Science & Industry

IN high sec, the biggest ship that can attack your POS is a battleship. A well armed pos, usually discourages wardecs. Just put a lot of offline guns and hardeners and stuff and you will be fine.

I think we average a wardec every 6 months. There have been 26,000 jumps in the past 24 hours, so it is a busy system.

In my 4 years there have been 2 wardecs that threatened a POS. Both wardecs were retracted when we showed-up to defend. One of them was by a corp that specializes in killing POSes, and I was 100% convinced we were going to lose ours, so we all just decided to throw ourselves into the war, have some fun, and see what happened. The war lasted about an hour, ending when their scout spotted our small rag-tag fleet. The second war ended when the aggressor saw me onlining defenses.

Nearly every character in our corp is a trained POS gunner. We used to live in w-space, where getting podded would remove the character from the system, and they probably wouldn't be able to return, so we had to have redundancy in case of mishaps. We also have neutral hauler alts than can deliver fuel if the war is protracted.

I recommend you do not anchor more than you are prepared to lose, and that you have some sort of plan for defense, even if it isn't a flawless plan.

I suggest large tower. Has a lot more HP to discourage the appetite of POS bashers. With guns, ECM and hardeners ofcourse.

You have 24 hours warning to take the POS down.

Also, just fill it with ECM modules for discouragement if you want.

In three years I never got war decced, in a system with even higher traffic.

there are a few keys to keeping yourself from becoming a target.

A research POS must be in a system with at least one station, and you must have an office in one of those stations.

Why?

Well say for example there is a corp that makes there living off high sec war decs. They come across a medium POS with 6 mobile labs anchored and online, even if it is well defended that is a lot of research going on, an most likely high end research to make the cost of the POS worthwhile.

Now they do some checking and that corp does not have an office in the system. Or even worse there is no station in system to have an office in. What does this mean to the warmongers? Well no office means no corporate hanger in a local station, which in turn means any BPO's being researched, or copied are actually in the POS lab arrays. That POS is a loot pinata, and well worth a war dec to get a chance at that loot. There could and likely is billions of isk worth of BPO's sitting there.

The moral of the story is, having a office in a local station gives you a corporate hanger in station. This allows you to keep all your BPO's safe from getting looted. A POS containing no BPO's is not worth Bashing, and thus the corp that owns it is relatively safe from ward decs.

Do not make yourself a target, and you will not get war deced. POS defenses are not a sufficient deterrent. Foir example if there are two POSes, one is a deaths tar with maxed defenses, the other is a plain POS with nothing but a shield hardener or two. But the deathstar POS has labs full of BPO's and the plain POS has all BPO's safe in a corp hanger in station. Which is more likely to get attacked? Well the deathstar is the loot pinata, so unless it has a decent size fleet to defend it aside for its defense modules it will be the first one to go down.

Not making yourself a target also means not making enemies. Do not post will characters who use that POS on the forums. If someone on the forums disagrees with you, or sees you as an easy target, they may seek you out in game leading to a war dec. Do not haul gank worthy loads to and from your POS, you never know who is watching. If you haul high value loads in and out of your POS then chances are anyone watching will think the stuff sitting in you POS is worth much much more. it probably is, so do not advertise that fact.You do not want anyone to even think you POS might be a loot pinata. If you have a PVP character, if possible, do not have them in the same corp as the research POS this can attract unwanted attention.