Planetary Interaction

1. Introduction

A couple of days ago I told you that I started doing some PI, and here I am writing about it. First I have Remote Sensing, Planetology, Command Centres Upgrades, Interplanetary Consolidation at IV, and Advanced Planetology at III. My goal at this PI is to use as little time as possible on managing the planets, and hauling the goods, and make some decent passive income. As I am pretty new at this PI stuff, I can't tell you exactlly how much profit I expect, but let's just say that I will be more than happy if it coveres at least 50% of my future POS fuel costs (More on POS in the upcoming posts).

2. Setup

I have 5 planets (2 gas, 1 barren, 1 oceanic, 1 storm) they are located 7 jumps from jita, so I can from station manage my colonies. On 4 planets I have extractors and some processors to process raw goods, that I export from the planet and import on a barren planet on which I make Condensates.

On the frist gas planet I extract Noble Gas and precess it in Oxygen, on the second gas planet I extract Reactive Gas and make Oxidizing Compound, on oceanic I extract Aquetous Liquids and make Water, and on storm I extract Ionic Solutions and make Electrolytes.

On barren planet I have 4 Coolant Factories. For one cycle that makes 5 units of Coolant, I need 40 Water and 40 Electrolytes. I also have 4 Oxides Factories. For one cycle that makes 5 units of Oxides I need 40 Oxygen and 40 Oxidizing Compound. And I have 4 factories that make Condensates, for one cycle that makes 3 Condensates I need 10 Coolant and 10 Oxides, all cycles last 1 hour.

3. End

In the end I know this is FAR from ideal setup, I just don't have the nerves to float around space in search of good planets, and if they are far from Jita, I will lose a lot of time from my main proffession which is trading, we will see in the end of the month on how much profit did I make, full report of this activity will be made.

Update

1. Trading Update 

The first week has gone past, and I have made around 1.5 billion ISK profit so far (note that I had some items when I came back just sitting in my inventory and I didn't know the price I bought them)

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Let's analyze a bit these numbers:

Day 1: I brought a PLEX and sold all the items I had, also I invested a large chunk of my ISK into production of 15 Myrmidons, and still I made decent profit because of the items I already had.

Day 2: Nothing fancy was traded, but I sold all of my 15 Myrmidons, so I made a nice profit.

Day 3: I didn't play that much on day 3 i only invested into 15 Myrmidons again, so a huge "loss" that day.

Day 4: There wasn't really some trading activity, I just sold my 15 Myrmidons, bought and sold a lot of Silos, and making a good profit that day.

Day 5:

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On day 5 there was a lot of trading activity, which resulted in a nice profit of around 122 million ISK, all just by trading nothing from manufacturing

Day 6:

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Here I had A LOT of trading activity but also i had some expences for my manufacturing buisiness (item name will be revealed when i stop manufacturing them because I make a good profit still from it, and I don't want any competition, sorry)

Day 7: Nothing much really, low trading activity, selling the manufactured items, reinvesting in them again led to a profit of around 4 million ISK that day.

Day 8: I just sold manufactured items and played with PI a bit (I will post about that in a couple of days)

Day 9: Just started for me and I just invested in manufacturing, but since it is going to be finished today it is not the final report for day 9.

2. Manufacturing Update

Here are some manufacturing numbers so far:

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First Day at Work

1. Startup

While downloading the game I made my spreadsheet again, I visited the forums, trying to get updated on the changes in the game, with all of that done my game had finished downloading and now I activated hours for plex, entered the game, bought the PLEX for around 572 million ISK, and I found some items in inventory, which I put up on the market, and started looking for potential items for me to invest my ISK and setup my operations again.

My POS was destroyed, so in the upcoming time I will have to reinvest in that area again so I can continue with invention, but at the moment I will stay with BPCs from contracts, on T1 items, maybe some lucrative T2 items, and about T3 items I know nothing about, so for now i will stay out of this area.

2. Day 1

Items I had in my inventory

The first day I bought PLEX, sold items I already had and invested in some manufacturing (which isn't shown on the spreadsheet on this picture) and all in all I made around 648 million ISK profit that day and had 3 of my manufacturing lines running, so I am happy with the way I started this.

3. Future Plans

The plan is to get into serious trading again, running all my orders, playing the 0.01 ISK game, building the capital fast, so I can get my POS up and running again so I can return to invention and manufacturing again, also I will need to finance my other account with my invention character.

The goal is to setup a medium POS for running 20 research jobs 24/7, and maybe some assembly arrays so I don't have to depend on free slots around jita.

The Return

1. The Return

Hello all, sorry for my absence I had some real life problems, and couldn't play, but I will be back and running in the upcoming days, I have to rebuild everything from scratch, I need to analyze the market, to make a spreadsheet again, to startup a manufacturing and invention process, well all in all it will be a fun journey, so I hope you will enjoy my upcoming blog posts. See you all soon.