El Yatta
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Posted - 2008.08.14 16:58:00 -
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 Originally by: Doddy
Originally by: Vladimir Griftin
Eventually we will see fleets of enough Titans to take out Capital fleets. Hot dropping 15 Titans on someones Carrier or unsieged Dread fleet and obliterating them WILL become a reality.
What difference does it make whether the dreads are in seige or not? If anything the fact the dreads cant warp away makes them more susceptible. The truth is no-one would be insane enough to put 15 titans on the feild together, they would all die and that is almost certainly the most massive defeat anyone has ever had. Imagine coming across 30 titans who had already shot their load? Awesome lol.
If you are worried about 15 titans killing your seiging dreads, all you need to do is have half your dreads out of seige out of dd range with some hics. If the enemy is stupid enough to attemp to dd your dreads, they will all die when the second half of your fleet warps to them.
If you are worried about 15 titans hot-dropping your carrier, why aren't you worried about 15 dreads doing so?
All ccp needs to do to keep titans balanced is to increase the cool down time of the dd as titans become more common. They will probably never become that common anyway, and if they do it will only be because people aren't risking them in combat, in which case where is the problem?
Are you really this stupid and short-sighted?
If it takes 15 titan to kill a carrier, and 27 to kill a dread (rough numbers) with a typical fit, then this will be done, and soon.
The idea that the titan doing this would die is ridiculous. The titan with the least EHP, the Ragnarok, easily has 50-60% more EHP in a typical fit than the dreadnaught with the most, the Revelation. They will easily survive enough of a boom boom with plenty of tanked HP left. If you want to come and kill them with dreads after they've fired.... you can try, but how will you tackle them? If you can accumulate 25 titans, you can accumulate 30 and have the last 3-5 hold fire unless one of the titans is tackled by a hictor.
They are ALREADY that common. The only reasonable and balanced solution is to remove the doomsday device. Full stop. Add more logistics/support roles to it, but the doomsday device has to go. As the effects are moderately pretty, add it as a one-off blast when the Titan is at 1% structure. It'd be much cooler if it was as rare as a titan dying anyway.
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