User:Tyrianna Asconsdottir/Setting up a planetary colony: Difference between revisions

There are eight types of planets in EVE: Barren, Gas, Ice, Lava, Oceanic, Plasma, Storm and Temperate. To start doing industry on a planet, you need to have a Planetary Command Center matching that planet's type. These are sold by NPCs all across New-Eden.  

{{Box|tldr: Boxes like this will give sweet click-by-click instructions to build a simple starter-colony. No vegetables included.}}

 

[[File:System_information_window.png|thumb|Solar system: Information|left]]

You can access the planet view by right-clicking a planet in the overview or any other list and select "View planetary industry". You can get a list of avaible planets from opening the "Solar System: Information" by clicking on the systems name in the top left corner and select the "Orbital Bodies" tab. Each planet has their own information page accessed by the familiar[[File:Info_button.png|frameless]]-icon. The only game mechanic-relevant attribute in this window is the radius and the extractable resources. It also has a button "View Planetary Industry" at the bottom.{{clear}}

Once you are in the planet view, you can drag and zoom to see the planet from different angles. In the top-left corner are two tabs: "Build" and "Scan". To set up your colony you can use [[Colony management#Colony Layouts|templates]] or build it structure-by-structure.

The location of the [[Planetary buildings#Command Centers|Command Center]] on the planet is not overly relevant. In most cases it will not be connected to the rest of the colony and not used to export products from the planet if it can be avoided. Your [[Planetary buildings#Command Centers|Command Center]] provides Powergrid and CPU to your entire colony. This is similar to ship fitting and limits how many buildings you can build on a planet. Everything built takes a certain amount of CPU and Powergrid, including the transport-links between the buildings. The [[Planetary buildings#Command Centers|Command Center]] itself does not need to be connected by a link to provide the fitting resources. It just needs to exist somewhere on the planet. However, if you double-click any empty spot on the planets surface it will center the view on the [[Planetary buildings#Command Centers|Command Center]], so having it close to the rest of the colony might make navigating back there easier.

A [[Planetary buildings#Command Centers|Command Center]] is always deployed at its lowest level. The CPU and Power it provides for the colony in this stage is very limited and hardly useful. To upgrade the [[Planetary buildings#Command Centers|Command Center]] you have to click it and select the first tab with the green plus-icon. It will show you the level it can be upgraded to, depending on your level in the [[Command Center Upgrades]] skill. To upgrade you will have to hit the "upgrade" button at the bottom.

{{clear}}{{Box|tldr: Select the Command Center from the build menu and place it on the planet. Hit submit. Upgrade the Command Center by selecting it, click on the first tab and select the desired level. Hit upgrade.}}

There are two methods to get resources to the planets surface: Extracting and Importing.

* Extracting: If you are building a extraction-planet, you mine the resources from the planet with extractors, usually refine the extracted materials to some degree and export them up from the planetary surface into space. Follow [[Setting up a planetary colony#Step 2.1: Extract resources|Step 2.1]] for building a extraction planet.

* Importing: If you are building a factory-planet, you import some of these resources from space back onto the surface, refine it with processors to one or more higher grade materials and export them up again into space. Follow [[Setting up a planetary colony#Step 2.2: Import resources|Step 2.2]] for building a factory planet.

There are hybrid configurations, that use both methods, but in most cases it is more efficient to do one or the other.

 

{{Box|tldr: Hit Scan. Select a resource and find for a rich spot on the surface. Go back to Build menu. Select the Extractor Control unit. Place it on the planet, the range circle around it over the spot you want to extract. Dont place any extractor heads just now. We come to that later.}}

At some point you will want to export whatever you produced on the planet to space to use it or ship it somewhere else to process it further or to the market. A [[Planetary buildings#Command Centers|Command Center]] can be used to launch goods to a can into space, but this is more expensive and can only hold 500m³ at a time. At a [[Planetary buildings#Launchpad|Launchpad]] you can export your products to the customs office in space around the planet. A single [[Planetary buildings#Launchpad|Launchpad]] will overload a [[Planetary buildings#Command Centers|Command center's]] CPU if its not upgraded.

{{Box|tldr: Build a launchpad. For extraction planets with Command Center level 3+ build a storage facility. Put buildings as close together as possible.}}{{clear}}

{{button|CTRL}}+{{button|LMB}} one building, then release {{button|CTRL}} and click the building you want to build a link to. A link can always used in both directions, so it doesnt matter in what direction you build it. Materials can only be routed through up to six transiting buildings. Generally it is enough to connect each new building to exactly one already existing building for all buidings to be connected.

* The other option is for the situation, that you dont have any material in the storage yet, but have already routed something to it. You can open the [[File:PI routes.png|frameless]]routes tab. This lists all routes that come in, go out or transit through this building. If you click on any incoming route from that list, you get a button to create a matching outgoung route. Note that double-click on the commodity does not work here. Once you hit "create route" the curser is changed and awaits a destination again.{{Box|tldr: Create links by Ctrl-clicking a building. Click an ajacent building. Repeat until all buildings are linked to the rest.</br>Click the extractor, select the routing tab. Double-click the resource listed. Double-click the storage.}}

The number of Basic Factories should be balanced against the amount of raw materials the extractor can produce. Too many Factories will not get enough resources to run all of the time and the fitting they take up would be better spend on additional extractor heads. Too few will let the buffer storage fill up eventually and any excess raw materials would then be lost. Each Basic Industry Facility consumes 3000 raw materials per cycle. Each cycle takes 30 minutes. So each Basic Industry Facility will consume 6000 raw materials per hour.

 

{{Box|tldr: Hit submit. Doubleclick the extractor. Select a resource and a duration.</br>1) Ctrl-click on the surface to place a head and drag&drop head(s) to hotspots without overlapping.</br>2) After each head check Avg. per hour. For each full 6000 build a Basic Industry Facility.</br>3) Repeat until full 10 heads are set or fitting is exhausted.}}

 

For each industry facilities you have to select what it should produce. Double-click on each of them and select the schematic to be installed. The tooltip of each schematic shows what inputs are needed. Once you double-click a schematic or hit install, the system takes you directly to the routing dialog. Notice the changed cursor, that expects you to doubleclick or select a destination for the produced material.

{{Box|tldr:</br>1) Double-click a factory.</br>2) Double-click the right P1 commodity for your R0.</br>3) Double-click the launchpad.</br>4) Repeat for each factory}}{{Clear}}

 

{{Box|tldr: Select the Storage facility.</br>1) Select the routes tab.</br>2) Click the incoming route.</br>3) Select "create route".</br>4) Double-click a previously not selected factory.</br>5) Repeat for each factory}}

Export and sell or transport to a factory palanet, reprocess further and sell then.

 

 

To pick up the items, you have to be uncloaked near them. Access the Customs Office and Drag&drop items from it to the Cargo hold.