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 =====Player-owned Starbase Warfare=====
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-For information on **Personal Towers** contact **Dante Tsaronis**\\
+For information on **Personal Towers** contact the **logi-office** channel in Test Discord\\
 For information on **Corporation Towers** refer to **TEST Command Forum**
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 Dreads are immune to sensor dampening in siege mode
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 ====Electronic Countermeasures====
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 Dreads are immune to ECM in siege mode. Therefore you should not rely on ECM in low-security / null-security space where capital ships can be brought to the fight.
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 ====Strontium Clathrates====
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 You can access the fuel/stront bays as long as you are within 2500m of the POS tower. Right-click on the tower and choose "Access Strontium Bay".
+----
+====Tower Force Field Settings====
+{{:eve:player_owned_starbases:posforcefieldsettings2online.jpg|}}\\
+The tower force field settings tab controls your POS bubble and shows information about the tower and shield (hit point percentage and shield resists). In the above figure, the tower is online, the shield resists are the default of 0%/0%/25%/50% and the POS shield is at 50% strength.
+----
+===Status===
+  * **Anchoring** - Tower is being anchored and a timer will show how long remains.
+  * **Online** - Tower is anchored, online and there is enough fuel for the next hour.
+  * **Offline** - Tower has run out of fuel, but is still anchored.
+  * **Unanchoring** - Tower is being unanchored.
+----
+===Password===
+You must set a password on your POS shield in order for the POS bubble to function properly and keep people out of the bubble who aren't allowed in. There are two ways to set the POS bubble password. You can either right-click on the tower in space and choose "set password" or you can set the password in the tower management UI. Once set, you can use it as an "open" secret to allow non-corp/non-alliance pilots to shelter inside your POS bubble. This password only allows them to pass through the boundary, it does not protect them from offensive systems or grant them access to storage modules such as corporate hangars.\\
+Corp/Alliance members should be granted access to the POS via the Restriction Masks.\\
+Be aware that if a spy guesses or knows your password, they can enter the POS bubble and bump AFK pilots or empty ships outside the bubble. They can also board any empty ships within the bubble and simply warp off.\\
+If the tower manager changes the POS password and you were not granted access via the restriction masks, you will be immediately kicked outside of the POS bubble. Never go AFK in lo-sec or null-sec space at a POS.\\
+In order for a non-alliance/non-corp pilot to enter the POS bubble, they will need to right-click on their ship in space and choose "Enter Starbase Forcefield Password...". This setting is not sticky and gets cleared if you eject from the ship, logout, or at downtime. This means that their ship will be ejected from the POS bubble when the password gets cleared due to those conditions.\\
+----
+===Restriction Masks===
+There are two restriction masks that can be checked on the "Force Field" tab.
+  * Allow Corporation Members
+  * Allow Alliance Members
+If either is checked, then people who fall into that category will be able to pass through the POS bubble without needing the password. If these are turned off while people are inside the shield, they will be kicked out of the POS bubble (true/false?).
+----
+====Tower Defense Settings====
+{{:eve:player_owned_starbases:poswarsettingsdefense1.jpg|}}\\
+There are several checkboxes in the POS tower management UI that allow you to configure automatic defense of the tower. POS batteries have built-in self-checks that prevent them from firing on targets that would summon CONCORD in hi-sec. These options are hidden if they are not applicable to the space the POS is anchored.
+----
+===Attack If Other Security Status Is Dropping===
+Your POS batteries will automatically attack anyone who's security status is dropping (has a criminal [or suspect? someone please edit] flagged) while on-grid. Such as someone shooting at your POS guns without declaring war first. In hi-sec, this checkbox should be turned off as CONCORD will deal with the offender much better then your POS batteries will. If you have a GCC flag, you should never approach a POS (even a normally friendly one) as this setting can cause it to fire on you as a valid target.
+----
+===Attack If Aggression===
+Your POS batteries will automatically fire on anyone who engages a corp/alliance member. This should be turned off in hi-sec as CONCORD will deal with the offenders and should generally be left off in lo-sec / null-sec. If you have an aggression timer, you should never approach a POS (even if normally friendly) as this setting can cause it to fire upon you. Never shoot or duel other corporation members near a POS. This setting (if turned on) can also cause problems for any logistics ships that are attempting to repair the tower's shield (and possibly modules).
