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Ambrose
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Posted - 2005.12.08 04:25:00 -
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Just heard from someone in the "know" that Titan BPO's were priced so high becuase CCP plans on yanking all the orders after the first one is sold for each race... After which point you'll need to acquire one by taking it from someone.
The reasoning is that Titans OUGHT to be rare and to get people fighting over the very plans.
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Kollgorholl
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Posted - 2005.12.08 04:34:00 -
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surely not, i would of thought the combined cost of the blueprint, materials and skills required along with the amount of time needed to train for one of those monsters would have been enough to keep demand down. Plus if they only allowed one BPO of each of the Titans in game you could effectively eradicate titans from the game by getting hold of the Titan BPO and selecting 'trash item'.
Whilst it is not very likely that someone would do this it is possible that they could, and in one go all the work that has gone into putting titans in game will go out the window.
Also, you need to realise that even if Titans were cheap we wouldn't ever be seeing fleets of these things, considering how much it would cost to run one and the constant supply of minerals you would need for thousands of people to be moving titans all over the eve cluster.
In my humble opinion either you or the person you know who's "in the know" is being ridiculous. Sorry, just my opinion. Bye.
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Branmuffin
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Posted - 2005.12.08 04:37:00 -
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Actually I think it might be like TII where if they were doing this and someone trashed a titan BPO or that account was deleted they would put that titan back up for sale until someone bought it.
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Kollgorholl
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Posted - 2005.12.08 05:01:00 -
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fair point, so here's my new plan, there's only one Gallente Titan BPO in the whole game, so i'm gonna get it, give it to one of my alts in a noob corp, dock in Duripant and that BPO will never see the light of day again. I have single handedly eradicated the Gallente Titan from the face of eve.
Now lets be serious, i'm not rich enough to do that but with only one Gallente Titan BPO in the whole universe it could very well be done by someone.
Alternatively, lets say the Gallente Titan BPO goes on sale like any other tech I BPO and there are thousands of them available across Gallente space. then suddenly over the course of a single dt all of them dissapear. Yes i can really see that being factored into the storyline of eve.
On the other hand let's just wait till Titan BPO's come out. hey if you're part of a big alliance, heres the plan, buy all 4 BPO as soon as they are released and there you go, every titan in the universe is yours, as many of them as you can build, oh and take your time building them, there's no rush cause no-one else will ever have one, and until you've built one of every races, no-one will even know that it's you that has the BPOs unless the sale of every capital ship part in the universe that isn't being manufactured by your alliance is being meticulously tracked. even then, they could tear your space up, just keep the BPO's in empire in a station till the rest of eve gets bored.
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Ambrose
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Posted - 2005.12.08 05:05:00 -
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Plan seems to be to use Titans not as content themselves, but as content creation.
IE they will cause deep levels of acrimony and conflict via there existence. In your theoretical example of the alliance buying all four BPO's, that alliance would become target # 1 to just about everyone else in the game.
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Kollgorholl
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Posted - 2005.12.08 05:15:00 -
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Edited by: Kollgorholl on 08/12/2005 05:14:59
That's a seriously flawed plan, if this hypothetical alliance has all 4 BPO's then how is everyone going to know that they have all 4 BPO's until the BPO's have already been used at which point they will already have a huge advantage over every other alliance in game.
On the other hand if they're going to become target #1 then they should just bury the BPO's in the vault of some alts hangar in empire. Because if they ever build a titan they're target #1 and if they ever give away the BPO's to other alliances in order to direct attention away from themselves they'll be giving away technology that they have complete control over and that could effectively be used against them
A dev should really comment on this because if it's true (which i strongly believe it is not) then it's a bloody ridiculous idea.
On the other hand it does stop every tom **** and harry from getting a Titan because, as you're all aware, characters who have the skills to fly a Titan and 40 billion isk laying around are a dime a dozen in the eve cluster. I'm sure you all have the same problem as me, i'm running out of places to store all my faction battleships and dreadnaughts. (sarcasm)
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Dust Angel
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Posted - 2005.12.08 05:16:00 -
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 Originally by: Ambrose
Just heard from someone in the "know" that Titan BPO's were priced so high becuase CCP plans on yanking all the orders after the first one is sold for each race... After which point you'll need to acquire one by taking it from someone.
