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The purpose of [[Planetary Industry]] is to produce things from stuff you have extracted from planets and make money by selling it on the market.
[[Category:Planetary Interaction]]
 
  
The [[Planetary Interaction]] feature of the Tyrannis expansion allows players to utilize planetary industries. Below is a general overview of what can be exploited with this new feature.
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To do anything on a planet, you need a Planetary Command Center matching that planet's type. Once you have deployed this from somewhere in space in the desired system, everything else can be done from anywhere in the universe until you export your items, which must be done in space in the same system as your colony. Picking up your items also must be done in space and uncloaked near either a Customs Office or a launched canister from your Command Center, depending on how you export your products.
  
''Note: [[Planetary Commodities]] page has been introduced to hold the main tables with Resources and Products, the tables below that overlap with that page will be used to fill the Commodities page. This page should focus on how to connect Extractor A to Processor B via Storage C to produce product D, the best way to organize links, routes, exploit deposits, and so on''
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Your Command Center provides Powergrid and CPU to your entire colony. This limits how many buildings you can put in a colony. Everything takes a certain amount of CPU and Powergrid, including the links between the buildings.
  
= Overview =
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If you are building a manufacturing-only colony, then you need processors and a way of getting things to and from the planetary surface.  You can put the colony in a small area, anywhere on your chosen planet.
  
The idea of Planetary Interaction is to produce things, or to make money by selling stuff you have extracted from planets.
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If you are building a resource-extraction colony, you need resource extractors and a way to get things up from the planetary surface.
  
To do anything on a planet, we need a Planetary Command CentreOnce you have deployed this from orbit everything else is done from anywhere in the universe, including from inside a station, until you need to go back into orbit to actually pick up your items.
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If you want smooth processing without waste, if you have excess of one resource/product building up, or need to store your output for later pickup you will need storageFor storage, you can use (in order of capacity) a Planetary Command Center (500 m3), Launch Pad (10,000 m3), or Storage Facility (12,000 m3).
  
If you are building a manufacturing-only colony, then you need processors, and a way of getting things down to the planetary surface. You can put the colony in a small area, anywhere on your chosen colony.
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Once you have a sense of the basics, you can start thinking about tailoring your setup to your needs, setting up longer production chains on one planet (or multiple planets), etc., which you can find more information on at the [[Colony Management]] page.
  
If you are building a resource extraction colony, the need resource extractors, and a way to get things up from the planetary surface.  Resource nodes need to be sited on deposits of the resource you want to extract, but if you want to extract more than one resource, you need to decide whether to compromise on your output of one to get a good extraction on another and keep them close to each other, saving on link costs, or to put each group on the best deposit of both, and spend the link costs which could cost you your ability to install one or two extractors or a processor.
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== Your First Colony ==
 
 
Your command centre provides power and CPU to your entire colony.  This is the limit to how many Planetary Interaction Nodes you can put in a colony.  Everything takes a certain amount of CPU and PG (power grid), and the links between them take up some also.
 
 
 
If you are doing resource extraction, it is highly recommended to process the raw resource ("R0") into a first-level product ("P1"), otherwise you are going to pay through the nose on export taxes.  For this you will need a Basic Industry Facility. 
 
 
 
If you want smooth processing without waste, if you have excess of one resource/product building up, or need to store your output for later pickup you will need storage.  For storage, you can use (in order of capacity) Planetary Command Center (500 m3), Storage Facility (5000 m3), or Launch Pad (10,000 m3).
 
 
 
Finally, if want to get your product off-planet to market you will need a node for that.  You can launch from your Planetary Command Facility for 3 ISK/PTU, or you can use a Launchpad for 2 ISK/PTU.  [Planetary Transfer Unit (PTU) is a made up term in an attempt to capture that the cost is based on both processed level and volume.] 
 
 
 
You then need to hook the nodes together with Links that cost PG and CPU themselves.  Finally, to get some automation, you want to route amounts of product along those links.
 
 
 
To begin, below we will be going over the basic structure of Command Centre, Extractors linked to Launch Pad [as Storage], in turn linked to Basic Processor routing back to Launch Pad [as Export Facility].  Once you have a sense of how that works, you can start thinking about saving on CPU/PG by removing the storage and carefully balancing your extractor outputs versus explicitly sacrificing product, using multiple Launchpads instead of long links, setting up longer production chains on one planet, setting up production chains with multiple planets, etc.
 
  
= Connecting It Together =
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''This pictorial guide will show you step-by-step how to set up a basic colony for producing P1 products from locally extracted R0 raw materials.''
To setup an outgoing route for products from a storage facility (Command Center, Launch Pad, or Storage Facility), you can wait for product to build up in the facility and route up to the amount of product current in storage, or you can click on one of the incoming routes and send that amount to the destination (eg Processor).
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We will be going over:
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# The basic setup of a Command Center (CC), an Extractor Control Unit (ECU) and extractor heads, a Launchpad, a Basic Industry Facility (BIF), and links.
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# Routing inputs and outputs to minimize resource loss.
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# Exporting via a Launchpad and a Customs Office.
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# Exporting via the Command Center.
  
