Science & Industry

I was asking myself the same question but with different reasoning.

HS POS cannot be considered safe. You can be wardecced and your pos reinforced easily. and your enemy can use BS/marauders. Only thing i can think of is easy accesibility.

If I would be using industrial/research pos i would rather place it in C1-HS wormhole system. No BS/marauders, nescessity for enemy to scan twice and go each time to different place, my own PI.

So whats the point of HS pos over C1 wormhole pos?

the amount of stuff that needs to be moved in and out.

depending on what you produce it does not take long to get to the point where your bottleneck is transportation.

transport is annoying and i want to avoid it as often as possible. transport through wormholes is a sheer nightmare compared to the already bad situation a lot of industrials are in

They have excellent ganking and awoxing properties.

For a ridiculously low cost of a small POS burning cheapest fuel available:

- The forcefield gives -10 pods a safe place to hang out - without needing to dock up.
This is especially useful while multiboxing due to 1 minute docking timers, etc.
Gank, then return -10 pod to the forcefield immediately while looting, tear collecting, etc.
Always fun to collect tears from would be 'whiteknights' who try to scan down your outlaw pod, only to run into a forcefield they are unwilling to man-up and wardec. Instead, they are reduced to crying in local for others to do it for them, while you continue to strike miners unmolested.

-Ready-built gankships can be left floating in forcefield without risk of being stolen in open space, to be boarded when a suitable target is located, either in a belt or on a gate. Nice to have a Brutix, a Tornado, a Smartbomb BS and a few Catalysts floating nearby, so the correct tool for the job is available in seconds, and an attack can be launched immediately without mucking about in a station.
This also avoids issues that can arise from 3rd parties camping stations.

-Can be used by multiple like-minded parties outside of corporation, simply by sharing the shield PW.

-AWOXers who do not wish to be prematurely booted from their 'guest' corporation, can 'hang out' indefinitely AFK in a friendly POS forcefield without being forced to fly cloakable ships. This increases the tear yield, as they cannot be ejected from a corp until they are either logged off or docked up. Forcefields assist in this plan.

If the POS gets wardecced, you have many good options:

-Arm it and force a 'real' fight at a known time and place. Get kills. (win for gankers)
-Let multiple chars waste their time killing it. Win for gankers, as multiple chars waste hours attacking a structure worth 60M, after being forced to pay wardec costs. Don't forget to fully stront, harden and ECM for max tears.
-Remove it and replace, with plenty of time to spare. Empty ships floating in POS can be removed at any time, even after reinforcement.

A friendly highsec POS is a ganker's best friend.

I was going to say the same.

Two pages of posts, and nobody has corrected this statement.

You never need to put your bpo's in the pos.

You place your bpo's in a corp hanger, and lock them down. (so they are safe even from directors, can't be unlocked without a vote.)

You have the remote lab operation skill trained to lvl 1.

You use the labs in the pos, and the bpo never leaves station. Once your jobs are done, you fly to the pos and get your copies/invented bpc's or modules.