I am planning on setting up a player-owned structure (POS) in a 0.5 system once I finally finish grinding my corporation's faction reputation to 5.0 for the Amarr Empire, and I was wondering exactly how safe is such a structure in high-sec?
Obviously a player or players wouldn't be able to randomly attack it without CONCORD intervention and it would be safe from capital class ships and higher, but will this make it completely safe?
Additionally, am I able to fit shield hardeners, electronic warfare systems like sensor dampening and turrets to a POS in high-sec space?
Is the safety of the POS further influenced by anything else (ie: putting it in a 0.9 system instead of a 0.5 system)?
Best Answer
PoSes are safe in HS. They cannot be attacked without an active war, or the attacker will get CONCORDed. It is not completely safe, but if you see a notification for a war pop up, run over and put more hardeners/ECM on it. Don't bother trying to have the PoS attack back - you want to make it as annoying and difficult as possible for attackers to damage your PoS. Also remember to load it to the gills with Strontium, so that the reinforce timer will kick in.
The only things you can't put on a PoS in hisec are reactors and moon miners, IIRC. ( and of course silly things like jump bridges and capital things ).
The maximum level of security you can put a PoS into is 0.7, no matter how high your corp's faction standing is. The difference between 0.7, 0.6 and 0.5 is minimal - the biggest thing is the response time of CONCORD, something a PoS isn't terribly concerned with.