The reasoning is that Titans OUGHT to be rare and to get people fighting over the very plans.
75 billion is pocketchange.
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Randay
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Posted - 2005.12.08 05:28:00 -
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I just heard from someones girlfriends sisters mamas daughters cousins friends boyfriends fathers uncles grandmas friend that "no.".
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Jessica Fletcher
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Posted - 2005.12.08 05:31:00 -
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Originally by: Randay
I just heard from someones girlfriends sisters mamas daughters cousins friends boyfriends fathers uncles grandmas friend that "no.".
lol, sorry ambrose, i think this thread is gonna need something more substantial than a rumour from someone in the "know"  .
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Noriath
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Posted - 2005.12.08 05:32:00 -
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Since Titans cannot dock in a station or leave space ever it is acctually not that far fetched to have a limited number... But yea, they are so expensive that limits on their production will impose themselves all on their own...
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Calenth
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Posted - 2005.12.08 06:07:00 -
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They'll be self-limiting; whoever builds the first one will make sure all the other capital shipyards never get built.
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Malthros Zenobia
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Posted - 2005.12.08 06:09:00 -
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Originally by: Kollgorholl
fair point, so here's my new plan, there's only one Gallente Titan BPO in the whole game, so i'm gonna get it, give it to one of my alts in a noob corp, dock in Duripant and that BPO will never see the light of day again. I have single handedly eradicated the Gallente Titan from the face of eve.
Are you insane? You give that BPO to your alt, who has been training research skills for the past several months. You then make a 1 run BPC of the titan BPO. Several months later, you sell it for an ungodly high price, as you are the only source of that titan's Blueprint. You make 50bil or so off an auction, and then several months later you do it again...
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Harry Voyager
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Posted - 2005.12.08 06:41:00 -
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Originally by: Kollgorholl
surely not, i would of thought the combined cost of the blueprint, materials and skills required along with the amount of time needed to train for one of those monsters would have been enough to keep demand down. Plus if they only allowed one BPO of each of the Titans in game you could effectively eradicate titans from the game by getting hold of the Titan BPO and selecting 'trash item'.
Whilst it is not very likely that someone would do this it is possible that they could, and in one go all the work that has gone into putting titans in game will go out the window.
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This is actually a highly likely scenario, given Eve's past. Every single one-off ship has been destroyed or driven from operation.
If there is a single BPO in existance for each race's Titan, then it will be destroyed. Either by deliberate sabotage, or by neglect, it will be destroyed, and unless CCP was willing to seed more, it would drive Titans from the game entirely.
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Raem Civrie
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Posted - 2005.12.08 06:41:00 -
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Might as well release it through the LOTTERY.
Titans will be rare. They take 6-8 weeks to make. SIX TO EIGHT WEEKS. And you need a PoS array to make them. So that's 6-8 weeks defending a single PoS. If someone puts that PoS into reinforced mode, ALL MINERALS AND PROGRESS WILL BE LOST.
They will be rare.
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Noriath
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Posted - 2005.12.08 07:55:00 -
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Uh wow, guess you need some skunkwork POS to build those suckers then... I mean if nobody knows where its being built...
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Gierling
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Posted - 2005.12.08 08:06:00 -
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Actually that sounds like something that I could really get behind if it also included the blueprints disappearing after making one item, and having the resulting four titans being Indestructable but conquerable (IE knock down the shield and the pod gets booted out).
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Kipkruide
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Posted - 2005.12.08 09:21:00 -
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ooh look and alt troll. ROFL.. the fact your are discussing the matter only point to your own questionably intelligence. 
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Roba
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Posted - 2005.12.08 09:25:00 -
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LOL? why? the mineral reqs are more then the stupid bpo. around 50 billion to build it after yo get the 18 billion isk bpo.
You could throw an allaince into civil war just discussing who you trust enough to piolt the damn thing.
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Ortu Konsinni
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Posted - 2005.12.08 09:48:00 -
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Originally by: Roba
LOL? why? the mineral reqs are more then the stupid bpo. around 50 billion to build it after yo get the 18 billion isk bpo.
Titan BPOs cost ~75 billions, not 18.
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