POS Bashing...

No, it's not what some people might think... I am going to bash POS stuff verbally (or should that be 'typally'? ;), not literally, not with guns, missiles, or whatever else you might think of...

Oh my goodness, I can see why people just leave their POSs behind when deciding they've had enough. I can see why they might say to themselves, 'Ahh, just a half billion dollar loss to leave it behind.' it's a right pain in the hinder to move everything, and we only moved it one jump away. And to have two different corps trying to do so? All I can say about that is 'Thank goodness we didn't have the guns online yet...' *shakes head*

The time spent working out who is going to do what, then discovering, 'Darn, that character doesn't have anchoring to 3 yet, can't anchor the warp disruption array yet' (but now that I think about it, thank goodness that character didn't have it, remember those issues regarding two different corporations trying to work on the new (and old) POS?? probably would have had more than just the one ship loss as the old POS still had its guns online)...

And just the time spent on offlining, unanchoring (crap, gotta go empty that medium gun array, lets go 60m/second alllllll the way up to the top of the force field) and finally scooping it up to the cargo hold. Then the next day, deciding to take a few more things down, offline them, unanchor (crap, you guessed it, repeat yesterdays mistake go all the way up top, but this time I make Min help me with that speedy little ship of his down below and I remember to bookmark one of the guns and simply warp out warp back in!!! Who says women can't drive...;), and finally scoop it up.

Then in comes time to finally offline the old tower. Crap, we don't have enough room to store all the fuel still left in the tower, too much for even jettisoned cargo container, so after discovering there is more than Min's ship will hold, two containers will hold, off I go to get my hauler. Whew, that disaster averted.

Time to unanchor it... Min is smart, Min remembers to go put out some core scanners and see if any new signatures have popped up. well.. loe and behold, but a new siggie popped up. The most evil of all siggies if you don't want it, that's right, an exit (entrance?) to HIGH SEC space... *wilts* It was already late, we were ready for a bowl of popcorn and a good movie, so now we have to go fiddle with the ships put away (keep in mind the logistics of working different ships in a POS with two different corps) and get out our WH killas of doom. Then we weren't able to safely destroy the high sec entrance, but at least we managed to disable it enough so pilots with a working half a brain would leave it alone. Then I'm on one entrance, Leilani on the other and Min unanchoring the old tower... Min tells me watch the monitors, I tell him, "Oh crap, we're gonna die..." but, as you can see, I am typing, Min is typing, we survived!!!

But next time? I'm not so sure we're gonna go through all those hassles, but we did learn alot.. so maybe I haven't learned my lesson/s. I'll let you know...