EVE New Citizens Q&A

Think this is a pretty good newb question since I'm still a newb.   Anyway is it possible to actually stumble across a parked Titan?  

I'm pretty sure they are all cloaked but has it ever happened?  Can you take the Titan if you do find it?  I know if your not skilled you can't do anything with it.

But keys just say could ya move it and say ransom it? Lol!!

And is it also possible thAt there are a few titans out there lost in space from inactive characters?

Thanks.

And before you try to stalk me no I did not find one sorry.

Titans look cool, but other than that are pretty much worthless.

I've seen Titans parked behind POS shields. So unlikely but not impossible you could stumble over one at an unattended POS.

But I don't think you can board it without the appropriate skills.

But you can always buy a Titan pilot at the basar ...*hurr*

It's unlikely to find a titan outside a POS shield.

They look cool but the only thing they are good at is POS killing with their Doom's day and big guns. Outside this scenario, it's kinda worthless. You see them in POS because they are protected from the shield, but they usually are also a good protection for the POS itself if ennemy dreads or titans try to take your POS down.

As siege weapons, it's unlikely you will find someone taking his titan for a ride. Only time i saw that was on the test server.

As for abandonned Titans. Same problem. Titans live in POSs so even if one player decided to leave eve and abandon his titan, it would remain safely in the POS shield, leaving plenty of time to the corporation members to take mesures with the abandonned titan.

Titans are by absolutely no means worthless. Anyone saying that must have no experience with 0.0. They are, in their current state, an absolute necessity for an nullsec alliance and an ultimate weapon of sov warfare. (They also have the highest isk/hour ratio running anomalies of all ships I believe ;)

If you happen to find an unmanned one (extremely unlikely, but there actually were cases where supercarriers were stolen in the past), sell the info to your nearest nullsec alliance, you can expect a payout in tens of billions. That also applies if you find an unmanned one in a pos, there is always a chance that the pilot is dumb enough so that the pos password is known on an alliance level and therefore is almost public. Heck even if you find piloted one chilling under a pos with no support, that info also has some value, since it can be sometimes bumped out.

Abusive fallacy? Or irrelevant conclusion fallacy?

If you find a left alone titan don't forget the following 3 things:

1.) Pack a cyno generator
2.) Take 450 LIquid Ozone with you
3.) Have a direct link to the nearest PL officer to drop some supers in.

Or like posted before, kill it with a rifter and be the Battleclinic god

You're committing another fallacy. This time, I'll let you name it.

To address OP's exact points specifically:

 
Technically, yes. Realistically, probably not in practice. There are several things to consider. If a Titan pilot wants to fly something else, they'll park the Titan in a personal POS. Leaving it in an alliance POS is inviting theft. Also, any piloted ship logged off in open space is still occupied and cannot be boarded under any circumstances.


A ship logged off in open space disappears completely after a minute, or 15 minutes if it has a PvP aggresion timer going. If the Titan is cloaked it means the pilot is logged in.


You could try to ransom the location but one of two things would happen:
1. the alliance you offer it to doesn't believe you, suspecting either a trap or just trolling.
2. you won't receive ISK without assurance of your claim's legitimacy, but the only way to provide this assurance is to name the system and let them get the thing on scan... which negates the entire negotiation because they'll just scan it out and board it. They don't need you to do that, so you'll end up without any ISK anyway. People have no space honor tbh.

Having said that, if you have a character that can board the Titan, you can then sell it through a respectable third party.


If the Titan had a pilot then it's disappeared from space completely until the character logs back in, no matter how long it takes for them to resub. And all unpiloted ships that are abandoned in space outside of POS shields are cleared after a month or something. It wasn't always like this though, and there used to be people who would abandon ships in "deep safes", which were very difficult to probe out. However, people used to aquire things from other peoples' deep safes anyway. But neither deep safes nor permanently persistent abandoned ships exist in the current version of the game (both of these mechanics were changed over a year ago.)