+----
+===Attack If At War===
+This is the only setting that should be checked normally in hi-sec space. It will ensure that your POS batteries automatically fire on valid war targets, even if you are not around to control them.
+----
+=====Offense=====
+There are two types of offense that a POS can engage in. One is acting as a tackler, using energy neutralizers, stasis webs and warp disruptors/scrambers in order to hold enemy ships in place for destruction by the POS weapons or support fleet. The second type of POS offense is weapon systems such as hybrid turrets, laser turrets, missile launchers or projectile batteries. Each race/faction POS tower gives different bonuses to weapons, but that must be balanced with the issue that once a tower enters reinforced mode all weapons that use CPU will go offline.\\
+All offensive systems that target enemy ships must be mounted outside the POS bubble. This is usually a minimum of 5km outside the POS bubble. Small setups will place clusters of systems at both the north and south pole for good coverage, medium/large setups should spread modules evenly around the entire sphere. A 4-point (pyramid corners), 5-point (north / south / 3 around equator), or 6-point (north / south / 4 around equator) setup around the POS are common configurations.\\
+Structures that are placed outside the POS are vulnerable to attack by the enemy even when the POS tower's bubble is intact. When placing defenses outside the POS bubble, you should spread them far enough apart that a battleship cannot easily attack all of them simultaneously with smartbombs. This generally means a 4-6km separation between elements (which is 4-6 "green boxes" apart as each step is 960m). While smartbombs are not very fast at killing batteries, it's an option in cases where there are no defenses other then ECM.
+----
+====General Notes====
+===What works best with what tower===
+  * Amarr (including Blood/Sansha) towers should use laser batteries due to bonuses.
+  * Minmatar (Angel/Domination) should use projectile batteries due to their bonuses.
+  * Gallente (Serpentis/Shadow) can use rails, but should use projectile autocannons for short-range. Blaster batteries are not suitable due to range issues.
+  * Caldari (Guristas) should never use Torpedo / Cruise Missile batteries. Instead, they should fit with projectile batteries (possibly with a few Hybrid Rail batteries).
+===Ammunition effects===
+  * Damage type done by the battery is affected by the type of ammunition loaded.
+  * Damage amount is also affected by the type of ammunition loaded.
+  * The range bonus/penalty of ammunition affects range.
+  * All distance calculations for optimal/falloff are calculated from the control tower.
+  * All traversal calculations are calculated from the control tower.
+===Battery Size===
+  * Lasers, Projectiles, and Rails come in three size flavors.
+  * Small: Useful against frigates, cruisers and fighters
+  * Medium: Better for cruisers, battlecruisers and battleships
+  * Large: Only works well against capital ships and battleships
+----
+====Weapon Batteries====
+===Hybrid Batteries (Blaster)===
+<wrap em>Never use small blaster batteries.</wrap> Because of the incredibly short range of blasters and because range is calculated from the control tower (not the battery itself) you should never use small blaster batteries.
+^Type^Power^CPU^Optimal^Falloff^
+|Small Blaster Battery|56,250|0|10km|17km|
+|Medium Blaster Battery|112,500|0|16km|26km|
+|Large Blaster Battery|225,000|0|21km|35km|
+----
+===Hybrid Batteries (Railgun)===
+Railguns are the long range variant of hybrid batteries. Their range is much larger than that of the blaster batteries, but the tracking speed is extremely slow.
+^Type^Power^CPU^Optimal^Falloff^
+|Small Railgun Battery|90,000|0|150km|75km|
+|Medium Railgun Battery|180,000|0|225km|112km|
+|Large Railgun Battery|360,000|0|300km|150km|
+----
+===Laser Batteries (Beam)===
+The "beam" flavor of laser batteries are the long range version. They have higher alpha damage then the "pulse" batteries, but their lower rate of fire results in lower DPS.
