Vathar
Destructive Influence
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2008.03.14 15:23:00 -
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Problem does not lie within titan/cynojammer/sovereignty or even lag.
Problem lies within game fundamentals.
If you have access to ships reasonably powerful, the playerbase will try to have as many as possible.
I guess what devs and most players would like to see are fleets like in various trailers, with a titan acting as a centerpiece, a few mommys around, a bunch of carrier and then assorted subcapitals.
Yup, for a while we had fleets like this, when there were less than 5 titans in the entire game, and let's say 15 moms.
Now if you want some limited RL analogy, there's a limit to military growth, tied to manpower, public relations, budget, maintenance costs ...
These factors mean nothing in this game.
- Manpower? 1 pod pilot=1 ship, be it a rifter or a ragnarok, crews don't exist in game and the Eve universe does not really put any value on non-capsuleer life.
- Public relations? In Eve, there is only war, every item produced in this game is either designed for combat or to help create more combat geared equipment. even non fighting careers lead to mining/researching/building weapons in one form or another. Public opinion cannot object to a superpower building the stronges possible armada, there's simply nothing else to build.
- budget? It's been said over an over, the playerbase is just too rich to care about this. period.
- Maintenance cost. Once built, a ship costs nothing to operate (apart from ammo/fuel costs). Yeah, I know the fuel bill on an active Titan is scary, but once again, compared to the wealth of alliances, it is not that much. In "peace" times (i.e when titans aren't operating 24/7 and using their bridges/doomsdays) having a Titan in space does not cost more than having a rookie ship.
So yup, there is no factor to limit the proliferation of Titans.
If they're useful, those who can afford them will build them.
 Originally by: Radeberger
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