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Nobody actually "earns" titans. It's simply not something that an individual would ever fly. Titans belong to the biggest corporations, alliances, and coaliti
by redthrowaway 14y ago
Nobody actually "earns" titans. It's simply not something that an individual would ever fly. Titans belong to the biggest corporations, alliances, and coalitions, and are essentially floating cities that support fleets of other ships. They're a strategic resource that individual players would never use.
In the case of this particular battle, CFC lost 3 titans. This alone is several thousand dollars worth of real-world money, but it will barely be noticed. CFC has hundreds of titans, and the pilots who lost ships will simply have them replaced by their corps. So no one actually lost anything; the coalition will have to drag a few titans and a few dozen supercapital ships out of its reserves to re-arm its pilots.
- jcrites 14y agoIf they have so many Titans, why not bring out ten of them and sweep the battle?
- redthrowaway 14y agoThey already had more than 10 titans. There were almost 3000 ships in the battle at its height. Also, this battle is a bit different in that it happened in low-sec space, where certain rules are enforced by the game's NPC Empire. So you can't use the Titan's most powerful weapon, which makes it vulnerable. Conversely, you can't use area denial interdictors, so many of the CFC's ships were able to escape when it became clear that they were doomed. Also, travel takes a long time. This battle lasted 2.5 hours and both sides scrambled everyone, waking people up at 4am to go fight. The coalition headed by reddit arrived with 500 ships just as the battle was ending. Part of the reason the folks from Something Awful got beaten as bad as they did is that many different alliances, not just TEST, showed up just for a chance to stick it to them.
- taligent 14y agoExcuse my complete ignorance but I can't resist. Why was everyone trying to stick it to Something Awful ?
- romland 14y agoGoons are pretty much well-known for being trolls in every game. Sort of their trademark to be annoying, so... :)
- saraid216 14y agoHopefully someone can give you a better answer, but you might have heard of 4chan? Something Awful is where they came from. They're actually a major cultural force in EVE. ("Shoot blues" "Little bees") They're a bit like America in international relations, except there are fewer redeeming qualities.
- JonnieCache 14y ago>you might have heard of 4chan? Something Awful is where they came from. It's actually more the other way around.
- alex_c 14y agoI'm not very familiar with either site's history, but Something Awful was around for a few years before 4chan.
- JonnieCache 14y agoYou're right of course, and that's actually what I meant to say. This'll teach me to post late at night.
- DuskStar 14y ago4chan might literally be "something awful", but the site Something Awful came FROM 4chan. As did half the "meme" sites on the internet, unfortunately... Just reinforcing JonnieCache's point. EDIT: Apparently SA was around before 4chan. grr. In any case, they are fairly independent cultures. One charges $10 to register, the other doesn't require a username/login...
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- JanezStupar 14y agoBecause Titans are shitty fighting vessels. They are essentially portable warp gates with fireworks. And they are expensive.
- lflux 14y ago> They're a strategic resource that individual players would never use. Except for that year or two when they could shoot smaller ships with immunity, a LOT of people in nullsec alliances got one with their own funds just to shoot bigger guns with impunity.