A small and simple mod designed to make Titans what I imagine them as - bigger, better, and more impressive than Sins depicts them.
This image is to introduce my variant ideas on the TEC Loyalist Titan, Ankylon. As a personal fan of my newly-introduced Ankylon, I was thinking about some different ways to play it. The first variant would be your standard, ultra-defensive Ankylon Titan. My second idea would be a Supercarrier variant of the Ankylon. It would be larger than the regular Ankylon, and would have little-to-no weapon power. However, it would have many abilities you would see on a carrier (with some buffs/enhancements and exceptions, of course) and would be able to field many many squadrons at once. I'm currently playing around with the idea of making squadrons of frigates to use with the new Supercarrier Titan. (this concept has hit a dead end, however, as my attempts to recode Bombers have resulted in minidumps. Oh well. I'll keep at it.)
The second alternative I thought of to the Ankylon would be a version that acts more like a starbase than a ship. It acts as a giant experimental constructor, consuming the Titan, but creating a mobile, slow, upgradeable, and deadly starbase like Titan. It would classify as a starbase (and probably cancel out other starbases in the system, like Orkulus-classes) and would have starbase-like abilities to accompany it.
Tell me what you think about these variants in the comments, and post any suggestions you have. They will all be taken into account. Thanks!,
Atheon
I like the idea of it being a huge carrier... only problem is with the amount of strike craft it would have to pour at to make it a viable option, the lag would be horrendous :(
Starbase idea is cool too, I assume it would be able to travel from planet to planet? only thing is that it kinda already is a starbase, more so then any other titan, but can definitely be specialised more so to be even more of one :)
The supercarrier variant of the Titan would have to be limited. I'll probably make custom squadrons for it, like singular frigates. I'm still working with ideas. Thanks for the feedback!
Edit: The starbase version of the Titan would be pretty powerful. I'm considering pasting assorted pieces of assorted models together for a customised starbase. Its abilities will be between 1.2 and 1.7 times more effective than conventional starbase upgrades, and it will be capable of interplanetary travel.
I think the super carrier idea works better overall and treat it as a centerpiece fleet support ship, wither having it field frigates/ squadrons of fighters in order to be effective and possessing little more than point defense weapons and fleet repair/resupply abilities and the instant build strike craft to cause it to fill a different role, and mandating an attendant fleet. Another possibility is to have it act as a mobile frigate factory whilst still being a strike craft carrier.The star base idea just seems far more bleh to me. Just my 2 cents on a cool sounding mod that Ill have to try sometime soon