I helped build the first titan in eve.. for Celestial Horizons Corp.. Good old days!

Honestly, when I first started eve, I thought "what do I do". I was picked up by a friendly Corp who introduced me to the game. The best kinds of ships used there were typically battle cruisers, with the occasional battleship. I was unaware of the ship tree, and I thought battleships were the best ships in the game. Then, one day, we were attacked. As we operated in null sec, attacks were frequent. This attack, however, was different. At this time I had been playing eve for two weeks, and flew a destroyer. In our mumble server, someone yelled "evacuate the base! We cannot hope to defeat this fleet. Suddenly, strange ship symbols I had never seen before appeared. Dreadnoughts! Someone yelled. Our battleships outnumbered the dreadnoughts, and slowly started to win the fight. Suddenly, a new ship jumped into the system. This ship was different. It was twice the size of our base, and started to launch rockets that dealt massive damage. "Leviathan! We're screwed! It's been a good run guys."

So basically don't bother with a titan if you want to have a life

A smart pilot plays the game. A smarter pilot plays the people. This is why very little done in eve is better done alone. It's dangerous to go alone...take friends.

this video made me depressed....I'm not even an Eve player and the amount of work is terribly depressing just to listen to....

Been playing since January 2004 and bought my Capital Ship skill last week. No point rushing things.

And i thought i was lifeless for becoming top tier in War Thunder

Titan Steve. Best ship name ever of all time

This game is hardcore. Everything is a balancing act. You learn to manage yourself.

Having a titan is like being a bus driver having a bus. Except that you use that bus to drive your alliance and you can't have it at your home's garage.

You mean i cant own a Titan and fly it around during my 21 days trials ? SCREW THAT GAME.

So, I'm trying to work out an estimate of the real life price of a titan, factoring in the blueprints etc. (which Scott has said in the video is going to come in at around 100bil isk.) I'm using pounds, last time I played a plex cost around £15, and sold for around 500,000,000 isk. So 1,000,000,000 isk is £30. 100bil divided by 1bil is 100, so the equivalent price in GBP is 30 x 100. A titan is worth £3000 *shiver*

thins you need to learn during the learning curve or someone else told you to do so ( even if you didnt had a clue about why you needed to do so until it happend to you ) -have zkillboard open -dscan every 10 seconds -have your scanner for every ship in the game enabled -watch out for red dots -do not unplug your headphones/earphones ( you can hear a noncloaked ship boom in seconds before it lands ) -NEVER EVER stop dscan -always align to a celestial object in case you get poped, your pod has a high chance of survival if you align and jump just after getting popped. -NEVER EVER GO TO NULLSEC bellow a 2wk old toon (unless you wish to get popd and podded) -NEVER EVER GO TO WH space in a 2wk old toon (unless you wish to get popd and podded) -always, always search the toon on zkillboard -have any wh data base page open and keep track of your active whs -do not fly what you cannot afford at least 5 times. -do not fit what you cannot afford at least 5 times and last but not least.. TRUST NOBODY! Welcome to New Eden, Enjoy your stay.

Steve, the holy arbiter of gods retribution.

Well it's not just that, it's the simple fact that it's primarily useful as a strategic weapon for an alliance, you don't 'solo' people in Titans, you join a fleet and follow orders, and most of the time you keep the Titan logged off until its needed.

well... fuck...

Jesus you just made this game seem so intimidating.

You rock Scott! I used to play EVE Online for over 6 years ago.. After watching some of your videos: I am stuck again in the game. Only problem is that I need to start from beginning because I lost both log in info and the email that was connected to that account! Thx for awesome info and funny videos. Keep up the good work mate!

Some people train mining and then realise that they should in fact be focussing on combat skills, so they sell the mining character, buy a PVP character and it save them having to train for months.

can you use a titan for mining?

So, I've been watching all of your new videos for the past year or two now, and I decided to just do some video research on EVE Online and found this. Didn't know you did EVE, that's awesome!

Kudos to anyone who did this grind to get a Titan, and had the bravery to undock with it

I never played this game but just from watching Scott' videos i already love it!

Can confirm, 2+ years of skill Training and we're still going. The sitting in a Titan bit is nice in the meantime though.

I remember a dude jumping in to this system with a titan and demanding everyones stuff. Soon a fleet warped in and destroyed the titan and he was so mad at everyone that i think he changed that day

So I've tried Eve several times in the past and never got very far. I finally decided to really put effort into learning it, I've finally started learning. The game is pretty stunning.

