Science & Industry

I am not sure if you are aware of this, though in the case of a small pos it hardly matters, but the missile defense batteries you have chosen require CPU to operate. Once your POS shield reaches 25% it goes into reinforced mode (if you have stront in the POS) and the launchers become useless. My recommendation, fit jammers or guns.

Also just taking into account that you are using cruise missile batteries because you do not know any better; a piece of friendly advice, I would avoid putting expensive BPO's in the labs, as they are but nothing floating targets ( especially in a small pos ).

A single battleship can tank as many missile batteries that you can fit on large tower.

Look at the rate of fire. Look at the damage multiplier. Now look at turrets.

No offense taken at all. I make it no secret that i don't know that much about defense. I'm an indy player and i need to learn that stuff too. My corp is seldom war dec'd and i have always known my missiles wont stop anyone who really wants my POS. Now that Crius requires bpo's be in the POS i wouldn't have any expensive ones in it. The main point of my post was that a small POS can do so much more post Crius. Thanks all. -chuk

Bad POS design is bad.

Either you plan on tearing it down on wardec, in which case it needs zero defense OR you need at least a medium, potentially a large one with proper defenses (not lolmissilebatteries that go offline when it goes reinforced).

Problem with a tower that you plan on tearing down on wardec is that you have to keep your build jobs short (<24h) or you will end up losing stuff when you have to cancel the jobs to rescue your blueprints before taking it down.

So far there doesn't seem to be any large number of tower-bashing going on in highsec but sooner or later someone finds enough juicy-looking industrial towers with lots of manufacturing / research going on and will see what they contain (wardec). Few of those will actually try to defend it and one day we'll get a nice battle report how someone broke a multi-billion ISK pinata POS in highsec. Then the fun begins

Nice, but Cruise Missile Batteries, as others have mentioned, are pretty bad.

If you want to seriously have a POS-defense, replace them with either Small Pulselaser Batteries (good range + tracking), Small Autocannon Batteries (variable damage, good tracking, **** range) or a mixture of both.

If you want to get fancy, you can even experiment with rail guns or artillery, even small batteries have incredible range. And if you really want the range CMBs can give you, look up the medium long range gun batteries. They go up to the hardcoded maximum already. (You can only target ships up to 250km, so your POS-defense never needs more than that as absolute maximum to get all ships capable of attacking the POS.)

Your eight cruise batteries do 192 DPS (I think). Good luck.

There are two schools of thought with defenses for a small hisec POS:

The first is to anchor some defensive modules in an attempt to discourage those who would wardec you. This is great at stopping small corps looking for an easy gank, but is wholly ineffective at stopping corps with 10+ dedicated battleship pilots from taking down your POS.

The second is to rely on 2-ish shield hardeners and your ability to tear down your tower quickly in the event of a wardec. This approach realizes that a force of dedicated pilots will reinforce a small POS in short order, so the best defense is delay and retreat.

Either way, you don't want to running valuable or long duration jobs in a small hisec POS.


I can tell you that the first method will defend against the right group of attackers, and that the second method will fail if the POS owner underestimates the attacking force. Small groups of stealth bombers afterburning in a 17km orbit can do...interesting things to a small POS....

Thanks for the education on how NOT to defend a small POS. This POS has been around for a year before Crius. I'm disappointed my corp mates didn't show me the errors of my ways. Maybe the pulse lasers and/or auto cannons might be a better choice.

It used to be that owning your own POS gave one a feeling of accomplishment. Now after Crius anyone can have one almost anywhere. The only reason i was keeping it online was because it reminded me of my EVE journey. Silly sentimental me..............if i'm gonna worry all the time now about someone seeking it out and blowing it up i might as well just station research and build. Maybe i could put a roadhouse in it and get all my EVE buddies drunk??????? -chuk

The counter to that would be controlling stasis towers and warp scramblers to catch one after the other, until the bombers give up or none are left.

I tanked a cruise missile tower once...with an active shield tank....that i never actually activated....