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Question about looting a POS once tower has been destoyed
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Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
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#1 - 2012-12-18 06:01:03 UTC
I've been looking all over for the answer to these POS mechanics questions, and even the usual wikis and forum posts seem to have conflicting, missing, or speculative info. I have some questions about looting a POS after you destroy the tower.

1) Mobil Labs
Some people say that mobile labs retain everything inside when they are unachored and scooped, and if you repackage them all of the contents will spill out. Others say that this is true only for prints that are currently being researched, and that delivered prints can only be recovered if the lab is destroyed while still in space. Still others have said that the only way to recover anything inside the lab is to destroy it. I'm wondering which of these is true. If you want to recover as much as you can from the mobil lab and don't care about selling the lab itself, what do you do?

2) Corporate Hangers / Ship Maint Arrays
I know you have to destroy these to get the loot.

3) Silos and Weapon Batteries
Is there a way to recover ammo from the guns or the contents of silos on a POS?

Thanks in advance for any replies

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Ynot Eyob
Nisroc Angels
The Obsidian Front - Reborn
#2 - 2012-12-18 12:16:50 UTC
Once the POS has been destroyed you can unanchor every thing there, and scoop it.

If anything there have any cargo, like the mobile labs, ships hangers, warehouse, it will come out as a nice pressent once you in a station repackage the POS mod.

You might see some foolish have BPOs inside their mobile labs, or nice ships in their ship hanger. Who know even a carrier might drop Lol

But over all, the items inside will eighter drop by repackage or by destruction. By destruction its like a ship, and you cant count on all to drop.

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LordSpock
Doomheim
#3 - 2012-12-18 13:36:00 UTC
I was under the same impression, but it clearly tells you that once you unanchor the structure (labs) all contents will be lost.
It's a popup message you get when trying to unanchor a lab after the POS is shot.

For me it wasn't a big issue as I had a POS with Hyasyoda's floating and besides that labs are valuable anyway. But I didn't try to repackage (is that even an option) as I got the "All contents will be lost" message.
Ynot Eyob
Nisroc Angels
The Obsidian Front - Reborn
#4 - 2012-12-19 09:34:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Ynot Eyob
LordSpock wrote:
I was under the same impression, but it clearly tells you that once you unanchor the structure (labs) all contents will be lost.
It's a popup message you get when trying to unanchor a lab after the POS is shot.

For me it wasn't a big issue as I had a POS with Hyasyoda's floating and besides that labs are valuable anyway. But I didn't try to repackage (is that even an option) as I got the "All contents will be lost" message.



Its been a while but last POS we destroyed dropped several capital BPO once lab was repackaged in station.

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