+^Type^Power^CPU^Optimal^Falloff^
+|Small Beam Laser|112,500|0|187km|50km|
+|Medium Beam Laser|225,000|0|280km|75km|
+|Large Beam Laser|450,000|0|375km|100km|
+----
+====Laser Batteries(Pulse)===
+The "pulse" flavor of laser batteries are the short range variant. They have smaller alpha damage, but a higher rate of fire gives them more DPS.\\
+Laser batteries get bonuses from Amarr towers and come in two flavors, "beam" for long range and "pulse" for short range. Laser batteries use zero CPU and will continue to function after the tower is reinforced (if repaired and in working order). As with regular Amarr pulse/beam weapons, they use crystals, but the size of the crystals is always one larger then the laser battery. This means that large laser batteries use XL crystals, medium uses large crystals, and small batteries use medium crystals.\\
+One downside to using Laser Batteries is that the active crystal cannot be removed when you need to unanchor and move the battery. Inactive crystals can be removed before you unanchor.
+^Type^Power^CPU^Optimal^Falloff^
+|Small Pulse Laser|78,750|0|52km|14km|
+|Medium Pulse Laser|157,500|0|79km|21km|
+|Large Pulse Laser|315,000|0|106km|28km|
+----
+===Missile Batteries (Cruise)===
+<wrap em>Never use Cruise Missile batteries.</wrap> The cruise missile batteries use CPU in order to function. This means that once the tower goes into reinforced mode, those batteries go offline and are useless.
+----
+===Missile Batteries (Torpedo)===
+<wrap em>Never use Torpedo batteries.</wrap> The torpedo batteries use CPU in order to function. This means that once the tower goes into reinforced mode, those batteries go offline and are useless.
+----
+===Projectile Batteries (Autocannon)===
+The primary advantage of projectile batteries on a POS is that they do not require any CPU in order to operate. In addition, they can be fitted with different types of ammo in order to spread damage across multiple resists. Minmatar-based towers give bonuses to rate-of-fire, optimal range and fall-off ranges.
+^Type^Power^CPU^Optimal^Falloff^
+|Small AutoCannon Battery|67,500|0|10.5km|42km|
+|Medium AutoCannon Battery|135,000|0|15km|63km|
+|Large AutoCannon Battery|270,000|0|21km|85.5km|
+----
+===Projectile Batteries (Artillery)===
+Artillery Batteries have longer range than AutoCannon Batteries, but poorer tracking.
+^Type^Power^CPU^Optimal^Falloff^
+|Small Artillery Battery|101,250|0|187.5km|168km|
+|Medium Artillery Battery|202,500|0|280.5km|246km|
+|Large Artillery Battery|405,000|0|300km|327km|
+----
+====Tackle Batteries====
+===Energy Neutralizing Battery===
+  * 4000 m3 4000 kg
+  * 350,000 PG 25 CPU
+  * 100k shield HP, 1.5M armor HP, 100k structure HP
+The energy neutralizer has a 250km (50?) range and drains 1000 GJ (a heavy T2 neutralizer on a ship does 600 GJ). Compared to the other types of defensive modules, their fitting requirement is rather high. These are mostly used in lo-sec and null-sec.
+----
+===Stasis Webification Battery===
+  * 4000 m3 4000 kg
+  * 50,000 PG 25 CPU
+  * 100k shield HP, 1.5M armor HP, 100k structure HP
+These will cut an enemy's ship speed by 75% and have a range of 150km. A few of these makes speed-tanking the batteries a non-option as well as annoying any fleets that have to slow-boat from location to location around the tower.
+----
+===Warp Disruption Battery===
+  * 4000 m3 100 kg
+  * 100,000 PG 50 CPU
+  * 100k shield HP, 1.5M armor HP, 100k structure HP
+The disruption batteries have a 150km range, but higher fitting needs than the scramblers. They have a warp scrambling strength of 3 points.
+----
+===Warp Scrambling Battery===
+  * 4000 m3 100 kg
+  * 25,000 PG 25 CPU
+  * 100k shield HP, 1.5M armor HP, 100k structure HP
+The scrambling batteries only have a 75km range, but much lower fitting needs. They have a warp scramble strength of 6 points.
