Perversonality
Perverse Inc.
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Posted - 2007.02.20 15:57:00 -
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I dont actually have a specific problem with DD's - I do, however, question whether or not Titans should be in-game at all...
No doubt they are sexy looking beasts, and ofc I would love to have one someday. I've not been involved in any battles with them yet, and the way I play the game means I am not likely to any time soon. My opinion is based on the Battle Reports I read virtually every day in the Corp / Alliance forums, all of which seem to feature the words "Lag" "Node Crash" and "Exploit" more than any other.
There has been quite a lot of talk lately about fleets fielding "too many ships for the nodes to handle", causing lag and/or node crashes. The word "Exploit" has even been banded about - Apparently its cheating to bring a fleet of 400 BS's to take on a Titan because it upsets the servers. Exploit or otherwise, you'll quite often hear about people dying to DD's because the lag was so bad that they were unable to warp away.
So is anyone else thinking that this game shouldn't feature things like Titans which can ONLY die in open play by the opponent fielding "too many" ships?
The counter argument might be "field your own capital fleet / Titan / whatever" - But why? Are you really suggestion that the VAST majority of players who dont have the SP's or ISK to field those kind of ships should be utterly excluded from this part of the game? Or maybe you think that all the n00bs with *only* 20million SP's should stay in Empire and mine Veldspar all day?
Well, if thats the case, then remove all stargates from 0.0, and make it only accessible via cynos. Then it can be the big Capital party for all the rich veterans that some people seem to think it should be. That should reduce the load a little. 
Otherwise, what we are basically saying is that we expect the rest of the subscribed EVE population to voluntarily keep their BS's, HACs, CS's etc. out of the way for the sake of the servers. Nonsense.
Titans, and the epic scale battles they encourage should not have been introduced until the servers were capable of sustaining them.
IMHO, ofc 
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