So just make your POS as annoying as possible to shoot at. Hardeners for good resists (especially EM/therm for afk laser boats). As much ECM as will fit, so they have to keep locking the tower. At least one warp scram and if possible web, so once they warp to the tower they are stuck there. And a token gun or two to force them to fit a tank.

Fit no modules outside the shield. When they shoot the POS, immediately join the DecShield alliance. They will have no way to kite the aggro while you become undecced, so your POS comes out of RF safely undecced for you to rep and restront.

Good point. But that will still get you decced more often than not. The point of the annoying setup is to avoid wars.

You could fit missile batteries instead of guns. Because they (and the ewar) use CPU, they all will go offline if someone reinforces it. Fill the bay with stront, and there's no way they can keep aggro for the entire reinforcement period.

If there is something outside the shield, the attacker can keep an aggro timer by shooting at that something. If they can keep an aggro timer, then you need to time your decshielding such that there is a downtime between dropping out of alliance and your POS coming out of RF.

Much simpler to sidestep the issue, toss a few EM/Therm hardeners (make them pay for being able to AFK) inside and call it a day. Maybe even name the tower "I know about DecShield Alliance" as a wardec preventative measure.

BTW I live in null. How did I end up knowing more about abusing Hisec wardec mechanics than so many Hiseccers?

If I had assembly arrays at the tower would this be enough to discourage a dec?

Fitting information for Tower 5 (Amarr Control Tower) at a location not specified.

Structure (Status)
Ballistic Deflection Array (Online)
Ballistic Deflection Array (Online)
Citadel Torpedo Battery (Online)
Citadel Torpedo Battery (Online)
Citadel Torpedo Battery (Online)
Citadel Torpedo Battery (Online)

Look at the info on POS missile batteries, specifically rate of fire and damage multiplier, then you will understand why they are a complete joke when compared to turrets. Never use missiles on a POS. If you can't fit turrets (lasers on Amarr towers and projectiles on all others), use more EWAR.

BTW I live in null. How did I end up knowing more about abusing Hisec wardec mechanics than so many Hiseccers?

Actually citadel torps do about 230dps at around 300km. Not great but better than arties and about half the PG of medium beams. Also allows you to change up damage types.

Hmmmm............ most players live on earth.
Those living in null / WH etc. are complete wako. It's a game! You cannot live in a game!

Hmmmm............ most players live on earth.
Those living in null / WH etc. are complete wako. It's a game! You cannot live in a game!

230dps against a Dread in Siege or other capital who's sitting still.

Big missiles don't do damage against small targets.

If you're going to go on the offensive method of keeping your POS alive, just go 100% EWAR. Unless you have POS gunners, guns are fairly useless, and even then, without a defensive fleet, eh.

People in Nullsec don't use 100% EWAR setups because Supers and Sieged Dreads are immune to EWAR.

Is battleclinics math wrong? http://eve.battleclinic.com/calculators.php?calculator=missile&explosionRadius=2000&mTargetSigRadius=400&targetVelocity=175&explosionVelocity=30&missileDamage=6000&mTargetResistance=0

Dunno, but a Leviathon (which gets some nice DPS bonuses) applies 158 of its 8234 dps (5 BC2, 6 Citadel Torp launchers) to a target moving 180m/s(~Drake) with a sig of 230 (~Drake). Against a Stealth Bomber, it applies 30 DPS. And this is before resistances.

You sound like you have experience with what you're talking about. Maybe the battleclinic calculator is bugged? Can somebody who understands the math run the numbers?

I just used Pyfa's numbers.

Besides. Missile batteries use CPU and thus go offline when your POS goes into RF. Others don't.

Lasers on Amarr towers, Projectiles on others. And go one size down. A Large turret won't hit BS well, but a Medium will, and Smalls + Webs are good against small stuff. But you need POS gunners. If you're not going to have POS gunners, a couple of Logi will keep everyone happy and firing. So just fill it with ECM and hardeners.

Or better yet, put nothing outside, use all your fittings for useful stuff and decshield.

My worry is that my little one man corp will get decced and I'll be so busy with grad school I won't check in until three days after the war goes active. I am aware that, in everything but missiles, oversizing is a bad idea. I'm trying to figure out if CCP did something with the citadel torp launchers to compensate for the generally suckyness of missile sentries (by giving us something that would be descent one size category down). I have to say the more I look at it the more I think battleclinic is bugged.

My worry is that my little one man corp will get decced and I'll be so busy with grad school I won't check in until three days after the war goes active. I am aware that, in everything but missiles, oversizing is a bad idea. I'm trying to figure out if CCP did something with the citadel torp launchers to compensate for the generally suckyness of missile sentries (by giving us something that would be descent one size category down). I have to say the more I look at it the more I think battleclinic is bugged.

As RubyPorto says - EVEMon is your answer. Wardec notifications do come through if you tell EVEMon to notify you of those. So do "low fuel" notifications, office rentals, and a bunch of other notification messages. Just have it send you an email on certain alerts, or make a habit to check EVEMon daily, or have it be "in your face" with its alerts down in the system tray.

Unless your tower is within 4 jumps of a trade-hub or in The Forge, it will probably never be attacked in hi-sec. As long as you don't make enemies in-game, don't step on someone's toes and don't occupy a moon that somebody wants, nobody is going to bother. A big old d-star setup on a large tower shows that you're at least semi-serious about making it a pain to dislodge (think 60-75 ECM, 20-40 small/medium guns, 13 hardeners, and a few webs / scrams / disrupts). A determined attacker will pull it off, but not before you can evac labs/arrays, leaving them with only about 600M ISK worth of stuff to shoot at.

Or go with the (1) small tower w/ (3) labs and just take it down if dec'd. Keep your BPOs safe in the station, don't put too much out in the labs. Worst case, you're out 250-300M if it gets blown up.

(My tower configs have spares that don't get put online until some get blown up. During peace time, you can leave 90% of it offline and just run the labs or anything that doesn't use CPU.)

I really don't see the use of PoS dps guns without gunners. They just don't do anything. Now on a nullsec POS, a bunch of small batterys and webs can be fun. Grab controls and *Pop* *Pop* *Pop* go the expensive fighter bombers

It's more about denying them options. A bit of tackle and dps forces any attacker to fit some degree of tank. And it means disengaging is a pain. If you have neither tackle nor dps, they will try to shoot the tower without any risk. If you fit both, the last guy off the field is going to get pointed and lose his ship unless they start jettisoning shuttles and the like.