A return to posting on pet projects.... PI in null

I think I'll document a little pet project I'll do over the coming weekend.

My null alt has had Planetary Interaction running to gather basic Tier 1 materials, I'd gather and sell them without conversion into anything else. I did it this way to make some easy isk and had intended to change planets/setup as soon as I had a good amount of isk built up. This didnt' happen due to a little apathy with a dash of complacency.
I am now very comfortable in the section of null that he is in and know how things work, even how the reds act when passing through. I've decided to get things changed to get more out of the P.I.
My alt can use 4 Planets with a moderate amount of skill. In looking up some information on best selling products I think I'll choose Robotics as they seem to be the best in an isk/easy to produce way.

To start these changes I need to remove one setup on a gas planet and build on a Plasma planet.
The goal being to make Robotics. The plasma planet has all the items needed to create these.
However the strain on the Command centre may be too much. I may need to also remove another planet and setup half the production on a Lava planet. Thankfully the systems controlled by my alliance ( that I can do PI on ), contain 2 systems that have plasma planets and again thankfully these two systems also have lava planets, ideal in minimising jumps when moving materials.

I could do the math's on how much should be produced over a week, but as soon as I start thinking about that kind of stuff my brain starts to melt, and its a Friday.... no statistics please.
Anyway, checking Evecentral gives good prices for the Robotics and for the Mech Parts/Consumer Elec, so depending on volume I may end up selling things separately if they are worth more....will see how it goes.

The robotics production is set like this:

Taken from http://www.hst-soft.de/korai/Eve_PI_Diagrams_v1_4.pdf

That production tree can be split between left and right branches leading to the combination into Robotics.
The left hand branch can be setup on a plasma planet. The right hand branch can be setup on a lava planet.
Consumer Electronics can be exported and shipped to the plasma planet which will have an extra  processing "plant" to combine the Mechanical Parts and Consumer Electronics into the final Robotics product.

Sounds great.


I'll need to have an alt buy the lava and plasma command centre's, move them and contract over to the null alt.
The null run to pick them up will be a slight bottleneck in the plans as its a run through a real bottleneck when jumping into hi-sec. This is dangerous due to the number of current wars against the alliance. A quick scouting trip or two should ease this into a go or no go phase.  There are a few things that need to be brought in from hi-sec that have been in station for a while, with luck this one run should work out well.

Once things are setup and running for a few days I should have an indication if its a better way to work the PI. If successful I'll convert the remaining two planets into a mirror image running PI in the next system.
If not I'll make the best of what I can gather and sell from there.

I'll update the blog with info on how this all goes.