Ships & Modules

OK, i have got 186 days total to I'm able to fly a Levi. First i want to know what kind of money(ISK) am i going to need and is the time scale sufficient to reach that goal? My current balance is around 10b and i think the time i have i can save to get one.

What is the process of buying one or getting one built? and what training precautions should i take before i just jump in it?
I know that's it is a fleet ship and i should probs join a corp or alliance who will make use of it ,also was thinking of kitting it out with all officer mods to maximize defense and what not but would it be better for me to save up and just buy a levi pilot from character bazaar or grind and skill for it.

We just happen to be looking for titan pilots, give one of our recruiters a call about our titan programme.

oh dear.

well I will be nice.

First of all, yes you need an alliance to help defend it or people like me will hunt you down. Second you are aware that you cant dock a titan right? So you will need a pos to hide it in, and since you can't dock it you are kinda stuck in that ship unless you have a second character (a so called sitter) that can just sit in the titan when you are not in it. NEVER leave a super of any kind unpiloted in a pos. NEVER EVER! Like.. no!!! dont ever do it, dont think about doing it, dont even think about perhaps one day think about doing it!

Second, what do you want to use the titan for? Just bridging? Or do you want to use it in combat.

If it is just for bridging well then you can get away with a lot less skills, note I am not saying you shouldnt have reaaaally good skills anyway but you can get away with not having guns etc. You do have max shield, max navigation, max core skills right? RIGHT? Including all the jump skills (jump drive operation, jump fuel conservation and jump calibration). Right?

And third, officer mods are nice. But everything doesnt have to be officer, the new a-type invuls along with a set of each specific invul (pith x type of course) etc. ask your alliance (you did join one right?) how they prefer their supers fitted, us lowsec people fit our supers differently from the big 0.0 alliances due to the nature of lowsec combat.

And you do know that all supers are low and 0.0 only right? And that they cant use gates? Just checking as most who come here to ask about supers are.. well.. so not ready for one. WHy the usual answer is, if you have to ask you are not ready.

There is a reason titans are described as a giant space penis and not just for their looks, they are useful yes. but as you know in EVE (and in RL sorry boys) bigger isnt always better.

So when you say.. 186 days.. i am worried that is just until you can actually just sit in it, and that is NO WHERE NEAR CLOSE TO USING IT.

Anyway for how to get one.

Simplest is look at the sellers forums, titans are for sale now and then. Around 100 to 120 bill is a fair price to assume. It fluctuates a little. You contact the seller, then through a third party, chribba, darkness. or.. some other ones.. NEVER NOT USE A THIRD PARTY. And no, dont allow mittani to be third party as amusing as the tale for the rest of us would be ^^

Then he will put up a tower, the titan will be left there. you pay the third party all the isk, and when you are in the ship and have jumped out you let the third party know and he will pay the seller. And then you better know how jump drives work, cynos and all that. If you dont, google. and.. fly regular capital ships for a year or so to really learn the ropes while you train your skills.

That is a brief overview of it. Hope it helped you somewhat.

I'd suggest you start off with this:

So you want to fly a Titan?

A titan currently runs for over 100b on the market, probably close to 120b after you get the essentials. To acquire one if you're not in an alliance with capital shipyards you can check the sell orders subforum, some occasionally pop up there for sale. If you buy from someone and use a trusted third party (f.ex. darknesss, chribba, grendel) it's a safe and easy transaction. Keep in mind though that Leviathans aren't built as much as other titans so it might be tougher to find one for sale

I'm not too good with character prices, but given a supercarrier pilot is usually is the 15-25b area I'd say a titan pilot would be at least as much if not more.

For a Leviathan specifically, officer mods are not worth it. The difference in cost-effectiveness ratio for officer invulnerability fields versus that of Pithum A-types really favors the latter. When it comes to PDS for your lows, the best option is actually the Caldari Navy ones since they give the highest shield HP of all metalevels. Your only really decent options for officer mods would be damage mods, smartbombs and neuts, of which smartbombs are the most generally useful - higher metalevel smartbombers have a bigger range and can more easily clear dictor bubbles around you. Neuts are generally useful but are mainly to neut out HICs and only meta13 and 14 have the range to neut HICs out at their longest focused point range. Still just the 29km of faction neuts is often good enough for general use. Damage mods just suffer from them being for capital missiles. Citadel Torps are pretty garbage because of their awful range and application, but Cruises can actually do okay when supported with TPs. Your main source of damage is still your DD though, and that isn't buffed by shiny ballistic controls. Besides more often than not you'll be in a tank fit and not a dps fit.

For skills you'll definitely want all the following at 5: racial Titan, Citadel Cruises and Torps, all missile supports, all navigation and jump skills, Doomsday Operation, all passive shield tank skills including passive resists and Jump Portal Generation, Anchoring and Propulsion Jamming. Capacitor skills and other generic core skills are implied too. Leadership skills are useful but definitely not required.

Titans have a big cargo hold and fleet hangar, so have the following thing either fitted or carried:

1. an X-type 100mn MWD
2. 3 invulns, 3 of each active and passive hardeners, meta14 prefered
3. Full set of capacitor rechargers and capacitor power relays, t2 are fine but faction CPRs are worth it. Don't bother with officer grade
4. one set of both long range and short weapon hardpoints, metalevel
5. 2-3 meta12 or better heavy capacitor boosters with a healthy stack (100-120) navy 800s
6. a full rack of faction or better EMP smartbombs
7. a full rack of faction or better heavy neutralizers
8. 1-2 faction or better sensor boosters with scripts
9. 2-3 faction target painters
10. 1-2 faction point or better
11. 1-2 faction web or better
12. 1-2 faction scram or better
13. a cloak, faction or better
14. a cynosural field generator
15. a jump bridge
16. your doomsday mod
17. 2-3 large t2 anchorable bubbles
18. a depot, scan inhibitor and cynojammer deployables
19. 3-4 disposable cyno frigates
20. plenty of stront, isotopes and liquid ozone - 2k stront, 200k topes and 2k ozone last you for a while before needing to refuel
21. ammo for your weapons, both normal and faction

if u r already in an alliance which have a use in titan, then u should ask them. if not, think about it again 187 days later

Thanks for the info guys, i have saw that vid before lol. I'm not just wanting to fly a titan for the sake of flying one i want tit to have a purpose and i know anyone with a titan is a major target. I might just go for phoenix as I'm only 45 days away and they are very cheap to replace.

Yep this was troll thread from beginning. Only reasonable response was from the goon hoping for a scam.

Perhaps so, but if even one newbie saw this thread and realized what a pain it is to be a titan pilot and not waste time dreaming of being in one the typing was worth it.

edit: Because lets face it, a lot of new players look at the titan and go.. omg want! without realizing what a titan really is. And we got an influx of new players after the recent titan massacre and titans where the ship that was mentioned so many times so of course they want one too

Yeah but the proper use of the word programme gets at least one like by my books.