If you hook the extractor directly to the processor, you might end up throwing away resources if there is an uneven lot when it fills up (Processors accumulate resources until they have an even lot of input product (eg P1 would be 6000), and then start processing.  If the buffer has 5950 in it, and the extractor delivers 210, then 160 units are lost.  If there is inputs in the buffer when you change the schematic, they are lost.  You can buffer with a storage facility or just live with the loss.  If you are living with the loss, you can reduce it somewhat by staggering your extractors' cycles to minimize the chance that two extractors deliver at the same time.
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There are also video guides over at the main [[Planetary Industry#Quick_Start_Videos|Planetary Industry]] page for your perusal.
  
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For more details on structures, see [[Planetary Buildings]].
  
== Your First Colony ==
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{{ important note box | '''WARNING:''' The setup shown in this guide requires that you have at '''bare minimum''' {{sk|Command Center Upgrades}} trained to Level II and {{sk|Remote Sensing}} to Level I. Train these skills before attempting to mimic this setup. Training {{sk|Planetology}} and {{sk|Advanced Planetology}} is also recommended for best results when scanning.}}
  
By way of introducing you to the user interface, let us install a colony.
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{| style="width="100%"
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|[[File:Planet_Mode(edited).png|left|300px|There are two ways of entering Planet Mode]]
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| colspan="3" | Buy a "XXX Command Center" on the market.  (We are going to a Temperate Planet, so I bought a Temperate Command Center). NPCs sell them for only 81,000 ISK, so they're pretty cheap, even for a new player (until you upgrade them, of course). Fly to the system with the Command Center in your cargo (you need at least 1000m3), and sit in space, preferably cloaked if you are (like myself in this example) in low sec or 0.0. Since The Syndicate, the system's owner, is an NPC corp, there is no player sovereignty blocking my deployment.
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Select the planet in the Overview and select View Planetry Industry from either the Selected Item box or via the right-click contextual menu.
  
