Science & Industry

Is it just me, or would this make an awesome Celebrity Deathmatch?

I should note that this is for after crius is released. Currently, my cap production is done in stations. However, after crius, I think the thukker array or null sec will be required to remain competitive. As I have no intention of moving to null, this means building out of a POS in low. My current plan is to build the components in POS, and the hull in station. Therefore I'm looking for the best way to deter attackers

If, by supers, you mean supercarriers, you should know that they can't reinforce poses.

That being said, building capitals in poses in lowsec is indeed the only way to keep competitive.

While I wouldn't build out of a lowsec pos unless you're in some absolute backwater, it's a gamble either way. Deathstar if you think it's going to be mostly subcaps with maybe a couple dreads who show up, and you can gun it, Dickstar (all hardeners) if you think it's going to be a big capital drop. minmatar towers can get the highest total EHP (yes, higher than caldari) due to their combination of shield hp, and fitting allowances.

On an Angel Large tower, (use domination if you want, hp will go up, just for this example), 7 kin, 6 thermal, 6 explosive, 5 em hardeners gives you 378million EHP.

That's going to take over 90 dreads to reinforce it in a single cycle. Assuming a group has 20 dreads, they're going to be sitting there for 20 minutes+ just to reinforce your pos, which is a lot of time for you to batphone in the PL supers to get a heap of easy kills.

Fitting it with a deathstar, they may lose a dread, but they'll be in and out in under 10, if not 5 minutes.

You missed damp-star. Mountains of damps with short range guns. Damps work every time and use half the resources of an ECM module :D

Not to mention damps wont affect dreads either.

**** stars are only useful if you actually are part of or associated with an alliance that can capitalize on the seiged dreads that are on field. If not, then just do a standard death star.

Said nobody ever.

ECM is useful for frustrating attackers and their logistics support but without guns, points, and webs they won't stop a determined attacker. (Mind you, neither will guns, points, and webs, but they do increase the level of determination required.)

The answer is none of the above, for reasons that others have described.

Yes, making components at a POS, hull at a station, along with clever acquisition of materials and use of the industry teams will make you competitive with nullsec builders. The endeavor is worth doing and can be done.

Concerning the POS, your key to survival only partly deals with POS set up.

1 - put your POS on a worthless moon in a remote area that only your team visits and has control of. Do not sell your caps where your POS is. If nobody looks for your POS, nobody will find it and if nobody finds it nobody will kill it. This is the cornerstone of your defense. Plan on losing a POS once every blue moon. Plan on moving it occasionally. Keep minimal materials in it. Run only the jobs necessary to keep component construction on pace with hull construction.

2 - as someone else intimated, the best setup really is to have a gazillion shield resistance hardeners on it so it takes a small group forever to reinforce it. Main thing is to deter anyone that is unwilling to commit caps from attacking it. For defenses a warp scrambler and a small gun will pop scouts poking around. Pretty much any other force will blow up anything you put outside the shield. They're just a waste of cash. If someone does attack, you want time to empty it out. Best protection is resists. Yeah Minmatar and Amarr are your best bets. Large of course.

3 - a big bloc isn't usually going to assemble a hundred dreads to stop a single lowsec cap builder. But in the event that someone does, you need a bat phone of someone else with supercaps and their own hundred dreads. Shadow Cartel at the smallest. PL maybe.

Exactly how much and what type of EWAR and DPS on your POS is left to taste. Resists, location, and bat phone are the answer.