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Xantia Blade
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Posted - 2005.04.07 20:38:00 -
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Edited by: Xantia Blade on 07/04/2005 20:38:22
TITAN
OMG that Titan is HUGE!!! Look at all the little battleships around it like flies!!
This is from todays little test where a dev asked people to shoot at him to test lag stuff. There was about 50 ships and 100 drones swarming him.
I'll prolly never be rich enough to buy one but just a few questions!
1. Will Titans be available on NPC markets or will one lucky dude become EVEs richest player with a Titan BPO?
2. What skills are needed?
3. Can they dock or will players dock at them? It looks half the size of the station!
Woot im excited! 
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DigitalCommunist
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Posted - 2005.04.07 20:42:00 -
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Posted - 2005.04.07 20:42:00 -
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Actualy its quite small...
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Wrangler
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Posted - 2005.04.07 20:42:00 -
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Thats why its called titan, cause its big. 
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fairimear
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Posted - 2005.04.07 20:43:00 -
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thats a really bad perspective. that titan is 3 years old and is about double to triple the size of a megathron.
was mentioned that that titan will probably not be anything like what hits tq eventualy during that fight.
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Omniwar
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Posted - 2005.04.07 20:44:00 -
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hmmm, did u ever think that camera is maybe CLOSER to titan then to the BSs.
But if u read dev blogs maybe u should get answear to your question #1.
1. Will Titans be available on NPC markets or will one lucky dude become EVEs richest player with a Titan BPO?
hmmm, titans dont fit into stations, therefor it can't be build in one. Titans will prolly come into game "uncloacked" from the heart of space...who knows ? 
2. What skills are needed?
BS 5 and Jump Drive 5 ATLEAST !!! lots and lots more I think.
3. Can they dock or will players dock at them? It looks half the size of the station!
No, they can't dock, and yea, I heard somewhere that they have "cargo hold" so that ships can stay there, and then get out when threat rises....
BTW: This is what I have heard, not what I know !!!
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Gierling
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Posted - 2005.04.07 20:50:00 -
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They will need to be constructed by the players, probably with special and expensive facilities.
I've heard the numbers bandied about indicating the Devs are looking to make the Cost in excess of a trillion isk and build time in excess of 3 months.
They want to keep the numbers of titans in player hands in the single digits, and they want to make it so that building a Titan is an arduaous and labor intensive affair which requires enormous assetts and becomes focal in military campaigns.
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Analog Communist
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Posted - 2005.04.07 20:54:00 -
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Finally! A ship fitting, in size at least, for Minmater superiority! Every Minmater knows the obligation of carrying something large between their legs with which to pleas....er, nevermind. Just tell us when they might hit TQ? :)
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Xantia Blade
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Posted - 2005.04.07 20:57:00 -
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 Originally by: Gierling
They will need to be constructed by the players, probably with special and expensive facilities.
I've heard the numbers bandied about indicating the Devs are looking to make the Cost in excess of a trillion isk and build time in excess of 3 months.
They want to keep the numbers of titans in player hands in the single digits, and they want to make it so that building a Titan is an arduaous and labor intensive affair which requires enormous assetts and becomes focal in military campaigns.
Maybe a special drydock pos structure will need to be bought to construct and store one? I think it would be good if they take at least a couple of months to gradually build. Maybe they should be something many corps or one alliance have to invest heavily in to get.
Don't wanna see every noob and his friend in one bumping into people at Yulai gate
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Tobiaz
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Posted - 2005.04.07 21:35:00 -
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It also comes with the optional "OMGH4X1W1N" button.
Well at least TomB's does...
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Famine Aligher'ri
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Posted - 2005.04.07 22:06:00 -
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Yep, I need to buy one to make up for something else...
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slagh
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Posted - 2005.04.07 22:21:00 -
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I found it disappointingly small, lets just hope they make it bigger, and fix that armor leak. that thing blew with still 10% left of it's what, 5M armor hitpoints.
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Lig Lira
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Posted - 2005.04.07 23:27:00 -
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Oveurs titan can dock, but when it undocks he gets bumped 150km away 
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Zdragva
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Posted - 2005.04.08 00:34:00 -
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man whats the 'Pride of Hiigara' doing in a screenshot with Apocs and Megathrons? 