Buy a "XXX Command Center" on the market. (We are going to a Temperate Planet, so I bought a Temperate Basic Command Center). Fly to the system with the command center in your cargo, and sit in space cloaked (I am doing this in 0.0, stealing resources from The Syndicate who might object, but since they are an NPC corp, their sovereignty is not blocking my deployment).
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[[Planetary Industry#Planet_Scanning|Scan for Resources]]. The [[Planets]] and [[Planetary Commodities]] pages are good resources for figuring out what you need to look for to produce what you want.
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|[[File:Unsubmitted_CC.png|left|300px]]
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| colspan="3" | Go to the Build Menu and select Command Centers (which we’ll call CCs from now on). Click on “Temperate Command Center” and place it near to where you want to extract resources. In order to build more structures, you’ll need to click “Submit” at the top left. Once you do this, you cannot move your CC or reclaim it.
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|[[File:Unsubmitted_ECU.png|left|300px]]
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| colspan="3" | Time to start extracting! Select Extractor Control Units (a.k.a. ECUs) and select the only option (Temperate ECU) to place it. There will be a transparent circle surrounding the ECU that is not visible in the image to the right because of how far we’re zoomed in. That circle dictates where our ECU can place its extractor heads, which we’ll get to in a moment. Make sure any resource hotspots you want to extract from are within that circle! Then click “Submit" and accept the 45,000 ISK fee to build the ECU.
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|[[File:Installing_Head.png|left|300px]]
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| colspan="3" | Once you’ve submitted the changes to place the ECU, you can start surveying for deposits and placing extractor heads. Click the ECU and then click the leftmost button labeled “Install Extraction Program” in the pop-up window. A new window will appear allowing you to install up to 10 extractor heads, adjust the duration of the extraction program, and see a graph showing how many resources each cycle will pull up as well as the grand total.
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|[[File:Upgrade1.png|left|300px]]
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| colspan="3" | In order to place all 10 heads, we’re going to need to upgrade our CC so it provides more Powergrid and CPU. Click on the CC and select the leftmost button labeled “Upgrade,” then select the next upgrade level and click “Upgrade.” You actually won’t be charged any ISK until you next click the “Submit” button, so don’t be too worried if you discover later that you have a lot of excess Powergrid and CPU. However, the only way to cancel an upgrade is to click the “Cancel” button next to the “Submit” button which will undo ‘''ALL’'’ the edits you’ve made since you last “saved,so it’s recommended to only upgrade one level at a time.
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|[[File:Placed_Heads.png|left|300px]]
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| colspan="3" | Okay, we’ve upgraded our CC and installed and placed all our heads! But what if I don’t want to run a program for just one hour? Let’s set the program to a full day...
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|[[File:Interference.png|left|300px]]
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| colspan="3" | Oops! Our extractor heads are now causing interference with each other because the longer program caused their extraction areas to increase and overlap! If we run the program now we’ll lose some materials as indicated by the red percentages in the Survey Window. We can either spread out our heads or reduce the program duration. Since I’m just making a tutorial, I reset the duration to one hour. Note also how the extraction per cycle has dropped. With a one-hour program the first cycle pulled up 30,000 units. With a 24-hour program the first cycle only pulls up roughly 20,000 units.
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| colspan="3" | When we’re done fiddling with our extractor heads, we can start the program by clicking the “Install Program” button and then “Submit.” But now we need to store our extracted materials! Since we’re going to eventually be moving our finished products off-planet, let’s use a Launchpad as our storage unit. Place one using the Build Menu near the ECU. Now we need to link the two buildings. {{button|CTRL}} - {{button|LMB}} the ECU, then release {{button|CTRL}} and click the Launchpad. You can do this the other way round, too, or use the Links Menu on either building’s pop-up window. You’ve now set up a link over which products can be routed, at the cost of some CPU and Powergrid based on the link’s length, which is why we tried to minimize the distance between buildings.
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|[[File:Routing_Microorganisms.png|left|300px]]
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| colspan="3" | Now we need to tell our buildings to actually move stuff across this new link. Click the Products button on the ECUs pop-up, or double-click the structure itself. As you see, Microorganisms are currently not routed. We can fix this by clicking on them, clicking “Create Route,” and then clicking our Launchpad, and clicking “Create Route” again. Now all our Microorganisms will be automatically sent there for storage.
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[[File:Placed_BIF.png|300px]]
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[[File:Selecting_Schematics.png|300px]]
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Time to start processing our Microorganisms, but first, a second upgrade to our CC! Now place a Basic Industry Facility (BIF) by the Launchpad and create a link between them like we did to our ECU. Now double-click the BIF or select “Schematics” from the pop-up. Select Bacteria and click “Install."
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|[[File:Routing_Products.png|left|300px]]
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| colspan="3" | You’ll then be taken to the BIF’s Products menu, where it will prompt you to route the Bacteria to a storage facility. Click “Create Route," select the Launchpad, and click “Create Route” again.
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| colspan="2" | The next part can be easy to forget. You need to tell the Launchpad to route the Microorganisms to the BIF as they come in from the ECU. Select the Routes menu from the Launchpad pop-up and note that you have two products coming in but nothing going out for processing. Click the Incoming Microorganisms, “Create Route,” the BIF, and then “Create Route” again, and you’re all set! Remember to repeat this step if you add more BIFs (as I did). The easy way to check is to see if you have as many entries of Outgoing Microorganisms as you do Incoming Bacteria, since Microorganisms are the only component of Bacteria.
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| colspan="3" | As you can see, I set up three BIFs to keep my Launchpad from filling up with Microorganisms. You can check up on your BIFs by clicking on them to view the remaining time on their current order and how much of the necessary inputs they have ready for the next order. Industry Facilities can only hold one run’s worth of inputs themselves to “prep” for the next run. Anything in excess of this will be thrown away, which is why we went through the extra step of routing the Microorganisms to a storage facility first.
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|[[File:POCO_Tax.png|left|300px]]
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| colspan="2" | Once we’ve received Bacteria at our Launchpad, we can export it. There are two ways of doing this: via the Player-Owned Customs Office (POCO) or via a container launch from the CC. Let’s look at the POCO method first. Click on the Launch button (the rocket) in the Launchpad pop-up. Simply drag and drop the Bacteria over to the pane labeled “Planetary Customs Office.” As you can see, we’ve been quoted a fee of 1,200 ISK to export, which is equal to (in our case, since we’re in 0.0 and NPC taxes don’t exist on top of player taxes) the base cost of a P1 product, 400 ISK, times 60 units times the 5% player-set tax rate. Click “Transfer” to finalize the export and accept the charges. You can also do this from the POCO in space without having to go through Planet Mode.
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| colspan="2" | Now let’s go pick up our Bacteria. Warp to the POCO and select “Access Customs Office.” Here you’ll be presented with the Transfer window again, but you can also drag-and-drop the Bacteria on the POCO pane of the window into your cargo hold. And ta-da! You now have Bacteria to sell on the market!
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| colspan="2" | Now let’s explore the other method of exporting our products, a CC Launch. I didn’t have a link between the Launchpad and the CC before, but you’ll need one. First though, we need to use an Expedited Transfer, since routes can’t be created between two storage buildings. Under the Storage window of the Launchpad pop-up, select “Expedited Transfer” and click the CC. Like the POCO window, you can drag-and-drop the Bacteria into the “To Be Transferred” pane. Then click “Execute Transfer.” Note that there is a cooldown timer based on the volume transferred and the size of the links through which the material is being transferred. The minimum cooldown is 5 minutes.  A basic link can move 1,250 cubic metres per hour. Each upgrade doubles this to a maximum of 40,000 at level 5. If you move an entire launchpad full of stuff across basic links, it will take eight hours, compared to 15 minutes for a fully upgraded link.
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| colspan="2" | Now click on the CC and select “Launch.” This option costs 50% more than an export to the POCO from the Launchpad, and has a similar cooldown timer. Another key difference from an interface standpoint is that you cannot use drag-and-drop in the Launch window, you must click the item and select “Add” or “Remove.” When you are ready click “Go for Launch."
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| colspan="2" | Okay, so if our Bacteria weren’t sent to the POCO, where’d they go? Under the Planetary Launches tab of your Journal you’ll see a bookmark for a canister that was generated in space orbiting the planet. You can warp to this can, open it, and loot it like another can. However, the can will be destroyed on “re-entry” after five days, and it shows up on pilots’ [[Directional Scanner Guide|directional scanner]], potentially setting you up to be probed down by combat probes, ganked, and have your goodies stolen, as the can is not secure. A POCO is less expensive per launch and offers secure, personal storage for presumably an indefinite period (most likely excluding the destruction of the POCO itself), but is automatically accessible to anyone in the system, and requires the building of a Launchpad which costs 900,000 ISK and cuts into your colony’s Powergrid and CPU.
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* Select Planet in Overview
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* Check out the Competition: While we were waiting, we could have checked out who else is on the planet. Sometimes you just see an extractor here or there, sometimes you see the Command Center.  If you click on the Command Center you can see all the nodes in their network.  Right-click on the background to hide or show other players colonies.  Mostly you can just ignore them, except when they are sitting on top of the juicy deposit that is rightfully yours. If you both drink from the same deposit each gets less, just as if you place your own extractor heads too close to each other.  The below images are taken from the original guide on this page. For more details.   
[[File:PI_YFC-SelectPlanet.png|right]]
 
