Science & Industry

Hello capsulers. I am thinking about getting a POS in Hi-sec for industrial reasons. I want to do inventions,copying, refining, researching, and manufacturing. Pretty much everything hehe. I would like to know the pros and the cons of owning a POS, as well as if owning a POS is even worth it. I already know what I plan to use the POS for, I just need some tips and advice from more experience players who either owns or owned a POS. I'm looking forward to hearing back. o7

Can I suggest watching the videos from fan fest before you continue with this investment?

The entire structure side of the game is expecting a overhaul and pos's are going to be phased out over the next 6 months or so.

I thought they said that the first set of new structures would be on TQ by the end of 2015, not that the entire set would be in by October 2015.

Thank you all for the info. @Faile Leahan, I'll check it out. You guys said a lot of good things about owning a POS. What about the bad things?

How expensive are jobs normally? This seems like a huge Con hehe.

Sorry thought you meant research jobs hehe.

A small pos isn't that expensive at all to run compared to potential profits and if you just have a single assembly array structure. electronics warfare modules + shield hardeners, and one ship hanger online will be reasonably defensible and not attract wardecs. Now that the faction standing requirement is removed, I'm not sure why any industrialist wouldn't have at least a small pos active.

Medium pos allows you to provide a bigger defense, 1 more assembly array, and perhaps a single research lab w/o being a wardec target. The right way to pay for this is to do pi on several planets in the system your pos is located in. Collecting/selling planetary resources with a single character 1-2 times/week can easily generate 60M-100M/week. Just make sure to put a solid defense at all six axis's of the pos.

The minimal getting started costs with the above are fairly balanced against the knowledge that structure changes are coming down the line and will change everything. As long as you don't go all out and get a big tower unless you really need it for expensive bpo's and more arrays, you should be fine and not lose too much isk when the changes finally occur.

I'm also getting a small POS.

Bear in mind that a significant part of the ISK/hr increase at a POS comes from increased production speeds, which means loading jobs more frequently. It doesn't matter what your theoretical ISK/hr is if your production lines are dead for half the day because you can't log in every two hours to restart jobs. POSes are definitely useful, but not always as useful as they look at first glance.

I don't remember whether IPH has an option for ISK/hr rounding up job lengths, but you'll want to work out the ISK/hr you can actually achieve, including potential down-time between jobs, before you take the plunge and buy a POS.

Anchoring and permanently onlining a POS tends to draw attention of an unsavoury kind towards you corp and will often end in a wardec and the destruction of your POS. This destruction of assets then gets noticed by other unsavoury types who get the 'gud fights' feeling and you get a semi-continuous flow of wardecs.