Beowulf Scheafer
Gallente
Hell Hounds
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Posted - 2007.05.04 01:05:00 -
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Edited by: Beowulf Scheafer on 04/05/2007 01:12:12
even tho i have not died yet to a DD, i think the DD is a problem. unfortunately one that is not easy solved.
of course it is annyoing to spend hours or even days to set up a fleet and then get
blasted in seconds (minutes because of lag???), but tbh i don't think this was beeing made to disencourage people to blob.
creating a ship only killable in vast amounts of smaller ships for preventing vast amounts of ships beeing formed up just sounds stupid, and i don't think this was the intention of CCP on a titan.
but, as it is, a titan is the largest form of artillery this game has, mainly because of the ability to launch it via cyno in another grid the titan itself is not in. of course the riskvsreward system has to give a 100bil+ ship a huge advantage over others, but i don't see the point taking the risk nearly completly off.
now people mentioned the DD is just too overpowered and should be removed. to all you guys: this is definately not an option! no other ship has that high pre-requirements, both skill- and isk-wise. as a titan has no option to use a siegemode or something like that, its offensive capabilities are comparativly weak, especially considering thoose high prerequirements. so taking out the dd will just take the role of a titan off, making in more or less useless. now you could mention that it still can move fleets around, and thats basically right.
but tell a titan pilot he has trained months, maybe year(s), just for beeing the mobile busstation for his m8's...
on the other hand, there are alliances just not able to have a titan, maybe because of the lack for pilots, or for not having such a large infrastructure to build and maintain one. for thoose (like we are) a trespassing titan is something that is just not handable. again, for sure there has to be an advantage spending all that money and time.
i have read it here before, and i personally think it is a reasonable solution, i would say to leave titans as they are, just take the hugest of the huge the option to be a strategic artillery, means force a titan to show up itself when it wants to blast a fleet off. by that the large alliances have to concider IF they use a DD, or if the risk of loosing the titan is just to large for not knowing where the other half of the foreign fleet is (forcing people to spread the large blob in at least 2 smaller ones is a positive side-effect of this in my oppinion).
it will still be a hard task to kill such a behemoth, but ways easier than tracking a titan down that jumps in a ss-position, give everybody a run for their live, and just jump back out.
but then again only my 2 cents...
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