EVE General Discussion

they just DO ok?!? THEY DO

edit: they kill supercaps, and bridge people half way across the universe

PROS: YOU ARE A BADASS IN A GIANT DEATH MACHINE.

CONS:your ass will have taste buds.

I was on the test server yesterday when 3 NC titans arrived and began shooting up the combat zones. Apparently, titans can insta-blap subcaps even with the capital-weapon penalties. Someone brought in a Revenant and it got blapped to.

TItans are generally helpful only to an alliance.

Ratting in one is a bad idea.
Flying one solo is a bad idea.
They cant be blap fit anymore, so no more solopwn.
Once it is known you have one, EVERYONE watchlists you.
Once you are watchlisted EVERYONE knows when you log on, people will find you.
When people find you, they will learn your habits.
You will eventually get trapped and killed.
You can never dock it, so your character is trapped unless you have a holder alt.
They are about 80-100bil to fully fit.
Their jump range sucks hard.
People will travel across the game map to get on your killmail.

Their use:
Bridging people to make traveling suck less.
Bridging people to hotdrop. Stops working after a while.
Dropping in large, supported gangs to destroy SOV infrastructure.

Like others have said, if you have to ask what to use them for, you do not need one.

The reasons are because they are one of the most specialized ships in the game. You don't just decide to fly a titan like you decide if you want to rat in a Raven or a Dominix. They are a massive investment and a great strategic asset. If you want to get one to derp around in solo then you are wasting your time, and will probably end up as a hilarious loss mail.

Pro: It makes your ePeen really, really B I G
Con: ... until you loose it...

Eh.

Pro's

1. You can provide non covert hotdrops and quick travel to an entire fleet.

Con's

1. You will end up doing nothing but providing non covert hotdrops and quick travel to an entire fleet.

I guess if you have enough balls and a decent number of them you can blap a lot of capitals off grid.

Really even when they were all powerful I don't think I would have enjoyed flying a giant space coffin that literally dictates when I can and can't do things with my spaceship pilot.

They're called Hurricanes.

I miss welp fleet.

You misunderstand their use I think.

You, or say you and your corp of 10 -20 guys probably wouldn't ever care about a titan.

Its pros are really only seen when invovled in alliance level operations where you have other titans as back up, along with a respectable cap and or supercap fleet around you.

In that case they provide the EVE equivilant of Air Superiority, hostile caps are subject to Doomsdays and Dread levels of DPS output from EACH titan, their huge hitpoints and Ewar immunities give them the ability to command fleets unmolested by the little things raging in the batlte around them. Thier portal allows for sub cap force projection in even hostil territory and they have a cavernous Ship Maintenance array that can move huge numbers of ships around with them ( I think I have about 35-40 ships in my titan right now).

The downside to all that is that when on your own you are sorely vulnerable. You can't really hurt subcaps much on your own after the changes earlier in the year, and that you are stuck inside that magnificent beast. They require huge amounts of fuel that your average small corp or solo player will never really comfortably be able to sustain (refuling my titan is about 700k isotopes, during a busy month that could be an order I put in once a week), and the fittings and implants they take to survive the hostile situations they get put in start at around 10 billion and go up from there.




When I first started I saw a picture of a Leviathan and plugged its skillpath into EVEmon....the result was around 2 years of skill training, and the loss of the alt i put in the titan for anything other than piloting the titan.

As a titan pilot I can promise you that you have time to think about what you're going to do to yourself, spend that time seeing the game, see if you like it and i f you could see yourself picking up a secondary alt that you would try to put in the titan, and then start the long uphill climb to amassing the 100ish billion you'll need for your purchase.

Most expensive prison ever in Eve, like it or hate it, it's up to you.

You get a hidden skill up to lvl10 named "hypocrisy interfacing": ability to bridge whatever jerks knowing some are alts/spies just waiting the good moment to get your expensive pixels killed or see you jump instead of bridging just to mok you hard just like you deserve for being that stupid.

Awesome stuff is awesome.