+----
+====Anchoring Of Spares====
+A recommended tactic is that you always anchor extra weapon and countermeasures outside the POS bubble, but leave them offline until needed. As existing weapons and countermeasures are incapacitated by damage, you can bring new weapons and countermeasures online. This tactic mostly only works if you will have people actively defending the POS during the initial or follow-up sieges who will need spare modules to continue fighting off the attackers. \\
+The other theory behind anchoring offline spares is that it makes it more difficult for your enemy to know what modules will be active when they come to attack the POS. This is an effective tactic against enemies that are not specifically out to get you. If you have lots of electronic warfare batteries, weapon batteries and shield hardeners ready to go, smaller groups of opportunistic attackers may decide that you are too much trouble and go looking for easier POS towers. It is only an effective tactic on medium / large towers. Small towers are simply too easy to destroy and expensive modules / labs / contents should be evacuated at the first sign of trouble.
+====Starbase Defense Management====
+The Starbase Defense Management skill allows a pilot with the Starbase Defense Operator role to control weapons and countermeasures mounted outside the POS bubble.
+{{:eve:player_owned_starbases:poswarstructurecontrol1.jpg|}}
+----
+=====Initial Attack=====
+====Damage POS Shield====
+  * Best Ammo
+    * Based on type of faction tower. Each faction tower has 2 weaknesses with 0% base resistance. Any active shield hardening array may also play a factor.
+    * Amarr EMP and Thermal
+    * Caldari EMP and Explosive
+    * Gallente EMP and Explosive
+    * Minmatar Explosive and Kinetic
+  * Shield Radius
+    * 30km for a large POS
+    * 21km for a medium POS
+    * 15km for a small POS
+Once the POS shield drops below 50%, the POS owner can no longer:
+  * Add/Remove Strontium Clathrates to affect the timer
+  * Unanchor any modules.
+----
+====Reinforced Mode====
+Once the POS shields have been damaged down to 25%, the POS may enter reinforced mode. If there is at least one unit of Strontium Clathrates a timer will appear by the tower in space. This timer will say "reinforced" along with the length of time remaining before the tower comes out of reinforced mode. All towers can carry a maximum of around 41.7 hours worth of Strontium Clathrates in their "stront bay" (see the "Capacity2" field on a tower's attributes). If there is not enough Strontium Clathrates in the tower for at least one hour, you can continue straight to final destruction of the POS.\\
+The math for the stront bay is 50,000 m3 (for a large tower) divided by 3.0 m3 per unit of Strontium Clathrates, give you 16666 units. A large tower goes through 400 per hour in reinforced mode, giving you 41.665 hours of reinforcement (1d 17h 39m 54s).\\
+In addition, the following things will happen:
+  * The POS shield will no longer regenerate when reinforced
+  * All modules/structures that require CPU will go offline
+  * Modules/guns that do not use CPU will stay online
+  * Modules/structures inside the tower are still safe
+What the owner <wrap em>can</wrap> do while the POS is reinforced:
+  * Repair guns and modules outside the bubble
+  * Anchor new guns that do not use CPU
+  * Online already anchored guns/modules that do not use CPU
+  * Can access the contents of a Ship Maintenance Array (uses no CPU)
+What the owner <wrap em>cannot</wrap> do while the POS is reinforced:
+  * Online anchored modules/guns that require CPU
+  * Online repaired guns/modules that require CPU
+  * Unanchor anything that uses CPU
+  * Add Strontium Clathrates to the stront bay
+  * Cannot repair the POS shields
+  * Cannot access the contents of corporate hangar, labs or silos
+The POS will exit reinforced mode once the Strontium Clathrates run out. At that point in time the shields will start to regenerate on their own. The owner of the POS can bring the shields up to the 50% mark by using ships with shield transporter modules (such as Basilisks, Scimitars, Ospreys, or any other ship that can fit them and stay cap-stable). Once the shield has been repaired to 50%, the owner may online any modules/structures that require CPU. They may also re-stront the tower so that it will enter reinforced mode again if the shields are lowered again to the 25% mark.\\
+If the attacking force wishes to completely destroy the POS after the reinforcement timer, they should leave a harassing force in place to prevent the repair of guns or other modules outside the POS bubble.
+----
+=====Final Takedown=====
+Once you have removed the tower, anybody can unanchor all modules that have no structure damage, but you can probaby use a remote Hull repairer to fix any structure damage and then unanchor it.
