Vactet
Immortalis Silens
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Posted - 2007.03.23 11:20:00 -
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From what I have heard, it costs about 20 million ISK worth of stuff to pop of a doomsday.
For large alliances... (Sorry BOB, going to use you as an example of large), thats nothing since they often have many hundreds of billions if not trillions (*Cough*).
Put it this way... 1 BS rat that is worth 1Mill ISK.
With a 10% corp tax, the corp gets 100K ISK. Figure the corp has...10 folks. Each pop a 1Mill ISK BS. Thats 1Mill to the corp.
Now we alllll know the large alliances have multiple thousands of folks and they arent ALWAYS fighting. More like...fight...rat/mine for isk to fight tomorow. Etc.
So...the isk of popping off a doomsday isnt a thing that will stop its use.
The main issue is # of titan pilots...TRUSTWORTHY titan pilots.
The alliance is going to let some random guy fly a titan that the alliance payed for.
Luckily, and somewhat sadly, most chars are in the 04 and older range. Unless they purely went for a titan..yeh, doubtful they will get it.
My character is a middle of 06 char, so 1 year old now. Just for giggles i checked, it would take roughly another 2/3 of a year to get fully trained for a titan (Clone Vat, DDD, Jump Bridge, booster (Jump Calib, etc) skills, etc).
So its the lacking # of titan able pilots that are..err..trustworthy in the eyes of the alliance.
Titans are not an I-Win button Tulakh, just an fyi. Theres 5 seconds between the start of the animation (The bright light) and your death. If you are in a quick warping ship then you can survive, or if you are aligned already.
As far as a personal opinion, all these titans being used means more titans lost. Think of the current war as the cold war in reality. Big weapon buildup that was not used so much and then...the war. What..so far..2 or 3 titans have been lost? (ASCN's, one that was a d2/razor i beleive, thought i heard of a 3rd.).
And catching a titan isnt hard. Yes they cant be scrammed, jammed, etc. But, get one suicidal dictor pilot and the problem is solved.
Just what i have heard/read. Feel free to correct
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 Originally by: CCP Sharkbait
we are screwed.
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