POS. The economy must be economical

Depending on the size, POS spent fuel blocks (per hour):

Big	40
Medium	20
Small	10

And if it is set in highsec, it also spent 1 license per hour. Maybe it is possible to do a little lower fuel consumption when using fractional POS but it will cost much more expensive. And provokes “bad guys” wanting to profit.

Further calculations are tied to current prices, so make these yourself for your POS.

Fuel block for the Caldari Tower worth 14,200 isk. I prefer Caldari, because it is more suited to me on the parameters (CPU and PowerGrid). If these parameters are not critical to you, it is best to focus on the prices of fuel blocks in your area. Which is cheaper and closer, that tower you should take. Because pull 40 * 24 * 30 = 28800 units for a large tower every month from Jita you quickly get bored. Especially when you consider the size of one block of 5 m3, it will have 144,000 m3 - think how many flights do you need on transporter that you can drive. Though of course if you drive freighter and POS stands three jumps from Jita ... well, then it doesn’t matter.

Through  my wormhole can’t pass  even Mastodon and I need 5 flights through the hole and before it, i have to drag all by freighter from Jita to the system where the hole is right now. What will happen when I live in WH c5 downright terrifying.

Well, okay, it's the lyrics ... omit the calculations, we obtain monthly expenses:

Big	422КК
Medium	211КК
Small	105КК

The numbers I'm naturally a little rounded, it does not matter. But the price of the units varies and they can easily grow by 50 percent. And even higher. Against this background, the price of licenses is simply lost, it can not even be considered. That doesn’t mean that you can easily put a POS in highsec - you must have enough standings for it.

Cost of Strontium Clathrates I don’t calculate because usually it is one-time costs. If your POS is regularly driven into reinforced mode, it might be worth to find a quieter place?

So big POS will cost us about 400- 600KK per month. 15-20KK per day, regardless of whether or not you are playing. And then it has to pay back that amount.

How can we earn with POS?

• production lines
• processing
• research laboratories
• laboratory for the production of drugs
• reactors
• extraction of minerals from the moon

Some options are not possible in highsec. Some also aren’t possible in wormholes. Another way - your other activities should bring you an income sufficient to justify the use of your base. Especially in this case, you would in most cases be enough, even the smallest POS. Plexrunners actually needed POS only to change fit and keep loot - for lack of a nearby station agentruners do not need it at all, because there are enough stations in the empire.