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Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2011.10.31 23:30:00 -
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The faction towers may save on fuel, but:
- They cost a lot more then regular towers.
- You can't get them from NPCs or drops any more (so they're becoming less available).
- Even with increased POS fuel costs, it takes 2 years to pay back based on fuel costs.
For a POS fitter, try out:
http://www.vexar.de/pos_fitter/
Personally, I just use a spreadsheet which lets me setup a few different alternate scenarios to see whether they fit within the PG/CPU of the tower.
You'll want to anchor defensive modules on a medium/large tower - unless your plan is to simply cancel all jobs and take everything down if wardec'd in hi-sec. Even if you can put those defensive modules online all the time, you save on the anchoring time if you ever have to put them to use.
Medium tower (non-faction) is going to run you about 250M in tower + defensive modules to setup, plus 50-60M for each lab (5-6 labs for a medium). A large tower will run closer to 500M for the tower + defensive modules. The large tower can hold between 9-12 labs, depending on what mix of regular / advanced labs that you use.
You'll also need to consider fuel costs - which are running about 220M/mo for a medium and 380M/mo for a large. That number is up about 20-30% from the prior month and has gone as much as 30% above that quoted price. If you maintain a stockpile of 30-60 days, then you can buy when it is cheaper and ride out small price spikes. |
Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2011.11.01 13:10:00 -
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Faction towers can't mount that much more defense/offense then a regular variant of the tower. They make a lot of sense in w-space where the fuel savings results in easier logistics, but I don't think they make a lot of sense in hi-sec unless you have more then half a dozen towers.
Unless you are ready to unanchor everything when wardec'd, you should consider the tower and defensive modules "lost" the moment that you anchor them. |
Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2011.11.01 15:51:00 -
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POS defenses will never keep the tower alive - they can delay the inevitable. Especially a mix of guns & ECCM (you need guns to deal with the "orca full of shuttles" tactic) in hi-sec.
They do serve as a good deterrent against opportunistic attackers who will just look for a less defended POS to go after.
(And defensive modules are cheap. Anchoring 100-120 defensive modules around a large tower costs about 400M. Cheap insurance compared to having to re-anchor the tower if standings were an issue when setting it up in the first place. Or if you think someone will attempt to take your moon's position after your tower is destroyed.) |
Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2011.11.02 00:07:00 -
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The calculation for the corp's faction standing is done every day at downtime and is calculated as:
- The average of every player who has been in the corporation for at least 7 downtimes (6?).
- Has a non-NULL standing with any corp/faction (i.e. there is an entry in the character's standings information).
- Connections skills / diplomacy skills do not get taken into account (only raw standings).
When you buy a corp with high standings and put in a CEO who has NULL standings, AFAIK the standings will never re-calculate.
It used to be that the standings would slowly level out, but now it simply does a faster calculation where it looks at everyone who has standings as of the downtime and just averages all the members who qualify.
Fred 8.0 (15 days in corp)
Sue NULL (30 days in corp)
Jim 4.0 (8 days in corp)
Alice 2.0 (2 days in corp)
Average is 6.00 (only Jim and Fred count). Five days from now, Alice's standings will count, so the average will drop to 4.67. |
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