If the titans looked better, I might want one, but they look a bit weird. I choose my primary ships from my sense of aesthetics, (love the rifter)

If you have the ISK but not the alliance connections, an average of 1 per week gets sold on Eve-O for anywhere between 105b (travel fit) to 130+ (fully officer fit).

I just started playing Eve online, I'm really enjoying it!!

Have never really had an interest in playing Eve but if you were to make a series on stuff like this I would happily watch every episode. Very interesting like all your videos.

Carduke... you might make a good case if it wasn't clear that you hadn't played the game for almost 3 years. The AOE doomsday attack was removed in the Dominion release. Now, titans get a doomsday weapon that does something like 2million HP damage to another capital ship (it can only target capital ships), it can fire once every 10 minutes.

It's a lot easier to do now. All you need to do is buy roughly $4000 - $5000 worth of plex and convert it to isk, buy skill injectors and get all the relevant skills for the titan you want should take you about an hour, then buy the titan from a supercap selling keepstar in lowsec, then spend a few days moving the ship's fit to it. All in all time taken should be under a week. Double bonus, then you can get your first pvp experience as soon as you undock when everyone and their dog comes to blow it up!

I was doing a frig fleet and pl. brought about 20 supers and 5 titans

You're welcome to acquire the ISK for a titan, and then buy a character and setup a POS to manage it from, and an army of alts to run cynos and fuel it. Then you'll probably get into an alliance based on owning a titan. Then you can PVP in your $4000 ship with your $1000 and hope that you don't lose it all because you confused 'Bridge' and 'Jump' because you're a week old player pretending to be a PVP veteran. You should go and read the fable of the 'Honor Tank'.

At least is wasnt the famously awful sensor boosted smartbombing titan with one gun that was killed earlier this year.

I think the fact that you cited those points prove my case - 'Newbies should forget about flying titans until they've played for at least a year' The only things that titans are used for is Bridging fleets and killing things in PVP. They have almost no utility outside of sov level PVP, if you are not active in sov wars then you should not be aspiring to fly these.

Scott Manley Bro, I love your stairs man. Cheers.

I'm pretty sure with all +5 implants and an optimal attribute remap you can sit in a Titan in 4 months. Theoretically, you could train hauler type ships and work up to a couple trillion during that time. So now you've got Racial Titan I trained. Now you need to train Capital module skills - and all their prerequisites. That's a couple weeks at least. If you want the doomsday, you need Science V which is a couple more days of training. Jump Portal Generator. More training. Clone Vat = More training. After that, you've got a functional Titan. A lot of the prerequisites ARE core skills. You'd have a lot of EHP. But open fire on another Titan and you'll lose. Why? Because all Titans get a 100% Dmg Bonus per Racial Titan level. A.K.A? Experienced Titan pilots do 5x the amount of damage you do. If you have 5,000 DPS you can expect them to do 30,000. They also have 30% more EHP than you. Better tank and DPS. Your fleet can't save you either, because their fleet gets the same bonus to EHP. And guess what? Every time you lose that Titan you lose all that isk, and all your implants, adding up to quite a couple billions. Then there's modules. I'm sorry - flying a Titan is not the first thing you want to do in EvE. Join an Alliance and do small gang and small fleet PvP. Make a 2nd character to train freighters with. If your alliance can facilitate a Titan, that freighter alt is a good base, send it some isk (unless you make money on it) and plug in some implants and start buying skill books. You'll also need to plan out remap points and such in EvEmon. With +5 implants and remap points Mastery V of a Titan takes 2 1/2 years, but even then true mastery is a long time off.

Just don't worry about flying a titan and eventually it will happen. Keep saving up, dont lose too many expensive ships and the wealth starts to come really easily. I started playing in 2008 and was pitifully poor for my first 2 years or so, but now I bought an Erebus a few months ago without making a big moneymaking push whatsoever. Supercarrier is even more attainable (and more useful in the current meta); you can definitely get into one of those relatively quickly even if you dont put too much effort into attaining isk.

your very good at explaining things...u have that gift...u should do more Q&A vids

The Titan is ment to be a giant support ship for capitals and super captials, but also a way for sub-caps like battleships to quickly move around from 1 region to a other without slowboating all the way. One of the few ways to kill a Slowcat fleet (a lot of carrier reping each other making them almost impossible to kill) is to drop 100 titans and doomsday each and everyone off the field in many big bursts.

And a few days ago we saw that Scott Manley had 3.5t casually laying around. Thats quite a few titans :D

Its like u said. I started playing Eve after seeing some vids from different Titans .. than i learned what it means and what it costs to buy / build and fly a titan .... should have watched your video earlierer ^^ but i dont regret any minute spend with eve. greets from ger, very informative video

Hey Scott, just a question on Titans from a fellow EVE pilot. Have you heard about the battle of B-R5RB? Well over 70 titans were lost there. Even the winner lost more of them then in any previous battles

Im doing it the 40 year route. Just 35 years to go!