Anyone else notice that 'slight' resemblance?
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Dargon Starjammer
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Posted - 2005.04.08 00:49:00 -
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Edited by: Dargon Starjammer on 08/04/2005 00:50:37
i belive a they made a mention that titans can dock because stations arn't nearly the size there suposted to be plus how else are you going to fit them? by rules you can't fit unless in a station. (unless the devs have a special comand for it).
also it whont be that expensive or that long mabe a few days to build and anywere from 500 million - 2 billion to purchase build.
I recall that CCP originaly meant for Battle Ships to be in the single digits as well. but now just about anyone who sas the money or free time can get a Battle Ship. so i think it whont take more then 5 months for them to start being mass produced.
besides titans don't have that much higher stats then a BS from what ive seen. sure they have alot more but yet they don't. plus think an alliance is going to take a realy big hit if they build one (if they have super costs and time to build)and an even bigger hit if it gets destroyed or even damaged in armor.
I bet it will just have an outragouse skill requirment to fly one.
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Mr Crowley
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Posted - 2005.04.08 05:09:00 -
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Originally by: Analog Communist
Finally! A ship fitting, in size at least, for Minmater superiority! Every Minmater knows the obligation of carrying something large between their legs with which to pleas....er, nevermind. Just tell us when they might hit TQ? :)
Yes, thank god for jock straps
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TheNecromancer
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Posted - 2005.04.08 05:37:00 -
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I would like to add also..I think its very small :(
I was hoping for somethink like 10x of that size.
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Kydor
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Posted - 2005.04.08 06:38:00 -
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beutiful so yet again us little guys get hit again, we will never get to fly titans, omg buhu for me, but still, devs seem to love the rich guys so hey lets throw em a party to celebrate there only chances of getting titans, get what i'm saying devs?
psst, "older players deserve 1 as reward for lining your pockets for 3 years"
get it now?
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Typherin laidai
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Posted - 2005.04.08 06:51:00 -
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Actually Kydor do you really think it would be fair to just make them accessable to say a 2 month old n00b ?
And ffs their not even out yet and your allready moaning. The older players in the game as you put it HAVE payed a lot more money into the game. As ive said before the real old players (beta players etc) have also put a lot of time and effort into the game and made it what it is today 
And their not 'Unaccessable' anyway ... just make yourself some isk ffs. these things arent going to be out for months.
Oh and in ye old cs talk ...
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sutty
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Posted - 2005.04.08 07:12:00 -
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3 years ? you was paying for beta unlucky for you I guess 
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Monty Burns
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Posted - 2005.04.08 07:30:00 -
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Dont think any whinging is justified really, the only thing these probably have in common with the final product we will get to fly is the name, "Titan".
And yes, atm they can dock/undock stations, at least at the fanfest it did!
Enjoy and be lucky!
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Noriath
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Posted - 2005.04.08 09:30:00 -
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That's because titans are not acctually implemented, they are just "normal" ships with extreme stats and a gigantic model...
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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2005.04.08 09:43:00 -
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1. Will Titans be available on NPC markets or will one lucky dude become EVEs richest player with a Titan BPO?
According to the dev chat they are tech I ships, so it should be possible to get a bpo on the npc market.
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Discorporation
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Posted - 2005.04.08 09:45:00 -
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Originally by: Scorpyn
1. Will Titans be available on NPC markets or will one lucky dude become EVEs richest player with a Titan BPO?
According to the dev chat they are tech I ships, so it should be possible to get a bpo on the npc market.
A Titan BPO should NEVER be sold on the open market.
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Omniwar
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Posted - 2005.04.08 09:48:00 -
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Originally by: Gierling
I've heard the numbers bandied about indicating the Devs are looking to make the Cost in excess of a trillion isk and build time in excess of 3 months.
What have u been smoking dude, trillion = 1000 billions right ? = 1,000,000,000,000?
tnhat would mean that cost of titan is 10000 times BS.
But still only three times the size ? 
Sorry if trillin = billion or something, I dont know this crappy system that well.
But if trillion = 1000 billion there is no chance in hell titans will cost that.
