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Titans … no longer a Null-Sec Toy

Published on 18. Sep, 2009 ... written by Moof, Tags: Articles

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Well, well … the Titan … the majestic beast of EVE, rarely seen and feared! When one of this behemoths entered the battlefield, they would decimate whole fleets, people would run in fear … not anymore.

For those who do not know what a Titan can do, it basically has two main uses,

1. To fire a weapon (Doomsday) that causes an obsence amount of damage to an enemy fleet.
2. To open a bridge between itself and a cyno which allows ships in its fleet to use the Cyno, it can then also follow.

The Titan has now become as common as most ships. You’re less likely to see a Black Ops Battleship than you are a Titan. Nowaydays everyone and their mother has a Titan.

If you read the news from around EVE and you read of a titan kill or two, it is no longer a surprise. You may of read of how one alliance fielded 12 or 16 Titans outside of an enemy station and killed one of their own carriers with Doomsdays as a show of force.

However, this is not what this article is about. You now have Titans being used in Low-Sec as well.

“What the hell for, they cant doomsday in low-sec that’s a waste” I hear you cry. Well there are a couple of reasons for these 90bill ISK ships to be outside of Null-Sec.

Null-Sec wars are always raging all the time and there all always winners and losers. People taking space and losing space, so when an alliance loses space and retreats to another location to re-group, sometimes this will be Low-Sec and they will take their Titans with them, rather than leave them in a system they have lost.

Low-Sec Cyno Ship!

A brilliant way of moving your fleet around, or hot dropping on someone a big fleet (this is not hot dropping in the true sense, but you get my drift).

Now, I have had the hot dropping done to me a couple of times once right outside the station I am based in. It is a brilliant tactic and gives such a great element of surprise, but should Titans really be used for this and there be no come back on them? I mean these are the ships that used to strike fear into players and now they are a just a 90 Bil ISK conveyor belt, moving ships from one point to another. Hope you get my analogy there

It’s like taking the greatest boxer at the peak of their abilities, tying their hands behind their back and saying “Go ahead and fight!”, or taking the greatest sprinter and telling him “You can only walk in your races from now on!”. Titans, in my opinion, in Low-Sec are wrong.

When I started playing EVE, Titans where the sort of ships you would never see and people spoke about them in whispers. Now there are 220 known Titans in game, at the last time of counting. With the up and coming patch changes (no more grid doomsday but a focused weapon) I suspect you will definitely see more in Low-Sec. There will be players suddenly selling theirs as the use for them as an offensive weapon will be decreased. With that the price will drop on them. This means Titans will become more available to a wider player base.

Should there be a restriction on these ships or an increase in the learning to fly them, maybe not, however, the Titan is now as common place in Null-Sec as it is Low-Sec. I think it’s quite sad that these once great ships have now been reduced to the state they are in now and for me EVE has lost part of the folklore that originally attracted people in to the game.

Will CCP be creating a new role for them or will they let the biggest and most destructive ship within EVE fall away to be nothing but a 90.000.000.000 ISK conveyor belt?

I suspect the latter but hope for the former.

Tags: low, null, sec, titan