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POS Shields collapsing
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Ditra Vorthran
Caldari Imports and Exports
#1 - 2012-04-24 02:50:10 UTC
When a POS is under attack, when does the energy bubble collapse? Is it when:

a) the POS shields are reduced to 0
b) when the POS is destroyed
c) some other point (please elaborate)

Many thanks in advance. o7

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Travis117
Valkyrie Consortium
No Visual.
#2 - 2012-04-24 03:49:06 UTC
When the pos is destroyed or offlined it's shields collapse
Hayaishi
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-04-24 06:30:27 UTC
The shield stays up for three months after the tower has been destroyed.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#4 - 2012-04-24 06:35:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
Shield is not the same thing as force field.

Control towers are force field generators. As long as the control tower is online and has a password set, the force field is active.

Just like ships, control towers have shield, armor, and structure. Offlined control towers still have shield, armor, and structure, but no force field.

Check youtube for videos of online control towers (force field active) exploding.
Bernie Nator
Seal Club Six
Plug N Play
#5 - 2012-04-24 06:57:35 UTC
In addition to what others have said, there are a few things worth noting as well as the force field going down when the tower explodes. Most importantly, the tower will go info reinforced mode when two conditions are met. Condition one is that at least an hours worth of strontium is in the tower, and condition two is that the tower has been reduced to 24% shield. after the tower comes out of reinforced, you are free to continue smashing the tower beneath your feet.

Just remember, when you set a pos up, check what it will aggress, as so things like a hostile fleet jumping in, incappung a module, and realizing the pos isn't shooting them doesn't happen. Second, never, ever, fit cruise missile or torpedo batteries to your pis for defense. The damage they cause is minimal, they can be outrun by bombers, and they go offline the instant your pos hits RF.
Reppyk
The Black Shell
#6 - 2012-04-24 12:09:42 UTC
/!\ Not exact /!\

A POS can be online and without a forcefield. I destroyed one like this (yes the owner was a bit clueless aha). But that's rare.

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Also Aswell
Apple Industries Inc.
#7 - 2012-04-24 14:52:11 UTC
Quote:
incappung


It's "incapping" which is slang for "incapacitating."
Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
#8 - 2012-04-24 18:26:22 UTC
Reppyk wrote:
/!\ Not exact /!\

A POS can be online and without a forcefield. I destroyed one like this (yes the owner was a bit clueless aha). But that's rare.


Yes, the POS bubble doesn't actually appear until you set the force field password after putting the tower online.