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Juniper
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Posted - 2005.04.08 09:59:00 -
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Originally by: Omniwar
Originally by: Gierling
I've heard the numbers bandied about indicating the Devs are looking to make the Cost in excess of a trillion isk and build time in excess of 3 months.
What have u been smoking dude, trillion = 1000 billions right ? = 1,000,000,000,000?
tnhat would mean that cost of titan is 10000 times BS.
But still only three times the size ?
Sorry if trillin = billion or something, I dont know this crappy system that well.
But if trillion = 1000 billion there is no chance in hell titans will cost that.
Surely it's not a question of how big the Titan actually looks on screen that matters, but what you can do with it that counts. Having a ship that you can dock other ships in and carry them around makes it worth any amount of isk to some players.
As every good girl knows, size isn't the most important thing
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Noriath
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Posted - 2005.04.08 10:10:00 -
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Edited by: Noriath on 08/04/2005 10:14:25
Edited by: Noriath on 08/04/2005 10:12:30
According to the Eve background in order to build a titan the minerals of an entire moon have to be mined, and the process takes several years.
So what I'm thinking is this: Building a titan should not be very costly at all, but extremly dangerous.
As we all know you can only mine moons in lowsec and 0.0, so order to build a titan you have to mine the moon there.
Also Titans cannot be built in stations, so they have to be manufactured in space. This means a titan being built is basicly like a POS.
Building a titan takes extremly long. A Month maybe...
Well, now you add up the factors. 0.0 Space, One Month...
And there we go: Titans are not costly at all, but still can only be built by large alliances that can defend the building site long enough for the titan to finish...
Oh, and... Before you tell me that is really unfair please consider that even the Amarr empire only owns 2 Titans currently, so it should NOT be posssible for any schmo with a few ISK to much to get in a titan.
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Zeromancer
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Posted - 2005.04.08 10:18:00 -
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Edited by: Zeromancer on 08/04/2005 10:18:53
Well this Titan you saw on the testserver is not the one that eventually will come to TQ.
Oveur said this on the test.
Admiral Thvottagrind > this titan has no actual resemblance to what hits TQ
So i guess we have to wait.
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Mr Crowley
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Posted - 2005.04.08 12:41:00 -
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Originally by: Kydor
beutiful so yet again us little guys get hit again, we will never get to fly titans, omg buhu for me, but still, devs seem to love the rich guys so hey lets throw em a party to celebrate there only chances of getting titans, get what i'm saying devs?
psst, "older players deserve 1 as reward for lining your pockets for 3 years"
get it now?
I remember hearing the same thing when the BS was released. Would be nice to have somthing UBER in this game, so long as the gankers cant have one, because if they can they all will have one. Then we all might as well never leave the stations.
The costs posted earlier "trillions", comon, like 150billion would be hard enough to obtain. (especially when you build it as soon as people know about it you will either be a GOD or the number one target by PvPers) Three months is cool though. Its as big as a small station, hope it works like one and has facilitys like clones, repair shops, and a market would be cool to.
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Fester Addams
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Posted - 2005.04.08 13:05:00 -
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Edited by: Fester Addams on 08/04/2005 13:49:59
I think it would be really funny if titans were to be built from not only 1 BP but rather a whole host of them, say one for the engine, one for the hull, one for the weaponms array, one for the thrusters...
Each BP aquired is a 1 run BPC (that way there will never be all that many titans) and can be built in a station.
All the pieces must then be hauled out into space and assembled near a moon or planet and in the right order, ie first you have to anchor the hull in space, next each part of the titan has to be fitted into the hull.
In order to make it interesting this fitting process can take quite alot of time.
There are quite a few other ways to make this process interesting such as having all parts only prefabricated in the factory and thus you have to use remote repairers, shield transferers, cap transferers and so on to bring it online.
But the real amusing thing would be if the Titan was a multiplayer ship.
Sayn the smallets titan size would need 2 players to operate as intended, say a pilot and an engineer position, each with high, med and low slots, the cap would be shared in order to make it important to comunicate :)
Multiplayer ships is such an amusing Idea that Im going to write a post on the idea forum on it, will soon edit with link to that post.
EDIT:
Link to Idea forum.
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