* Enter Planet Mode
 
* [[Planetary_Interaction#Planet_Scanning|Scan for Resources]]<br style="clear: both" />
 
* Place Command Center  [[File:PI_YFC-PlaceCmdCtr.png|200px|frameless|right]]<br style="clear: both" />
 
* Submit [[File:PI_YFC-CmdCntrPlaced.png|200px|frameless|right]]<br style="clear: both" />
 
* Under the Build Tab, choose Extractor Control Unit (hereafter called an ECU),  then click in the location you wish to place it on the map. Below the edit tab, you will see the edits pending, the change in PG and CPU that will result and the cost of these upgrades.  You can make a number of changes and then submit or cancel the changes.
 
[[File:PI_YFC-PlaceExtractor.png|350px|frameless|right]]  [[File:PI_YFC-PlaceExtractor-Placed.png|350px|frameless|right]]<br style="clear: both" />
 
[[File:PI_YFC-5-MoreExtractors.png|350px|frameless|right]]
 
* Place Extractor Heads and add more ECUs if pulling multiple resources <br style="clear: both" />
 
* Create Links [[File:PI_YFC-6-StartCreateLinks.png|350px|frameless|right]] [[File:PI_YFC-7-CreatingLink.png|350px|frameless|right]]  [[File:PI_YFC-8-FinalLink.png|350px|frameless|right]]
 
* Control-click on the node at one end of link.  Click on the node on the other end of the link.  Notice that as you stretch the link to the destination, it will tell you the length and how much CPU and Powergrid it will cost.  Keep an eye on the progress of using up your CPU and Powergrid.
 
* You can create a route using up to 8 intermediate nodes, so you can save link costs by connecting far away nodes to the next closest node, and linking that node to the next closest, etc. until you have it connected to where you are trying to get to.<br style="clear: both" />
 
* Place Processor and a Launchpad [[File:PI_YFC-9-PlaceProcessor.png|350px|frameless|right]] [[File:PI_YFC-14-PlaceLaunchpad.png|350px|frameless|right]]<br style="clear: both" />
 
* Create Links [[File:PI_YFC-15-AllLinked.png|350px|frameless|right]]<br style="clear: both" />
 
* Choose Schematic
 
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File:PI_YFC-10-SelectProcessor.png
 
File:PI_YFC-11-SelectSchematic.png
 
File:PI_YFC-12-SubmitSchematic.png
 
File:PI_YFC-13-RouteProcessor.png
 
File:PI_YFC-16-RoutingProcessorProduct.png
 
File:PI_YFC-17-CreatingProcessorRoute.png
 
File:PI_YFC-18-SelectCmdCtrRoute.png
 
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* Click on your processor, and click on the Schematic ([[File:Icon_PI_ProcessorSchematic.png]]) Icon.  Use the dropdown to select your desired output product. Submit the result, at which point you will be prompted to route the product. Click on the product to be routed, and click "Create Route", then click on the destination storage facility.
 
* Submit.  Click on the "Submit" button in the "Edits Pending" area. You will not be able to survey until your extractors are placed permanently, ie you must commit your changes.
 
* Survey Extractors and Create Routes to Launchpad
 
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File:PI_YFC-20-SelectExtractor.png
 
File:PI_YFC-21-SurveyDeposit.png
 
File:PI_YFC-22-DepositSelected.png
 
File:PI_YFC-23-RouteProduct.png
 
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* Note that you can choose extractions that produce alot in the short term, but ultimately produce less in total, or trickle in, but generate more total product in the long term, depending on how much you want to babysit the extractors, and how consistently your Processors are running. Consensus seems to lean toward a 24-hour extraction period.  We could choose the long and copious extraction easily on this planet due to its great abundance, but to demonstrate overloaded links, I am choosing the 5 hour extraction since it creates a larger point load on the links.
 
* Upgrade links (and Submit) Partway through surveying and routing, we got the message "The route can not be created as adding traffic to one of the links over which it travels would create dangerous levels of congestion."  If we hover the mouse  over a link it will tell us the level of usage of the link. If we click on the destination it will tell us the link usage of all the routes arriving at that destination.  It would appear that we have to upgrade two links, the one just before the Storage, and the Extractor-Extractor link just upstream of that.  Click on the link to be upgraded, and click on the Link-Plus icon.  You will be given a quote of how much more CPU/PG this will cost.  If it is acceptable, click on the Upgrade button.
 
