Warfare & Tactics

I'm putting up a medium POS and I'm deciding on the defences. I play solo, so actively defending it beyond the POS Gunnery skill (which I will probably train soon) is not really an option. Is it even worth putting guns on it? I've got a medium amarr tower at full capacity that can only do 1080 DPS. A single battleship properly fit could easily tank that.

What are my options? I've read that even ECM batteries can be fairly useless as they cycle, and as medium tower as a limited powergrid I can only put up so many. They could just warp to an undefended part of the shield at range... The only other thing I've thought about are hardeners - making it take as long as possible to kill to dissuade attackers. Is it recommended just to have no guns on a medium?

add me as a contact, set up as many posses in lowsec as you want, if anyone attacks them let me know when they ome out of reinforced and we will be there to defend them.

With all due respect, if you need to ask on the forum you probably shouldn't be attempting it.

The DPS output being tankable by 1 BS is nonsense - any tower with defenses is merely a speed bump to almost any capable group - the real question is if they can get a fight out of it or whether attacking it has any value.

Now if you're moon mining then expect trouble on anything rarity 32 and up fairly regularly. I wouldn't waste time on defenses personally unless it is just to annoy people - hardeners and ECM being the most annoying.
If your tower is for anything else then I'd question is it really necessary? Building caps is a no-no, reactions is rarely worth the effort on medium towers, making combat boosters if probably unwise solo, nullsec is just asking to be squashed, base of operations is only really worthwhile in a wormhole. So do you really need it?

Your problem is by coming to the forum and announcing you are solo raising a tower that you admit to being indefensible you just added perceived value to any pirate group who reads this and casually wants to ransom you. If thats your intention (baiting) then ok. Otherwise its just daft.

Some things are best just done and not talked about in order to gain experience. At the end of the day towers are really cheap (especially for their massive EHP) so you have very little to really lose. Good luck.

there is no pos that can stand alone against serious attack, so to really defend pos you will need some fleet action too.

This.

So he's dumb if he announces his intention to put up a POS and he's a coward if he doesn't? Or you just like insulting people because you're a d-bag?


Anyhow OP. In highsec, just go with offline hardeners and ECM and online them if you get decced. Or nothing and pull the tower down. Or form a defense fleet. Or any combination thereof. POS guns wont be of any value.

Towers are bargain basement cheap though, so I wouldnt overthink it too much, just try it out.

I'm sure you'd like an answer wouldn't you?

The word I wanted to use rhymes with bunt and begins with a c, but I had to go for coward instead.

Purely because rather than any thanks for the useful info and advice he goes with a quote of the nitwit whose sole contribution to the thread was to point out to me that he is probably an alt - something I figured out while typing my post - which yes makes part of my post invalid to him, but which I decided to leave in anyway for the next guy reading.

But yeah he's also a coward for not posting with his main, despite it possibly endangering his tower. So any more bunts want to comment? Because I got plenty more forum intolerance to share.

The basic issue with a med pos is you don't have the resources to fit a good defense and do something else. A med POS simply isn't defensible, and the only reason to use one is if you don't have anything in the POS that is worth more than a large POS.

Guns really don't threaten a POS fleet you just come in out of the range of the guns, and incap them or tank them. A good set of resists, jammers, and damps will raise the annoyance level and/or resources required for a siege, which is a better defense. Just remember that the resists go on the inside....


PS- You should always have one large gun on your POS. Sooner or later an idiot will park his frigate "out of range" and not realize a large POS gun can hit an unmoving frigate just fine...

Dont forget about ammunition modificators. I am sure medium pos can dish out much more than 1k dps. Any pos especially smaller than large out of wormhole is imho bad idea for not sov owners.

Has anyone actually ever attacked you?

With so many easier target around (unfuelled POSes littering hi-sec, many with labs intact) I can't imagine anyone wanting to attack something like that unless you really really made them cross. I would be SO BORING.