Mog Carns
Industrial Warlords
United Confederation of Corporations
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Posted - 2007.03.08 17:53:00 -
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You guys really need to make up your minds about what titans do and don't do. I mean, I know this is just a "why we failed" setup post for next month. However, it would be a lot more effective if it had a coherent message.
Every 60 minutes or so is fine. The main problem is fleet destroying blasts every 10 minutes. You can tank one blast with your BSs. The main problem is fleet destroying blasts every 20 minutes. You can tank 2 blasts with some BSs. The main problem is fleet destroying blasts every thirty minutes. You can tank them easy with Capital ships. The main problem is fleet destroying blasts every 60 minutes.
Small ships cannot tank it, meaning that newer players cannot play. Only super long term players can use capital ships can participate. Except that capital ships are vunerable to attack, as well. The best defense is another titan. The only things that can otherwise be used on the battlefield is that which you can afford to replace. Like T1 small ships. With T1 fittings. Which insurance will pay for. Like all the newbies have. You know, the guys that cannot play?
We could go on, but really, this is the crux of the issue.
Really, you have lived in the age of HACs, Command Ships, and high Tier or expensively fit Battleships, and though you face combat, your risk is low, for the noobs cannot touch you, only another vessel of a similar type can do so. This, as you have said many times, is right, and good, for you have spent a lot of isk on your vessel, and it should perform such.
Now, a bigger, badder, more elite version of yourselves have arrived. This time, right now, you are not part of the club. This makes you a very sad panda. However, it does not change the arguement. Their ship costs many, many times the cost of your own. That it does what it does is right, and good. It is a good thing to keep in mind when your pants are around your ankles and your being strapped to the barrel. It is right, and good.
So, your options are to join the club, which is hard, or join the noobs, and be as vunerable to them as they are to you.
It's not the end of EVE, the end of fleet combat, or the end of PvP altogether. Its just the end of the way things are right now. Find a way to adjust. Titans are not impossible to kill in combat. It just requires luck, a mistake, or better, a combination of the two, to kill one using current lazy tactics.
The warp scrambler has made you lazy, has convinced you that in every fight, the loser should die. Sometimes, you just have to trade shots and the losers get away. Eventually, someone will make a mistake, and the titan will be killed with guns blazing.
Now, you may return to your tinfoil hattery.
Clueless Noob |