The entire structure side of the game is expecting a overhaul and pos's are going to be phased out over the next 6 months or so.

They're expensive. They're a pain to manufacture in as materials have to go into the individual arrays. BPOs have to be in the hangers, so if you get wardecced you may have to choose between cancelling an expensive job or risking an expensive BPO (assuming it's highsec)

Errr.... depends what you're building...

Can I suggest watching the videos from fan fest before you continue with this investment?

The entire structure side of the game is expecting a overhaul and pos's are going to be phased out over the next 6 months or so.

A small pos isn't that expensive at all to run compared to potential profits and if you just have a single assembly array structure. electronics warfare modules + shield hardeners, and one ship hanger online will be reasonably defensible and not attract wardecs. Now that the faction standing requirement is removed, I'm not sure why any industrialist wouldn't have at least a small pos active.

Medium pos allows you to provide a bigger defense, 1 more assembly array, and perhaps a single research lab w/o being a wardec target. The right way to pay for this is to do pi on several planets in the system your pos is located in. Collecting/selling planetary resources with a single character 1-2 times/week can easily generate 60M-100M/week. Just make sure to put a solid defense at all six axis's of the pos.

The minimal getting started costs with the above are fairly balanced against the knowledge that structure changes are coming down the line and will change everything. As long as you don't go all out and get a big tower unless you really need it for expensive bpo's and more arrays, you should be fine and not lose too much isk when the changes finally occur.

Seriously though, I look at what EVE Isk Per Hour says about the potential profitability for T2 manufacturing at a POS v. the station I'm using and am seriously tempted to take the plunge. Seems like you need about 350K ISK/hr worth of production going 24/7 to pay for the fuel for a Caldari small tower.

Bear in mind that a significant part of the ISK/hr increase at a POS comes from increased production speeds, which means loading jobs more frequently. It doesn't matter what your theoretical ISK/hr is if your production lines are dead for half the day because you can't log in every two hours to restart jobs. POSes are definitely useful, but not always as useful as they look at first glance.

I don't remember whether IPH has an option for ISK/hr rounding up job lengths, but you'll want to work out the ISK/hr you can actually achieve, including potential down-time between jobs, before you take the plunge and buy a POS.

Thank you all for the info. @Faile Leahan, I'll check it out. You guys said a lot of good things about owning a POS. What about the bad things?

Anchoring and permanently onlining a POS tends to draw attention of an unsavoury kind towards you corp and will often end in a wardec and the destruction of your POS. This destruction of assets then gets noticed by other unsavoury types who get the 'gud fights' feeling and you get a semi-continuous flow of wardecs.

I just run manufacturing jobs at < 24hrs worth. No need to have defense then.

makes sense hehe

Until you forget about it or can't log in for some reason.

hehe atm I'm just doing mainly 24hr jobs,however, soon i plan to do longer jobs. I guess till then, no need of defenses.

pos's are going to be phased out over the next 6 months or so.

Until you forget about it or can't log in for some reason.