My tip is, if u wanna fly a titan, forget it. start pvp in cheap ships like frigates and as you get better and learn the game, step up to cruisers and battlecruisers and eventually battleships. at this point you are probably gonna be in a corp and you will fly whatever they need you to fly. best tip to get into flying capital ships is pvp alot, join pvp corps start in lowsec, move to null and pvp etc. if u dont want to pvp then totally forget capital ships as you cant fly em in highsec and pvpability is a must in null :)

I like your videos, I'm a new shit player that's just now getting into eve. Your videos are perfect. TYVM

I played eve a long time ago. Is it a good game for 2-3 hours per evening after work? In the past I didn´t got really deep into it, because I was not able to find good mates. And alone its kinda boring. I farmed a drake and wanted to get "raven" (don´t know the name) and paid a while to be able to get one. But I guess I did many things wrong so I got a few drawbacks. Maybe I will give it another shot someday. And hopefully I find a nice group.

I dunno, I still want a Titan.

Nevermind the number of times protected or not that you lose your miners LOL. What a way to discourage people from flying them but I see the level of focus and dedication, not to mention how few times you really get to fly it.

finaly a good eve video on youtube lol

I have to say that Gariel had it almost right on. Yeah, he didn't mention making ISK with carriers killing npcs.. But it is just mind numbing an not fun at all. PvP with carriers is not something common, unless you are just hotdropping people, or talking about fleet ops. Very few people do it effectively in small groups.

Technically you're not soloing if you have to have someone light a Cyno for you :-p

im currently on a training account and i dont exactly know much about the game but i would keep the mining character and mine a load of ISK while training the combat skills, having enough money seems quite a good idea while getting used to how pvp works because you wont get hurt everytime you loose a ship

Shall be interesting to see the what happens when capitals come into Echoes in a few months.

I just want to buy a pre-equipped nice battle ship.... I tried to build a cruiser and I get all sorts of errors about too much energy consumption and such.. confusing... how do I just buy a pre-made ship?

Years later, thanks to keepstars , sotiyos and rorquals working 24/7 in delve, super carriers have already became very attainable, Titans? Maybe next.

K. Ty. It just seems like everyone (in local/rookie chat at least) only see Titans as doomsday device ships and nothing else matters for them. How much structure hp, base armor hp, and base shield hp do they have? Does it vary between the different race Titans or do they all have similar hp?

It's also a hell of a lot easier to raise 105b straight cash than it is to acquire the necessary minerals.

What cases would these be? I have never seen one in high sec, or are they stuck someplace?

When you said "fly safe" in your KSP "mun landing with smallest rocket" video, I KNEW you must play Eve Online!

Good show, keep them coming.

carriers are the most functional capital ship for beginner to advanced. u can do tons and tons with a carrier

@Scott Manley What do you think about the upcoming Citadel update.

Can you use a Sotiyo Engineering Complex to build a Titan?

Its also one of my dreams , and i apologize for my ignorance.

i'm just starting out playing eve, and i eventually want to pilot the gallente nyx. what skills should i level? is there anything else that i need to do to make one?

I know this is an old video but if not titans you should really look for a dreadnought since it is less of a target and you can use it as a solo player way more than a titan. you could rat/ maybe even go solo roaming, and its a ton cheaper if you have the means of making the isk to use it and loose it

I can learn Python, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Node , Algorithms, AI and another language. In the time It will take me to learn to master EVE online

I know it could run it, but my computer is having difficulties in other areas besides the graphics card. I think the hard drive is burning out, but all I know is that when I put stress on it it doesn't tend to work correctly. I am, however, getting a very good deal on a hardly used pc and monitor for $200 bucks so I will definitely hop on when I get that. KSP has been my influence to get into games such as this.

Option #2: Steal daddy's credit card.

Would it be profitable to have ship with a cargo hold that is relatively large compared to the ship, and after a large battle just fly in, loot the wrecks, and be off?

How practical is training to fly something like a Black Ops ship? I've always liked the idea, but wasn't sure how useful they'd be. And how about something like a Carrier?

no, currently there is technically a few caps left in high sec due to being built before the ban from high sec (special rules enforced by ccp btw to ensure they dont upset current high sec or else they get insta-deported to low sec) but they are null or low sec restricted

Hey you said if someone messaged you you'd get them a free 21 day trial, so could you get me one? And what would be better to get money to start? I want to either be a miner or manufactorer and if I stick with the game I'll eventually do both, but what would be better to do first?

