To skill up to use such a behemoth takes allot of time. Almost a year, while building it can take 3 months...not counting time to gather the components. I have read reports of players who have quit Eve after their titan was destroyed. In Eve most ships can be insured. For example I bought a Tempest class battleship for about 100,000,000 isk. However I was able to insure it for about 130million! Now once I outfit the vessel that can cost about.....70 million more isk. It is a minmatar ship so ammo can cost allot of dough...or isk. BUT if i lose the ship in battle (PVE, or PVP) I can still rest easy.....130mill will be returned to me.
Titans are a different ball game. Those massive vessels cost upwards of 50billion isk to build. And even more to outfit. Someone calculated in real life currency that it cost close to 5-10,000 dollars!!!!
BUT building one is a team effort! So to those to quit cause they lost this ship....shame on them. If you have a corp behind you....you can build another.
Ok more news: I have 2 pvp kills.....BUT 7 pvp deaths. Well....ships that went bye bye. Not my pod. I have been podded only once. I lost 2 hulks to Goonswarm's idiotic campaign to rid the Eve universe of macro miners. Basically these "bot" mining vessels (usually piloting a tier 2 mining barge the Hulk) mine for hours with out stop.
Hulks are awesome mining machines!!! You can mine about 20million isk an hour in high security space. Even more in low security or wormhole space!
BUT my hulk was targeted due to a massive which hunt for macro miners, who sell their ore then sell the isk for real life cash.
I hate goonswarm...a huge corp.....no it is a HUGE MEGA HUGE CORP. That takes whatever it wants. That is eve......you have to be strong to survive! The weak will perish!
I have lost about 500million isk in ships. But I will not bitch about it. I will make 1billion isk.
/tata
