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==Setup==

~~===Anchoring the Tower===~~

* Anchoring and putting a tower online takes 15~~-20~~ minutes for a small, 30+ minutes for a medium and 60+ minutes for a large. ~~Plus~~ time ~~needed~~ to anchor ~~arrays~~, ~~batteries and other components~~.

Befor setting out to setup your shiny new POS tower, keep in mind the following points:

* Anchoring and putting a tower online takes a long time. Allow 15+ minutes for a small tower, 30+ minutes for a medium tower and 60+ minutes for a large tower.

* You will also need a lot of time to anchor modules, especially if you have a complex setup.

* A corporation that is not a member of an alliance can only anchor a single POS tower per day per system. However, a corporation could anchor multiple POS towers in multiple systems on the same day.

* Alliances can anchor a maximum of (5) POS towers per day per system.

* This throttling may not apply in wormholes ([[W-space|w-space]]).

Once you have settled on a location and found an empty moon, you should ~~fly~~ your tower out to the location along with a bit of fuel and "[[POS_Warfare#Strontium_Calthrates|stront]]" to get the tower online. At a minimum, you should bring 2-3 days worth of POS fuel and 12-36 hours worth of "[[POS_Warfare#Strontium_Calthrates|stront]]". You should also bring along any defensive modules or offensive weapon systems that you plan on anchoring.

Before setting off to go anchor the tower, you should make a list of things to bring along. [[Orca]] ships make wonderful POS builders, but you can also use a T1 or T2 industrial ship to haul the tower, modules and fuel. The list of things that you should bring:

* The [[POS_Structures#Control_Towers|POS tower]]

* 12-36 hours worth of "[[POS_Warfare#Strontium_Calthrates|stront]]"

* At least 2-3 days worth of POS fuel, or maybe a full 19.5 days worth.

* [[POS_Structures#Shield_Hardening_Arrays|Shield hardening modules]]

* Other [[POS_Structures#Defensive_Structures|defensive structures]] (ECM and sensor dampeners)

* (some) [[POS_Structures#Offensive_Weaponry|Offensive weapons]]

For the initial setup, unless there are logistical issues involved in making a second trip, you should probably leave things like labs, silos, ship assembly arrays, and maintenance bays for later. Putting up a POS in lo-sec, w-space, or null-sec is a risky operation until the tower is fueled and online. The more items that you bring along before the POS tower shields are active, the more items that you risk losing if someone attacks you. Once anchored, put online and fueled, the POS tower's shield system will come online and offer you a refuge.

===Anchoring the Tower===

Once you have settled on a location and found an empty moon, you should haul your tower out to the location along with a bit of fuel and "[[POS_Warfare#Strontium_Calthrates|stront]]" to get the tower online.

* Warp to the chosen moon at a random distance

* Right-click the tower in your cargo hold, choose "Launch for Corp"

* Right-click the tower in space, choose "Anchor"

* Right-click the tower and bookmark its location

The tower will then be moved by the EVE server to the center of that grid location. This can be up to 200km away from your warp in point, so you may have to look around to find it. Anchoring time varies by tower size. Small towers take 450 seconds (7.5 minutes), medium towers take 900 seconds (15 minutes) and large towers take 1800 seconds (30 minutes). When you anchor a tower, make a note of the EVE time and the estimated time for it to finish (or use a watch / timer).

Since you can do nothing else during the tower anchoring process, you may want to warp off to a safe-spot to wait out the timer. Preferably a "deep" safe-spot that is more then 15AU away from any celestial body and not inline between two celestial bodies.

The tower will then be moved by the EVE server to the center of that grid location. This can be up to 200km away from your warp in point, so you may have to look around to find it. Anchoring time varies by tower size. Small towers take 450 seconds (7.5 minutes), medium towers take 900 seconds (15 minutes) and large towers take 1800 seconds (30 minutes). When you anchor a tower, make a note of the EVE time and the estimated time for it to finish (or use a watch / timer). You should '''create a temporary bookmark''' by right-clicking on the tower and bookmarking its location.

===Initial Fueling===

Since you can do nothing else during the tower anchoring process, you may want to warp off to a safe-spot to wait out the timer. Preferably a "deep" safe-spot that is more then 15AU away from any celestial body and not inline between two celestial bodies. When the timer is up, warp back to your tower's bookmark at 0km. Now you can fuel the tower and put it online. You must be '''within 2500m''' of the tower in order to access the fuel/stront bays.

When the timer is up, warp back to your tower's bookmark at 0km. Now you can fuel the tower and put it online. You must be '''within 2500m''' of the tower in order to access the fuel/stront bays.

* Right-click the tower, "Access Strontium Bay"

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Once again, there will be a long delay while the tower goes online. Online time also varies by tower size. Small towers take 450 seconds (7.5 minutes), medium towers take 900 seconds (15 minutes) and large towers take 1800 seconds (30 minutes). Make a note of the EVE time and when you estimate that the tower will finish going online. If you are worried about unwanted visitors, warp back to a safe-spot to wait out the timer.

===Basic Tower Configuration===

After the tower has finished going online, and for as long as the fuel holds out, the tower will now have a protective force field bubble around it. At which point you should warp back to the POS tower and finish the initial configuration.

