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Cyno at onlining POS?
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Ivanna Price
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-01-17 22:15:03 UTC
If one wanted to move some capital ships with, say, one intermediate stop in low sec and didn't want to mess with the whole setting up a semi-permanent cyno alt at a station with lots of Kestrels and cynos and LO thing (it's a route not taken often, or the alts have better things to do, or whatever), could they do something like the following if they had access to something as convenient and essentially unstoppable in low sec as a Prowler:

fit a cyno to a Prowler, load it with some LO, a medium control tower (just to be safe, 21km shield radius), an hour's worth of POS fuel. Anchor the POS in the desired low sec system (not like it's hard to anchor a tower without attracting much attention), put in fuel, online the tower. Once again, not very difficult to online a POS without attracting unwanted attention. When the onlining timer has, say, 10 seconds left the alt in the Prowler lights the cyno close to the control tower, the cap ship jumps to the cyno, and POS shields go up within seconds enclosing the Prowler+cyno and the cap ship, making both the cyno pilot and the cap pilot untargetable for as long as the shields are up. Then the cap ship jumps to its intended destination, presumed already safe and secure. The tower is then packed up whenever possible/convenient, very little risk to the tower and the Prowler alt, and essentially no risk to the cap pilot.

Valid game tactic? Lame exploit? Just a lame game tactic?
Mashie Saldana
V0LTA
OnlyFleets.
#2 - 2012-01-17 22:18:33 UTC
Disposable cyno alt, 50k frig and a station with large docking radius.

Why complicate things and waste hours anchoring towers?

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Barakkus
#3 - 2012-01-17 22:19:09 UTC
Are you seriously going to take an extra 20-30 minutes to anchor and online a tower every time you want to jump?

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Ammzi
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#4 - 2012-01-17 22:25:34 UTC
"I wanna eat this sandwich with my feet instead of my hands"

why complicate stuff?
Nex apparatu5
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#5 - 2012-01-17 22:34:12 UTC
If they want to anchor a tower every time they want to jump, sure.

Valid, and clever, tactic.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#6 - 2012-01-17 23:27:36 UTC
Any rookie ship, which you have an infinite supply of, plus a Micro Auxillary Power Core and Cyno 4 is all you need. Rookie ships hold exactly 300 liquid ozone for one activation.

Hauling a pile of MAPC and cyno modules is a lot easier than hauling frigate hulls.
JC Anderson
RED ROSE THORN
#7 - 2012-01-17 23:29:02 UTC
As mentioned by everybody else, why complicate things?

I've always used a disposable Cyno alt, as do the majority of others.
Caghji
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#8 - 2012-01-18 00:23:55 UTC
An improvement to your plan

The POS will not produce a shield until u enter a password for it

so u can anchor and online your POS but do not enter a pass word until u need it.

Allows u to prepare the POS in your own quiet time. Then when you are ready light the cyno - jump the ship enter the password create the shield
The Breadmaster
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2012-01-18 12:15:10 UTC
Caghji wrote:
An improvement to your plan

The POS will not produce a shield until u enter a password for it

so u can anchor and online your POS but do not enter a pass word until u need it.

Allows u to prepare the POS in your own quiet time. Then when you are ready light the cyno - jump the ship enter the password create the shield


This will work; however, what the op proposes will not. Despite the cyno beacon being within the pos shield it will not allow you to jump to it.

Source: I have done this by mistake before.

Bread
Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#10 - 2012-01-18 12:26:30 UTC
I'm fairly sure that any trick that allows you to light a cyno within POS shields is considered an exploit.

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Othran
Route One
#11 - 2012-01-18 12:27:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Othran
The Breadmaster wrote:
Caghji wrote:
An improvement to your plan

The POS will not produce a shield until u enter a password for it

so u can anchor and online your POS but do not enter a pass word until u need it.

Allows u to prepare the POS in your own quiet time. Then when you are ready light the cyno - jump the ship enter the password create the shield


This will work; however, what the op proposes will not. Despite the cyno beacon being within the pos shield it will not allow you to jump to it.

Source: I have done this by mistake before.

Bread


Yeah that got changed a while back.

Edit - and if the OP can anchor a tower without getting noticed then you can sure as hell cyno in/out without going near a station.