Rysith
Scrutari
The Cyrene Initiative
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Posted - 2008.03.31 20:26:00 -
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 Originally by: Malachon Draco
What I would do with titans:
Give them 8 highslots with turrets/launchers.
- 600%-1000% damage bonus to capital weapons, no tracking penalty (like the dreadnaught siege bonus)
- Tweak cap regen so they can run 3 reppers indefinitely when properly equipped with officermods, and give them the dreadnaught siege bonus. They should have a form of siegemode where they do burn a lot of fuel, but are not immobilized like dreads.
- Give them 3m m3 cargobay
- Give them 50m m3 ship hangar array
- Let them field up to 25 fighters/drones at the same time with a bay that can hold 500 fighters.
- Give them double the bonuses of the racial fleet command ship in terms of warfare links.
- Remove DD.
That would be a titan that can support an invasion all by itself. It would have the best defences of any capital ship. It would be able to do serious damage to enemy capitals and still defend itself against BS as well due to the lack of tracking penalty. It would be a beast to take down and a big bonus to any fleet to have around. But it would be much more acceptable than anything with a DD.
Similar to what I would suggest (admittedly with no titan experience whatsoever. However, I would make three changes to what you suggested:
1) No local tank bonus/cap regen for three reppers. Instead, give a bonus to damage repaired from remote reppers, so that a carrier remote repping a titan repairs more than the same carrier remote repping a battleship.
2) Rather than removing the DD, change it to a single-target massive damage weapon. Enough firepower to severely damage a cap ship, kind of a waste if used on anything smaller. Very low tracking.
3) Remove the massive dronage. Maybe space for 5 fighters. They aren't carriers/motherships, and should not attempt to replace them.
This sets titans as the centerpieces of a fleet, capable of neutralizing enemy cap ships and significantly boosting their own fleet, but only with a support fleet around to deal with subcapitals and keep the titan repaired. A single titan, or even a few, without a support fleet should be an expensive mistake. A titan with a support fleet should be capable of plowing through an enemy capital fleet while boosting its own fleet enough for them to take down the opposing support. |