Science & Industry

Hello everyone,

I havent used a pos in over 2 years now (i actually had a break from eve half that time) and Im back to being noob at these things so I need a bit of help understanding some mechanics involving poses.

1. Do the "new" laboratories (design laboratory for example) have slots anymore?
1a. Can multiple people use the same laboratory at the same time? If yes, does it incur some penalty or higher costs or something?
1b. Can someone else cancel my ongoing projects and then take my stuff?

2. Same questions from above but this time for the assembly arrays.

3. Do I need any other role to have access and utilize laboratories (And manufacturing arrays):

Factory Manager
Rent Factory Slot
Rent Research Slot
Access to an "Other" hangar division. Do I need both Query and Take permissions for these hangars?

3a. If i have corporate tax set on my labs, do the people that conduct research, invention and so on require access to some corporation wallets?

4. Is having a pos set up for all corporation members usage possible? I mean, if i allow everyone to research, invent, manufacture stuff, can they steal other people stuff, cancel their projects and so on?

5. I know that in the past there was this "networking" skill or something that allowed you to utilize blueprints that were in other places and not inside poses. Was taht removed? Do I need to have the blueprints inside the specific structures in my pos?
Can anyone take any of the stuff? Cant I lock them or something?


Thanks and sorry for the noob questions :)

1) Unlimited slots
1a) Unlimited users, systemwide price index depends on total amount of particular activity (copying/inventing/researching etc) in the system
1b) Directors and job starter can cancel, you lose allocated materials. Anyone who has take rights to hangar can take unused materials/returned blueprints.

2) Same as 1

3) I think thats all what is needed, also arrays need to be set usable (i think they are by default)
Not sure if only query is needed to start a job, but you need take rights to take out your stuff anyway.

3a) No idea

4) If ppl have hangar access, they can take stuff. Only directors can cancel jobs+job starter. So if you put in your stuff, start job, take everything when job is complete it should be safeish.

5) You can have BPs in query only hangar, dont think you need to lock them. BPs need to be in same array as they are used, different divisionhangar is fine.

Thank you both for taking the time to answer my questions!

I have decided not to allow usage of my pos to all my corporation members because that would only lead to more problems such as theft.
I'll have to think about another way to do this ...

Well, i am not ready to take part in an alliance, even if its our own.

Instead ive gone with a different system. I've got 3 people as researchers in my corp that will have access to the pos and its facilities.
Private contracts will be used to contract blueprints to the 3 researchers in exchange for collateral (this is where i have a probelm now)
Once the job is done, the researchers will return the blueprint to the owner and retrieve the collateral + a small corporation tax.

The problem is as mentioned above in the collateral, idk how much to ask the contract issuer. How would I determine the value of the blueprint ... have no idea.