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File:PI_YFC-24-OverloadedLink.png
 
File:PI_YFC-24a-HoverOverloadedLink.png
 
File:PI_YFC-26-HoverLinkLoads.png
 
File:PI_YFC-24b-ChooseLink.png
 
File:PI_YFC-25-UpgradeLink.png
 
File:PI_YFC-25b-UpgradeLink-L2.png
 
File:PI-YFC-27-UpgradeLink-L2.png
 
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* Create Route Launchpad to Processor.  Select the Processor, Click on the Routes icon, choose one of the incoming routes, and click on the Create Route button at the bottom.
 
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File:PI-YFC-26-CreateStorageToProcessorRoute.png
 
File:PI_YFC-26a-CreateProductRoute.png
 
File:PI-YFC-26b-CreateProductRoute.png
 
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[[File:PI_YFC-28-ThreeMoreExtractors.png|400px|frameless|right]]
 
* Submit
 
* Wait 15 minutes for the Extractors to dump into storage.
 
* Had a little bit of Powergrid/CPU left, so add 3 more extractors, Submit. While we are waiting, I notice we have a little bit of Powergrid and CPU left, so let us add some more extractors.  First upgrade the link between the last extractor and the Launchpad storage, since it was at 96%, to make sure we are not going to run out of PG halfway through this operation.  Notice the additional ISK cost, and the CPU and PG differencial usage lines above the submit button. 
 
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* Check out the Competition: While we are waiting, we could also check out who else is on the planet. The other colonies are small and subtle.  Sometimes you just see an extractor here or there, sometimes you see the Command Centre.  If you click on the Command Centre you can see all the nodes in their network.  Right click on the background to hide or show other players colonies.  Mostly you can just ignore them, except when they are sitting on top of the juicy resource node that is rightfully yours. If you both drink from the same resource node, each gets less. This is also a danger if you place your own extractors too close to each other.  For more details, see [[Planetary Interaction PvP]].   
 
 
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* Check on Processor Buffer. Ok, enough time has elapsed for the extractors to have run a cycle by now, let's check out how we are doing at building up in the Processor's buffer.  [[File:PI_YFC-30-CheckOnProgress.png|350px|frameless]].
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* Oh dear, I have waited too long, and it has built up enough input to get started on the processor cycle, and is building up for the next cycle already.  Now we must wait 30 minutes for the product to come out.  In the mean time, the buffer filled up waiting for the processing cycle to complete and backlog is building in the storage.  You can use this to adjust your extraction renewal schedules by letting stuff build in storage and then coming back anytime while the Processor(s) are working on that buffer of inputs to renew your Extractors. [[File:PI_YFC-31-ProcessorRunningFull.png|350px|frameless]] [[File:PI_YFC-30a-BacklogBuildingUp.png|350px|frameless]]
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* If you're done with this planet, you can tear down your whole colony by deleting the Command Center. You will lose the investment you made in the old Command Center, and all the buildings you built, however, so it's probably best to wait until the colony has paid for itself in products.
* Horray! Product.  Now you can move to [[Colony_Management#Interplanetary_Logistics|Interplanetary Logistics]] to get your stuff off planet
 
[[File:PI_YFC-31-Product.png|350px|frameless]]
 
* Observe that this is in a really good deposit, and will be building up a backlog for the first 24 hours, and then work on that backlog over the next little while waiting for you to come back to and re-survey the extractors.
 
* Teardown colony.  You can tear down your whole colony by deleting the Command Center. You might need to do this if you decide to upgrade your Command Center to make your operation larger.  You will lose the investment you made in the old Command Center, and all the buildings you built.
 
  
'''Hint:''' select the right size of Command Center first, because to deploy a new one, you must destroy the entire colony, losing all the investment you made in extractors, all unprocessed inputs stuck in the Processors,etc.  It does not destroy the items that had been exported to the Customs Office, and you can deploy a new Command Center immediately rather than waiting for downtime.
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[[Category:Planetary Industry]]
=== Intraplanetary Logistics ===
 
 
 
''This is about moving stuff around '''on''' a planet. For moving stuff '''between''' planets see [[Colony Management#Interplanetary Logistics|Interplanetary Logistics]]''
 
 
 
To process the materials, you need to get them from the extractor to the processor.  The get them off-planet you need to get them from the processor to the Launch Pad or Command Center.  All this means that you have to give consideration to the matter of moving things around on the planet, as well as transferring things onto and off the planet.
 
 
 
There are two ways to get something from one node to the another
 
* Routing
 
* Expedited Transfer
 
 
 
Routing is an automated transfer between one node and another. Whenever there is material at the source node, it will be transfered to the destination node. When setting up automated routes, you need to watch your link usage, and upgrade the links if you run out (or transfer less stuff by doing slower extractions, or whatever).  You also can not make routes between storage nodes.
 
