Science & Industry

Hello , I am a budding industrialist looking to expand my business to a small mining pos for compressing and mining in a secluded area.

I would like to setup this POS for corp use but i am not familiar with setting up a pos at all =/


How could i setup a small pos with a compressing array and some small ship maintenace arrays in a way my corpies can store their mining barges / exhumers in the pos without having to fear their collegues can just nab their ships out the SMA's?
Is it possible to restrict acces to SMA's per person or something similar?




Bonus questions :

1) Am i right in thinking compressing instead of refining is the way to go in high sec?

2) Is kernite / pyroxeres worth it or should i avoid them? (had some conflicting answers ingame hence i'm confused)

3) are POS's always corp wide or can i setup a personal pos just for me?


thank you for your assistance on behalf of a noob indy.

Starting off with your bonus questions:


Regarding your question about SMAs: you can control who has access to certain divisions within the corp, and therefore certain hangars, but there is no way to get the kind of granularity you're looking for. SMAs have always been "Use at your own risk".

Something to keep in mind is that if all you want to do is compress/refine, you don't need to keep the tower online all the time. Anchor the tower and put it online, anchor the compression and refining arrays, and then put the tower offline until you actually need it. You won't be able to access anything or use it for storage, but it will save you in fuel usage. If you're using it for any other purpose though, you'll need to keep it online all the time.

Last bit: It can be much more competitive and takes some scheduling forethought, but mining ice is generally more profitable than mining rocks.

Nope, compressing ain't always the way to go...

I have had compressed ore up for sale in a hub for 2 weeks now, don't believe all the bull that null is desperate for it. (for something, but not ore)

If you need cash just sell the ore for now mate.

If you can mine Kernite and Pyroxeres, go for it. What would help you a lot are their respective reprocessing skills at 5, along with all the others of course.

I have a personal POS so I can't help you with that. All I have is a small Pos/compression/reprocessing array which I online now and then to see if compression is worth the investment..I'm 50/50 about that atm.

Have fun.

If you are refining at a POS, you'll want to compress the ore / ice first and completely fill the reprocessing array as much as possible with one type of material, in order to maximize the yield.

Reprocessing arrays round differently than station facilities, for some unknown reason.

Just a few hints.

You can't setup a SMA with user based access however you can setup SMAs with roll based access so you could have a couple for different sets of users/SMAs. One for the chumps and one for the Directors or something like that.

Another thing to consider is fuel costs. Even running a small POS can cost over a hundred mil per month so you have to take that into account.

If you are running corp Ops from an Orca you could setup the POS before an OP and then take it down after.

That is entirely all of the problem with miners and other industrial jobbies. They always feel desperate to sell rather than waiting with their goods until the market turns profitable for them. The beauty of Eve is that, unlike real like, sitting on goods cant make you poorer in storage costs or some material breaking down (plastic crap, I've had a old CRT TV about 54 inch screen literally fall apart when lifting it up because it was stored in a house with no air conditioning), electronic components aging, and so on. Everything is as fresh as the day it's mined/made, and it costs nothing to hold onto.

It's been noted time and time again that humans are really bad at seeing the long term. People are so "desperate' for the ISK, they wont hold out for more money. The market is a bit like prisoner's dilemma, everyone else is willing to sell their stuff dirt cheap, so to compete, you must sell your stuff dirt cheap.

The only reason mission running or other jobs make so much comparatively is because of the "desperation" of industrial types in the thrall of the prisoner's dilemma. Runners and sleeper farmers have mostly immunity to this problem.