How the POS Chain works

friznit · Post by **friznit** » August 27th, 2006, 16:53

People been asking about it, so here it is in all it's glory!

Clear as a mud, eh?

Post by **Dog Pants** » August 27th, 2006, 16:58

Needs more magenta.

Anhamgrimmar · Post by **Anhamgrimmar** » August 27th, 2006, 19:31

Dog Pants wrote:Needs more magenta.

nope. needs more english channel!
all together now...
'who do you think you are kidding.,.'
/coat

friznit · Post by **friznit** » August 28th, 2006, 21:44

Right, continuuing from my bootiful masterpiece

, here's a description about how it all works.

We have 4 POS's on the go at the moment, 2 in W9 and 2 in ZX. Firstly, in W9:

POS 1: A med Gallente that harvests Vanadium from the moon and reacts this with Scandium to make Fernite Alloy. We buy the Scandium in from an external source cos there's none nearby to harvest. The Scandium is escrowed to me by some grumpy git in Maspah every Monday. This needs to be hauled down to W9 regularly (I like to stay a week ahead of on this in case of a quite period).

POS 3: The lg Amarr that we all know and love. This harvests Silicates and Evaporite Deposits which are reacted to make Ceramic Powder.

Both the Fernite Alloy and Ceramic Powder needs to be hauled once a week to the 2 towers in ZX. These 2 towers are identical and at each there are 2 input silos above the reactors. The simple materials (aka Intermediates) go into these silos and the Fernite Carbides come out the bottom into the silos placed under the hangar arrays (there are 2 silos joined together for the output so you only have to empty them every 48 hrs or so). The Fernite Carbs are then hauled into ISS Tycho ready for freightering to Jita.

Once a month, there's a big fuelathon when I run around Heimatar and Metropolis buying up 28 days of fuel for the chain (this costs approx 400mill) and then we all haul it to Maspah. From there I get ISSL to ship it out to ZX so we can fuel the towers easily.

In theory this makes us in the region of 950mill a month net profit although the sticking point is always selling the Fernite Carbs (not had a problem so far, fingers crossed).

To summarise, if you ever get in the hauling mood:

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Fuel:  Maspah -> ZX -> W9 (for tower refuelling levels speak to me or Aki)

Scandium:  Maspah -> POS 1 in W9

Ceramic Powder and Fernite Alloy:  W9 -> POS 4 & 5 in ZX

Fernite Carbides: POS 4 & 5 -> ISS Tycho

If you're unsure of the locations, dumping stuff in the office in Tycho is fine. And finally, if you ever offline anything to empty it, please make sure you online it again

Lee · Post by **Lee** » August 28th, 2006, 22:05

Thanks for this Friz, tis very helpful. I'll try to help out with the hauling and stuff more next time I'm in 0.0.

centerededgedesign · Post by **centerededgedesign** » August 29th, 2006, 17:34

Now if only there were a profitable use for Cobalt! Cranking the stuff out quietly in Jaymass, but the market is totally worthless of late.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » August 29th, 2006, 19:04

Scandium's run out.

Oh screw it, I can't be arsed. I'm going to get something to eat.

centerededgedesign · Post by **centerededgedesign** » August 29th, 2006, 20:21

Hang in there Friz, help's coming.....

/me worries about Friz....

friznit · Post by **friznit** » August 29th, 2006, 21:46

Did a suicide run back to maspah but busted so many camps on the way that I'm not gonna risk it on the way back without a scout. Too bad.

Miro Mishu · Post by **Miro Mishu** » November 25th, 2006, 14:16

/bump so i don't have to dig for it

Carry on pls, just doin' my homework..

-Miro/Lara

friznit · Post by **friznit** » November 25th, 2006, 21:45

POS 4 is running down the Fernite Carbs, and will then start making Phenolics Comps. POS 5 is already making Phenolic Comps. POS 2 is the mining POS in GMLH and currently doesn't harvest anything (but is on a chromium moon if we decide to make something with that)

So it now works like this:

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Fuel:  Hoth -> ZX & W9

Hafnium:  Tycho -> POS 1 in W9 

Silicon Diborite (POS 3) and Vanadium Hafnite (POS 1):  W9 -> POS 4 & 5 in ZX 

Caesarium Cadmide:  Jita -> Hoth -> POS 4 & 5

Phenolic Comps: POS 4 & 5 -> ISS Tycho -> Jita

traveyb · Post by **traveyb** » November 26th, 2006, 11:30

I will happily run the stuff from POS 4+5 to tycho when needed. I will do the others with a scout of somesort as the pipe speaks for its self and the run from ZX-W9 can be an arse (wanker CHONGUS).
Just let me know when it needs to be done etc....

friznit wrote:POS 4 is running down the Fernite Carbs, and will then start making Phenolics Comps. POS 5 is already making Phenolic Comps. POS 2 is the mining POS in GMLH and currently doesn't harvest anything (but is on a chromium moon if we decide to make something with that)

So it now works like this:
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Fuel:  Hoth -> ZX & W9

Hafnium:  Tycho -> POS 1 in W9 

Silicon Diborite (POS 3) and Vanadium Hafnite (POS 1):  W9 -> POS 4 & 5 in ZX 

Caesarium Cadmide:  Jita -> Hoth -> POS 4 & 5

Phenolic Comps: POS 4 & 5 -> ISS Tycho -> Jita