Macker Momo wrote:Hello. I plan to return to Eve later this summer, but I admit I'm quite out of the loop since I've been gone so long. I left years ago, when people had high sec POS, the overview was "+" icons and people made money manufacturing and researching in their own POS. I liked industry then, and made quite a bit of money manufacturing freighters, JF, BB, and capital ship components. My POS was designed with lots of EW, and was really too much of a hassle for most wardec corps to mess with. Life was good. I left because CCP turned my hobbie into a job, where I had to watch POS vulnerability windows while on vacation, which was unacceptable to me. Eve is a game, not a job.
I'm thinking about coming back to see if I can have some fun mining and building again. I like what CCP has done to the Orca, and I'm thinking I might be able to use other people's structures to conduct my industry. It's my understanding that the NPC stations are too expensive to be competitive these days.
I have a few questions for the industrial vets out there. I want to stay in high sec at least initially, until I figure everything out, so please assume any question refers to high sec industry.
1. I know POS structures are being phased out and that there are new structures to replace them. I don't know what they are and how to use them. I have seen YouTube videos about industry and it seems these POS replacements are all over the place. I can't imagine why, because they have no automated defense and do have vulnerability windows now. Seems like wardec groups would just go from tower to tower and either exact "protection" or take them out and loot the wrecks. What am I missing in this picture?
2. Where does one go to research BPO's inexpensively? What happens to the BPOs if that structure is destroyed?
3. ...to copy BPO's inexpensively? If destroyed?
4. ...to manufacture inexpensively? If destroyed?
5. ...to refine minerals at a decent rate?
5. I used to run different types of POS, with an investment of around 500 mil to 1 billion isk each, in tower, guns, and different labs, refining, and production facilities. I also played as a casual, solo player with a bunch of characters and alt accounts. Is it profitable and safe for people like me to try and build their own industrial facilities? If so, what are the costs to build these facilities like these days?
Thank you!