Proposed change to PI in hi-sec

Over the weekend I hopped on an alt, checked out the planetary interaction alternative to customs office material transfers.

The usual way I setup the PI, I use a spaceport as a central store, the command centre is never connected and in some cases is half a planet away from the main buildings.

So I tested and connected up the command centre to the spaceport on all the planets, thankfully this didn't raise the power-grid or cpu beyond the max level.

With the Connection made there are two steps to getting the materials off the planet in this way.

1.      Do an "emergency" transfer from the spaceport/store to the Command Centre.

2.      Launch the materials from the Command Centre into orbit.

Doing the move of materials into the CC looks like this:

However transferring from the spaceport to the CC for an orbital launch  is a joke, only 500m3 and a 24 minute wait to move more! 

That’s not an alternative! Not a very good one at all! 

That means at least an hour and 20 minutes just to move the processed goods on this planet for one day. That's a lot of wasted time. 

Multiply that by 2 mains and a few alts and your suddenly busy hopping accounts and character's, trying to keep track of multiple timers, that's not fun at all!

Granted its a worst case scenario but this costs isk and time. and is really not an alternative. 

But for the sake of knowing… say that transfer was expedited from the port to the CC, the next step, it then needs to be blasted into orbit. 

That looks like this:

 

I wasn't bothered to actually do it as I didnt' want to waste my time. 

You can see in the image, there is another timer for the launcher, I'm sure that's going to be another few minutes after the other timer to wait on. And there is another isk cost. 
Anyway at 500m3 is a small payload. Really not worth as an operational basis.

There is no return journey, getting anything onto a planet takes a customs office. No other way around that at all!

I can only hope that if the customs offices are destroyed/taken over/changed by alliances/corps, that the cost is about the same as the current npc tax. 
If it is and if the sale of the goods gives better returns than before... I might stay with it. 
But people are unpredictable so I doubt it will stay like that for long.

I've already taken steps to finalise and stockpile the goods (for a stockpile payday... I can hope) and fuel (as I can already see its price increasing). These steps at the moment will see my POS operational until about 4 weeks into the expansion. 

But my current plans should be done in the next few weeks anyway.
I've already sold off a lot of POS modules. I think I'll be wrapping up my POS then.  


On the flip side I am really looking forward to the new deployable structures.