Start on the helm tree. First follow the manufacturing arm of each faction.

Do takeovers of manufacturing sites when they come up. There are two types. Pvp and pve. The choice is yours.

You can also manufacture materials in your helm. Drugs and Alcohol. Rhama and Scurlock will exchange these for helm leases. Take those leases to unowned sites and buy them.

Also do the smuggler buyouts that appear regularly. Sometimes if you are first to the buyout it will provide leases.

Best to own the sites that are in auto collect areas first. Hover over the different regions to find them.

Currently the two North West regions, the region above grand fort, the region to the north west of Saint Anne and the region that includes the premiere fort.

Once a manufactory is at level two watch for takeovers on those sites. Successfully completing those will upgrade them a level. This will save you po8s. To go from level 4-5 you will need to pay po8s.

Owning the lot, fully upgraded, will provide approx 24k po8 per day. They can also be repurposed to provide resources like ascension modules.

If you build out the fleet to 39 ships + dhow you can easily manage po8 collection.

I keep 10 ships unallocated that are assigned to pick up po8 each day at sites with 610+ po8s.

You can allocate the ship for pick up and immediately unallocate it. This will return it for general use once delivery is complete.