Say Scott, what would be your recommended ship?

I worked up a pilot w/ max skills in a machariel... a few notes: 1. Takes a lot of time and effort 2. Actually achievable goal for a solo pilot 3. Just as rewarding as a titan, except you can fly around and blow all kinds of crap up with waaaaay more flexibility 4. WHEN (not if) it dies, you can replace it fairly easy

me i just want to be able fly it just need the 6 bil for the skill book. mostly just just to be able to fly every caldari ship. just like a total 3 left to train for.

correction, you can't bring COMBAT capitals into high sec, a rorqual is a capital and they are in high sec, like an orca is, or an ark and providence

and here i was thinking it was so much harder than this, might actually bother building one

most of my time on eve consists of my flying my carrier. wether im using it to kill npc's and make isk, or using it for logistical purposes like moving fitted ships. They are awesome in pvp too as they have such versatile drone usage and give out ridiculous reps. i dont know where you got your information from, but it definately wasnt from experience!

First time iv seen your face other than the tiny profile pic, matches perfectly to your voice :D

as a non Eve player, if it is only there to battle other capital ships, for what is it acctually used ?

As to the subject of this video - great work, as to you personally - man, i thought that you're a lot older.

Honestly, the easiest way to sum it up would be to say that a titan is a strategic superweapon that can only be afforded, built, maintained, and utilized by a strategic superpower. After all, what good would an aircraft supercarrier do for a single person in today's world, even if you could somehow afford one? Only the most powerful nations in the world have any capability to use them in any meaningful way.

I'm new to EVE online (on the 14 day trial thing). Everyone tells me that the Titan ships are just completely useless now. That doesn't change the fact that I would still love to have one someday. lol. As a new player, my goal is simply a Drake since I'm a Caldari. I just have a question about Titans. Can Titan ships have other weapons besides the "doomsday" device like rail guns, missle launchers, etc.?

Carriers can be devastating against smaller targets and dreadnoughts are devastating against POS towers etc. Titans give a defensive option by creating a specialized ship to eliminate these threats. on top of that. the Titans are effectively Mobile Stargates and can move massive numbers into combat very quickly.

what about regular capitals such as the Phoenix? I'd imagine that those are mostly pointless for the average player to own as well, right?

In all seriousness, thank you for sharing this information. It's helpful to someone like me who has never played the game. No disrespect to the fans of this game, but now I definitely have no interest in trying this game. I'll stick to World of Tanks where I can actually obtain the top vehicles.

it's an alt, all titans in major alliances are self owned and are self cynoed for late night drunken shenanigans. also you can't target a pos in consolation sov system so 4:28-4:48 is wrong, they can try and steal it if they have the password, or hope it bounces out(more common then you might think)

About 8-9 months in and Im buying a Titan soon, (Hopefully).

and then make an alt for other thingsi want to do on the side, for example, I forked over 50 bux in PLEX to support 2 additional characters, one for mining, and one for industry, ive only been playing for about 2 weeks but if lifes taught me anything its that getting a head start on something means all the difference, later on down the line if I dislike whats becoming of one of my accounts I can just sell it for its exclusive skillset for a particular branch of studies for isk for my main :3

Except: 1) Carriers and Supercarries (much cheaper) also act as mobile space stations and refitting arrays 2) Titans no longer have AoE attacks

What is they add in a leviathin class, 5 times Like the nuke of a corporation

So let's say I wanted to fly a stealth bomber and come off like a raider, hitting mining barges and taking their goods. Or maybe I want to fly an orca and mine. What would be a good strategy?

That moment when you complete all of this in 3 years 70 hours per week grinding, and you see your titan explode on your screen. - Eve Online

you kind of forgot about the skill time required to learn in order to fly a capital ship witch is more then a year :)

The only capitals allowed in highsec are frighters and jump frighters. Although it do exsist I think one dreadnough and 1 carrier in highsec bulit before they was banned from high sec they just never left

If you have the killboard entry for that kill could you link it somewhere so we could grab a peak at it.. I would love to see something like that haha :P

"i want to fly a titan" -no you dont, you just think you wanna fly it. 1st of all, you need to do it on an alt since a supercap is a "prison" since the character never leaves it. It takes well over a year to have the skills to fly it properly, and you wont be able to afford it like ever on your own, flying it also require alot of support and other supers. your best bet is becoming a long time member and trusted in a large alliance and maybe you get to fly one in the future, but be warned, its the worst kinda ship to fly in the game: you cant use jumpgates, fly in highsec or dock it at stations. 99% of the time your pilot just sit in it floating around in a pos bubble.