 
 
Expedited Transfers can be done to any node that it makes sense to make a transfer to, in any amount.  (i.e., you can not expedite a transfer between two extractors.) This can be used to transfer something from storage to the launch pad, from storage to a processor in the exact amount you need to fill a buffer, etc.  However, you are limited in how frequently you can perform an expedited transfer.  The minimum cooldown is 5 minutes, and it increases with the amount (volume) that you transfer.  For every cubic meter (m3) you transfer, there is a 14.4 second cooldown, on the node doing the transfer.  Experimental Data:
 
* 3000x Heavy Metals (R0) 30m3: 7:12
 
* 264x Reactive Metals (P1) 100m3: 24:04
 
* 20x Nanites (P2) 30m3: 7:12
 
* 18x Condensates (P3) 108m3: 25:55
 
* 1x Wetware Mainframe 100m3 : 24:00
 
 
 
==== How To Route ====
 
 
 
Setting up a routing varies by node type, but in essence it boils down to finding the product to be routed and clicking on the "Create Route" button that comes up when you select the product.  For a storage node (Storage Facility, Command Center, Launch Pad), open the Storage ([[File:PI_Icon_Button_Storage.png]]), for an Extractor or Processing Facility, open the Products Tab ([[File:PI_Icon_Button_Products.png]]).  From there, you can click on the product that you want routed elsewhere.
 
 
 
[[File:PI_Routing-Start.jpg|200px|frameless]][[File:PI_Routing-2.jpg|200px|frameless]]
 
 
 
Now click on the destination node that you want to route to, resulting in
 
 
 
[[File:PI_Routing-3.jpg|200px|frameless]]
 
Finish it off by clicking on the Create Route button.
 
 
 
Now you can review your work by opening the Routes tab ([[File:PI_Icon_Button_Routes.png]]).  In addition, from the Routes tab, you can also create an outgoing route by clicking on an incoming route and clicking on the Create Route button.  You can also Delete a route that you do not need if you want to reduce your link usage, or want to adjust your production setup.
 
 
 
==== How To Perform an Expedited Transfer ====
 
 
 
Expedited transfers are performed between storage elements (ie from Storage Node to Storage Node, or Storage Node to Processor Buffer).  Start it off similarly to creating a route by opening the Storage tab.  Next click on the Expedited Transfer button.
 
 
 
[[File:PI-ExpeditedTransfer-Start.jpg|200px|frameless]] [[File:PI-ExpeditedTransfer-ChooseDest.jpg|200px|frameless]]  Click on the destination node.
 
 
 
In the Preparing Expedited Transfer Order window, you can drag full or partial stacks (Shift-Drag), or simply click on the product and then click on the Add button.  When it is to your satisfaction, click on the Execute Transfer button.
 
[[File:PI-ExpeditedTransfer-Prepare.jpg|400px|frameless]]
 
 
 
= Manufactured Goods =
 
 
 
Most of these goods are manufactured normally in space, away from [[Planets]], but rely heavily on [[Planetary Commodities]]
 
 
 
 
 
== POS Fuels ==
 
 
 
''Together with certain Ice Products, these planetary products are consumed by blueprints to form [[POS_Setup#Fuel_Blocks|POS Fuel Blocks.]] All of these are P2 products except for Robotics, which is a P3.''
 
 
 
*Coolant
 
*Enriched Uranium
 
*Mechanical Parts
 
*Oxygen
 
*Robotics
 
 
 
== T2 parts ==
 
 
 
''Most T2 manufacturing uses a PI good. Mainly P2 and P3.''
 
*Construction Blocks
 
*Consumer Electronics
 
*Transmitter
 
*Guidance Systems
 
*Robotics
 
*Miniature Electronics
 
*Super Conductor
 
 
 
 
 
== Miscellaneous ==
 
 
 
''Created with Blueprint and PI products''
 
*Nanite Repair Paste
 
 
 
 
 
== Sovereignty Structures ==
 
 
 
''Created with Blueprints and P4 products.''
 
*Infrastructure Hub
 
*Sovereignty Blockade Unit
 
*Territorial Claim Unit
 
 
 
 
 
== Starbase Structures ==
 
 
 
''Created with Blueprints and P4 products.''
 
*Assembly Array
 
*Control Towers
 
*Corporate Hangar Array
 
*Cynosural Generator Array
 
*Cynosural System Jammer
 
*Electronic Warfare Batteries
 
*Energy Neutralizing Array
 
*Hybrid Turret Batteries
 
*Jump Bridges
 
*Laser Turret Batteries
 
*Missile Batteries
 
*Mobile Laboratory
 
*Moon Harvesting Array
 
*Projectile Turret Batteries
 
*Reactors
 
*Refining Arrays
 
*Shield Hardening Arrays
 
*Ship Maintenance Arrays
 
*Silos
 
*System Scanning Arrays
 

Latest revision as of 13:23, 28 November 2023

The purpose of Planetary Industry is to produce things from stuff you have extracted from planets and make money by selling it on the market.

To do anything on a planet, you need a Planetary Command Center matching that planet's type. Once you have deployed this from somewhere in space in the desired system, everything else can be done from anywhere in the universe until you export your items, which must be done in space in the same system as your colony. Picking up your items also must be done in space and uncloaked near either a Customs Office or a launched canister from your Command Center, depending on how you export your products.

Your Command Center provides Powergrid and CPU to your entire colony. This limits how many buildings you can put in a colony. Everything takes a certain amount of CPU and Powergrid, including the links between the buildings.

If you are building a manufacturing-only colony, then you need processors and a way of getting things to and from the planetary surface. You can put the colony in a small area, anywhere on your chosen planet.

If you are building a resource-extraction colony, you need resource extractors and a way to get things up from the planetary surface.

