Science & Industry

If they really want to take out your pos, there is almost nothing that you can do (short of taking down the tower) to stop them from killing it. That being said, the more hardners the more of a PITA it is to take out the tower. ESP it being a large, that's a LOT of shields for them to eat through. Throw some ewar on there, maybe a few medium autocannons and you might make it through.

Typical: 43% EM / 50% Therm / 43% Kin / 43% Exp (four hardeners: 2 / 0 / 1 / 1).

High: 58% EM / 63% Therm / 58% Kin / 58% Exp (nine hardeners: 3 / 1 / 2 / 3).

Very High: 68% EM / 63% Therm / 68% Kin / 68% Exp (twelve hardeners: 4 / 1 / 3 / 4).

Beyond that, more hardeners are only used when there are no defenses outside the force field (none anchored or all incapacitated and the tower is not reinforced), as it doesn't leave much CPU / grid for other defenses.

I have 17 hardeners anchored on my POS, but I never expect to use more than 9. I can online the most appropriate ones as needed if I'm around. I alone have 7 accounts and most trained as gunners.

I use a standard Caldari as a large dread is silly expensive amount of ISK to have floating in space. The opportunity cost is also huge. I had a large Domination tower and faction fit POS that I sold when I came to my senses. I spent the ISK I saved on more BPO.

Don't anchor what you can't afford to lose!

Id just tear it down but I dont have the standings to put em bakc up anymore as my corp has gotten bigger and such.... so gonna try to ride it out

Unless you can get the entire corp to turn up with ECM boats and logistics, that tower will be gone within three days.

I'd try to take it down before the wardec goes live, and move the tower to a holding corp which does have the standings to put it back up at a later date.

If your corp is bigger than theirs, and they aren't bringing neutral reppers, you might be able to keep the tower alive.

As already stated if they really want to take out your tower you can not stop them.

However being in high sec they will be using BS's, and BC's most likely with large laser turrets and maybe bombers. it will take a long time to take down your tower unless they have a very large fleet. Adding hardeners and ewar will make it take even longer. many high sec POS bashers use AFK battleships with lasers and just leave them shooting for hours. In thgis case you can hit the fleet while they are AFK and get some free kills. They usually do not use this method against active corps.

E-war will cause them to lose target lock, and hardeners will add EHP. This alone may be enough to discourage most high sec POS bashers as they will have to be actively playing to take out the tower.

Unless you have done something to really **** them off they will most likely not bother. If you have any high value modules anchored take them down as they may be the real target. Once the POS is gone any remaining modules can be scooped.

It is also possible that they have no intention of attacking the tower but want the moon. They may have war deced you in the hope that you would panic and take the tower down allowing them to steal the moon/spot.

I have a question on war mechanics as well.... if I use an alt corp and wardec my alliance and then mutual it would that increase prices for others wardeccing while allowing us to maintain a the wardec indefinitely without paying again?