+  * Mobile labs retain their contents after being unanchored. they can either be anchored at another POS to retrieve the contents or can be repackaged which will extract the contents
+  * Silos and weapon batteries will destroy their contents when unanchored after the POS tower is destroyed, no way to obtain contents?
+  * Ship Maintenance Arrays will produce a wreck which contains all ships inside. Since the ships are assembled, you need a Carrier or pilots to get them out of there.
+----
+=====Hi-Sec War-Dec Defensive Preparations=====
+You've setup your POS to discourage attackers, but that will not always be enough if your adversaries are determined. So what do you do with a hi-sec POS if you get a war-dec? The answers to that will depend on the expected strength of the opposition, whether or not you will be actively using the POS weapons against the opposition, and how much risk you are willing to tolerate.\\
+In general, hi-sec POSs with good setups are fairly immune to attacks unless the attacker is willing to bring 5-25 battleships and spend a few hours beating on it to put it into reinforced mode. During the 24h warm-up period for a hi-sec war-dec you need to make decisions about what modules you will leave in space and what modules you will tear down and store in a nearby station.\\
+Keep in mind that your future opponents may be watching your every move with their main characters (or an OOC alt) to see if they can find out where you have in-space assets.\\
+----
+====Rip It All Down====
+If you are running a small tower, or a medium tower with few defenses in hi-sec then it's likely that your best plan of action is to rip it all down. Your assumption should be that as soon as the war-dec goes "hot" that the tower will be put into reinforced mode within 1-3 hours and then destroyed once it comes out of reinforced mode. Any jobs in the research / manufacturing slots will need to be cancelled. The contents of any arrays (labs, hangars, manufacturing lines) will need to be emptied and carted to safety (such as a nearby station). Arrays with contents cannot be unanchored.\\
+As a priority, you should focus on getting the labs, arrays, silos and other assets evacuated to safety before worrying about any defensive systems. As defensive systems are inexpensive, you minimize your potential loss. If you run out of time and the defensive modules are still present, turning them all on when the war goes active will make the attacker's job more difficult.\\
+The major downside of this strategy is that you may find that another corp will erect a POS tower at your moon while you are occupied with the war.
+----
+====Bunker Down====
+The next option is a middle ground. You remove all high value options such as assembly arrays, lab slots, ship maintenance arrays but you leave the tower and all defensive/offensive modules in place. If you have any spare defenses, you will want to bring them online as you take non-essential arrays offline. The primary goal here is to minimize losses while not giving up your place at the moon. The secondary goal is to make the attacker's life as difficult as possible for the least amount of ISK by putting additional ECM / damps / hardeners online.\\
+Small towers should generally be taken down, unless the attackers are few in number. In hi-sec wars, your primary defense is going to be ECM, but the enemy can still bring smart bombing battleships or drone boats to take out the batteries. If you absolutely must leave a small tower in place, anchor a few sensor damp batteries and up to (16) ECM batteries (4 of each type). They will still probably destroy the tower, but they will be forced to rely on smartbombs / drones and it will take a lot longer. You must be prepared to unanchor and remove any modules inside the POS tower such as Mobile Labs, Advanced Mobile Labs or Corporate Hangars.\\
+Medium towers can anchor and online around (24-30) ECM and large towers can do setups with as many as (48-72) ECM. Or you can simply go the shield hardener route and maximize your shield resists. The ECM method is generally preferred in hi-sec, combined with a few stasis webs, sensor damps, and small/medium weapons (projectiles, lasers, rails) for picking off stragglers or drones.\\
+----
+====Active Defense====
+Active defense really only works if you have at least 2-3 POS gunners (players with the Starbase Defense Operator role). Each POS gunner will need to have Starbase Defense Management trained to level IV so that they can control a reasonable number of batteries. The goal here is that the POS gunners will coordinate tackling of ships with one of their control modules while the other gunners immediately bring focused fire to bear on the tackled ship. This needs to happen fast enough that the attacking forces cannot refocus their remote repair fast enough to save the target.\\
+As batteries get thinned out and you start running out of spares to bring online as replacements, you should start putting the shield hardeners online. With (9) hardeners you can do a 3/3/2/1 setup and it will make the attacker's job much more difficult. Large towers may even wish to run with a 4/4/3/2 (13) setup for maximum resists.

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