Science & Industry

If the shield was up, no one can steal it.

EDIT: If corpies have access to the tower, they can steal it even if shields are up. Do you trust your corpies?

Open your corp assets tab and check the "In Space" tab. If it's there, you might just be looking in the wrong place. If it's not there -- either you forgot to put it online and someone stole it, or there was a glitch in the Matrix at CCP and you should petition it.

Thank you for your insights.

I trust my corpmates. I also checked the corp assets and the POS is not there, unfortunately. Also, I did yesterday the place bookmark and had several flights. Our corp is not in a war, thus in high-sec hardly it happened that it was destroyed. Thus the bookmark is OK and the most probable reason that the POS was stolen. When I left it, it was fueled and the shields on.

One explanation might be that the tower has run out of fuel. But there was enough fuel, and also there were no any notifications from DED. Another version was that somebody used a syphon to steal the fuel and charters (it was in the Gallente space). But I did not find indications that one may steal fuel and charters using syphon.

Just theoretically, is it possible to steal the tower when it is not on-line? For example by stealing the charters?
May be somebody saw cases when the tower went off-line without a reason?

Victor

Lol I get what you mean, but it didn't answer his question...It's also one I'd like to know the answer to as well.

If a pos is in space, offline, password protected can it be stolen? By a random not in your corp.

Could I fly to moons looking for them offline? Sounds like a great little earner if you can.

Based what you have described, someone from your corp took it.
If you are a director, then check your corp mates hangar, maybe you will find it there.
I would try to do the search in the system where the POS is.

Nope. Running out of fuel would just send the tower offline, and no one other than corp-members with the appropriate permissions can unanchor a tower, even an offline.



No. Can't syphon fuel, and besides see previous comment



No, and it's not possible to steal it when it is offline either. Only an unanchored tower can be stolen by someone outside of your corp.

Thanks all for the valuable comments, the case was resolved with corpmates.

Victor

You can see your corp assets in space on the corp tab. Check there. If it's not on that list then someone with roles in your corp stole it.

Otherwise it's still there. I remember about .... want to say 5 years ago, there was a bug that could cause the POS to be off grid from zero on the moon Double check that you're warping to the right moon and next time bookmark the tower.

As for more help. If it's on your assets in space list and it's not visible on grid then petition it to CCP. I believe they can move it.

If you want help looking for it and it's in high-sec then I'm willing to help you. (yes, I'm just that kind of guy). I used to live in a wormhole and I've become very handy at finding all of the towers in a system in no-time-flat. I'll probe it out for you.

PM or email me in game if needed.

Cheers,
T-

I'm dying to hear about this now...

not enough fuel means nothing, it will go offline but still be anchored.

There are only two ways an anchored POS can be removed. It makes no difference if it is online, fueled, chartered, or anything else. If it is anchored it can only be unanchored by someone in the owning corp with the proper roles.

If it was unanchored and removed, then someone in your corp with the right POS roles did it. Whether you trust them or not, that is the only way to unanchored a POS. High sec is full of offline or dead POSes, some even belonging to closed corps with no members. If they are anchored, they can not be stolen by anyone outside the corp.

The ONLY other way to remove a POS is to shoot/bash it. In high sec you will get Concorded for attacking a POS unless you are at war with the owning corp. Even a small offline POS takes 4 DPS heavy battleships about an hour to kill. on line POSes with shield hardeners take even longer. It is fairly rare for high sec POSes to get Bashed, either online or not. POS bashing is not fun.

If your corp was not at war, then it is not possible that some one bashed/killed it. If it was killed, there will be a corp kill mail for it.

There is a slight chance it got accidently removed by a BUG, but I would say, 99% chance someone in your corp took it down.

There is a reason most high sec POSes belong to alt corps with no extra members, no matter how much you trust your corp it may have been stolen, there is always someone willing to grab corp assets and run, if the profit is worthwhile.

I have seen trusted corp members in null sec alliances steal Super Carriers and Titans that were left idle in a POS. Some times these players are in corps for years, with the full trust of all the ranking members. But walking away with a 30-60B isk ship that was not yours can be a big motivator.

As someone already said above, if you are in a high sec corp with other members who are not your own alts, then trusting them with your assets is a mistake. POSes are not owned by you, even if you anchored them, once anchored they are corp assets.

It could be something as simple as you forgot to put charters in the fuel bay, along with the POS fuel. This would cause all corp directors to get an EVE mail every hour that POS was not properly fueled. Perhaps one of them took it down to stop the mails. if you are not a corp CEO, or Director, you should not be anchoring a POS without permission anyway.

Skidoo sends his regards?