Here is one.  What if the Vasari Titan could '"shoot" a phase stabilizer node at another planet within a certain radius, so that until it was destroyed, or its time runs out, ships could travel to that one from any other phase stabilizer node.  It would need to have less health than real ones, though.  The node, not the Titan.

Pretty good.

Still want to see the black hole spawner....could call it "Singularity Inducer"...targets a frigate, creates a temporary black hole that sucks in/destroys frigates and/or SC, has the "opposite" effect of Repulsion basically...

Another interesting thing might be a "Time Dilation Field" or something...all ships (maybe all, or maybe just enemy) receive massive penalties to speed, weapon cooldown, and ability cooldown to simulate the slowing of time...it's utility would be comparable to armistice in that it buys you time to get reinforcements or whatever...

i love this. Only death brings victory ( doesn't justify suicide bombers but you get my point)

I was tempted to make my own thread because the title of this thread isnt properly representative (it should be titled "what should Titans do") and also, I was thinking about making that thread even before I found this one. Just saying.

I believe Titans need to have some strategic importance. They shouldnt be an uber unit. These are the traits a Titan absolutely needs to have:

It needs to be antistrikecraft, either through special abilities as listed above or through raw damage.

It does need to have the same damage and health potential of a starbase through upgrades.

Titans need to be able to bomb gravity wells from adjacent gravity wells and unlike novaliths and kosturas, the effect would apply to everything in the gravity well including planets. The ability in question would be called "destabilize phase space" and have the same effect that starbases do except in an offensive way. It wouldnt OP because its no stackable. You cant just park your titan in an adjacent gravity well and bomb away.

Each Titan would have an extremely useful utility power that is obtained through lots of research and requires multiple upgrade slots on the Titan.

TEC L's Titan would be capable of decimating planets and turning them into asteroids and bypasses enforced loyalty.

Advent L's Titan could take over capitals and frigates with mind control, and the Titan has a huge culture bonus about half the intensity of the deliverance engine.

Vasari L's have an ability that allows them to act as a interstellar phase stabilizer, where instead of ships having to jump from star to star, they can jump from wherever they are directly to the Titan. To make up for the lack of usefulness of this ability on single star maps, the titan has the ability to fire phase node's onto planets that allow extremely rapid phase transit.

With the rebels Titans things get interesting. The rebels interests and therefore their technology diverge into a completely different direction from the loyalists. Rebels are the child of their old fathers, and are therefore very liberal minded and embrace new ideas. Each Rebel faction still holds onto its father's strengths, but embraces the other two factions ideas as well.

TEC R's Titan excels at assaulting planetary structures and ships. Through combination of telekinetic manipulation of concentrated energy, and the vasari's miniaturization of phase technology in munitions, as well as the assimilation of their energy weapons, their Titan is the ultimate anti ship and planetary structure weapon.

Vasari R's Titan excels at manipulating phase space on a micro sized level. Combination of telekinetic manipulation of energy and nuclear supercharging has significantly boosted the sub-light travel of ships. Vasari have also combined physical and energy based weapons and combined them with their own phase-munitions to create a very capable armada.

Im absolutely stumped about the Advent rebels.

You are right, I completely forgot about the Kostura Cannon.  What about this for the advent Titan? Teleporting a fleet to an adjacent planet. So, when their reinforcements arrive, you just teleport back to saftey?

I stilll think that Titans shoud be mobile factories.

Thanks. I was playing as the advent earlier and I was being attacked at one of my planets.  My 200 ship fleet was parked next door. Suckers... Anyway, as I destroyed the invaders, I thought about how a teleportation device really could have saved their buttooskis.

I was hoping the vasari's titan had the capability of acting as the captial planet allowing them to survive without planets as well as boost tax rate  in adjacent grav wells. Maybe allow the titan to build research modules on board to free up logistic spots. Something that signifies their nomadic behavior.

Maybe also having some advanced scouting capabilities like the ability to send short lived probes into all connected systems from the one the ship is currently in.

Advent titans having a field of enemy ship repair negation in the gravity well.  this means that enemy fleets would not be able to repair their ships, starbases and perhaps passive regen would be limited as well.  Think of it as advent have their best psychics placed on the titan and are so strong as to stop even nano bots and repair/resupply ships from repairing in the middle of a battle.  This ability makes more sense with the advent fleet and would help greatly in their ability to take on enemy ships.  Advent need nasty things like this because their titans will probably be the weakest having the least amount of hull and armor and therefore need to have stonger abilities to compensate for their lack of staying power.  If advent titans and other changes to the advent fleet aren't made then the advent will have no hopes at being competative in rebellion.

Also advent titans having a culture ability, and a culture based superweapon.

So the advent titan generates culture on a planet.

When the planet is engulfed in culture it is able to damage a single target for massive amounts of damage for a relatively reasonable cost.  Think of this as a Psychic bomb.  this can be used to disrupt trade on planets if a planet is targeted.  this can be used to destroy starbases over time and other dug in positions.  The range would be very long to ensure that the advent could be on the fringe of a gravity well and snipe the enemy positions forcing the enemy to engage the advent fleet on the advents terms.

this would provide the advent fleet the focus fire power that they desperately need.  It makes the advent dangerous again.  hell this might even make the advent anti vasari. 

I think that the TEC probably already have this ability with thier rebels and their massive looking "gunship" titan.

but it makes the most sense with the advent, because the TEC can already have ogrovs and other high dps ships for effective focus fire.  Focus fire is still more effective, and as the game has progressed it seems that ANY DPS that is not under direct player control is not nearly as effective.  So the developers need to take into account the human application of this uncontrolled dps and realize that top dps will never consistently be achieved in a real match.  Adding the human variable is necessary to fixing advent balance.

advent ships, lacking focused dps should in general have stronger side beams to reduce the time an enemy player has to react fleet movement changes so that the advent can do a bit more damage to fleets. 

I kinda like the idea of the vasari titan being literally their home planet.  Kinda makes them like the aliens from ID4.  Would also be annoying to the enemy because it would become very hard to kill the Vasari

Personally, the term "Jarrasul Evacuator" (or the Egg) in the game, I thought it would have something like a capital planet ability.  The description is a bit misleading.

I like this idea. what we need is a couple of good ones for TEC.  I dont think that the TEC Rebels should have other races powers.  They should embrace something completely new.

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