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POS set up in low sec ?
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Idiva Harris
Upde Harris Industries
#1 - 2012-06-23 15:19:20 UTC
Is there any literature that describes the best way to set up a POS in low sec with defence batteries etc ?

Mainly going to be used for research and manufacture.

I am thinking of going with a medium caldari tower. What woul dbe the best way to defend it with turrets. I was thinking of putting some projectile turrets on there or should I go with missile batteries and ECM ?
GreenSeed
#2 - 2012-06-23 18:06:28 UTC  |  Edited by: GreenSeed
on low its hard to have med towers defend themselves, they will need a small fleet to show up and fend off the attackers. large towers can fight off even dedicated bashing fleets if they have 2 - 3 POS gunners on them.

anyway, the point is that POSes even with everything but guns and hardeners offline are easy to kill unless you have POS gunners on them. otherwise the dps is wasted attacking ships out of range, and swiching targets. the AI stinks.

once you have some gunners, the POS can deliver devastating damage on the attackers. having 4 - 6 ecm and a bunch of medium artys + stasis means you can kill a battleship while jamming the logistics. once you clear the subcaps, the dreads, if fitted for pos bashing, can slowly kill the tower, but if there are no subcaps to help them one or two battleships can cap drain and let the large guns kill them while they try to unsiegue.

in the end you should see that lowsec poses are not a solo endeavour.

but if you still want to do it, find a place with an npc station and fill the tower with ECM. only ECM. when they show up, and they will. move your shinnies to the station while the ECM pisses them off.

imho, if you want to do research/subcap manufacturing, you should stay on highsec.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=7602 offers corps for sale, ready to anchor in highsec. its a MUCH better option if you can afford the initial inverstment. wich is usually not only paying for the corp, but also wardeccing the old moon inhabitants, since almost all moons are taken, but by old offline towers whos owners dont even log in anymore. What?
Idiva Harris
Upde Harris Industries
#3 - 2012-06-23 22:14:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Idiva Harris



imho, if you want to do research/subcap manufacturing, you should stay on highsec.

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thanks for the advice

tbh this is pretty much what i thought. My main problem is I want to get out of high sec but due to my IRL schedule with work and missus I don't think I could commit to a lowsec / nullsec corp. So i was looking at how I could maybe branch out on my own and still get to experience other parts of eve that weren't in hi-sec.

To be honest as a solo low hours per week indy guy I am finding it pretty hard. I know this game has lots to offer outside of hi-sec, but to date all the low sec null sec corps I have come across are extremely casual unfriendly. I know I will never be a full time eve player but I still love this game and I am finding it to date massively hard to get out of care-bear sector.

My main has been around since 2007 and I played almost entirely in hi sec, but now I really want to branch out so I thought setting up lo sec POS might be viable in a quiet sector ?

I can already anchor in hisec but I really want to get out and see eve...........
Seppo Aapo
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-06-24 03:46:08 UTC
A Medium tower can be shot down rather easily, so you'd want a large to start with. Look up a 'dickstar' POS setup for a setup that dissuades attackers, and find a quiet part of space to anchor in.
Pinstar Colton
Sweet Asteroid Acres
#5 - 2012-06-25 14:03:45 UTC
For those who own low sec towers, how often do they come under attack from random pirate gangs in the area? (IE folks who shoot it because it there, not necessarily because they have a specific ventetta against your corp)? Assuming it isn't setup on a tech moon or anything super-valuable like that.

In the cat-and-mouse game that is low sec, there is no shame in learning to be a better mouse.

Vqu
Inner Visions
Diplomatic Incidents.
#6 - 2012-06-29 09:35:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Vqu
It depends on the low sec area you choose and the size of your corporation / alliance. If you put it into a quiet low sec area with few pirates and on a moon with nothing interesting, will the chance of being attacked be that less.

However if you put up a small pos in one of those "rare" 0.3 sec systems next to high sec, will the risk of being attacked be much higher. I did that once and my poswas attacked 3-4 times within a small period of time. My best advice would be to assume that your pos is going to be attacked and have everything ready before hand and of course research your low sec area before anchoring the pos.


You need:

Arrow A cap stable ship with shield transfers to repair the pos shield and any modules outside the force field that took shield damage during the attack.
Arrow A cap stable ship fitted with armor transfers to repair modules outside the force field that took armor damage.
Arrow I would recommend fitting a small or medium hull transfer as the guns tend to take a small amount of structure damage preventing them from getting back online.
Arrow Keep a extra set of strontium clathrates ready near your pos to refill the reinforcement timer.

This is all very time consuming and especially the repping part. If you are all by yourself can it take up to 2-6 hours to repair a pos.



- NSIDE
Bugsy VanHalen
Society of lost Souls
#7 - 2012-06-29 16:47:37 UTC
aside from low sec there is alos NPC owned null sec.
some of these area's are controlled by alliances that are NRDS (Not Red Don't Shoot) so if you establish a some what friendly relationship with them to ensure they at least keep you neutral if not make you blue to them then you are far safer than in low sec.
there are worthless moons to be had in these area's but you will need to sharpen your diplomacy skills to keep the locals friendly toward you if you do not have the means to defend yourself well.

That being said, there are many backwater low sec systems with very low activity, and POS bashing (especially a large tower) is very boring and time consuming. If it is a low activity area there is a good chance the locals are not interested in the time and resources required to take down a large POS with no return. Most do not just do it for fun. they need a reason to go through that much work. Logistics can get tricky if the locals are pirates that enjoy gate camping. But if you put some effort into seeding a local low sec station with goods they need they might even give you blue standings which can really help.