundant.

You can leave a resource highlighted as you shift to the "Build" tab so you can more easily place an extractor on a rich spot (the white spot on this screenshot). To remove the heat overlay click the "NO FILTER" bar.

To get started on building stuff you need to first deploy a Command Center (CC) of the right type on your target planet.  

With the Build menu up, select the "Command Centers" menu and CCs of the specific size will light up, ready to be placed. If all are greyed out, make sure you put the CC in your cargo hold, that you are undocked, and that you are not at your colony cap ({{Sk|Interplanetary Consolidation}} skill). Drop the CC in the target spot and after it is placed be sure to click the "Submit" button that now appears in the UI to your left. Almost nothing in Planetary Industry is finalized until you click "Submit" and you can group some orders before submitting them (you might get a timer if you keep hitting Submit after every tiny change).

[[File:Surveying.jpg|thumb|Surveying window]]

You will be presented with another window (in the bottom half of the screenshot).  First, select the type of resource you wish to extract.  Then, move the "Extractor Area Size" slider until you have the desired program duration (how often you will have to come back to resurvey your extractors (ranges from 1 hour to 14 days)).  Click on the first "Extractor Head Units" circle to create an Extractor Head.  You can now move this new Extractor Head around within the radius of influence of the Extraction Control Unit (the grey circle you saw when placing the ECU) and watch the graph of extraction amount to see where a good deposit appears. Extractor Control Units can have up to 10 Extractor Heads.  Each additional head consumes an amount of CPU (110) and Powergrid (550). The Extraction Area Size/Duration is a trade-off of varying total amount, cycle time (doubles at 25 hours (1d1h) to 30 min, 50 hours (2d2h) to 1hr, 4d4h to 2hr, 8d8h to 4hr.), per-cycle yield, and management requirements. If you have ample time to check on your Extractors often you can get a higher yield over shorter periods. If you do not want to check very often you can instead select long-term deposits so you won't need to babysit your extractors.  

After a Link is planned (no need to hit "Submit" yet) you can finally make Routes! For a simple example you could route the Extractor to the CC in the screenshot, and then the CC to the Processor. Having started extracting earlier and installed a Schematic in the Processor you should be fully ready to Route next. Click the Extractor and go to the Products sub menu (this is where you'll be dropped off after Installing a Deposit, so it helps to prepare all your buildings and links before starting any Extractors), click the available Resource, select "Create Route", pick the CC, and hit "Create Route" again to finalize.  

Next, click its Products sub menu and route from there to the Processor. Now when your processor is ready for more it will pull the resource for production, once you submit your changes. But wait! Lastly make a route the same way from the Processor back to your CC (or other storage). Like the extractor if it isn't stored it is lost. Finally hit "Submit" again and congratulations, you now have a working colony!

==== Links resource usage ====

* The PG cost of a link of distance l is : p(l) = 10+0.15×l

* The CPU cost of a link of distance l is : c(l) = 15+0.2×l

Once this is done, we have the cost of links on a planet depending on those values and ''r'' the radius of that planet

* PG cost p(r,n,k) = 10×n+0,001801287×r×k

* CPU cost c(r,n,k) = 15×n+0,002401716×r×k

=== Industry ===

Producing the higher tier products on a single planet narrows down to where each P3 can only be produced from scratch (in other words, without importing goods) on a single planet type. P4 items all need multiple planet types, from two to five. This is where you need to start thinking about how deep you'd like to get into Planetary Industry. Look around for some blue or red pills and start talking about rabbit holes. Of course, a primary motivator is the title of the next section. For more information on how to deal with getting goods between colonies, see [[Colony Management#Interplanetary Logistics|Interplanetary Logistics]].

With the new ECUs in Incursion it is no longer possible to do "perfect" P3 production on any planet—that is, continuously producing a P3 item at maximum output. You can extract one resource at a time, but no CC can support four ECUs and the factories needed to achieve continuous P3 production. This means if you are looking to maximize production, P3 production will always require at least 2 planets.

[[File:LaunchFromCC.png|thumb|A pending Launch from a command center]]

As mentioned above, it's usual to import and export items, but you need to pay taxes for both processes. The tax rates are preset at the planet's Customs Office and vary among systems with different security status.

** volume change is 108m³ or 87.2m³ respectively to 100m³, so not very significant.

=== High Sec ===

===== Launchpad =====

===== Command Center =====

Sometimes your Customs Office may be camped by pirates or you are simply unwilling to pay the dramatic tax (like 80% or more). And when you start doing PI, the high requirement of a Launchpad may make you unwilling to build one because it reduces the CPU (3,600tf per launchpad) available for production facilities. At this time you can use your Command Center to get your commodities off your planet.

After you pick up your items you can simply go sell them on the market like you would anything else. Easy money! The hard part is picking what Commodity to focus on.

* Q: Can an alpha account participate in PI?

* Q: Where do the products go when I launch them from the Command Center?

* Q: Can you deploy, manage or collect resources while cloaked?

* Q: Can you deploy, manage or collect resources from a freighter?

* Until you click the "submit" button, no actual changes are made to your colony. This allows you to experiment with different setups without committing to them (for example arranging buildings and links to make best use of the available powergrid and CPU). If you do not want to make your changes, simply click "cancel" and the colony will revert back to how it was.

* At schematics selection screen you can press the first letter of the schematic you are looking for to instantly move the selection window to the products starting with the letter you just pressed (need to click on the window first to activate the function).

* Day-to-Day Management: Resurvey your extractors, route products in your colony

* Build/tear-down non-Command Center structures

* Decommission your entire colony

* For extended war periods, you may want to consider adding additional storage to planets.

# [https://evehelper.pages.dev/ PI commodities relations, prices and planner (evehelper)]

# [https://www.adam4eve.eu/pi_rank.php Adam4EVE's PI profitability ranking]

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