Ships & Modules

That's ok, I got the divisor wrong at first anyway… fixed now.

I bolded the parts where you are wrong. Also numbers are the biggest factor in almost every fight. Sure what ship they are in is important too, but by all means. Please come fight my fleet of 2000 Thorax's with your 3 Ravens.

I do like your heart as far as where you think the game is. Unfortunately, it is not where you think it is as far as numbers not mattering. It would be nice if it did not matter as much, but it is king of space right now. You also have to remember the game mechanics that amplify why numbers matter. The biggest offender is the super effort free and incredibly accurate intelligence gathering tool that has a minor role for communication. The local channel. Toss in a splash of alliance assets that have damage notifications and structure timers and presto, the blob... she be coming and she does not care if it is just you and your two friends in battlecruisers. She will bring everyone for many regions to curb stomp you so hard for disturbing them so you don't bother to set foot in their space ever again. Yet somehow the blob goes to the forums and complains about, "How come null space is so empty?"

The point of all of this is, the game needs a big change how intelligence is gathered, how entities claim territory and how it is fought. Even if it means changing how we play the game.

Bro I don't care about your **** Raidendot fit I am saying what I fit on my titan that you dropped your dreads on a few weeks ago.

Do you really think shooting a few bullets at a POS elicits such a response? If you reinforce it, sure. If three people are reinforcing a POS they are pretty hardcore.

Another NPC corp person discussing how numbers are the only thing that matters in combat. What a surprise let me tell you.

Two points to this:
a) Numbers don't matter in the sense that a small fleet can beat a larger one with closer margins. 250 beating 400 with good skill, use of tactics and coordination is realistic (see: forces of Elite PVP versus old NC). However no one yet has come up with a good reason why absolutely crazy excessive numbers shouldn't win single fights. 1600 versus 200 absolutely should be winning - EVE doesn't cater to that degree of superior skill or resources. The counter that sort of force is not done via ships, but by politics, timezones and an eventual review of the underlying game mechanics that cause fights to happen.

b) As an addendum to the intelligence point - every major power knows where every others supercap forces (and to an extent, cap forces) are at all times. This severely limits the scope for real traps and ambushes. Thanks to a combination of spying, watchlists and locator agents it's virtually impossible to catch someone out with anything other than a minor gank. This is part of the reason for why titans are so survivable - they don't get caught out with their pants down all that often, most losses are from poor FC judgement rather than genuine surprise.

I am truly disappointed with how ccp is carrying out with the titan nerf. Now the only thing titans are useful for is super cap rights, structure grinding, and mobile stargate, all for a 70 billion isk ship. even than in super cap fights no one would use them cause it takes ******* long to lock on anything. so now what i am seeing is mins will drop in price ( yea cheap ships) and two titans will no longer be used at all other than cynoing in fleets of sub caps. who would ******* use a 70 billion ship to structure grind and risk it to sub caps who can easily scram it and wtfpwn it. lol good fight titans and super caps pilots you just got ****** in the ass by ccp. might as well just sell your titan or just self destruct. sell all your offcier mods and stuff. cause your titan will be worth the same level as a drake, quite literally.

I see you have no idea why large groups of titans have been in need of rebalancing

Speaking of PL, I think it's a safe bet that they will remain as strong as ever, because they aren't dumb enough to rely on one broken doctrine as their only means of achieving anything in EVE (unlike the assorted members of a failcascading alliance who whine here with their NPC alts)

To those wailing that titans are the only way to counter "the blob": try bombers? Too plebeian?

well idc about titans being nerf to hell, no one gives a **** about them anyways except well, titan pilots. i am just going to be disappointed that titans will not be use anymore ... quite literally. i can imagine people whelping titans cause they are now worth piece of ****.

and thats a pretty dangerous way of thinking,
looking at how many people own titans nowadays -
you cannot just take them away or make them "useless"
without reimbursting owners in some sort of acceptable way

and you cant do a short-term-"solution" like the one here proposed either, because it does not solve the problem.

the right way to go about this, would be finding the root of the problem, and find a way to modify the current state to a level where players can solve that root-problem themselves by giving them the right tools.