Science & Industry

I have a corp in w-space and we recently joined an alliance. We intend to train pilots in the alliance how to survive and thrive in w-space.

We also wish for NON alliance corps we are friendly with to partake of this training.

The questions I have are how to setup the POS guns so that they do not shoot our friends, alliance members or not, AND we want them to be able to enter our POS shields and use a ship array for storing their vessels whilst offline.

However, we still want our pos to shoot any pilots neutral or unfriendly to us automatically.

Any constructive advice greatly appreciated

This post is on an alt for obvious security issues. :)

Set your POS to attack anyone with a standing less than .1 to your corp. Make sure all friends are 'blue'.

Alliancemates and blues will need to know the password in order to enter the POS shields. This means that spies can betray the password to your enemies. Be wary.

AFAIK, a ship maintenance array can only be used by corp members. Fellow alliance members and blues will not be able to access any POS mods.

Every player needs to enter the password every time they have made a session change, and they must have entered BEFORE they warp to the POS, or they will bounce on the shield.

And not unfortunately there is no workarround for this. What you can do however if any unwanted people enter your forcefield is to change the password. The result however will be that any friendly players will be shot out of the POS together with the hostiles :P

As long as you have the corps standing set towards your friendlies (not alliance standings but the corp that owns the POS needs to have them aswell) and only tick the option to attack targets below 0.1 standings they will be fine.

I've read that a POS will always defend itself from attack regardless of the settings, though I've not yet personally finished testing this (keep meaning to, keep forgetting too). I've half proved this so far though: have in-corp alt launch a GSC and manually shoot at it with POS gunner; the alt that launched it will get a 15 minute aggression timer towards the tower, and the tower will attack them until the timer expires.

Typically the only settings that are used:
* Attack if at war
* Attack if standing is less than 0.1

The low standing setting will attack neutrals and anybody without positive standing.

There is an optional setting:
* Attack if at war
* Attack if standing is less than 0.0
* Attack on aggression

The low standing setting will attack anybody with a negative standing (not neutrals). Aggression will attack anyone with an aggression flag, like neutral logistics, but for this reason it is considered dangerous. I've used these settings successfully though on w-space towers used by out-of-corp members, but the tower will not attack anyone unless they attack first.

Note that standing refers to corp-to-corp standing only. Corp-to-individual standings do not matter.

Thanks for all the replies, much appreciated although it seems the corp we were going to invite in has decided to make the move to nullsec instead.

I wish them all the luck in blob central. :)

am pretty sure that there is a "use alliance standings" tickbox on the towers if you're in an alliance ... though not sure how well that will end up working ...

CCP FIX POSES!!

I'd like to bump this as I would like to see a Dev see it (as was recommended by the friendly GM in my petition).

Its about time CCP pulled their fingers out made POS management simpler. Thats my two pence worth.

yeah, they're working on it.

The fuel blocks was the first step. Maybe the next few expansions will have more POS (and corp rules) goodies for us.

On the old forums, there's a "dead horse" POS thread that was something like 60 or 70 pages of "please fix the damn things!"

edit -- found the link
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=391410