If you want smooth processing without waste, if you have excess of one resource/product building up, or need to store your output for later pickup you will need storage. For storage, you can use (in order of capacity) a Planetary Command Center (500 m3), Launch Pad (10,000 m3), or Storage Facility (12,000 m3).

Once you have a sense of the basics, you can start thinking about tailoring your setup to your needs, setting up longer production chains on one planet (or multiple planets), etc., which you can find more information on at the Colony Management page.

Your First Colony

This pictorial guide will show you step-by-step how to set up a basic colony for producing P1 products from locally extracted R0 raw materials. We will be going over:

  1. The basic setup of a Command Center (CC), an Extractor Control Unit (ECU) and extractor heads, a Launchpad, a Basic Industry Facility (BIF), and links.
  2. Routing inputs and outputs to minimize resource loss.
  3. Exporting via a Launchpad and a Customs Office.
  4. Exporting via the Command Center.

There are also video guides over at the main Planetary Industry page for your perusal.

For more details on structures, see Planetary Buildings.

WARNING: The setup shown in this guide requires that you have at bare minimum Command Center Upgrades trained to Level II and Remote Sensing to Level I. Train these skills before attempting to mimic this setup. Training Planetology and Advanced Planetology is also recommended for best results when scanning.
There are two ways of entering Planet Mode
Buy a "XXX Command Center" on the market. (We are going to a Temperate Planet, so I bought a Temperate Command Center). NPCs sell them for only 81,000 ISK, so they're pretty cheap, even for a new player (until you upgrade them, of course). Fly to the system with the Command Center in your cargo (you need at least 1000m3), and sit in space, preferably cloaked if you are (like myself in this example) in low sec or 0.0. Since The Syndicate, the system's owner, is an NPC corp, there is no player sovereignty blocking my deployment.

Select the planet in the Overview and select View Planetry Industry from either the Selected Item box or via the right-click contextual menu.

Scan for Resources. The Planets and Planetary Commodities pages are good resources for figuring out what you need to look for to produce what you want.

Unsubmitted CC.png
Go to the Build Menu and select Command Centers (which we’ll call CCs from now on). Click on “Temperate Command Center” and place it near to where you want to extract resources. In order to build more structures, you’ll need to click “Submit” at the top left. Once you do this, you cannot move your CC or reclaim it.
Unsubmitted ECU.png
Time to start extracting! Select Extractor Control Units (a.k.a. ECUs) and select the only option (Temperate ECU) to place it. There will be a transparent circle surrounding the ECU that is not visible in the image to the right because of how far we’re zoomed in. That circle dictates where our ECU can place its extractor heads, which we’ll get to in a moment. Make sure any resource hotspots you want to extract from are within that circle! Then click “Submit" and accept the 45,000 ISK fee to build the ECU.
Installing Head.png
Once you’ve submitted the changes to place the ECU, you can start surveying for deposits and placing extractor heads. Click the ECU and then click the leftmost button labeled “Install Extraction Program” in the pop-up window. A new window will appear allowing you to install up to 10 extractor heads, adjust the duration of the extraction program, and see a graph showing how many resources each cycle will pull up as well as the grand total.
Upgrade1.png
In order to place all 10 heads, we’re going to need to upgrade our CC so it provides more Powergrid and CPU. Click on the CC and select the leftmost button labeled “Upgrade,” then select the next upgrade level and click “Upgrade.” You actually won’t be charged any ISK until you next click the “Submit” button, so don’t be too worried if you discover later that you have a lot of excess Powergrid and CPU. However, the only way to cancel an upgrade is to click the “Cancel” button next to the “Submit” button which will undo ‘ALL’'’ the edits you’ve made since you last “saved,” so it’s recommended to only upgrade one level at a time.
Placed Heads.png
Okay, we’ve upgraded our CC and installed and placed all our heads! But what if I don’t want to run a program for just one hour? Let’s set the program to a full day...
Interference.png
Oops! Our extractor heads are now causing interference with each other because the longer program caused their extraction areas to increase and overlap! If we run the program now we’ll lose some materials as indicated by the red percentages in the Survey Window. We can either spread out our heads or reduce the program duration. Since I’m just making a tutorial, I reset the duration to one hour. Note also how the extraction per cycle has dropped. With a one-hour program the first cycle pulled up 30,000 units. With a 24-hour program the first cycle only pulls up roughly 20,000 units.
Extractor-Pad Link.png
When we’re done fiddling with our extractor heads, we can start the program by clicking the “Install Program” button and then “Submit.” But now we need to store our extracted materials! Since we’re going to eventually be moving our finished products off-planet, let’s use a Launchpad as our storage unit. Place one using the Build Menu near the ECU. Now we need to link the two buildings. CTRL - LMB the ECU, then release CTRL and click the Launchpad. You can do this the other way round, too, or use the Links Menu on either building’s pop-up window. You’ve now set up a link over which products can be routed, at the cost of some CPU and Powergrid based on the link’s length, which is why we tried to minimize the distance between buildings.
Routing Microorganisms.png
Now we need to tell our buildings to actually move stuff across this new link. Click the Products button on the ECUs pop-up, or double-click the structure itself. As you see, Microorganisms are currently not routed. We can fix this by clicking on them, clicking “Create Route,” and then clicking our Launchpad, and clicking “Create Route” again. Now all our Microorganisms will be automatically sent there for storage.
Upgrade2.png

Placed BIF.png

Selecting Schematics.png

Time to start processing our Microorganisms, but first, a second upgrade to our CC! Now place a Basic Industry Facility (BIF) by the Launchpad and create a link between them like we did to our ECU. Now double-click the BIF or select “Schematics” from the pop-up. Select Bacteria and click “Install."

