Captain Torgo
The Geedunk Expedition
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Posted - 2012.02.15 16:36:00 -
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ElQuirko wrote:As you've said, titans themselves are fine as they are.
Why not, instead of nerfing damage or tank, nerf availability? A titan is a very desirable ship, as shown by the massive numbers of them brought to the battlefield. Currently, big alliances can press the "I win" button and drop fourty titans onto a battlefield, winning instantly.
Why not make it so the cost of those fourty titans can only build one titan? Delete 99 in every 100 titans, compensate the current owners with the material cost of the titans at that time and stash the fittings in Jita 4-4. After this, make titans 40x (or even 100 if you're feeling Shari'ah-ic) more costly to build.
Problem solved.
*Dusts off hands and walks away* Unfortunately you dusted your hands and waked away with the problem unsolved.
I fully agree that increasing the build costs dramatically will help solve the cap problem, forcefully removing titans will only cause problems. Who's do we delete and who do we allow to keep theirs? Some alliances only have one whereas others have 40+ to toss around. The forced removal will dramatically shift power and players will cry foul and CCP favoritism.
CCP needs to address the real problem with caps. In small numbers, they're reasonably balanced. However with large cap blobs they're severely overpowered with no counter.
So, why are there so many caps on the field? Simple, EvE has an overabundance of minerals? Where did the massive quantities of minerals come from? They came from the rampant and unchecked botter infestation mining 23/7/365. The botting infestation that CCP is neglecting again.
If the material cost for cap production was dramatically increased, then the cap blob warfare would eventually thin out over time due to insufficient materials and/or cost. However since bots are pumping in minerals at an alarming rate, alliances can easily afford to pump out caps at equally alarming rates.
TL;DR summary - deal with the bots and dramatically increase cap ship production costs. Then the problem will sort itself out on its own over time.
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