Wormholes

Hello Fellow Holers'

I have a pending logistical nightmare. Ore storage.

Now in a normal station i just through up some station containers in the corp hangars that are locked down and audited, only I and other trusted members can access the container and i view the audit log so i know who dropped what inside it and what quantity and pay my members for the ORE.

Whilst in a POS its not possible to use station containers or assemble any containers inside the corp hangars. I'm currently using a Large ship assembly array as the storage in that is fitting out needs. But as we expand more members in keeping track of the ore is going to be tricky so i would like to know the best way from experience or even idea's how we can handle this.

Cruis is increasing the capacity of various structures most noteably the Corp Hanger by more then 100%. Couple this with new compression arrays you should have no problems storing ore. As for the tracking who puts ore where thats more complicated. I'd suggest using a third party tool or building your own for that. If that isn't your cup of tea a good ole google spreadsheet should work fine

Store it in a xl ship assambly array. Let people use their own division

/facepalm for not reading op proper
Yeah there is no better way currently. Just hang out until ore compression modules come along

^this...

And if you password protect each pos, then you've got 5 slots in each pos secured. Great way of stopping thefts. Only tell the pos residents the password, and you're good.even better now that the client remembers the password between sessions, so you can make the passwords as complicated as you like

In terms of actual storage space, a x-large ship assembly should hold you over (plus compression coming soon). For storage it's far too difficult to manage which ore belongs to which member to warrant the effort. How we handled it is a gave everyone view access to one division and had them drop ore in there and submit an evepraisal link on a Google docs form. Corp paid out for it. With compression becoming more accessible soon via the array, having a personal hangar array as a buffer should be plenty until the member stops mining and deposits into the XLSAA. The boost to compression ratios means the 50k of a PHA will be a massive volume of ore.

Unless of course you feel like building your own web-based inventory manager. That would solve the problem. I prefer evepraisal+Google doc. Just be sure to never "stack all" in that division.

or It all belongs to the corp.

That being said, wh space does need a bigger personal corp hangar. Something that allows like 2m per member.

Also, WH mining in C4 space is way WAY WAY safer & easier than highsec. I can't AFK in highsec cause of those code guys.

Can't afk mine in hulks & can't fly macks yet. Retrievers otoh, are ridiculously cost effective. Each one lost is less than 2 hours to replace mining wise. Eject ore hold every 17 minutes, mtu picks it up & scoop containers < 2 hours. The only downside is refining/compression & the logistics of getting to market.

I dont need to roll for it. First person with half a brain who connects to it will gank him *shrug*

CCP's compression module will make logistics exceedingly easy. Grab the T1 ore hauler, compress ore, put it inside (as its still considered ore, it can hold it).

Worry that you are now hauling 50 to 100 million in ore in a T1 hauler.