Science & Industry

Heya! (first post)

I'm a new pilot, and I want to go for indy.

However, as research slots are short in the public, I was wondering if I am able to deploy my very own POS or a few of them.

Can I do this on my own?

Thanks :)

The short of it is fairly simple. You need to have your own corporation (easy), get the required standings (so-so), buy the modules and POS (easy depending on funds) and of course put them to use while keeping the POS fueled.

If you can't handle the first couple, you can always search the forums for ready made corporations that sell for 100-150mil and you can go from there.

With respect, there's a difference between being scared and not wanting to waste isk on a first time venture without knowing what you're doing.

If you're going to start with a small tower, pick a system with cheap station rentals, no ice fields, and well away from mission and trade hubs. Get your feet wet, get a feel for how the business runs, and go from there. But read up on what it takes to set one up (skills) and how you'll pay for the fuels (one way or another).

POSes are just tools that help you to reach ur industrial goals with, so try create a personel demand for one first bevore u place one... a POS as such doesnt gain anything other than cost.




tbh, never heard of this, and doesnt sound very reaosnable to me as it clearly depends on where and for what ur running the POS. In High sec I dont see why you shouldnt store 300bn in a POS, and in 0.0 npc space even 2bn can be too much...

If you are willing to tolerate a little more risk, think about setting up shop in a .4 system for your research. You can skip the whole "Getting faction standings up" part and won't need to feed the POS starbase charters, just fuel.

Setting up in a .4 system ensures you don't accidentally setup on top of a valuable moon that other players might covet (moon mining can only be done in .3 or lower).

And you are NOT going to be risking several billion isk by setting up a pos. A couple hundred million is more like it.

Utter rubbish, where the hell did you get your figures from?

I've had 2 towers in empire on the go for ages, started with Dread Guristas medium, and needed something larger for more labs & arrays, so took them down and got 2 caldari Large as I didn't see the point in spending so much on faction large with the long payoff times.

Most of the time I've never had them armed or even defended, had 1 random wardec by a 1 man corp, that gave me the excuse to them down and upgrade to the large


So unless you're quoting for faction towers deathstar setup then I'd say you're way over pricing things.

At least Logi Frigs, when they come round, might make this somewhat less of a pain (if you're not a proper logi pilot)

I post a lot about POS. A good place to start digging in that pile:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1622094#post1622094

Or you could make a friend, earn their trust, and get your feet wet renting research space in their POS. Not being flippant - some people actually go this route. The "earning their trust" part is the far biggest hurdle, of course, but one player corporation can indeed become friends with another player corporation without going through all the logistics of actually joining their Alliance (this also lets you keep out of their messy wars, too).

But I digress; the original point being that yes, public queues are agonizing in their wait times, and owning your own POS will indeed alleviate this problem, but first you should ask yourself "Is it worth it, or is there a cheaper, less intensive way to go about accomplishing this goal? Hey, there's a POS right over there that someone else has built. Maybe I should go talk to them? Buy them a drink or something?" It may work, it probably won't, but you can always keep trying and the effort of simply politely asking (and tossing a bit of ISK around, if needed) is much smaller than the effort involved with building, maintaining and possibly even having to defend your own personal POS.