EVE General Discussion

My POS was attacked in high sec. I need to get my stuff out of there. Its in reinforced mode so I can't take anything out. I wonder if I can just show up just before the timer hits zero and take everything out fast and refuel calthrates and warp out. I forgot to set the attack option so it was easy for them. I'm sure they will show up thou and I have nobody to help me defend. Can they warp scramble me if I'm inside the bubble? Is there anything they could do to prevent me from getting in, getting my stuff out and warping out? Whats the best course of action I can take?

At this point you're pretty much screwed. A control tower enters reinforced mode once the shields drop down to 25%, and once the reinforcement ends, you need to restore the shields to at least 50% to regain control of basic functions like emptying and unanchoring your POS modules. Since the tower has already been reinforced, your only option is fielding a fleet that can repel the attackers, otherwise they'll easily destroy the tower and loot the modules.

One thing I forgot to mention, since you implied that POS guns would have successfully protected the POS if you had configured it right: Any turrets that don't use CPU and haven't been incapacitated will still be active when the reinforcement timer ends. Not sure if anchoring additional turrets at this stage is possible, but if you got a few already, and the attacking force was something like a bunch of AFK-Oracles, that may be enough to keep them at bay while you rep the shields with a logistics ship.

The only way they could have shot it in the first place was by war decing you. Why did you not empty the valuables once that happened? Some people even go as far as dismantling the POS under war conditions before the war becomes active. Just depends on how much value they put on the tower. But usually the contents can be worth more.

Who is attacking you, I will infiltrate them for you with an alt. And join in on the pinata fun...

I actually helped someone shield rep a tower once. The attackers never came back, I guess they didn't like the idea of having to chew through all that armor and hull hp. Plus no real guarantee there was anything to be had by popping it. This thread lets the enemy know there is something to be had, possibly valuable enough for them to take the time.

Do some research on who has war decced you.

If it's one man and a bunch of his alts griefing what they think are soft targets then anchor and online some guns on the POS (so long as they don't use CPU). Get some alts into system and when the POS comes out of reinforce log them all on in system. The majority of these guys are cowards looking for easy frags and so won't even show up if they think there maybe a fight. Start to rep up the POS and once it's above 50 per cent shields take it down.

If it's a decent corporation with some PvP pedigree then either get friends to help you defend it or just write it off as a loss.

I don't understand your suggestion.

The only faction POS mods I ever bothered with was the webs as the most valuable one pretty much immobilized most ships so you could alpha through them with XL guns :D

Looks like you are about to learn a typical hard Eve lesson.

First of all when you come out of reinforced you can only put Stront in once the shield is back up to 50%. I am a bit hazy about what you can do with a POS when it comes out of RFand whether you can pull stuff out. I would suggest that you set up a character outside the corp, apply a POS password and then you can move stuff out with that preventing them camping you into a station. Note that you have to re-do the password by left clicking in the centre of your HUD every time you hava a session change.

One trick is to setup new guns and warp disruptors etc. ready to online when the POS comes out of RF, then you can have at least a bit of fun blapping them.

EDIT: You can't access the hanger array until you get the shield above 50% so you will likely find that stuff is lost unless you can do that, I am not sure about labs in this aspect and you can only find out by doing, I did not research my BPO's in a POS so never had this issue.

There are some Mercs you could hire, and you have 4 hours before they can help by allying on you, one advantage would be that you have a time and a place for them to get kills and if it is a serious amount of stuff then you might find it worthwhile to get the right mercs to come in and defend / rep it, it will not be cheap though. I would advise that you speak to a couple of Mercs, on C&P thePItBoss has just started a Merc channel, his merc channel is actually likely to be properly run and you might want to enquire in that channel for details.

Sadly the neuts used a ton of fitting on the POS - was always worth leaving 1-2 on (outside of highsec) though as it meant someone couldn't easily drop a single dread in and defang the POS solo.