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Gracekain
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Posted - 2008.10.05 18:41:00 -
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Whats the risk of a pos getting attacked in high sec? I am thinking about putting up a small pos for research but I wonder if I need defenses? A small pos wont take much beating so even with defenses it would go down fast.
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pyus
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Posted - 2008.10.05 19:10:00 -
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A POS in high-sec is protected by Concord unless you are at war with the would-be POS attacker - so very secure really. Any corp that wants to attack your POS in hich-sec must declare war and wait the required 24 hours before they may attack without concord response. If you have a small tower and get dec'd by a corp large enough to be dangerous, simply take it down within the 24 hour waiting period, and stow it until the war is over.
So, as long as your checking in with the game every day or so and don't make/have too many enemies, I would just put a small one up and let concord take care of your defense.
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Bloody Rabbit
Jita Miners
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Posted - 2008.10.06 03:28:00 -
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Go with a medium or large tower
Smalls are just too easy to pop
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Bad Bobby
Ugly Toys
Zzz
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Posted - 2008.10.06 13:56:00 -
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Originally by: Bloody Rabbit
Go with a medium or large tower
Smalls are just too easy to pop
Although this is broadly true, if you are going to pull it down at the first sign of a war-dec then an unarmed small POS is fine.
The only reasons for putting up a larger tower is if you a) intend to sit through war-decs or b) need a larger tower to accomodate your anchorables. In which case, you want a large tower with a full compliment of defences. Of course, such a setup will carry a much larger cost.
If you just intend to throw up a couple of labs, go with the small tower and don't worry about it.
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Artemis Rose
Varion Galactic
Accord Corporate Enterprise Syndicate
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Posted - 2008.10.06 20:30:00 -
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Also, if you have a bigger POS, you can just pile on the shield hardeners and keep them inactive until war comes. Somebody has to be really dedicated to shoot up all that HP.
Make sure you use scientific networking to keep the BPOs safe inside the station where your corp office is.
If your standings allow, you can always take it down and put it back up in a war dec event.
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Kiki Arnolds
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.10.06 22:50:00 -
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If you plan to use the shield hardnerer strategy, anchor them ahead of time so that those looking for soft targets will know you will use them. They may decide to find greener pastures.
As for taking the POS down, watch out, if they are a more serious outfit (think mercs), they may be keeping any eye on your towers. Nothing like stealing the towers you've been paid to remove before the dec is even live.
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Tinker1947
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Posted - 2008.10.07 08:54:00 -
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Edited by: Tinker1947 on 07/10/2008 08:54:34
Originally by: Kiki Arnolds
If you plan to use the shield hardnerer strategy, anchor them ahead of time so that those looking for soft targets will know you will use them. They may decide to find greener pastures.
As for taking the POS down, watch out, if they are a more serious outfit (think mercs), they may be keeping any eye on your towers. Nothing like stealing the towers you've been paid to remove before the dec is even live.[/quote
My understanding is that if you unanchor a tower and leave it nobody can steal it, only wardec the owning corp to blow it up other wise it sits there forever unanchored and unattended...
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Lord Fitz
Project Amargosa
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Posted - 2008.10.07 11:12:00 -
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The *just take it down* defense methodolgy has a few critical flaws:
- You display a public timer when taking down a tower
- Nothing stops anyone else from scooping your tower when the timer expires, and thus getting a free tower, without a fight
- It's a pain to do
- You lose any jobs in progress when you take it down (though obviously you get the BPOs back, just without progress or any other materials).
The main reasons people shoot towers in highsec is for ransom, looting the labs, or because they just don't like you.
Personally I think less than a medium is undefendable against even a small enemy without a good fleet of your own. A large will be unattractive for most, especially with hardners, ew, weaponry etc ;) Unless of course they're doing it for the last reason, at which point there are a few players in the game out there who will willingly spend alot of time or money carrying out a boring task for revenge.
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Lord Fitz
Project Amargosa
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Posted - 2008.10.07 11:15:00 -
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Originally by: Tinker1947
My understanding is that if you unanchor a tower and leave it nobody can steal it, only wardec the owning corp to blow it up other wise it sits there forever unanchored and unattended...
Unanhcored anything (towers/guns/GSCs) can be scooped by anyone, even if you haven't wardecced the owner. It's a very very common thing to do, the only defense against it is to be there the second the tower finishes and scoop it first, and even that is not without risk ;)
If you're playing against someone who can watch around the clock, taking a tower down is the absolute worst thing you can do when it's under threat. You're better off losing it than just giving it away.
You can take down all the modules inside the shield safely enough though. (so remove the labs which are about all is worth shooting a tower for).
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Protagonist Prospect
Gallente
Warrior Nation Umbrella Corporation
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Posted - 2008.10.08 12:02:00 -
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If you have a medium to Large Tower with the proper defences anchored.. you have 24 hours to put your weapons systems on line and reallocate the tower resources to defence.
Just make sure you have plenty of fuel in your corporate hangar array and you can warp into the bubble and fill things back up.
It takes a good size fleet to take out a POS in High Sec because you can't depoly capitals against it.. with the right defensive framework... a high sec tower is a tough nut to crack..
Some have tried.. and some have flown out there and said.. "damn it didnt have that many guns yesterday" even though they were already there waiting to be onlined..
Use a large faction tower if you can afford one.. the fuel cost will be less and the tower only uses fuel for the online equipment.. so set it up with Research and defence in mind.. just reallocate power when the time comes to defense..
Make sure your scrammers and weapons systems are within optimal of each other and have some nasty suprise for anyone that gets cought up in them...
Also get a couple of people with starbase defence (i think thats right) to at least level 4... this will allow you to control your guns during the attack and focus fire on targets and make them go away.
Once you have 4-6 medium arties on a BS it goes away very quickly... then shift fire to the next one.. whoever is attacking will get the message that you are serious and they will go find someone else to pick on.
Wnx Protagonist
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