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Richard Angevian
The Crusaders.
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Posted - 2008.08.13 22:39:00 -
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Edited by: Richard Angevian on 13/08/2008 22:40:52
Fleets of titans are inevitable, just as everyone eventually becoming a Jedi in old SWG was.
When you make something clearly far better than everything else in a MMO, eventually it will become common, no matter how expensive it is, no matter how hard or long it takes to achieve it, because it will become everyone's goal.
Even third rate alliances are fielding titans now. Bear in mind that dreads and carriers once were the rare playthings of the superpowers too.
Which is why a titan nerf is inevitable. Which is sad. But it's the way incompetent devs always take out of a problem of their own making, punish the players rather than deal with their mistake. What needs to happen to titans is obvious, but I can guarantee you that it will NOT be the way CCP takes: Nerf multiple DD's in one system, and... INCREASE the power of the DD! That way a single titan is even more devastating than it is today (though those who fit for DD should still survive it) but there will be no more of this 3 titans on the field bullshit. Superpowers will still have the advantage in that they will have more of them and will be more able to risk them in a fight, but in any one system in any single engagement, two sides that own titans will be even.
Changes needed:
Multiple DD nerf: After a single DD has been fired, no other titan may fire one until the cooldown on that one is over.
"Siege" mode for titan: Titans fit a seige module and MUST go into "siege mode" which will increase DD strength (and defenses) by 50%, or else suffer a -50% penalty in DD strength.
What CCP will do: Nerf DD by 50%, thus ushering in the need to bring 10 titans to the field. Certain alliances will be able to do this and the change, ostensibly for the "little guy" will just further unbalance things in favor of the supercap heavy superpowers.
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Richard Angevian
The Crusaders.
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Posted - 2008.08.13 22:55:00 -
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Edited by: Richard Angevian on 13/08/2008 22:55:40
 Originally by: Mo adib
tbh I think they already have the idea on what the counter to titans is.
or atleast I hope so and am hoping that scene in the empyrean age trailer where a bs squad has some kind of combined anti capital weapon.
in any case its one of the posible ways to do it, obviously not going so far as to have an abaddon one shot a whole cap fleet but giving traditional ships a new fitout possibility that allows them to counter titans.
How about some sort of warfare link module that would allow a fleet of battleships to combine their ship's powergrids to fire off a combined superweapon?
Shouldn't be as strong as a DD, but it'd be a helluva alternative to building and fielding titans.
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Richard Angevian
The Crusaders.
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Posted - 2008.08.13 22:57:00 -
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Originally by: Clone 231E
Yes, fleets are already getting pretty close to that alpha of caps. I agree that by christmas it will be possible.
CCP will nerf titans, and most likely the utility of capitals too sometime. When CCP nerfs something, they nerf the crap out of it.
Yep. When they nerf, the overnerf. It's easier to destroy something, than to find a creative solution to the problem.
They must teach this in Dev school, becuase it's not only how CCP operates, it's the way of EVERY MMO publisher out there.
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Richard Angevian
The Crusaders.
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Posted - 2008.08.14 12:41:00 -
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Originally by: Lorz0r
maximum of 1 titan per alliance in a sytem at a time
Won't work. The super rich will just form "Alliance Titan 2", "Alliance Titan 3", etc.
Trivial for alliances rich enough to field multiple titans to do.
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Richard Angevian
The Crusaders.
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Posted - 2008.08.14 17:04:00 -
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Originally by: Darth Felin
Edited by: Darth Felin on 14/08/2008 11:06:49
Originally by: Popperr
Geez relax there's only 48 known Titans in game.
As I remember last count was 60 or 70 KNOWN Titans in game.
There are probably at least 20-30 UNKNOWN titans in game. The biggest reason why they arent' even more of a menace than they are is that most alliances that have them are too chickenshit to use them much.
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