Large Caldari Tower.
Corporate hangar array.
Ship maintenance array.
EWAR EWAR EWAR EWAR EWAR EWAR EWAR EWAR.
Some guns.
EWAR EWAR EWAR.
Few more guns.
Little bit of warp disruption, decent number of neuts, some webs.

Basically the idea is to have so many modules that once one goes down, another instantly comes online to take it's place. Redundant system and all that.

Oh, and pos gunners.

The idea is to have so much stuff on the pos that even trying to hit it makes people go, "Time to hire mercs".

So would this be the "death star" approach to tower defence?

Some people call it a **** star. Others, a death star. Me, I call it home sweet home.

Just make it very clear that you won't be giving up your home without a fight.

What Bernie said with a couple additional pointers.

For when all your outer defenses get incapped, having enough hardeners ready to be put online for ~70% resist across the board; could buy you the time to get help inside.

In one of your ship hangars have a small stock of ospreys/exequorers with fits stored in cargo holds for rep duty. Remember that once reenforced, nothing that requires cpu can be onlined until your shields get above 50% (corp hangars).

Don't group all your defenses into 6 pretty, tight groups! Spread your defenses out......5km between each at a minimum.

I think the key point about POS setups is that in the end, they don't really matter. All they can do is buy you time to fight back.

Two Step is fairly correct on this. Even with all the pos gunners your pos can manage, if you can't bring a defense fleet to actually engage their fleet, you will more likely than not be losing that pos if the attacker wants it down hard enough.

As our last targets so sorely learned.

8 times, in the same system...

Two Step is fairly correct on this. Even with all the pos gunners your pos can manage, if you can't bring a defense fleet to actually engage their fleet, you will more likely than not be losing that pos if the attacker wants it down hard enough.

Actually, Two Step is very correct...

I think the key point about POS setups is that in the end, they don't really matter... You aren't going to repel an attacker with just POS mods...

at the end of the day if people want yoru tower gone, it doesnt really matter how its set up.

I'd def agree with mr bigwinky in that you can make pos's that people would think is it really worth it. A large dread gurista in a c1 with 50 of each ecm a few guns webs points (having as many of the ecm online as you can after your basic stuff of sma cha guns points) , would probably be enough to put off even the most blood thirsty corp. yes you coudl still take the pos out by flooding the pos with loads of ships, putting yoru own pos up and building a dread in there. But most would just say sod that and find a much easier target.

At the end of the day the pos is there to support you and your fleet and you should fit it to help you in that way, but without a fleet i'd will die (eventually) regardless of set up. But a well set up pos will definetly make it much harder.

you beat me too it, there is no amount of isk that would make me bash a large dickstar in a c1 with 16 hardners

Erm..

I don't agree. The setup defintately does matter. On more than one occasion in the past, our poor POS setups have motivated people to attempt a siege which wouldn't have happened otherwise. (isn't that right Narwhals, TD4D?) ((well maybe not TD4D, I might have prompted that one...))

I will concede that it wasn't the POS that kicked them out, but consider the following.

Of course you're right IF you assume that everyone in WH space has the means to take out any size POS they want.
I think Two Step has to be very careful not to assume that every entity in WH space has the numbers or aptitude of AHARM. Most people come to wormholes to avoid blob warfare and as his votes depend on him being able to relate, it would be an error to lose touch with this side of WH life. (everyone has to start somewhere)

Example: Many WH residents would like to take out POSes but only have 5 - 10 active players at one time so taking out a large dic*star is beyond them.

No POS is invulnerable, they are designed not to be. Just varying degrees of deterrent.
Sure, people can hire mercs to take out a POS but if they can't take it out themselves, chances are they don't have billions of isk to spare..

P.S. 4u Services is an inactive, terrible wormhole corp and our poorly defended towers just illustrate our incompetence, please don't shoot us.

ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM ECM. More ECM. A few guns, points. And a **** load of hardeners.

Just confirming that nothing will crush your soul more while pos bashing than ECM. Also until its all dead your attackers can't afk (in laser boats) while bashing. They have to sit there the whole time watching the paint dry like a hawk :)

If anyone depends soley on their POS to fend off an invasion fleet, they won't have that POS for long. It's why I have never understood how a 5 man corp (or any corp with a handful of people) expects to survive in wh space.

Mine is defended by a massive 30km long ***** and tophat

Easy - either they have friends, or that POS doesn't matter so much that if you kick them out they can't go find somewhere else. That or you can do like a few friends of mine have and just hire mercenaries whenever someone comes by with an actual grudge. All this being said, in a C1-C4 WH, dickstars are the best, and the 2-3 groups that tried attacking my last one all fled after a few hours of mindnumbing boredom... 80 online and active ECM batteries + guns/webs/points will do that for you, even without having a defensive fleet always available.

-Arazel

If anyone depends soley on their POS to fend off an invasion fleet, they won't have that POS for long. It's why I have never understood how a 5 man corp (or any corp with a handful of people) expects to survive in wh space.

If anyone depends soley on their POS to fend off an invasion fleet, they won't have that POS for long. It's why I have never understood how a 5 man corp (or any corp with a handful of people) expects to survive in wh space.

By not being aggressive to other wh owners My wh toons corp has 12 members, only 2 ever bother with the wh's. I was solo in a C3 for over a year, dual boxing. Only once did anyone attempt to take over our C3 wh, and they were noobs, well old players, just no clue about wh's, and a dread shooting thier pos with a geddon shooting their 5 pilots in BC's managed to chase them away. Guess I was lucky. But I don't shoot haulers passing through, things like that. Doesn't stop me being ganked though

You dont shoot haulers?

you have to be careful just who's haulers and gas miners you shoot, one of our guys lost a gas miner got angry and 10 mins later was back in there system seiging it with his dread, it went bad from there, needless to say i think they wished they never killed his gas miner.

you have to be careful just who's haulers and gas miners you shoot, one of our guys lost a gas miner got angry and 10 mins later was back in there system seiging it with his dread, it went bad from there, needless to say i think they wished they never killed his gas miner.

..you really shouldn't be in wormhole space though if you're not constantly prepared for invasion...

I guess the key is you need to be prepared. But not necessarily in terms of defense.