Science & Industry

There will defintely be a local pirate group in the area. Check the moon-goo moons and see who owns the towers.

Your biggest risk is it getting shot as it comes out from unanchoring. Otherwise the effort involved in bashing is a decent deterrent alone.

Definitely fit it though, depends what you anchor but either way without a defence fleet its still pretty vulnerable

Getting in touch with the locals may not wort in your favour.... . Worth a shot though! See the POS one above and check killboards, check their public chat channel and speak to them...

Fuel consumption is for service modules only. If you dont want to put any labs, clone bays etc the fuel cost is 0.

Good arrer!

Where abouts are you putting it up...?

Have a look to the thread about Pakkonen's public ECs a couple of lines below ... the OP may be able to help.

Anyway, setting up ECs for your own is hardly cost effective unless you push through really great volumes, but this would wreck the system index killing the cost advantage. The best option IMO is to use public offerings. This also allows for switching systems in case the index becomes to high.

I remember the first system I did my industry stuff, the index clearly followed my on/off times with the expected delay.

The overall picture is a total mess IMO outside big corporations/alliance, with a shared, diverse and protected infrastructure. If nobody makes a stable profit or at least can pay for fuel and protection with offering public services (and I doubt somebody can say that with a straight face), those who offer public access today will cease doing so sooner or later, leaving those big entities who's agenda is power and control.

As I said in another thread, the Upwell structures are made for player controlled space and big corps and alliances, they are dysfunctional as an alternative to NPC stations in empire space. Jita trade will not move to a destructible player controlled structure anytime soon, instead we keep playing this silly offshoring game to at least partly mitigate CCP's Tobin tax. Even more the structures break an existing balance and gameplay, e.g. faction warfare and wormholes, without offering a new balance.

In total the new structures make the gameplay in the different spaces of New Eden less diverse, by introducing a powerful, universal tool which caters only one single play style.

You may find this tool useful when searching for systems to set up production in - it shows you the manufacturing/science indices over the last few months so you can see whether people are ramping up or ramping down production in the system.

https://stop.hammerti.me.uk/system.indexes/

The bonuses on rigs is largely what prompts citadel owners to anchor in lowsec. However, with the staggering increased cost to deploy the T2 rigs where the multiplier makes the most bang, you may consider a hisec T1 hub is more beneficial in the short term. Expect citadels in high traffic locations to get taken down before a month's time, if not at first anchoring. Even in hisec, attentive pirate groups can wardec you within the 24 hour first anchoring.

No system is quite, it just seems that way, there are people who are lurkers (they call themselves spies), who scour the eve universe looking for things to report to their masters so a bashing party can be put together, one thing to keep in mind is how obsessed folks are with killerboards and a complex is a nice badge for them.

If your interested in that system there is a good chance that someone else also thinks this too, what attracted you attracted them, also it may be a system that a powerful null Corp uses to get into high sec, take your time and research it to find out whom this peaceful quite piece of real estate belongs to...it probably someone's back yard.

A quiet low sec system is not as bad as many people claim.

For Citadels/ECs/ and the coming refineries, bashing is still boring, just like POS bashing was/is boring. Most players don't bother unless there is some benefit to them from it. Killing a undefended structure is not really fun or engaging. There are some who don't need a reason, but as I said it is boring, many will not bother.

If you can go unnoticed and stay off radar you have a good chance of being left alone.

I lived in low sec for 2 years. had a large reaction POS that never once got attacked in the 1.5 years it was deployed. And it was even in a high traffic system. Maybe I was just insanely lucky, but I found life in low sec quit enjoyable, once I learned the basics. Do your own research, do not rely on others to tell you what to do.

I have recently returned from a break, but I doubt things have changed much.

You always have to remember though, any asset in space is vulnerable, low sec is the most insecure space, generally dominated by pirates.

Occasionally low sec systems are policed by large alliances as a pipeline to their null sec space, but they will not defend your assets. There is a good chance they will ignore them however, if you are not interfering with their operations.

Still, do not anchor it if you can not afford to lose it. there is always a chance you will log on to see a timer from an attack you didn't even know was coming. Low sec does not require a war dec for attack, and the attackers can use dreads. If they want your structure gone, there is little you can do to stop them.

Citadels/ECs will not auto defend themselves, no matter what is fitted, there are no passive defence modules. Not like POSes. Arming a citadel is only beneficial if you are online to actively control it when it is attacked. Even then, without a fleet you have very little chance of defending it. Your primary defense is your invulnerability timer, and the hope that the locals have no reason to clear you out of their system.

Citadels have a vulnerability window, which POSes never had, set that window to a time inconvenient for the local pirates and they will likely ignore you. anchor as far as possible from the gates so it is not at the top of the list when people jump into the system. If you are lucky you will be ignored, If not well, you can afford the loss right?

The System index determines the cost of jobs. It increases with the number of job hours running. Hence, the more people doing stuff in a system the higher your industry costs in that system.

Roughly number of job hours in system vs. number of job hours in universe. But you don't need a spreadsheet, there is this: https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/blueprint/costindex.php

EDIT: new article related https://imperium.news/api-reveals-hourly-manufacturing-activity-for-every-system/

I already have a spreadsheet, I just want it to spit the slot rental costs into the column on it's own. And, frankly, the formula will help a great deal.