Haha your stealing Novastalker's idea

However since he was a smartass about it and didn't even bother to elaborate on it, he has no room to complain. I really do like the idea btw.

Personally I like the idea. It would explain the titans keeping their levels. My friend yesterday had to kill a level 3 AI titan 4 times and really does get annoying that there isn't an experience punishment for the titan. Be also suggested maybe making whatever level it died at, that's how high it can be retrained when it's built again. Kind of like the capital ships, except if you lost a level 10 titan you could (for a hefty price) purchase all the levels back. Kind of like a recovered black box that is used to train the next crew.

But as for the current standing, we really do leave our titans in much longer than we should because there isn't a punishment for losing it.  In my opinion, it really down plays one being careful with a high level titan. You should always have to analyze a battle situation before you get into it, not just rely upon the ability to rebuild right where you left off.  Just my thoughts...

This is the argument against the people who say losing a high level Titan is too much punishment  .

People will just push their Titan to the end....while saving up for the next one.....

If art is the problem, then they could just reuse some other model (colony ships?) and change a few textures. say its a common ship chassis. 

This is plausible.  Having titans not keep their levels is also plausible.

That is the reason titans keep their levels when they die. I don't think there is any uncertainty about it. Some people may not like it, but it seems clear the devs aren't going to radically change the system at this point.

No I do agree with you, if you have seen my earlier posts, I believe that the Titan should be reset to level one, all I was doing was figuring out why wouldn't that be done.  However, I am completely for the idea of keeping the titan at a game-ending level.  I think its really awesome to have such a powerful unit in the game.  However, I also see where the devs might of been going with the Eradica, as it does follow exactly how the Advent Rebel is, they are all about sacrifice.  And in this case, they can sacrifice the titan for some extreme offense.

Personally, I love playing this game (I love playing as TEC Rebel) and I think that the titan and sub factions are excellent additions, and I like where they are going with these ideas, so honestly, even though I don't agree with the titan keeping the level, I will still agree to why they are doing it and more power to them.  Excellent game and is one of my favorites.

Instead of escape pods I think you should be able to pay half the price of the current total levels upgrade cost (As if you had purchased each level) to "clone" the current crew. Of course this would seem similar to the advent progenitors resurrect but it would cost money and have to be applied before the ship is destroyed. The games current time period would make this easily possible.

I'm assuming the cloning procedure would be an ability of the titan foundry then?

This is good idea, solving the problem. The Titan respawns on level 1, but you can buy all those lost levels back, similarly to buying experience levels for capships. So its basically costs additional money and time, to get the titan to the level, it had, before it died.

It's kinda like how you resurrect heroes in other RTSes... I like it!

I think it would be easier if it was coded into the foundry itself though. It could keep track of the Titan's level, and as it leveled up increases the price to rebuild by, oh, say 1500cred, 200metal, 150crystal/level.

Considering the significant cost of the foundry, I think that you shouldn't lose levels if you lose it... The cost of building another + rebuilding titan would make up for that. Just my opinion though.

The only downside I see to this is the ART. This could get expensive for them if they intend to use their ult...