Science & Industry

So as the title says. Can I own a pos as a solo pilot? I've read from somewhere that you can only have a pos if you are in a corp.
I have been toying with the idea of having my own refinery and some building where I can do manufacturing and some research.
Not sure if its worth it but you'll never know until you try it!

Thx for the reply! That's just what I was afraid of. Only thing I'm worried is someone wardecking me high sec while I'm hauling my stuff to be sold. Have to do some math. Is the fuel so expensive that its not worth trying with small tower for example?

I have a large tower. It costs roughly 450m / month. A medium would be half that, and a small is a quarter.

I have my own alliance.

Better. The details are here.

2% better in high; 4% better in low. More at an outpost but that's outside the scope of the conversation.

Edit because of math fail. Leaving it in as a demonstration of how not to calculate things.

Proper numbers:

At best, an NPC station gives you a 50% base. A reprocessing array gives 52% base, which is actually a 4% increase in yield. An intensive array gives a 54% base, so 8% better than a 50% station or 3.85% better than a normal array. The drawback, of course, is that intensive arrays can only be anchored in 0.4 or lower.

My experience after having a solo-POS for 2+ years: No-one cared, I had like two wardecs in that time.

Do you want to know what happened during those two dangerous wars?

1. First war: Happened during a time where I wasn't playing. I logged in a month after the wardec had expired. My POS had run out of fuel weeks ago and all my stuff was floating in space, completely unharmed. No-one ever bothered with tracking down my POS.

2. Second war: I was actually playing during this time and got a little bit excited. I pulled down everything expensive, pulled out all the weapons and e-war I had stored for this and even collected a couple corps who wanted to join the war on my side. Nothing happened in my boring neck of the woods, again.

Still, my side collected more kills and I consider the second war a victory.

Anyway, my point is you don't need to fear wardecs. Just put your POS somewhere not blindingly obvious and move most of your stuff with courier contracts instead of yourself. If you're nervous about this, just store your important stuff in a NPC-station during the war, invite some defenders (there are always PVP-hungry people who will jump to your defence just to get more targets) and relax.

Hell, if you have a jump clone close to Jita, you can just buy and sell what you need completely normally during your war. It's not like your enemies can pry open that door in your quarters, after all.

I've set up a solo pos in hisec for small-scale industry. While it wasn't at all hard or anything, it was just tedious dealing with HS Wardecs/Fueling when you're all over New Eden.

Definitely something that's doable as a solo player.

Hi. As someone that's done some wardeccing and POS suppression, I will hit you if I believe you have serious loot in the POS.

If I see a Hyasoda Lab, I'll assume there's expensive BPOs and/or lots of datacores.

If I see an assembly array for T2 ships AND component assembly arrays, I'll assume you are building marauders. That's my #1 sign that this is a profitable target. I've never been in one of those kills, but I did help someone liquidate the 25 billion they looted from a lowsec marauder building POS. The drops included more than a freighter load of the Caldari version of Crystalline Carbonide Armor Plates alone (think that was 14b worth then).


If, on the other hand, I see a non-faction tower, a couple defensive modules, an equipment assembly array, a drone assembly array, and a non-Hyasoda research lab - I'll assume you have between 200m and 3b in loot in the POS and so it's not a tempting target.