Routing Products.png
You’ll then be taken to the BIF’s Products menu, where it will prompt you to route the Bacteria to a storage facility. Click “Create Route," select the Launchpad, and click “Create Route” again.
Routing Components from Pad.png
Routing to Second BIF.png The next part can be easy to forget. You need to tell the Launchpad to route the Microorganisms to the BIF as they come in from the ECU. Select the Routes menu from the Launchpad pop-up and note that you have two products coming in but nothing going out for processing. Click the Incoming Microorganisms, “Create Route,” the BIF, and then “Create Route” again, and you’re all set! Remember to repeat this step if you add more BIFs (as I did). The easy way to check is to see if you have as many entries of Outgoing Microorganisms as you do Incoming Bacteria, since Microorganisms are the only component of Bacteria.
BIF in progress.png
As you can see, I set up three BIFs to keep my Launchpad from filling up with Microorganisms. You can check up on your BIFs by clicking on them to view the remaining time on their current order and how much of the necessary inputs they have ready for the next order. Industry Facilities can only hold one run’s worth of inputs themselves to “prep” for the next run. Anything in excess of this will be thrown away, which is why we went through the extra step of routing the Microorganisms to a storage facility first.
POCO.png
POCO Tax.png
Once we’ve received Bacteria at our Launchpad, we can export it. There are two ways of doing this: via the Player-Owned Customs Office (POCO) or via a container launch from the CC. Let’s look at the POCO method first. Click on the Launch button (the rocket) in the Launchpad pop-up. Simply drag and drop the Bacteria over to the pane labeled “Planetary Customs Office.” As you can see, we’ve been quoted a fee of 1,200 ISK to export, which is equal to (in our case, since we’re in 0.0 and NPC taxes don’t exist on top of player taxes) the base cost of a P1 product, 400 ISK, times 60 units times the 5% player-set tax rate. Click “Transfer” to finalize the export and accept the charges. You can also do this from the POCO in space without having to go through Planet Mode.
Access POCO.png
POCO to Cargo.png
Now let’s go pick up our Bacteria. Warp to the POCO and select “Access Customs Office.” Here you’ll be presented with the Transfer window again, but you can also drag-and-drop the Bacteria on the POCO pane of the window into your cargo hold. And ta-da! You now have Bacteria to sell on the market!
Expedited Transfer.png
Expedited Transfer Cooldown.png
Now let’s explore the other method of exporting our products, a CC Launch. I didn’t have a link between the Launchpad and the CC before, but you’ll need one. First though, we need to use an Expedited Transfer, since routes can’t be created between two storage buildings. Under the Storage window of the Launchpad pop-up, select “Expedited Transfer” and click the CC. Like the POCO window, you can drag-and-drop the Bacteria into the “To Be Transferred” pane. Then click “Execute Transfer.” Note that there is a cooldown timer based on the volume transferred and the size of the links through which the material is being transferred. The minimum cooldown is 5 minutes. A basic link can move 1,250 cubic metres per hour. Each upgrade doubles this to a maximum of 40,000 at level 5. If you move an entire launchpad full of stuff across basic links, it will take eight hours, compared to 15 minutes for a fully upgraded link.
CC Launch.png
CC Launch Cooldown.png
Now click on the CC and select “Launch.” This option costs 50% more than an export to the POCO from the Launchpad, and has a similar cooldown timer. Another key difference from an interface standpoint is that you cannot use drag-and-drop in the Launch window, you must click the item and select “Add” or “Remove.” When you are ready click “Go for Launch."
Launch Can.png
Launch Can to Cargo.png
Okay, so if our Bacteria weren’t sent to the POCO, where’d they go? Under the Planetary Launches tab of your Journal you’ll see a bookmark for a canister that was generated in space orbiting the planet. You can warp to this can, open it, and loot it like another can. However, the can will be destroyed on “re-entry” after five days, and it shows up on pilots’ directional scanner, potentially setting you up to be probed down by combat probes, ganked, and have your goodies stolen, as the can is not secure. A POCO is less expensive per launch and offers secure, personal storage for presumably an indefinite period (most likely excluding the destruction of the POCO itself), but is automatically accessible to anyone in the system, and requires the building of a Launchpad which costs 900,000 ISK and cuts into your colony’s Powergrid and CPU.
  • Check out the Competition: While we were waiting, we could have checked out who else is on the planet. Sometimes you just see an extractor here or there, sometimes you see the Command Center. If you click on the Command Center you can see all the nodes in their network. Right-click on the background to hide or show other players colonies. Mostly you can just ignore them, except when they are sitting on top of the juicy deposit that is rightfully yours. If you both drink from the same deposit each gets less, just as if you place your own extractor heads too close to each other. The below images are taken from the original guide on this page. For more details.
  • If you're done with this planet, you can tear down your whole colony by deleting the Command Center. You will lose the investment you made in the old Command Center, and all the buildings you built, however, so it's probably best to wait until the colony has paid for itself in products.