No it would not be ok. This has been discussed 100 time titans should not lose any levels upon death.

Weird, I swear this was an edit. Ignore the doublepost

^ This.

At this point I kind of like the idea of just eliminating Titan levels entirely. You get one, it's got X points to spend on whatever abilities you want, and it doesn't get more. Then it's more like a Starbase in how you power it up and less like a Capital ship, simply because both other options suck (having it go back to level 1 sucks in MP because it's helpless against a levelled one, and having it never lose XP is absurdly stupid in SP for all kinds of reasons).

Alternately you could tie it to research for people who want to see Titans higher up the tree. Tech levels 1-4 are to get it built, then the chain continues and 5-8 each unlock more of its ability points. Then you wouldn't have people worried about throwing frigates at it for fear of feeding it.

I already mentioned this before but.. "I think a simple 600 second (10 minute) Debuff when it's rebuilt for example "reintegration". During the debuff period the titan would have reduced weapon range, increased weapon cooldown, abilities disabled (or cooldown increase), lowered AM regen, lower shield / hull regen, and maybe a little extreme but no xp acrued. If you wanted a reason you could argue the new crew would need time to get back up to speed with the old experienced crews way of running the ship". Along with a scaled rebuild cost / time per level.

How to make a long game even longer....

I mostly play single player, but definitely think there should be a penalty to exp for losing your titan.  I a thread weeks ago I suggested that when a titan is destroyed it should loose a set percentage of the experience it has already earned.  I don't think that a titan should come back with all the exp it had, but I also don't think setting it back completely is right either.  It was mentioned earlier in this thread that you don't keep exp on cap ships or upgrades on star bases when they are destroyed, but they are completely different that the titans.  Titans are unique in the game, so treating them differently makes sense.  So maybe a ~25% loss to experience would make sense, I had previously suggested a 50% loss, but the  more I have played the beta the less I like the idea of loosing that much.

I have always viewed titans as a cross between a Starbase, and a Capital Ship.  That is all they really are mobile bases that were given the ability to level up.  Because of this I believe you need to have some static factor about them.  Continually having to rebuild from the ground up with this sort of vessel would feel tedious and irrational.  Players whether they be good, bad, competitive, or casual will at times lose one of these during game play. This only means you have been countered. There have been countless spreadsheets and articles about countering every possible strategy in this game, and this retention of levels is no different from any other aspect. Develop a counter to this titan and time after time you will see it work.

The beauty of RT4X genre is the ability to plan and react to situations in real time. Taking away past progress not only degrades the experience, but cuts off paths to new new tactics. Essentially when playing you are testing ideas in real time, and if it doesn't work, you should be given the chance to play a different way.

A penalty does seem in order when you do lose a Titan, but not one in which you lose progress on what is considered a staple of any fleet now. In a game like this you win some, and you lose some. Losing one battle in a game of this scale should not cause you to lose the war if you planned prudently.

For those that understand some of the things I discussed will see why Titans are the way the are, and only small changes will be made to what is probably one of the best features in this amazing game to date.

Yeah, but quite honestly for those 90% balance doesn't really matter too much. As long as each faction is overall equally good against the AI it doesn't matter a whole lot how certain mechanics work. In multiplayer each individual stat and ability can have an impact, and if its too powerful you get everyone playing subfaction A because human players will only use the most effective tactics.

Stardock's most important priority is to make the game fun and enjoyable for single players, but for balance they ought to base it on multiplayer, simple because balance is the most important thing for those 10% of players. Also what's good for multiplayer is usually good for single player too, and if single players really don't like the system there's probably a mod that makes it better. Multiplayers don't have that option.

Its just its not really a BS attitude that is generally how it is. I mean no offense to SP players but its just how it is sometimes and how things have to be accepted.

But what if the Titan is level 1 when it dies?  Does it revert to a missionary vessel or something?

There's a degree of irony in the video embedded here by the OP.

But essentially isn't that when the game is lost? When someone is rampaging through your systems and have defeated your ships?

What happened in the previous versions? Your cap was lost and that was it. You had to rebuild it and start again. Why so different now?

Honestly I cant see any validity in why it should remain. Its carebear at best and just stupid. If someone has bested you and destroys your strongest defence then you should have to pay the price.

Its no different to someone destroying all my planets and whiping everything out and then the game randomly giving me x amount of planets as a compensation so i can quickly build up and try and beat them again. No difference whatsoever. If you lose your titan you either lose the game or your in a bad spot of trouble. THATS HOW IT SHOULD WORK!

If you ever stand a chance of actually winning a competitive game you wont lose your titan or at least not into a situation where your basically screwed and on the chopping block.

I cant believe how many people actually want this stupid option to be in.

Ill try and be diplomatic... Can we at least have an option to turn it on/off?

Well, i have a level 10 Eradica (i learned to farm pirate bases ) and that thing destroyed a 50+ ship fleet, including a level 4 Ragnarov, on it's own and still had more than 75% of it's health left afterwards. As far as i'm concerned that thing is the god mech it looks like

But that may be because said fight was against the AI.

That brings to mind that it would be nice to see a unit's kill count like in Supreme Commander.