Titan monuments only count if you're BoB

[Comstar]

CCP makes the game that little more boring

CCP Prism X
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Posted - 2007.08.20 16:59:00 - [183] - Quote

Right, I managed to get Hammerhead and Sharkbait to sit down and discuss this. As promised here is the final decision:

We will not be creating a wreck for Shrieks titan nor will we be persisting every titan wreck as a monument.
Now I know there will be a lot of unhappy campers posting here because we all agree that the idea is really cool (that includes us Devs). Sadly we can't do all the cool things we want (like changing one asteroid belt into a smiley face to coerce an assassination out of Virtuozzo.. it would have been funny!) and we simply found too many potential practical problems with automating this and doing this manually is simply not an option as we'll soon have to put a stop to it and then somebody will feel shafted. This way there is no slippery slope arguable so bruised egos should be minimal.

Sorry Goons, I agree this wreck would probably be seen by more people but I also agree with the impracticality of automating it and that we can't be doing this manually so it is best to put a stop to it now.

~ Prism X

So, no being able to view the wreck of Sir Molle's folly. Exactly how many Titan's do they expect to have to do for in the future? More than 1 a month? They have 50+(?) mission writers but can't find the time to allocate 1 person to do it. Hell, they don't have to put it at the gate, it could have "drifted in space to 2 grids away" and be marked with a beacon if they were worried about lag.

This WAS a great way for both the losers and winners of an epic battle (well, not including the BoB kills, but the Titan dieing was a war defining moment for ACEN and sealed their fate for the BoB win, and they should be able to see their victory too).

If CCP wants to be fair, they can remove the previous Titan kills, but we all know they won't. Probably because removing 2 Titan wrecks would require "automation".

[Fordel]

They have 50+ Mission writers? Why the hell do I keep getting the same half dozen missions then? 

[neep]

We didn't want that monument anyway  :-D

No seriously, titans won't be on top of the foodchain forever I suppose, so it does make some sense to only keep the first dead ones drifting around (whether they stop before or after darwin).

[JoeTF]

Also, learn2read, Prism clearly mentioned that it would have to be a database hack and only a very very few people have access to it. Also, don't think how many titans die a month, but how many will die in say 3 years time. It would open up a nasty precedent, next time I can see mothership wracks or maybe whatever the next most uber ship is going to be.

[Krakrok]

Maybe they will remove the stupid monument outside the main station in Jita now. Statues in space!