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Hello everyone,

I am planning on setting up a small solo to 3 man operation in a C2 wormhole with a LS static. I have a few questions regarding my ability to defend a POS, specifically in regards to the small sized towers. In terms of my intentions with the WH space, I only plan on running sites, salvaging, and some small-scale PI, so there are no need for any modules on the PoS other than the Ship Maintenance Array, and the Corporate Hangar. By my logic, a C2 with a static low sec would probably have minimal traffic as opposed to any class WH with a high sec static.

Here are my questions:

Is a small PoS able to be defended, or at least pose a deterrent to any roaming gangs who might be bored, but not bored enough to structure bash a small POS with obviously no juicy modules?

Would I be better off fitting the POS with just hardeners or mass ECM on a caldari faction tower to make it too annoying or not worth shooting at?

The ECM option I have considered would be especially useful because if I was logged off, the 8 ECM towers would cycle through targets and I wouldn't have to be especially "on top" of my game with the starbase defense management.

If no combination of defense on a small tower is do-able, would it be "worth it" in my situation to upgrade to a medium PoS, or just put up a throw-away small tower instead? I would assume medium towers pose a MUCH larger threat than small ones.

Of course, I have 2 characters with Starbase Defense IV. Any choice or combination regarding any of the faction towers is okay by me.

Thank you in advance for your time and feedback.

Thank you for the reply.

A BC sized gang of what size will take 2 hours? And against a gang that size, would 8 small close range batteries + 2x web and 2x scram be enough to deter or kill anything from that gang, assuming equal competence on both sides?

In that case, the mass ECM tower seems like it might be annoying enough to not want to shoot at for probably no reward.

Thanks for your advice.

By a full ECM tower, do you mean literally only mixed ECM types and no guns / missles on a medium caldari tower? Or mixed between "offensive" defense and EWAR?

These replies have been very helpful.

Using the vexar pos fitting tool, I setup a PoS that has 6x of every race specific ECM, 2 scrams, and 2 shield hardeners on a Dread Guristas medium PoS. If that does not seem like a totally drunk setup, then I will probably go ahead and put that up in a WH.

Thanks for your time.

Alright, I will have online at first the fit I listed, and have 4 energy neut towers, 4 medium ACs, 50% more ECM, and one of each hardener offline and ready.

Should the guns always be online?

I might reconsider the faction tower.

We had our Medium Domination tower under siege for a few hours a couple months ago. After things were resolved, through conversations with our attackers we learned some of the highlights of what made us look like a tempting target:

1. Only a medium tower
2. Shiny faction tower
3. No backup anchored POS defenses

We had splurged on the faction Medium thinking the extra bit of defense would help deter attackers, but instead it made us look like a giant floating loot piñata. We had resisted moving to a Large, but since that experience we have upgraded to a mundane Large tower with lots of spares anchored and feel much more secure.

If you really want to sell the "space hobo" defense, I would recommend sticking with a non-faction tower of whatever size, and don't fly T3s when you have open wormholes.

btw that 2 hours was with 6 bcs and later on escalated(brought some bored friends) to a whooping 14 bcs...

So bored people will bash on your small pos since it really doesn't take that long to take down.

You have no idea what people in EVE are willing to do to **** in other people's cornflakes.

Also the problem with small pos's are not just their hp but their grid and cpu don't allow for any real defense.

I was in a nano fit hurricane when I was bashing that pos, and the 4 small arties that the pos owners could fit didn't even scrape my armor by the time we incapped all the guns.

They later brought friends so we never finished them off, but unless you have friends that you can batphone, I would no t recommend small towers.

Thank you for the responses.



In terms of knowing what people are willing to do to **** in cereal, I am familiar with the concept. This piece of advice is a very good point. On that note, I will just put up a small POS, throw a few guns on it, an energy neut, and a scram, and treat it as a "throw away."

Thank you all for your input, fly safe o7