Science & Industry

I was looking to set up a POS in high sec. I have set up a POS in WH space, so I know the basics.
It's been a while so maybe I could bounce a few questions off those reading this thread.

I will have to purge my corp (into a holdings corp) to clean up the standings. Approximately how long does it take for standings to adjust (I have heard 1-2 weeks). A few of us have the standings, it is the rest of the corp that brings the corp average below what we need.

When it comes to standings, are the pre-adjusted numbers taken into account or are the adjusted (after skills) numbers used?

I have read that alliance members can only do PE and ME research. Does that still hold true? Some of the threads on the topic are from 2009. Considering CCP's lack of concern when it comes to the POS mechanic, I would be surprised if that has changed.

Should only take 1 DT, but you'll need to do some action that will cause your standings person's standings to change, so it gets recalculated.

People leaving corp doesn't change your standings (that's the why standings services work).


Standings are calculated every DT with only the people who have relevant standings and have been in corp for 7+ days, but only if someone's standings have changed since the last calculation.



Alliance members can do any research that doesn't require physical access to the POS labs. So, ME and PE of T1 BPOs only.

waiting a week was the "old" mechanic (used to be at DT you'd move 1/2 the difference between sCurrent and sCalculated). Nowadays it works like this.

1. add up all the (pre skill) standings of all members of the corp that have non-null standings who have been in corp for 7 days.
2. divide by the number of all members that meet this criteria.

edit -- "null" standings means "has never run a mission, ever ... full stop, no exceptions". 0.00 standing counts as such.

so, for example, if you have a +6 toon and a null toon (that have been in for months) and a -3 toon (that's been in 20 hours), your standings will stay at +6 until the -3 toon has been in for ~7 DT. On the 7th or 8th DT (depending on when the game figures the -3 toon has been in for 7 days) your standings will be dropped to +1.5 ((6 + (-3)) /2).

If you're in an alliance, non-corp members can only do things that DO NOT require input and/or DO NOT generate output. In general, this means "ME or PE research only" though there are certain types of BPOs that require datasheets (or some other input) to do the ME/PE research.


as always with standings, you may need to run a storyline in order to "kick" it into working, though since you're kicking people out of the corp, you may not need to do anything.

I believe it is days not downtimes, but yes, you will have at least 7 downtimes to anchor towers.

I believe the anchoring limit is still enforced (at least I've not found mention of it being removed). It is 1 per system per day for a corporation, or 5 per system per day for an alliance. A holdover from pre-Dominion when SOV was held by having the majority of towers.

vexed nova's signature made me laugh a lot. just had to say it

If you need help go here

Faction Standings

If you kick them out right before DT, you can invite them back in right after DT after checking that the standings have changed. (Tested a few times over the past year or two.)