Yeah, i am just trying to stir up some conversation about it, but instead of just posting pie-in-the-slky dreams, I would rather get some insight some of the devs' vision, so that we can focus our suggestions more in line with their goals.

Bleh, I must be getting old. Since we have to wait until the end of the year just for the beta, I'm not sure if I even want to get started seriously thinking about it.

And yes, some ideas are clearly over the top, but at this point pretty much anything is a sky high suggestion.

The awesome class name Super Star Destroyers was already taken so they choose Titan instead.

Tib I like the TEC titan and some of the Vasari but the Advent needs a little more love.

Problem is Star Wars has always been horrendous at following Standard naval nomenclature. Star Destroyers are not the only example. Mon Calamari Cruisers, their silly definition of capital ship etc. Maybe I'm just old school, but after learning the old system I'm irritated by their attempts to make it consistent. Star Dreadnought just sounds ridiculous IMO, even the generic Star Battleship would be better.

That said, am I the only one who thought that Star Destroyers were so named to give the impression that they could literally destroy stars, not because they were a mere destroyer?

edit: On topic now, I think Titan is a good name, though I tend to approve of anything with mythological origins.

Yeah, I guess I kind of ran out of steam for that one.  It is a bit like the Deliverance Engine, IMO.  Said engine being flexible, but almost never used outside of vs AI games.  So the Advent Titan basically just became a combo of a fully strikecrafted starbase that could move(or 4 Halcyons at level 3), along with some Deliverance culture pushing, making it a heavy support ship. 

Sadly though, the Advent are really known for strikecraft, culture, and shields.  So I'd personally start by looking at those areas.  Since capitalships and frigates focus on great synergy with one another, perhaps those three pillars of the Advent could be represented in another way?  Mass bombers are already crazy powerful, so perhaps the strikecraft count should be a smaller side bonus of sorts.  That leaves culture and shields to be explored.  I do like the idea of the ship generating culture as it travels about, especially since this enhances their shields if the culture tech is researched.  Speaking of shields, maybe it could include a passive bonus like +1.0 shield regeneration?  Then again, that might be too strong.  It is hard (for me at the moment), coming up with an idea for the Advent without making them stupidly strong.  Maybe it should just have some crazy abilities like their starbases?  Call it Psionic Distortions or something, an ability that drops the accuracy of all enemy ships in the gravity well by 10% while increasing friendly firing rate by 5%.  That would likely need to be balanced with a massive cooldown, maybe 10 minutes or so.  Or maybe another one called Enthralling Visions, which would function like an AoE Reverie(great at taking out bunched up formations).

The TEC and Vasari ideas were definitely easier to come up with.  TEC are essentially the epitome of an industrial manufacturing juggernaut.  The Vasari are supposed to be masters at all types of phase technology.  So in that sense their Titan ideas reflect those traits.  The TEC Titan is like a combination of super weapon, mobile starbase, and frigate factory.  The Vasari Titan allows for unprecedented lightning strikes, especially if you have other Phase Stabilizers or facsimile abilities in play.  If it flings out massive volleys of phase missiles then anything in striking distance should fear for its life.  While the TEC Titan is a monster warship for breaking straight through the defense line, the Vasari Titan would be the surprise blitzkrieg ship that assaults you from a different direction even as the Vasari fleet engages in other areas.  It would force you to decide on which areas can be defended on short notice, and realize that some unprotected areas might fall.  In all, Titans should, at least in my opinion, shake up the basic 'build up smaller blobs of ships throughout game and amass them together into one big blob when going for the killing blow' gameflow.  The metagame should shift a bit when these monsters take the field.  Like capital ships, they wouldn't be super combat units on their own.  But with the right support, they could easily swing a map. 

Whisky144:  That was something I thought about when looking at the TEC Titan picture released.  Many speculated that it looked like a portable Novalith Cannon.  But I thought there was another possibility that it was a specialized anti-starbase/anti-'any structure' cannon instead.  Such a beast would make a good counter to basic starbases, especially if it could reinforce on the spot.  E.g. after firing it might spit out a few Ogrovs, or if strikecraft were still left to harass the Titan it could pump out Garda flak frigates, etc.  Such a ship would demand the attention of the majority of the opponent's fleet. 

Yeah, and that is just one ISD, a group of them could really do something sinister if they conduct a Base Delta Zero.

Ya know, looking at the high resolution pics of the titan, it looks almost like parts of it are articulated or mobile in some way.

http://images.phxxgaming.com/images/129907603287_ca_Sins_Rebellion.jpg

Perhaps it can bring all of its weapons on those arm-things to bear on one target. Or perhaps it just transforms into Megatron.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Operation_Emperor%27s_Hammer

This is the case where ONE SSD did a BDZ.

Well, of course an Executor-class Star Dreadnought could conduct a Base Delta Zero, that was one of their main functions under the Galactic Empire. Yeah, the terms Base Delta Zero and orbital bombardment could probably be used interchangeably, and it is not like I said one ISD couldn't. I share that sentiment, all Wookieepedia cares about is appearances and sources, with no regard for what those things do to canon. Several posts in this thread describe my feelings on the subject.

Smells like EVE to me. Not more hotdrops!

Well for one, the Vasari are the only ones who can do anything close to a hotdrop. For two, it's nothing like EVE, as other than the fact that "Titans are big, and can take on fleets", we know nothing about them.

We don't know if they have lots of little guns, or a few big guns, or a really big gun, or lots of big guns, or were rolled in liquid guns and then baked to a tender-brown color, or dunked in molten guns and then dried out in the sun for three days.

I wasn't thinking Greek Mythology. But then again, I was thinking more "Titan=usually a word used to described really big&powerful&deadly ships in numerous scifi franchises".

But the Greek Titans were big and powerful and deadly, so I suppose that they would fit the bill.

Which brings up an interesting question. Will there be a Space Pony Titan?

Doesn't look quite right. I envision a space pony titan to be, well, a giant spess poneh. That then brings poneh fureh bah steel rehn.

But it's coloration and insignia is pretty spot on.