What I mean is that CCP might still change their mind about the matter before launch and no EvE didn't had alliances from the beginning, we didn't had null sec either or sovereignty for that matter, we also didn't had capital ships or mining vessels and a battleship was something to drool over back then.

We need a corp interaction with EvE even if it would work as nothing more then having public a chat channel in EvE but it would be at least something.

@Tosch

The feedback is welcome .. as I said I have never tried it. I take it those materials are used in Capital Ship production and the building of Outposts as well?

A seasoned industrialist like myself would most likely setup a colony on every planet type needed to harvest all the materials required as creating a single POS literally requires constructing almost every P4 material in the list. I would then dedicate a single planet for refining said materials (one more production planet if needed).

You don't sound much like a seasoned industrialist then... Cause if you were seasoned you wouldn't be setting up resource gathering of disparate raw materials.

There's a limit on the number of planets each character can use, and logistics is a large part of the time spent on PI. Each command center has CPU/PG limits that means it is most efficient to produce P0->P1 (in the case of a planet with good deposits of a single resource) or P0->P2 (when you have decent deposits of two resources that make something).

When looking at logistics beyond that you have several barriers that induce ISK and opportunity cost. Those include taxes on export from planets, moving cargo between planets and between alts.

So if you are producing P4 components you likely aren't using the most resource rich planets in the area you operate, and/or dedicate some planets to P0->P3 production which severely reduces efficiency due to CPU/PG being dedicated to the last step of the conversion and having long logistics chains on a planet is expensive.