PI Cycle Times

[Giddy_McFee]

I am in the process of setting up my PI. The main thing for me, as I have quite a lot of planets is that I do not want to move the extractor heads often, Ideally only moving them once every 2 weeks would be ideal.

I currently do 2 day cycles and I can get away with leaving them in place for 1 reset before feeling like I need to move them. So that means I am moving them every 4 days.

Has anyone found a sweet spot for cycle times that allows you to leave it at least 2 weeks before resetting their position.

Do you take much notice of the total number of units listed under the extraction number? These are my PI skills

[Zhalyd_Lyehin]

Personally, I use a 6 day cycle. The first days over harvest, the next days farm enough to cope with the demand and the last days empty the storage.

For my six days setup I use 1 launch pad, 1 extractor and 3 basic processors. For 2 weeks you probably need a storage silo as the launch pad won’t be enough.

I also only rarely change the actual extractor spot and only slightly move the harvester heads around because they heads have a huge range depending on the planet radius.

Planetary Interaction: Linking 2 Command Centers

I would not mix extraction and advanced production on the same planets. Generally, you want to have dedicated extraction planets to extract the maximum possible amount of material from the planets and dedicated factory worlds to setup the maximum possible number of processing facilities. If you want some inspiration: I put the following setup times 2 on my extraction planet and process the T0 into T1. [grafik] The T1 goes on to the first factory planet with the following setup to be turned i…

That’s my typical setup.

[CowRocket_Void]

This is my 110 planet setup (10 production, 100 harvesting) in our wormhole. I only move the heads once in a great while, 7 day extraction cycles, emptying the POCO every 2 weeks. The production planet gets refilled in space every 7 days (refilling while docked after the first batch of 4 x 22000 runs empty).

There is more quicker ways, but I’ve found that you run the risk of sucking the planet dry and having to put forth a lot more effort for a little isk gain.

[Giddy_McFee]

Thanks @Zhalyd_Lyehin very informative and with a few tweaks I can alter mine to something similar. Do yuo use 10 heads per extractor?

@CowRocket_Void wow, 110 planets, you must have the patience of a saint, even with 7 day cycles. One question though, I dont know how many actual planets in your WH but do you not find that all your characters are competing with eachother for hotspots?

Thank you both for your responses.

[CowRocket_Void]

@Giddy_McFee

how many actual planets in your WH but do you not find that all your characters are competing with each other for hotspots?

I pull from the same 5 planets, there is a few characters that pull from the same spot, but its doesn’t hurt that much. As long as I’m averaging 150 per head its OK for me. I generally use the top setup with each extractor having 6 heads for a total of 12.

I found that this is the best isk/effort for me. 2 hours a fortnight, 20 mins once a week. 5-8b/mo depending on market

[Giddy_McFee]

OK, thanks, I was trying to avoid the same spots on the planets. I have redone some of my PI to 7 day cycles and ill monitor it for a bit to see how things go. That is a decent amount of ISK too,

I am in NPC Null so probably are not going to get the same yield as you, ill eventually have 36 planets with maybe 2 or 3 as factories. If I can get 1.5/2b a month ill be happy.