Science & Industry

You could use the wonderful tool known as google but ill tell you some things anyway about being a POS owner that is specifically geared for invention and BPO research.

1. you need too be in a player made corp.

2. The tower is the command center for your POS. It controls everything within its shield and also determines what moduals such as labs and guns you can anchor on it through the limitations of powergrid and CPU such as it is on ships.

3. Since you specifically want a research station and you want it in high sec this is the set up of mods and tower you will need that I find useful. Caldari small control tower, 1 advanced lab, 2 mobile labs. Or two adv and one mobile, it all depends if you want too heavily research or heavily invent. You may want to invest in either an alt or two that are geared for research or have friends in your corp too help you research as one toon CANNOT fill all three labs with orders.

4. This is the part that tells you what you need to anchor it. Find a completely empty moon. there can be no tower there. pick an empire you want to anchor your tower in and grind a faction standing with them too the corresponding sec level of the system you are in (I.E. standing with amarr 5.1 to anchor a station in a 0.5 system 6.1 for a 0.6) up to a 0.7 system as you cannot anchor towers in a 0.8 and up. You must have not only fuel for the tower but you must also have corresponding starbase charters for the empire you are in too put in your fuel bay (amarr starbase charters for instance) you need one charter per hour cycle.

5. Per month costs... well for me it costs nothing in a sense since I make my own fuel but it being a small tower I dont see the costs going over 60-80 mill a month if you buy the fuel but I don't want to really do the math. However do not forget the costs of data cores and data decriptors which will jack up your initial costs (as decriptors never break) and your monthly costs (as data cores break in invention). Plus BP's, they are very expensive with bigger items.

6. As for invention being profitable? No not really. Current game mechanics bring all t2 bpc too a -4me and -4 pe and t2 bpo holders make prices go down really gimping into profits. the only reason I do it is because I am a vain bastard and feel like the only ships good enough for me too fly are ones I build myself -_-

If you have any more questions ill be following your thread so I can answer them

whoops, I did say decryptors didn't I? didn't mean those wonderful little tools I apologize. What I meant too say were those things on the market that cost about 50 mill a pop for the ship tier but the name escapes me as it is the end of my shift, im tired and want to go home :/

Ruby is right though, you can make profit with many t2 items. I am just lazy and make for personal use as I have other avenues of isk making. With the right mathz, prep and luck I am sure you could make a good profit. I just find the effort for me to do just that too be too much for my simple way of living in New Eden.

SHHHHHHHH!

But seriously, this was actually up to a pretty ludicrous level at the height of Burn Jita - buy orders in Jita were around 1.3 million.

Invention can be ridiculously good money, but it is a lot of work (mostly owing to a sloppy UI) compared to other industry. I can generally get better returns (absolute value wise, not percentage-wise) with less effort, doing T3.




I have a custom overview set that I use for finding empty moons. The only things in it are moons and towers. Then I can just do a dscan, and if there are more moons than towers, I have an empty moon in range. It's not hard to figure out which one it is, after that, especially with the dscan camera tracking.

You mean the data interfaces? Ship ones cost around 50 million, you need one only, they aren't used up or consumed in any way.

Most people use Caldari because those control towers have more CPU, and labs are CPU hogs (too much internet browsing, I expect). If it is just yourself, a small or medium tower should suffice.

You need anchoring skill to anchor the control tower and the modules. Get at least to anchoring 3, because that is the level needed to anchor ECM arrays. Down the road, you'll want Anchoring 5 so you can get Starbase Defense Management. SDM lets you take control of POS weapons and use them to shoot people attacking your POS. When you read about "POS Gunner" you are reading about someone with Starbase Defense Management skill.

Yes, you can make a solo corp. In fact, you cannot be in an NPC corp. The control tower consumes fuel, so the fuel cost is totally determined by the size tower and if it is a faction tower. A large tower eats about 400M/month in fuel, an medium about 200M/month and a small about 100M/month. Faction towers have names like Gurista or Dread Gurista and they consume less fuel per month, but cost so much more than a regular tower that you'll have to run the tower for 2 years to break even. There is some thought that CCP will revamp the POS system and so you might not recover the costs of your fancy pirate faction tower before they finally break down and fix the piece of stuff code that the POS system is cobbled out of.
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/POS_and_YOU


To put up a tower requires standings with the faction that owns the system. So if you like a particular Caldari system that has has 0.6 security, your corporation needs 6.0 (or higher) standing with Caldari. 0.7 is the highest security you may anchor a tower in.

You can only use a lab in some other corporation's POS if you are a member of their corporation or alliance.


To attack your tower in highsec will require someone wardeccing your corporation.

Yes you can make a profit inventing T2 items. Because you need copies, your copy slots will be working all the time. Copy times will be your bottleneck during the invention process.


To see what you can put on your tower (how many labs, etc), use the POS planner:
http://eve.1019.net/pos/index.php

Plenty. Get 2 or 3 jumps out of the trade hubs (probably more for Jita) and you'll find them.

It's not corp standing you need. It's faction standing to anchor a POS. So Caldari State standings if you want to anchor in Caldari space, Amarr Empire standings if you want to anchor in Amarr space, etc.

Running missions (storyline), data centres, epic arc missions, cosmos missions.

Or just use a POS anchoring service.

I only have good standing with sisters of eve.All the other things you say look chinese to me except storyline missions which I know what they are lol.

You need standing with a faction: Amarr, Caldai, Gallente, Minmatar.

If you are in 0.5 systems near Jita - particularly Lonetrek, you will find that there are a lot of offlined towers and every moon occupied.

You may wish to spend some time reading the Standing Repair Plan.
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Faction_Standing_Repair_Plan


This article on theMittani is part 1 and may give some help on planning ahead.
http://themittani.com/features/saiphas-cains-lab-part-one-preparations