Challange for the Titan

Well, the only one who could would be one of us and I don't know that I feel like it. 

If they're as strong as a maxed Vasari battleship, then unless you're on DS there will be no problem. In DS, it'll be fine.

Open question, what would be worse, a conentrated field or driving it through a long one?

Mines should be anti titan IMO, give people a reason to incorporate them into their defenses more often.

No...  That strikes me as a really bad idea (though the AI would become unbeatable)

Teaser vids are a must

Let me put it this way - to answer this or even show it I would need to reveal more information than I care to right now.

AKA, Yarly is mean.

Craig, VOTE THEM DOWN!  Give teasers

TEASERS NAO!!!

There.  All titans right beside each other.  Now you have your spoilers.  Sorry about censoring it.  Yarlen wouldn't release my family until I did 

That looks oddly like a TEC trade ship with a black sheet over it ... with the word 'Censored' on it ... explain yourself!

Well due to the Advent's subtle sexual innuendo when it comes to certain ships and names the TEC has decided to create their titan in the form of a giant phallus and naming it "The Titan" to counter the new advent tactic and hopefully awe them as well :p

Currently in the Advent there is speculation on whether this is true or merely the male tendency to over exaggerate.

Make no mistake, the actual class is Trouser Titan. 

I stole a peek at the titan entities StarClad has in development.  One particular line really worries me.

armorType "Latex" 

Those crazy Vasari.

Hey, when you're slipping behind enemy lines, pick the brand that's got you covered. Kostura. "We get you where you need to go."

What's with the Vasari love?

Use Novalith. End the night with a bang.

Is your partner just not feeling the love anymore? Try Deliverance! The love will last all night long!

any particular reason why?  Mines cost a bit and take time to deploy.  You can clear them with titan + scout fleet and at the very least mines would give a player more time before the titan just pwns that grav well while your fleet is on the other side of the map.

its not about mines beating a titan, its about having mines effective enough vs a titan so that the titan can't advance as quickly as it could normally.

And even if you strengthen the mines, DS proves that it's not an end all tactic. The scouts just become more important for mine detection and it buys the defender a moment to organize himself.

The AI still often bites it though.

Yup, even after blowing a world to bits, colonizing it, you still have to pop mines.  Place a hangar or two, use scouts to decloak mines.

Scouts are easily destroyed in the endgame (therefore a high risk of investment), and time is often more valuable then economy (assuming both players have relatively similar strength economies) at that point.  Also, if an enemy gets a titan much earlier then you were expecting (say they get a strong early game feed) then you will have little to no early game counter to slow down the inevitable destruction(from what little we know about rebellion). 

It might be easier to set a feed over time limit in multiplayer.  Feed is the least skill based way to help someone and it is also the second strongest way to help someone in multiplayer(the primary being full military support).  Early game feed is exceptionally beneficial and I would argue that a feeder giving everything to a military based player to rush to titan would most likely become a popular online tactic.  I think this would be very discouraging to online players who are new to the game as they would literally have no way to defend against this sort of tactic.

Limiting feed amount and highlighting the importance of micromanagement (which is already being done in rebellion via capital ship buffs) would be a way to ensure that feed won't be abused.

Remember, enduring devotion is your best form of protection!

Well, there's a few catches with all this. One is that we're just making up guess work concerning the Titan's abilities. It might not be terribly viable on its own much less mobile enough to crush an enemy with enough speed to stop them from building one.

And another thing is that the original question was about the survivability of a Titan in a mine field. That's still not really known, especially since you would have to go through a lot of minefields to defeat a competent player.

As for scouts, I was just answering the question of how to deal with mines should they pump them up in power and the AI go crazy building them. Even if scouts have no survivability, it's better to build a bunch to suicide than to let your fleet go in blind and they take the damage.

As for late game feeding, I can't say I know how that will work out. It goes back to the questionable strength of a Titan. I mean, if players in a 3v3 can put up 3 starbases at a bottleneck and that alone pulls the Titan under, then the two teams just have to see who can pump out better support fleets. Then again, feeding can backfire if one team is quick to kill off a weak feeder. I dunno.