Warfare & Tactics

In a perfect world this would be true, of course it will never happen. Maybe a better option would create a risk vs reward factor for Titian bridges. Right now there is little to no risk for the fleets that are bridged other than being counter dropped which is unlikely to happen given how fast an entire fleet can be bridged on some unsuspecting small gang with just a few ships.

I watched your buddies from DnD bridge on a carrier one night in Kinakka and the carrier was dead in under 30 or 40 seconds. Meaning there is little to no time for a counter in how Titian bridges are often used in low sec.

I'm sure in CCP's grand scheme they intended these ships to bridge gangs into ongoing battles and not just used as gank toys for risk adverse PVP in low sec.

One solution that might allow a bit of a nerf and add at least a minor amount of "risk" would be to make any ship that uses the Titian's bridge zero out it's capacitor when it uses that bridge. This still allows a wow or surprise advantage, but also adds a bit of risk into the mix as the bridged fleet will have a few moments where they needed to regain their ship's cap in order to fight.

I don't think Titian's are totally out of place in EVE but they have become far to common when just about anyone can get them and bridge on top of anything with little concern of risking much of anything. It should also cost a hell of a lot more for the fuel. Say 50-100 mil per bridge use. Meaning it should be a notable cost, which could act as a determent in it's own right to being overly spammy with bridging.

Also it's the dreads that killed the carrier, so even with no titan bridging the carrier would've still been dead, just that we wouldn't have had subcap support for the dreads in case things went **** up. So yeah, maybe they should nerf caps jumping to cynos too. Generally they should nerf anything above BC.

Also I find it hillarious that someone that doesn't undock ships costing more than 100 mil calls an alliance putting fleets worth 100+ bil in space risk adverse.

Increasing fuel cost won't do anything. The problem is really one of force projection being too great for those with Titan(s). The way to fix it is straight forward, but it vastly effects null sec coalitions so it won't happen.

Here is the fix:

You need to introduce two new variables that need to be checked whenever a pilot makes a cyno jump, is bridged, or uses a jump bridge. The first is new timer called the "cyno jump timer". This timer is similar to the jump clone timer, but its only an hour or two. The second is simply the "last system jumped from". Whenver a pilot jumps to a cyno beacon, uses a titan bridge, or uses a jump bridge the system first checks the "cyno jump timer". If the timer is 0, then jump according to existing rules and then set the "cyno jump timer" to 1-2 hours and set the "last system jumped from" to this system. If the timer is not 0, then check the distance in AU between the destination system and the "last system jumped from". If the distance is greater than 15AU you cannot jump or bridge.

At this point, you effectively limit the sphere of influece of a single pilot to a 30AU diameter. They can control that area of space, but cannot go outside that area unless they give up the ability to protect that space for a few hours. At this point we will no longer have entities running around the universe ganking stuff for ***** aand giggles unless they have the pilots to perform multiple operations at once.

Problem solved. If you get dropped from here on out, it is because somebody bigger and better than you has moved into your area of space.

The only thing still surprising is the fact how some still defend current cyno mechanics, suitable for ganktards only. Simply amazing.

You mad bro? You seem mad bro.

> Reduce the bridge range
> Ships inside a FF cannot jump, bridge or be bridged
> the timer proposition sounds interesting too

Tada !

I'm curious what will happen with the forcefield-less POS that are coming next year.

I like how the titan-hugger are claiming that titan-bridging is fine (it's okay dude, me too I hug a titan sometimes). Please tell me how many bridge-titan died in EVE ? A very few. All of them died due to a pilot mistake (jumping instead of bridging like Progod "Darwin award" Legend, and some bumped out of the FF because the password was leaked).

As long as the titan itself is not at risk, bridging will stay an overpowered, unfunny tool. And any 'tard claiming that "the staging POS can be destroyed !1!!!!!" is just a troll knowing that a large tower is a pity to be destroyed, is very cheap and the titan will always escape.

Got the toy, still think it's bad for the game.

At least I can speak for the last 4 lowsec regions where I lived and saw a huge decrease in the number of roaming gangs, as everything became more and more blob-hotdropped...

I like the idea of a wormhole generator that generates an opening in both directions, It could allow for some pretty awesome fights on poses. Also why do titans need to bridge inside pos shields? seems like a strange mod to be allowed to activate in complete safety

Are you suggesting the wormhole puts ships back into the pos (whereby hostile ships will be ejected immediately) or outside the pos (whereby they will be ripped apart by pos defenses), either way, thanks for the free extraction .. +1 for this idea.