Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hey Sigras,

while i actually have fled from this stuff into w-space years ago and have not thought about it much lately i really like that approach.

+1 from me.

It will likely not really affect massive fleet battles but the stupid ops where some guys drop 20 ships and a triage carrier onto a single cruiser.

I might as well as add "slight" increase in jump fuel cost for titan bridging of about 300%

Cheers
Gal

well rule nr 1 as i learned it was dont fly what you cant afford to loose in that light a titan needs to be in POS and so be flown. I too gave this a +1 but to be fair this cant be implementated before caps are rebalanced

It's an intriguing idea but I think it would more likely cause people to stop using Titans all-together as a means of entering combat since they let you skip a relatively small number of jumps in most cases and deploying a Titan onto the field in even a moderate sized battle means you are likely to lose it regardless of the battle outcome unless you deploy absolutely overwhelming force to defend it.

While this idea does bring more risk to the most risk adverse group in the game(titan pilots, not nullbear ratters who are afraid of the boogeyman), It doesn't do much for the whole "force projection' side of the equation.

Adding a mass limit like a wormhole to Titan bridges would help out quite a bit. You could even add this to OPs current idea.

Titan "push" bridge - tighter mass limit.
Titan "pull" bridge - higher mass limit.

This way, with more risk on the titans end, you can have more rewards on the "force projection' end.

Another idea would to simply make Titan bridges not work within X km of Force fields, eliminating the POS nesting Titans, or the "just the tip" style of "out of POS" combat.

I quite like this idea. Although whether it gets implemented or not, is another matter.

+1

As far as mass limits are concerned, I believe they would only really affect smaller groups. Large entities would simply use more titans.

+1

Combat that slowly escalates is always better than digital combat.

Its like you people come up with a solution to a problem that really doesnt exist.

All this would do is put the final nail on the use of titans. There would be no point for any small group to ever use one because their titan would die the first time its use to bridge. And for large groups they will only use them when they know there gonna have overwhelming victory. Sounds familiar...like the current use of supers...only use when you know there not gonna be lose and by those that own a ton of them.

I don't see this being a disadvantage to smaller groups as smaller = less mass = less Titans required and if Rule #1 is applied of "Can't afford to lose it don't buy it\fly it" then it would possibly bring more Titans out for intriguing fights.

As for large groups...well more force projection should mean more risk and thus more mass = more Titans. Make people really think about there use and if they require that Titan or the tactical\psychological impact a Titan could have on the field.

As stated above, not a Titan Pilot, so these are just my general thoughts so don't flame me for my ignorance but feel free to educate me, I'm all for that.

Here is a twist for you.

Titan fishing.

The previous ship, the one associated with a hot drop mechanic that lit the cyno itself by a target, would get a role as a target locator.

The cyno, under this use, would require a script to use, and could not function in this mode at all if a cloak was fitted.

The script would allow the ship to use the cyno field generator, and target a ship with it. Similar to the logic that a hictor can use a script and target their interdiction field on a vessel for the infinipoint.

Possible to limit this to only one class of ship, but that is tricky. Might be good for the Marauder perhaps.

Now, how it would work:
The special cyno ship gets on grid with the target. Instead of the usual warp scramble / point, the exact opposite effect is used.
The ship targeted is removed from the grid entirely, and jumped to the location of the Titan that pulled it in.

Could this be turned onto the attacker? OH YES.

Now, just imagine of this ship, that was just fished to the titan, was also equipped with one of these. (It was a bait ship)
That titan gets targeted, and pulled to the titan working with the original "bait" target.

Happy waiting fleet gets tasty lunch.

Roll credits.

Why does it not make sense without the DD?