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Mechanics question about what happens AFTER you pop a POS tower - How 2 Loot?
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Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
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#1 - 2012-12-18 23:42:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Gogela
Hay Pods... really hate to cross post but this is getting ridiculous and my inquires are going nowhere. Every answer I get is different than the last.


I've been looking all over for the answer to these POS mechanics questions, and even the usual wikis and forum posts seem to have conflicting, missing, or speculative info. I have some questions about looting a POS after you destroy the tower.

1) Mobile Labs
Some people say that mobile labs retain everything inside when they are unachored and scooped, and if you repackage them all of the contents will spill out. Others say that this is true only for prints that are currently being researched, and that delivered prints can only be recovered if the lab is destroyed while still in space. Still others have said that the only way to recover anything inside the lab is to destroy it. I'm wondering which of these is true. If you want to recover as much as you can from the mobile lab and don't care about selling the lab itself, what do you do?

2) Corporate Hangers / Ship Maint Arrays
I know think you have to destroy these to get the loot... but now I'm not sure...

3) Silos and Weapon Batteries
Is there a way to recover ammo from the guns or the contents of silos on a POS?

UPDATED

Given what I've read and the responses below, I believe this is how it works:

1) Mobile Labs
Once repackaged, the contents drop out. So you CAN scoop these and retain the candy inside.

2) Corporate Hangers / Ship Maint Arrays / Silos / Guns
Must be destroyed to get the standard roll for the goods, but in the case of guns loaded ammo will not drop. Unanchoring these items results in the destruction of their contents.

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Rengerel en Distel
#2 - 2012-12-18 23:45:44 UTC
guess it'd be pretty bad to log into the test server, and just structure grind for hours to figure it out :P but if you got a few corpmates that really want to know, you could

With the increase in shiptoasting, the Report timer needs to be shortened.
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#3 - 2012-12-19 00:02:40 UTC
Rengerel en Distel wrote:
guess it'd be pretty bad to log into the test server, and just structure grind for hours to figure it out :P but if you got a few corpmates that really want to know, you could

Yah that'll be my last resort. I'm hoping somebody on the forums knows the answer so I don't have to set up a pos with all the fixin's and grind it out to see. It's 8 hour I'd rather not spend on buckingham... but I'll do it if I absolutely have to. ...in a month or two . Maybe.

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Anemonae Ambrosia
Quantshure
#4 - 2012-12-19 00:04:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Anemonae Ambrosia
Every structure that holds things spills them out after being repackaged, same as repackaging a ship. As far as labs and BPOs waiting to be delivered, I don't know as its impossible to tell as the aggressor what if anything was waiting to be delivered and even as the POS owner they're not visibly inside the structure until delivered so you would have to test this to get a definite answer.
KIller Wabbit
MEME Thoughts
#5 - 2012-12-19 00:38:43 UTC  |  Edited by: KIller Wabbit
Rengerel en Distel wrote:
guess it'd be pretty bad to log into the test server, and just structure grind for hours to figure it out :P but if you got a few corpmates that really want to know, you could


CCP Test Server - the worlds most expensive, useless do-it-yourself doc set.
Arrs Grazznic
Poena Executive Solutions
#6 - 2012-12-19 00:57:04 UTC
KIller Wabbit wrote:
CCP Test Server - the worlds most expensive, useless do-it-yourself doc set.

Lol gonna have to remember that!
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#7 - 2012-12-19 03:28:41 UTC
So if you unanchor and scoop a capital hanger and it has a few dreads in it, and then repackage it in your station, a few dreads are going to pop out? Are you sure they aren't destroyed? Because it seems to me that this would be a good way to transport dreads if this is the case.

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Simetraz
State War Academy
Caldari State
#8 - 2012-12-19 04:16:44 UTC
Gogela wrote:
So if you unanchor and scoop a capital hanger and it has a few dreads in it, and then repackage it in your station, a few dreads are going to pop out? Are you sure they aren't destroyed? Because it seems to me that this would be a good way to transport dreads if this is the case.


Yeh something tells me this doesn't work.
If it did there would be a lot more capitals in high-sec.

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Varius Xeral
Doomheim
#9 - 2012-12-19 04:25:28 UTC
If there was a bpo or bpc in the lab, it pops out on repackaging. Nothing else from any other mod.

Now you're thinking "nobody puts bpos in labs". You'd be surprised.

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Himnos Altar
An Errant Venture
#10 - 2012-12-19 06:29:41 UTC
Gogela wrote:
Rengerel en Distel wrote:
guess it'd be pretty bad to log into the test server, and just structure grind for hours to figure it out :P but if you got a few corpmates that really want to know, you could

Yah that'll be my last resort. I'm hoping somebody on the forums knows the answer so I don't have to set up a pos with all the fixin's and grind it out to see. It's 8 hour I'd rather not spend on buckingham... but I'll do it if I absolutely have to. ...in a month or two . Maybe.



Fun fact--you can shoot at things inside a Force Field if you manually control the guns. Set up a POS, get a few X-Large POS guns, and pew away. Go make yourself a sammich, etc. You can do this all day in complete safety, unless someone bumps you out of the FF, or mans another few guns and pops/pods you with them.
Feligast
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2012-12-19 07:17:03 UTC
Quote:
2) Corporate Hangers / Ship Maint Arrays
I knowthink you have to destroy these to get the loot... but now I'm not sure...

3) Silos and Weapon Batteries
Is there a way to recover ammo from the guns or the contents of silos on a POS?

Thanks in advance for any replies


Both of these cannot be unanchored with anything in them, so you have to blow them up to get the goodies. Also for weapons, only if there is ammo in the storage can you recover it, active ammo, such as in lasers, will die with the module.
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#12 - 2012-12-19 09:43:42 UTC
Feligast wrote:
Quote:
2) Corporate Hangers / Ship Maint Arrays
I knowthink you have to destroy these to get the loot... but now I'm not sure...

3) Silos and Weapon Batteries
Is there a way to recover ammo from the guns or the contents of silos on a POS?

Thanks in advance for any replies


Both of these cannot be unanchored with anything in them, so you have to blow them up to get the goodies. Also for weapons, only if there is ammo in the storage can you recover it, active ammo, such as in lasers, will die with the module.

I believe this is correct. Thank you! Big smile

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