Science & Industry

Following my previous thread on Copying I'm not pondering setting up a Small Pos, somewhere in high sec. I have never done this before (read a few tutorials already) so asking some help.

I was thinking of using either:
-2x Advanced Lab
- Advanced + Regular Lab

Do I need anything else, module-wise? Hangars, arrays?

Neither option leaves much cpu/grid for online defenses so I guess I'd need to turn off the labs to online them. However which defenses should I be aimed at? I read ECM is good to dissuade people from attacking, 2x Each Type, 1x Each Type? What of actual guns, should I be getting any, which kind, how many?

Or am I overthinking and I don't need any defenses at all? I'm likely just dismantling it all if I ever am wardeced.

Tau is correct in that there is no point in setting up defenses on a small POS. If you get a wardec simply dismantle everything. You'll lose whatever items you were researching but its better then losing everything.

Caldari POS's are the best for research as they have high CPU. As to which combo of advanced labs or standard labs that really comes down to what research you're planning on doing.

In order to plan your setup, you can refer to http://eve.1019.net/pos/index.php. Did help me with my research/manufacturing POS that will go online today.

Yeah will likely go for a no defense setup. Currently grinding my way up the faction standings so I can deploy and remove at will.

If I run the jobs from the station (corp hangar) the Pos actually has nothing inside right? Invention blueprints are not really something i'm worried about losing.

You can put your T2 BPC in the station, and manufacture from there. Other materials must be in the assembly array of course.

The only thing I leave in my labs of note is: datacores, decryptors, and data / tuning interfaces.

As for standings i highly recommend the data center and COSMOS missions for the race you want, I got 0.7 POS anchoring standings for two factions in a matter of weeks.

Keep in mind, you can hypothetically anchor as many labs as you want. Meaning, if you can't decide between your two setups and ISK budget isn't an issue (which it really shouldn't considering your labs cost less than a monthly fuel block supply for a small pos anyway), anchor all the labs you *might* be wanting to use, and then online/offline the ones you only want to use for the time being.

Doing so, though, will make your POS a much juicier target.

Also, you mentioned you're grinding faction standing. Check out the Faction Standing Repair Plan here: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Faction_Standing_Repair_Plan . My corp recently had to grind some faction and this repair plan really helps. For example, by simply doing the career agent missions in the starting zones, you receive faction standing bonuses. You can't repeat the mission chains for faction. But, there are 6 career agents across 3 different systems. Meaning, you have 18 agents who will feed you faction standing. So, don't grind those regular missions until after you've done the easy career tutorial agents.

From what I understand, a couple of ECM batteries wouldn't make a diference, Tower would likely last just a couple more hours. Easier to just recover the stuff.

It takes nearly a minute for EWAR modules to lock a target. On a Caldari tower, automated ECM attempts one jam cycle and unlocks the current target, and begins locking another target.

A few ECM on a small tower isn't really much of a deterrent. Having dozens of ECM, more shield, shield hardeners, and other defenses on a large tower is a deterrent.

So after getting the required standings I went ahead and created my own Corporation. I waited until after downtime but it doesn't seem like the standings updated. I thought the 7 days in corp didn't apply when creating it?