EVE General Discussion

The Citadels and Engineering Complexes were introduced last year in EVE Online, and they have changed the way EVE is played drastically. Entire fleets have fought over, destroyed and have been destroyed in conflicts involving the Citadels in particular. The big change from regular stations is that both Citadels and Engineering Complexes can be manned by players, which contributes to how fully armed Citadels play a role in fleet battles that center around attempts at their destruction. The Drilling Platforms coming in the fall will also bring further change, especially for Industrialists.

But a recent post on Facebook about the ancient Iapetan Titans, and my look through the lore about them, made me wonder: could the Keepstar, a massive Citadel that possesses a Doomsday weapon, be a precursor to Iapetan Titans being introduced into the game for players?

There are references of the Soltueur Titans in the lore of past years, and even a CCP member last year confirmed that the Gallente would have deployed their Soltueur Titan wing into the Battle of Caldari Prime if things escalated. The Molyneux hijacking is even mentioned directly in the description of the Vanquisher Serpentis Titan. Both the Keepstars and the Sotiyo are massive on their respective axes, about rivaling the sizes of what Iapetan Titans could be.

The Keepstar and Sotiyo theoretically would represent the first step in making such massive ships viable for gameplay - a massive player-manned station with High, Mid and Low Slots. The second step would be to make such a massive object able to move through space. I do not know what size the old Iapetan Titans were in the game files (or Molyneux, which actually had an event based around it back in 2006), but I can imagine them being the size of Keepstars...If not bigger.

I would imagine, in the theoretical circumstance that they are made available, that CCP would put a cap on the number that can be built, like the Palatine Keepstar. For example, say only five of each Iapetan Titan from each faction can exist at any one time.

Someone wants a Deathstar. I say go watch Star Wars...

and yet 1 group would aim to have them all and destroy anyone else that's rumored to have one like the first titans

But but but I wanna doomsday a keepstar..... SOLO!!! WAAAAAA!!!



@OP It would be an interesting thing tbh but I would limit it to one per faction and only in THAT factions space and only in high sec. Basically making it a moving, manned, epeen target for anyone that wants one with only defensive weaponry.

the problem is that others aren't able to make that power shift!
not that those corps/alliances have it.

only cuz you are unable to take the challenge doesn't mean other won't take it.
Crying on the forum from morning to evening "they are too powerful" it's the only way that things won't ever change.

pfffffffffffffff bunch of losers

1. A Multi-Purpose Super-capital. Rather than be restricted to Doomsdays as its specialty, it will be able to use the same Siege Modules as Dreadnoughts, and able to field flights of fighters like the Carriers and Super-Carrier, while possessing improved versions of the bonuses Titans have.

2. A secondary mode as a Citadel. Because the Iapetans would be too large to dock into a regular Keepstar, you can have them enter a secondary, reinforced mode that makes them stationary and function like a Keepstar. In that same sense, they can function as mobile Citadels. Yes, this would include industrial capabilities.

3. Fleet Transportation. The Iapetans are big enough to house even other Titans inside them, so an Alliance/Coalition could use the Iapetans as hot-droppers into a battle-zone where, once they arrive, the Alliance in charge of it is able to deploy entire fleets from them into the heat of battle.

4. Mass-Fleet Jump Drive. A large scale version of the Micro Jump Field Generator, an Iapetan could be able to jump an entire fleet from one system to another without the need for the rest of the fleet to expend Jump Drive fuel.

While I would not be opposed to having a limited number of supertitans in the game, I don't really see the benefit. (like I don't see the benefit of the palatine keepstar - if it will ever be built, it will probably be built in a wormhole and then sit there for years, not doing much of anything).

I don't know if any single Wormhole group would have the resources to set up a Palatine.

But your dialogue about wormholes once again reminds me of the idea of a Sisters of EVE Capital being capable of jumping into wormhole space.

We don't need more super capital proliferation - by some estimates there may be between 5,000-10,000 super capitals in the game at this point. What we need are more reasons for players to undock these and actually use them.

Putting in Iapetan Titans would give impetus for Supers to be fielded as well. CCP could very well make it so that the firepower of Super-capitals is needed in order to do sustained damage to Iapetans. Otherwise, an Iapetan could repair the damage from anything weaker than a Supercarrier.