~~===Fueling~~ the ~~Tower===~~

* Get within 2500m of the tower

~~===Basic Tower Configuration===~~

* Right-click the tower, choose "Manage"

*

===Anchoring Modules===

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 ==Setup==
-===Anchoring the Tower===
-* Anchoring and putting a tower online takes 15-20 minutes for a small, 30+ minutes for a medium and 60+ minutes for a large.  Plus time needed to anchor arrays, batteries and other components.
+Befor setting out to setup your shiny new POS tower, keep in mind the following points:
+* Anchoring and putting a tower online takes a long time. Allow 15+ minutes for a small tower, 30+ minutes for a medium tower and 60+ minutes for a large tower.
+* You will also need a lot of time to anchor modules, especially if you have a complex setup.
 * A corporation that is not a member of an alliance can only anchor a single POS tower per day per system.  However, a corporation could anchor multiple POS towers in multiple systems on the same day.
 * Alliances can anchor a maximum of (5) POS towers per day per system.
 * This throttling may not apply in wormholes ([[W-space|w-space]]).
-Once you have settled on a location and found an empty moon, you should fly your tower out to the location along with a bit of fuel and "[[POS_Warfare#Strontium_Calthrates|stront]]" to get the tower online.  At a minimum, you should bring 2-3 days worth of POS fuel and 12-36 hours worth of "[[POS_Warfare#Strontium_Calthrates|stront]]".  You should also bring along any defensive modules or offensive weapon systems that you plan on anchoring.
+Before setting off to go anchor the tower, you should make a list of things to bring along.  [[Orca]] ships make wonderful POS builders, but you can also use a T1 or T2 industrial ship to haul the tower, modules and fuel.  The list of things that you should bring:
+* The [[POS_Structures#Control_Towers|POS tower]]
+* 12-36 hours worth of "[[POS_Warfare#Strontium_Calthrates|stront]]"
+* At least 2-3 days worth of POS fuel, or maybe a full 19.5 days worth.
+* [[POS_Structures#Shield_Hardening_Arrays|Shield hardening modules]]
+* Other [[POS_Structures#Defensive_Structures|defensive structures]] (ECM and sensor dampeners)
+* (some) [[POS_Structures#Offensive_Weaponry|Offensive weapons]]
+For the initial setup, unless there are logistical issues involved in making a second trip, you should probably leave things like labs, silos, ship assembly arrays, and maintenance bays for later.  Putting up a POS in lo-sec, w-space, or null-sec is a risky operation until the tower is fueled and online.  The more items that you bring along before the POS tower shields are active, the more items that you risk losing if someone attacks you.  Once anchored, put online and fueled, the POS tower's shield system will come online and offer you a refuge.
+===Anchoring the Tower===
+Once you have settled on a location and found an empty moon, you should haul your tower out to the location along with a bit of fuel and "[[POS_Warfare#Strontium_Calthrates|stront]]" to get the tower online.
 * Warp to the chosen moon at a random distance
 * Right-click the tower in your cargo hold, choose "Launch for Corp"
 * Right-click the tower in space, choose "Anchor"
+* Right-click the tower and bookmark its location
+The tower will then be moved by the EVE server to the center of that grid location.  This can be up to 200km away from your warp in point, so you may have to look around to find it.  Anchoring time varies by tower size.  Small towers take 450 seconds (7.5 minutes), medium towers take 900 seconds (15 minutes) and large towers take 1800 seconds (30 minutes).  When you anchor a tower, make a note of the EVE time and the estimated time for it to finish (or use a watch / timer).
+Since you can do nothing else during the tower anchoring process, you may want to warp off to a safe-spot to wait out the timer.  Preferably a "deep" safe-spot that is more then 15AU away from any celestial body and not inline between two celestial bodies.
-The tower will then be moved by the EVE server to the center of that grid location.  This can be up to 200km away from your warp in point, so you may have to look around to find it.  Anchoring time varies by tower size.  Small towers take 450 seconds (7.5 minutes), medium towers take 900 seconds (15 minutes) and large towers take 1800 seconds (30 minutes).  When you anchor a tower, make a note of the EVE time and the estimated time for it to finish (or use a watch / timer).  You should '''create a temporary bookmark''' by right-clicking on the tower and bookmarking its location.
+===Initial Fueling===
-Since you can do nothing else during the tower anchoring process, you may want to warp off to a safe-spot to wait out the timer.  Preferably a "deep" safe-spot that is more then 15AU away from any celestial body and not inline between two celestial bodies.  When the timer is up, warp back to your tower's bookmark at 0km.  Now you can fuel the tower and put it online.  You must be '''within 2500m''' of the tower in order to access the fuel/stront bays.
+When the timer is up, warp back to your tower's bookmark at 0km.  Now you can fuel the tower and put it online.  You must be '''within 2500m''' of the tower in order to access the fuel/stront bays.
 * Right-click the tower, "Access Strontium Bay"
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 Once again, there will be a long delay while the tower goes online.  Online time also varies by tower size.  Small towers take 450 seconds (7.5 minutes), medium towers take 900 seconds (15 minutes) and large towers take 1800 seconds (30 minutes).  Make a note of the EVE time and when you estimate that the tower will finish going online.  If you are worried about unwanted visitors, warp back to a safe-spot to wait out the timer.
+===Basic Tower Configuration===
 After the tower has finished going online, and for as long as the fuel holds out, the tower will now have a protective force field bubble around it.  At which point you should warp back to the POS tower and finish the initial configuration.
-===Fueling the Tower===
+* Get within 2500m of the tower
-===Basic Tower Configuration===
+* Right-click the tower, choose "Manage"
+*
 ===Anchoring Modules===