My Loot, Your Tears

1) Find an inactive corporation with an offline POS tower full of goodies
2) Declare war on corporation
3) Fit and insure POS-bashing battleships
4) AFK pew tower
5) Scoop modules and profit!

One of our friends from Suddenly Ninjas, Aruca Meyers, contacted me about an offline POS tower he had found in the Kamokor system. Further research showed that the corporation, Shenda Innovations, was both small and apparently inactive. The Dread Gruistas' Tower had a nice collection of modules:

6x Mobile Labs
6x Equipment Assembly Arrays
2x Component Assembly Arrays
4x Medium Pulse Laser Batteries
4x Medium Beam Laser Batteries
7x Cruise Missile Batteries
2x Sansha's Small Pulse Laser Batteries
2x Warp Disruption Batteries
1x Stasis Webifier Battery
1x Energy Neut Battery
1x Ship Maintenance Array
1x Corporate Hangar Array

That was going to be worth at least 600M before whatever was in the CHA and SMA, so we figured it was worth a day of AFK shooting at the tower. We watched the area and corporation for a day or two, and didn't see a single one of them log on. It seemed we'd be ok to AFK shoot this tower for however long it took.

Paul and I both fitted Amarr battleships for damage, insured them, and jumped into cheap clones. Even if we got pewed and podded, it wasn't going to be a big loss. We put the call out to the other Jerks, but all of them were busy/drunk/working, so we deputized Aruca as a Jerk for a day and had him help us shoot the tower.

We blew up the CHA and SMA first in order to get any tasty ships or loot that were going to drop. The SMA only dropped a shuttle, but the CHA dropped a lot of POS fuel, 6x each of Medium Pulse and Medium Beam Laser batteries, and best of all 2 more Sansha Small Pulse Laser Batteries.

The DG Control tower has the most HP of any tower in the entire game. We weren't expecting this to be quick, and it wasn't. We started shooting at 06:50 EVE time, and kept shooting right up to downtime. We resuming shooting after downtime, and didn't hit armor until around 22:30. The DG tower has 60M shields, plus recharge rate. The tower finally went down around 01:10, for a total of 18 hours or so of shooting.

We unanchored everything, stripped our insured pew ships, and then self-destructed them for the payout. Ending loot:

At Jita prices this comes in just under 900M. We had guessed at more, but that was at non-Jita prices, and I don't feel like babysitting orders in another market for a week until everything sells.

Not bad for a day worth of shooting a tower, checking up every few hours or so. I actually drove my sister to her college - 2.5 hours away - and back, while this was going on. Payout to Aruca as a finders' fee is 20%, or around 180M; Paul and I each pocket around 360M each.

Jerks will provide a similar 20% finders' fee for anyone who provides us information on offline POS towers in small/inactive corporations which lead to a POS takedown. In order to be worthwhile, the tower should have at least 500M worth of modules.

This entry was posted on August 13, 2010 at 1:30 AM by khalia and is filed under Capers.