Planetary Industry: Difference between revisions

The aim of this is producing goods from raw materials extracted from the planet. Planetary Industry can produce a range of commodities which can be used in blueprints to create [[POS Structures]] and [[POS_Setup#Fuel_Blocks|Fuel Blocks]], [[Sovereignty#Sovereignty_Structures|Sovereignty structures]], [[Medical boosters|Boosters]], [[Overheating|Nanite Repair Paste]], and [[Production#T2_Production|T2 components]].

To engage in Planetary Industry, pilots need to purchase the correct [[Planetary_Buildings#Command_Centers|Command Center]] for their chosen planet from the market. There are eight types of Command Centers (one for each type of planet). Once the correct Command Center is placed on a planet other facilities such as extractors and processors may be placed. As the correct Command Center needs to be deployed before beginning any extraction, it is good to survey and select your chosen planet(s) prior to purchase.

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* Amarr

* Arnon

* Balginia

* Dodixie

* Fricoure

* Ichoriya

* Irjunen

* Isaziwa

* Isinokka

* Jita

* Lustrevik

* Motsu

The following videos explain the basics of Planetary Industry. For more details you should consult the [[Setting up a planetary colony]] page.  

Some more advanced video guides are also available:

* Single-Planet P3 Production - note that with Incursion it is no longer possible to do 'perfect' P3 production on any planet, as no command center can support four ECU's and the factories needed to achieve continuous P3 production. However the video is still helpful as it gives an excellent overview of setting up from start to final production.

* POS Fuel Production Guide

== Skills ==  

[[File:SkillBook.png|thumb|Skills!]]

Click each skill link for more details

== Planets ==

[[File:PlanetOfficeStar.png|thumb|All these planets are Yours]]

Planets come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and accordingly provide different materials. Each planet provides five resources, but a few unique resources each only exist on a single planet type. The unique resources include Autotrophs ([[File:TemperateIcon.png]] Temperate planets), Felsic Magma ([[File:LavaIcon.png]] Lava planets), and Reactive Gas ([[File:GasIcon.png]] Gas planets).

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

To actually look for a planet you can use several different methods. You can fly to planets and click them, or be lazy and just select the planets from your overview. The Atlas can help you pick other systems, but it takes a few clicks to really get anywhere. Either way you'll want to use the "View in planet mode" option and get yourself a nice up-close view.

== 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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== Planetary Buildings ==

''For more details including a step-by-step pictorial guide of setting up a colony, see [[Setting up a planetary colony]]''

=== Planet Scanning ===

[[File:PI-AlteredHeatMap.jpg|thumb|right|Example of a planet scan]]

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.

=== Deploying a Command Center ===

Consider which resources you're targeting and where they are, placing your CC at some ideal spot near them (that is, if you plan to use it to export products instead of a Launchpad. The CC doesn't actually need to be connected to anything for you to build other structures). You'll usually end up placing your CC on the edge of one resource type (or a "pair" of resources that usually hang out together) with another resource type growing in intensity the further it gets from the white "peak" of the first. Whether or not resources are grouped, opposed to each other, live in bands, etc, depends on the planet type. See [[Planet]] for more details.

After your CC has been deployed and you have submitted changes, further build options will become available. There seems to be a bug whereby sometimes these new options remain greyed out and are not selectable after deploying your CC. If this happens, simply leave planetary industry mode (click "exit") and then go back into it. Build options should now appear correctly allowing you to continue building your colony.

=== Surveying with an Extractor Control Unit ===

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WjWZU4ebbs (YouTube)]

=== Links and Routes ===

[[File:CreateLink.png|thumb|Creating a Link]]

There are multiple ways to get started making links, {{button|CTRL}} -clicking any building being the easiest. After your Link is started simply click (without {{button|CTRL}}) your target structure and your Link is ready to build next you hit "Submit". You do not need to connect every building to every other building, nor do you even need to start from or include your CC at all (generally a [[Planetary Buildings#Launchpad|Launchpad]] is superior). Routes will connect through multiple "hops" (intervening structures) up to six links away. So you can make a few central "highway" links to connect distant clusters to each other.

