Science & Industry

I need to make a decision on what size pos is going to be good for me. I recently started researching blueprint (invention, ME, PE,...). The reason I want a pos is because the npc-stationlabs are full most of the time (inventen & copying). I basicly need a small pos with 3 labs, but the problem lies in being able to be wardeced. Because its going to be a 1-man personal research corp its not going to be able to have corp members help protect the POS (gunners). Is it worth risking this? Unanchoring and anchoring is not going to work for me (besides risking pos theft), because I dont have enouf standing to faction to reanchor by my self.

So my question is. Should I get my self a medium or even a large pos (max 350mil on pos alone). I need to keep the fuel cost as low as possible (faction are mostly out of my cash range). So what do you guys recommend me to do? What defenses (that will only be onlined once wardeced) should I use?

I also understand that the Caldari pos have the most CPU, but that missile are bad (they ofline when the pos is reinforced?). So could you also give me a recommandation about what faction to get?

I hope one of you can help me find the solution.

The only valuable stuff thats going to be sitting in the pos are the mods and materials. The BPO's and BPC's can stay in a corp hanger in same station (thats what I atleast read).

And like I said. Once I unanchor I cant anchor the pos back somewhere else as I dont have the req standings (bought corp from someone else that had high standings - corp stand stays for 7 days ). That and plus I risk losing the pos (if its small then its not that bad) in the unanchor period (but can minimize that by cloacking).

A small pos wont have any defence at all or maybe 2-3ish guns? So still want some more feedback from you guys :).

You are right about what you said, but as anyone knows, peopl like grieving and enjoy tears. What I am afraid for is that someone will see my pos and find out that theres no defence + being a 1-man corp and decide to wardec and kill pos with bs while being afk. I can however check daily for wardec (evegate for wardec mais). Hmm think I will go for small.

I had to lookup dickstar ( wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Dickstar ), but its basicly hardners and ewar only. got a nice setup for that?

Just fit a bunch of hardeners and ewar batteries after you fit whatever mobile labs you are going to use. If you use up your CPU, then finish off the powergrid by fitting some turrets.

Remember that each additional shield hardener is only half as effective as the previous one. Don't forget to spread your resists out and get a variety of jammers. However, get a few extra White Noise jammers (effective vs. Amarr) to protect against would-be AFK POS bashers.

Fortune favors the bold. You're operating in high sec so you'll have to hope fortune reluctlantly acknowledges the bold-ish. Put up a Large POS. If you're going to do something, do it all the way. If you half ass it you will just get a half ass result. Large POS, hardeners, EWAR, and put some guns on it.

You may be a one man corp but there is nothing stating how many alts one man can run at a time. I recommend you train those alts to anchoring V and get station defense management. If someone comes looking for trouble, then give them some trouble. If you actively man your POS guns you're going to cause some headaches for would be griefers.

Use Medium and Small Turrets. Large fire XL ammo and are for shotting at capital ships. There aren't any capital ships in high sec so don't waste the resources on them.

Here's how you load out your POS. Put up as many labs as you can max out. Go ahead and drop an assembly array. What kind? I don't know, I'm not your business manager, do the maths and figure out what you can make money building. I'd recommend going for isk/hr not isk/item. After you have a plan on how the POS is going to *** MAKE *** you money, not cost you money, you have a legit reason to place one. Now that you have the CPU and Power you need allocated for production, onward to defense. Hardeners are fun. I use them. Guns are even more fun. I use those as well. Anchor and set up your guns to defend from all vectors of approach on your station. Don't leave a medium gun on its own/isolated. A smaller ship will just speed tank it and drop it, creating an even larger hole in your defense grid. Online what guns you can, stock them with ammo and leave the rest offline. If you get war dec'd simply crop short what research jobs are short timers and turn off the labs you aren't using. If you're paranoid, unanchor and put them up in a station. Now with your extra grid and CPU bring on more defenses. 24 hours is ample time to do this.

For the most part if you don't go looking for trouble nobody is going to bother with taking down a heavily fortified and well armed Large POS... it's just not something you do for fun unless you're a masochist.

Strontium Calthrates... use them just incase you do get reinforced but don't use the full amount. By using a different amount, known to you, you dictate when the POS comes out of reinforced, they will have to watch you like a hawk or assume you used the max amount and then they can't do the maths and figure out when it's vulnerable again.

Short version:
If you're going to do something, do it big.

Can a small POS even support that many ECM?

Yes, on a caldari small you can even online one medium arty with 19 ECMs but I'm not sure if that's more annoying than 27 ECMs alone...

Still, that's against casual high sec POS bashers. If you're wardecced by a large corp/alliance you can always try diplomacy first. If they want to blast your POS though, if it's a small one, I wouldn't remove it. Sure, the labs and everything important I would save, but I'd leave the tower with defences to make it more tedious and costly (if possible) for them to raize. And also for some POS guns fun.