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neferata zara
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Posted - 2006.09.04 19:14:00 -
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the true purpose of the titan would be for the future if they open up say 50 new star systems with no stations. the only way to do anything out there would be threw motherships. the point of the titan is to be a portable station but with the current galaxy you have no need for it since there are stations every few systems, there are few places, atleast that i've noticed, without a station of some sort atleast 5 or so jumps away to set up camp at.
The titan isn't a combat ship its a portable station. problem is there isn't a need for that yet ingame. The doomsday device is purely a defensive mechanizium, obviosuly it is great for offense as well but its the holy .... card when your titan in 0.0 gets caught with its pants down.
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Vathar
Elegance
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Posted - 2006.09.04 19:23:00 -
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Huhu, do you know what you're talking about neferata? _
Originally by: Stamm Minmatar are kind of like going down a flight of stairs on an office chair firing an uzi
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Daivasth
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Posted - 2006.09.05 00:00:00 -
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Edited by: Daivasth on 05/09/2006 00:00:25 Considering that most capital fleets don't consist of more than 30 dreads, it would be far more effective at this point in EVE's development to build 50 dreads with the money spent on a single titan. By this, I mean that unless you have 3 or more titan pilots "on call" near the titan at all times, RL issues will cripple its operation.
Can you imagine
"zomg 250 man blob fleet inc ETD 3 jumps get our titan's gang bonusses up and running and cyno the gate. bubba? you there? bubba?"
"yea, he's at the dentist atm, he'll be back in about 10 minutes."
"nerf RL!!!"
EDIT: grammer at a 3rd grade level and... Rising!
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Wrayeth
Omerta Syndicate
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Posted - 2006.09.05 00:14:00 -
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Edited by: Wrayeth on 05/09/2006 00:15:11 Frankly, I don't think there are any titans in game. If there were, someone would've used them by now, even if just for the "OMGWTFWASTHAT?!!!!" reaction to a fleet getting superweaponed (i.e. e-peen).
Motherships, on the other hand, are definitely in game...but no one uses them because they're too much of a loss and can't really do much that a carrier couldn't do cheaper (since clone vat bays are currently not available). In contrast, only the titan can use the superweapon and the jump portal generator.
EDIT: If anyone *does* have a titan, I challenge them to grow some balls and actually use it, ffs. -Wrayeth
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Patch Esquire
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Posted - 2006.09.05 00:17:00 -
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neferata, ever heard of, ya know, building your own station?
A player outpost costs, afaik, less than a titan, can't be destroyed (only captured) and can do pretty much all the same things. Titans = big fleet combat ship thats too big to be useful.
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Emeline Cabernet
Amarr KVA Noble Inc.
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Posted - 2006.09.05 01:24:00 -
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remote detonate the dd? has anyone tried this yet?
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Benjamin Olson
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Posted - 2006.09.05 01:41:00 -
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Originally by: Wrayeth
EDIT: If anyone *does* have a titan, I challenge them to grow some balls and actually use it, ffs.
Girls ftl
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Malthros Zenobia
Caldari Independent Navy Reserve Kimotoro Directive
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Posted - 2006.09.05 02:12:00 -
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Edited by: Malthros Zenobia on 05/09/2006 02:14:32
Originally by: neferata zara the true purpose of the titan would be for the future if they open up say 50 new star systems with no stations. the only way to do anything out there would be threw motherships. the point of the titan is to be a portable station but with the current galaxy you have no need for it since there are stations every few systems, there are few places, atleast that i've noticed, without a station of some sort atleast 5 or so jumps away to set up camp at.
The titan isn't a combat ship its a portable station. problem is there isn't a need for that yet ingame. The doomsday device is purely a defensive mechanizium, obviosuly it is great for offense as well but its the holy .... card when your titan in 0.0 gets caught with its pants down.
No, the titan is not a mobile station. The idea I posted several tmes would've made it a mobile station. Right now it's just a giant limited use smartbomb, and fleet-jumper. Probably a killer hauler too.
Comeon CCP, give it the deployment mod and make it able to self-anchor and 'morph' into a station. Right now Titans are a joke, altho the videos of their superweapons are pretty.
Sorry you can't afford a dev so you get me instead ^^ - Xorus I hear Xorus is only 50 isk an hour - Immy |
Ris Dnalor
Minmatar Khumatari Holdings Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2006.09.05 03:15:00 -
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Originally by: andoni cane i have heard about them but i dont see anything about them in any of the markets where are they?
b/c they can't dock & can't be built in stations, & therefore cannot be bought & sold on markets. same as motherships.
tralala
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Attak
Trioptimum Storm Armada
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Posted - 2006.09.05 05:19:00 -
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You will see titans when the 8 new regions open up, and it becomes a matter of massive logistics and system lockdowns to claim space. Until then, with lag what it is, I doubt there's much point in anyone using the few that exist/will exist before Kali.
