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That's um... interesting

Sounds like a Mickey Mouse role to me. I think CCP need to consider future roles of supers more carefully.

Delayed local in null sec, now there's a topic. While I'm not entirely against it, I can see a glaring issue - null sec allows force projection (hot dropping), while wormholes do not. This, coupled with the issue that wormholes are more profitable and don't require sov defence will make null sec a far less attractive proposition for living. The issue of force projection (including black ops - really, why would you do this - will another gameplay option be destroyed??) will need to be dealt with before a mechanic like delayed local in null sec will be successful.

People will say "have PvP'ers on hand" but we all know that doesn't work against blops strikes which usually annihilate the target before anyone can respond.

It's going to be funny to see what happens with the massive arsenals of the soon pointless weapons that everyone has been hording for the past 4 years.

Maybe some will be put in a museum somewhere and others will be stolen and sold on the black market to arm local warlords and religious fanatics for generations to come.

Oh wait, wrong game =x

Heh heh, typical, literally just as I was writing what is wrong with Supercaps in another thread

It's not the damage, Titans can't track ****, and Doomsdays are a much needed threat for other capitals. Likewise, Fighters and Fighterbombers can be defanged quickly and efficiently by practically anyone, and they are ****-poor at damaging anything smaller than a Drake anyway (believe me, I've seen 50 Supercarriers launch fighters at a Tengu fleet, and seen them immediately returned as the fighters popped left and right for no damage in return).

Its remote repair. Remote repair scales too well in to Capital size, rendering Supercarriers and Titans invulnerable to everything but Doomsdays (B-R was just a battle of Doomsday salvoes). Changing Supers into boost-ships doesn't really change anything, as they will still be invulnerable (and granted, if both are de-armed, they wont be able to do anything while trapped stupidly in bubbles, but they wont be dying either, so its no less a stalemate than it is today).

The problem for me has always been an image/dream/reality thing. As an outsider starting the game the idea of Titans as giant grid-dominating death machines was awesome "hell yeah, I want to be there in a massive swarm clawing one of these monsters down", to me they were the ideal space-dragon.

Then I actually got to face the things, and found them to be nigh-invulnerable smug-machines, that didn't even really fight in an interesting way. They just kinda sat there, didn't flinch at anything you could throw at them, and didn't really decimate anything at any speed. They just kinda bored you in to submission.

I can see how we got here - we all want space-Dragons, be it to strive to claim our own, or go out in the wilderness and hunt and kill ourselves one (lets be fair, that first titan killmail is so thrilling it takes an effort of will not to frame it!). Just the mechanics don't fulfill that dream.

+1, also fix bombers so people can use BC and BS.

FIFY

The article shows a crowd of capsuleers out of their pods huddled around some kind of station minigame.

So WiS is confirmed for the next expansion then.

You are so smart for figuring this out sibs.

-1 for null sec