== Colony Management ==

In short, to build one unit of a P4 item you have to deal with two planets at least, launching your lower tier Products into orbit via a CC or Launchpad, then importing them via a Customs Office on another planet for further processing. You have to repeat this process multiple times for some P4s. It's likely that your extra efforts(i.e. transporting materials between planets) devoted into this process will make the more involved products more profitable. But this depends. You need carefully consider many factors, like the tax for every transportation, the market price for the components and the final product, the time consumed(Time is money, you should know) and so on. It's recommended that you do some calculation before you decide to produce any kind of products.  

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.

Commodities cost a percentage of a set taxable value '''per unit''' to export or import, based on the commodity's tier in the industry chain.

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However, due to the above taxable values being per unit, and because of the compression that occurs as the PI product is refined to higher tiers, some tiers are cheaper to export/import than others:

* Finally, a P3 to P4 cycle uses either:

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

However, perhaps the most important lesson of the above taxable value calculations is that even with a purely resource-extracting planet, refining from R0 to P1 is definitely worth it not just for the significantly reduced hauling needs, but also for significantly lower taxes. When producing up to the P2 stage, producing 1 type of P2 per planet and only exporting at that stage is probably the cheapest option overall, compared to also having to buy both an export and import tax on the P1. However, when producing P3 or higher goods, where you always need to import something in any case, one should consider whether it might be feasible to export at the P1 stage on the initial resource production planets (or buy P1 from the market) and import the P1 to be refined to higher-tier goods.

The tax rate show in the description of a specific high-sec Customs Office is equal to:

NPC-owned Customs Offices outside of high-sec (if any remain, which is unlikely) charge 17%. That rate cannot be reduced (The skill Customs Code Expertise does not affect this).

For Player-Owned Customs Offices outside of high-sec, there is no NPC tax component, so the whole tax rate is '''exactly''' what the owning corp sets it at. Again, Customs Code Expertise does not affect these rates.

{{example|Example: Exporting a unit of Biomass (P1) using a Launchpad from a low-sec planet with a 10% Player Tax will cost will cost 40 ISK (400 * 10% * 1 ) <br>

Importing that unit of Biomass to a high-sec factory planet will cost at minimum an additional 20 ISK (400 * (10% + % Player Tax) * 0.5 )}}

You have two options for getting goods off your planet, either launching a simple (and small) rocket from your CC or placing a [[Planetary Buildings#Launchpad|Launchpad]] on your colony (rather expensive) and using it to interact with an orbiting [[Colony Management#Interplanetary Logistics|Customs Office]].  

The Launchpad has the greater cost up front, but is far superior to the CC and exports for 2/3 of the fee of a CC. It can also launch far larger amounts, and is the only way to import stuff on to the planet. However, keep in mind that you are charged 50% of the export fee to import items to your launchpad. Consider the costs carefully before setting up a multi-planet production chain. It is now be possible for player corporations to take over High Sec customs offices and set any tax rate they wish, if you have an large factory system making Level 4 items and need to import and export this also needs to be kept in mind.

The screen capture here shows the easier option - a launch prepared from your CC, accessed via the rocket-looking icon. Simply click the items in your storage to add them to the pending launch and when you're happy click the nice "Go for launch" button (not to be mistaken for the more yummy "Go for lunch" button) and the contents of the launch will end up in a jet can orbiting the planet at a random spot. You get an entry in your planetary production window under launches for its location. This location can be warped to to pick up the items. There is also a timer when the timer ends your production is lost - don't worry too much, it can last several days before pickup!

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.

== Term list ==

== Tips ==

* Starting off small can help, check the local region for prices and make enough to cover your costs. Building large installations that cost a lot to start with can place you worse off. With something as new and as detailed as PI, playing it safe is usually your best bet.

A quick spreadsheet or hand written notes about the sell/buy prices of the commodities in question are required for profit, the equation looks like:

Advanced Processors can also be used to produce P3 products from P1 and P2 commodities.  For these, the calculations become somewhat more complicated, because the taxes vary depending on whether the ingredients are P1 or P2.

== References ==

# [[Creating a Planetary Industry Alt]]

# [https://evehelper.tk/ PI commodities relations, prices and planner]

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

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