Science & Industry

So I've just set up my first industry-based POS.

It's profitable but I'm finding it a bit... fiddly.

I know, I know, suprise suprise right!? I expected all sorts of awkwardness but my main gripe that I hadn't anticipated is that stored materials aren't shared between assembly arrays, so if I want to build say, both ammunition and equipment you need a decent store of minerals/components in BOTH the ammuniton assembly array AND the equipment assembly array.

At the moment I'm constantly switching my mats round between different assembly arrays, the only other way I can see to do it is to have a stock of materials in each array but of course that would be a waste as I would have more unused stock.

My method of moving around works but... its a pain!

Since I'm quite new to this I was wondering... am i being daft doing this? Do you guys have a better way of producing from multiple arrays?

Yep, welcome to the material tetris that is POS industry.

CCP tried to throw POS Industry a bone recently be increasing the size of each array's cargo by a token amount in most cases...

We likely wont see any more improvement in this until they re-do the POS's to be more like personal stations (was hinted at a while ago, but its been very hush hush since). At which point i pray to all the gods that make a centralized storage that each array adds to and uses. Not much point in having all these 'remote' skills if we keep having to run back to the tower to move stuff for each job.

Irrelevant, and has been for some time. You can move stuff between arrays and arrays or arrays and cargo hold as long as you're within the forcefield. The 2.5 km limit disappeared ages back (except for the compression and refining arrays)