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TheKiller8
Caldari S.A.S
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Posted - 2006.09.06 23:13:00 -
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Titan's are a joke in their current state and I very much doubt any are in the game right now. As said before you're much better off building a huge capital fleet than building a single titan.
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Chief Seattle
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Posted - 2006.09.07 02:23:00 -
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I thin they should be able to tank a bit and pop stations in a couple hits.... but thats just me. i thought someone had built a titan, and used it for mining, or that could have been a dread they were talking about. I would like to see a connection with the China server if the china gov. gets their mess they call communism sorted out. if we could have 2 different galaxies linked by about 50 or so stargates, and certain skill requirements and translators for all the crap, then yeah it would be real fun to go and tear some communists a new clone.... but this is obviously years of work for CCP. and the UN and possibly a whole new building of server backup crap to keep the lag beast away
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BoinKlasik
Eye of God Axiom Empire
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Posted - 2006.09.07 06:00:00 -
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Edited by: BoinKlasik on 07/09/2006 06:01:08 edit: i think i forgot to read 2 pages.
*doh, I broke my edited sig :/* *cries* this signature was lacking pink, I'll provide it for you. There. Looks better doesn't it? -Eris Fixed it for you. Oh, btw, yarr! ~kieron Didn't I tell you? The damsel moved in with me, we're having a great time. - Wrangler The damsel may not be distressed any more, but how many times does the informant have to be silenced before he gets the message? - Cortes
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Mothmar Friedsquid
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Posted - 2006.09.07 06:15:00 -
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Edited by: Mothmar Friedsquid on 07/09/2006 06:15:42
Originally by: Vathar I heard about "massive firepower" and "titans" in the same phrase ... Well, once per hour, a titan HAS massive firepower in the form of its doomsday weapon, but apart from this, its damage potential can be more or less be neglected (8 hislots - DD, Clonebay, Portal, possibly gang modules ...)
Um....
I'm not sure about this, but it looks to me like you could, were Titans not specifically limited otherwise, fit, say, 4 or 5 doomsday devices to a single titan.
Crushing Victory FTW.
Of course, even without this, if the titan sits in the shield bubble of a station, and docks and switches between DD. Devices, a single player could defend a station against any number of aggressors, as long as the station's shields could hold out for a few minutes while he cycled through ten doomsday devices. I mean, there's a LOT of firepower in there.
And thanks for the welcome. Yes, I was a good shipmonkey in SWG. It was occasionally said that I was quite close to as good as possible, and I'd like to believe that.
Mothmar Friedsquid. Because SWG sucked and EVE doesn't require my entire life.
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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises Otherworld Empire
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Posted - 2006.09.07 09:24:00 -
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Avatar mining 4tw!
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Befounder
202INC
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Posted - 2006.09.07 09:36:00 -
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Originally by: Mothmar Friedsquid
The dude that scammed everyone has approximately four times what it would cost to build one.
ya know, when you said the scammer has '4' times the money to build a titan, and someone else said ASCN is rumoured to have 3, scammers wealth doesnt seem so much :P there is no worse death than the end of hope |
Markttrulle
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Posted - 2006.09.07 17:53:00 -
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I think the question "who has a Titan?" is largely irrelevant at the moment, because game mechanics prevent them from being used effectively. So at the moment, as long as nothing changes, it would be rather a disadvantage to have one because of the isk sunk into it that are being bound in it and not doing anything useful. However, with the building times of these tings, and the problems to keep the location of the shipyard secure, it might be a worthwhile investment in case they get changed by ccp (which would need to happen, because with the ever increasing numbers in cap ships we see in fleets Titans become more vulnerable with each passing day). So at the moment it probably is a kind of blind guessing/gambling game, with no big alliance wanting to tell the others 1) how many resources it has sunk into something that's not really useful at the moment, weakening themselves and 2) how large their investment for the future really is, keeping their future strength a secret in case they ever become useful.
That being said, it's really a shame noone uses one currently. I vote for ccp giving one to The Establishment under the condition they have to use it like that Nxy
And no, I'm not one of their alts or affiliated with them in any way, I just think guts should have better rewards than hiding whats valuable.
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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari Worms Corp
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Posted - 2006.09.07 17:59:00 -
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i think the trouble is that you are trying to see the Titan like a US aircraft carrier, where there are many and they manage a battlegroup.
titans are more of a flagship, in this case they would be the flagship of a corperation.
if only the combat system of EVE allowed for a true "Carrier battle group"
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