Just no.
All this distress over titans hanging around for ages...
So what?
They all, even good o'l Gurgriss, go eventually.
We have supply and demand in action right now. It is working. We have cooldowns that allow different guilds chances at secures, then all those different guilds get to wait until someone else decides to clear up the TKP.
Taking away hits once you have made them?? No way. Not all titan hunting guilds have the resources to withstand that kind of treatment. This forcing people to clear the entire titan or risk losing it. We had a thread about titans taking a long time and how to speed it up - this will not accelerate the process, this would mean that to be sure you'd need to spend 6-7 hours of effort on a titan to knock it out completely and be sure it won't 'heal' on you. How will that increase activity?
All I'd see happening here is that titans could survive longer on the board unsecured, which could effectively be a workaround for the cooldown. Say a guild is out for a week. the titan it took out respawns, but due to healing, fewer are killed during that guild's cooldown period (as it is clearly harder to kill a titan that needs more hits, and continually heals past a certain point in time). This raises the price of that titan item as fewer of those items come into the game, and ensures that the guild that can hunt them and kill them off in the time period allowed will earn more of the titan items involved. This seems to me to be an effort to increase control of the titan market, not make it fairer. Fewer guilds will be able to kill of titans in the window allowed, those guilds will dominate the titan market. So no - I think this is a bad idea and does nothing to speed up titan clearing.
Also - would the titan only heal HP from the guild in the lead - or equally from all guilds on a proportional basis? Could this lead to hits being reduced to zero? How can that possibly be considered a fair outcome? I don't think the mechanics of it work that well either.
And again - what is the problem with titans sitting unfinished? Is that alone not incentive enough to go finish it off if you are so desperate for the item? Obviously not - and obviously everyone who does titan hunt is prepared to be patient. Who is being impatient and why is the question that arises for me.
The game is small - the numbers online are not huge, of that game population only a small % hunt titans. Titans are going to sit for longer.
The ultimate solution to titan hunting is for the game to expand again. More titan hunters and more demand for titan items. I keep expecting the day to come when every FS player left has a full set of offline epics. And then you will see titans sit forever. But that will only bother the 150 active players left.
This suggestion, for me, does nothing to speed up titan turnover, and a lot to concentrate titan kills into the hands of fewer strong titan hunting guilds.
- tharzill, shindrak, Filletminion and 5 others like this

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