Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Server will keel over if you do that in a 1000 pilot fight.

This needs to be differentiated racially to fit with the current scheme.

For the Amarr, a big-ass solid-state laser works fine, dealing thermal/EM damage, as usual.
For the Caldari, a large plasma burst from a "XXXXXXXXXXL" hybrid, for thermal/kinetic damage.
For the Gallente, maybe a gigantic slug from a railgun, for pure kinetic damage (seems a bit underpowered, to be honest).
For the Minmatar, a very dense stream of unguided hypervelocity missiles, for kinetic/explosive damage. Or a wreck-launcher that throws the wrecks on the battlefield, as well as other Minmatar ships .

Smart bombing.

mass casting of target breacking spell from motherships/
mass buff from OGB

no lagz

I propose instead that the Titan Doomsday weapon is a gun, that fires other, smaller guns, which in turn fire battleships loaded with large smartbombs of that titan's racial damage type, which then burst into confetti after they've run through one cycle of SBs.


This would be less work, less server load, and more impressive (or lolworthy anyway) than the OP's idea. The main issue with your idea is, like what was mentioned, the server load would be too great. And that's not just from the standpoint of a thousand simultaneous ship explosions but also from the standpoint that there would need to be a massive change in how weapons are currently designed, so that an attack can not only collide with the targeted ship but also collide with every ship/object in its path. While collision physics would be a FANTASTIC idea (Which has been brought up at least two other times in the span of a week), it's just not viable at this time.

To make this idea even better I think titans should be vulnerable to ramming by frigates, just like that movie Independence Day. If the titan is powering up it's doomsday weapon a frigate can ram into it full speed and both ships explode, just like that newbie mission.

Oh ok Mr. Titan is 80k away, hictors at tactical decloak and warp to cyno, guys align your blaster rokh/neuting tempest....etc toward Mr.Titan and flip your MJD on. Time to go to town! FYI Subcaps will always align faster than titan.

Bye Bye Mr. Titan.


That is exactly why I mentioned it will indirectly encourages close range brawling battles in large scale fleet war instead of boring long range alpha, because if you drop a titan and aim your DD at the subcap, you will be killing both the hostile and friendlies, because they are all on top of each other.

why would it hamper brawling fights? if anything it would encourage it, because you want to hold your enemy hostage by statying on top of them so the titan wont dd your fleet or it will be killing both you and his own people.

To quote Flash Gordon: "One life for many - a rational transaction."

I also want to pilot the rifter being fired. Would explain the killmails that say a ship was used as the weapon lol

I certainly don't want to see another AoE Doomsday.


The Problem with Supercapitals is, you need Supercapitals to take them down. The ongoing tweaking of capitals is trying to make them more vulnerable to subcaps. Allowing Titans to wipeout huge chunks of subcaps just by aiming at them and firing their doomsday is contraproductive.

I can bring a Ragnarok to a Aligntime of 18.6 seconds before imps. Since it's usually a shieldtanked and crystals don't work, you're pretty much free in your choice of an impset. I choose the lowgrade Nomad impset. Aligntime drops to 13.6 seconds.


If you now keep in mind that after a jump your ship is at 0 m/s and thus NOT ALIGNED unless it gets bumped, with your proposed change you would see the following:

Titan jumping to a cyno ~100 off hostile fleet. Aligns towards fleet. Since he was not aligned before, he will be immediately aligned towards the fleet. The graphical hull is not an indicator for the alignment of your ship. Doomsday goes off, 300 ships dead immediately. Imagine this with more Titans shooting at different targets of the cluster, and you're back in the golden days of double and tripple doomsdays.

Now, even if they get bumped. With a Aligntime of 13 seconds, it actually takes 13 seconds to drop the current vector and fully achieve the new one.

13 seconds after a jumpin, the DD can get fired.

And with refitting you're back in a tanky or ganky blap setup only seconds after.


Your argument of Hics and Dics dropping cloak and warping to cyno doesn't work, as these titans may have their OWN support out of their lign of fire.

Your argument of Rokhs mwd-jumping to the Titans does not work, as they will be without Logi. Keep this in mind. Logi can't MJD, and a distance of 100km is too much for Triage carriers. Dropping a bunch of dreads away from the titans to guard them from MJD Battleships would be easy and effective.


I really like the Idea of Titans being able to wtfpwn some blobs, but it's just absurdly OP, and keep in mind that those guys with the biggest blobs also have their own Titans...

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What i WOULD like to see though is making Titans a little bit more powerful vs. other capitals. The Doomsday is a great weapon able of alphaing Carriers and dealing heavy damage towards Supercarriers and Titans, ...
but it's useless in Low-Sec. See Uedama / Valentines Massace, where NC jumped in a shitload of titans that were just missplaced vs the Supercarriers of DRF. They could not fire their doomsdays. They were litteraly useless.

Now if the Doomsday might have some scripts that allow for ... i don't know, ewar doomsday maybe, that might be ******* sweet.

For example something like this:

Damage Modifier: 0
Capacitor Drain Amount : 50.000
ECM Strength: 500
Velocity Modifier: -80%
Warp Scramble Strength: 15
Can be used on targets that are usually immune to electronic warfare
Can be used in Low Security Space
Can be used vs non-capital ships

Switch module behaviour to a cycle time of 30 seconds + Reactivation delay, so you don't jam someone for 10 minutes straight while webbing and scrambling him.


Will make Titans useful even in Lowsec, where they can land tackle on another super, neut them, jam them, web them, and all of this stuff now also to subcaps! Great for shutting down a Hictor for example. Useless if they have 2 Hictors. But at least something...