Jita Park Speakers Corner

Intruiging, and it moves the titan away from the role of DPS/EHP.

That's a lot of neat fanfic but it won't actually generate anything. Right now Titan pilots have very little reason to log in aside from acting as portable jump bridges. I don't think adding a feature that is basically "park out in open space for several hours, do nothing, hope you don't end up dead" is going to keep those accounts subbed.

Titans definitely aren't great right now, but if they're to get a role, it needs to be more hands-on, not hands-off. Have fun doing that without making them overpowered, though.

I approve of this only if we change it so Titans can only jump in on the other side of a moon orbiting the target planet, then have to slow boat around the moon to get into firing range. Also, frigates get a chance to destroy the titan if they can hit a small exhaust port.

The idea to improve upon Titans' support functionality is generally a good one, since balancing combat features for "the biggest ship in the game" is always going to be troublesome in terms of overwhelming or underwhelming.

As Snow Axe already pointed out though, this very suggestion trifles with alot of such issues in spite of being aimed at improving "some other" aspect of the ship. There need to be motive and that motive is found in the details, so while it sounds pretty cool on paper to have Titans drive (Dust interactive-) content and end-game resources you would also constantly have to ask yourself what's in it for the pilots and would they use it?

We all know that there are too many of them and that they are being piled up as deterrent (like cold-war nukes) or exploitation of other roles that in all fairness at least can be discussed (cyno-highway, jump-network without infra etc.). However, I think it's also easy for players who don't regularily use Titans to on and off forget that these are ~100b ships (pilot and hull) with a 500m/m upkeep that most players get in order to serve their alliance.

There are alot of questions to ask yourselves on that background: would it be lucrative enough to risk such a ship? would something so lucrative be too powerful for a super-heavy group? how would you then balance end-game content for alliances of thousands to Dust-corps of tens? The Dust-link that is in right now is sparse and casual for a reason, because when they can begin to influence each other more heavily you'd also need to consider the balance of such impact and there is little logic that would settle in favour of a handfull of Dust-players to deal with the Titan-wielding endgame-oriented EVE-alliances of thousands - there's just such a gap in management and resource accumulation so there's no arena where the Dust community could possibly contend without making it highly unfavourable to the EVE-side or exploitable by the EVE-side.

If anything, I still prefer the idea of just giving Titans more Station-functions in a manner that would appeal across the board for anyone who could afford the hull. If you are small and want to operate behind enemy lines or just resupply clones and ships in a huge ongoing battle: Cyno in a Titan and make sure you find a risk-reward balance between risking it's use and gaining access to it's resources (ie., implement some system that allow players to clone-in or login and undock from a logged-off Titan, but not re-dock to log off or switch ships unless it's brought on grid and then risk it getting trapped). Making it hard to catch would be the balance point to just erecting a bait tower supplied by Carrier-runs. Allowing a small group to re-supply itself could possibly breathe some life into roaming- or gerilla-style PvP. We already use Titans for similar logistics-lines anyway so why not improve upon it and make it appeal to those with one Titan as much as those with a hundred Titans?

There's a ton of cool things you could do with them just on the logistics side in order to encourage their use and seeding ships around the game for more interaction.

A way that sucks

4 hour siege cycle? If you left a titan sitting stuck in space not in a pos shield or logged off for 4 hours it absolutely would die in that timeframe, period, end of story, I dont care how much support it has SOMEONE WILL BRING A BIGGER FLEET TO KILL IT.