You're right, I'm not an active player. I'm likely referring to tactics that don't apply. I'm just going by the reports I've read so far.
I can see people sacrificing titans out of boredom, it's mostly wasted time unless they invested actual currency into the ship somehow. I seem to recall one of the massive battles lasted longer than normal simply because everybody was ready for a large battle more or less out of boredom.
Anyway, I'm more satisfied with this last statement than your previous as I was only saying that some of the larger corporations surely have a large number of titans sitting around waiting to be active. I wasn't saying they would have enough to replace 70 immediately, I was saying dozens which could be 24, 36, or 48. I say this simply because if you months of time on your hands and raking in serious resources on a large corporation level, why not spend it all on building the biggest ships in the game?
You're changing my words to fit your beliefs. I never said the large alliances have even dozens. Only one alliance is believed to have a decent stock pile of alliance available titans. And even thats just a rumour. You can say that this doesn't mesh with them using them if you want but the fact remains.
To answer you last question it's because it is a LOT of work to build them and not fun work either and it is extremely expensive to get into building them so the number of people that do it is limited and the people that do it tend to do it when there is orders for them and it'd be pretty well known if one entity was offering to buy none stop production.
PL is believed to have a decent cache(~20) the other alliances involved don't. I'd be amazed if the others had even one or two spare ones each, best case they convince a few inactive titan pilots to log on and give theirs to someone that lost one in the short term while they build a replacement for them.
>why not spend it all on building the biggest ships in the game?
Because only a handful of people can fly them and they are almost never useful. It's much better to spend your resources on smaller ships that everyone can use and get 2000 pilots out there not worried about dying.
I can see people sacrificing titans out of boredom, it's mostly wasted time unless they invested actual currency into the ship somehow. I seem to recall one of the massive battles lasted longer than normal simply because everybody was ready for a large battle more or less out of boredom.
Anyway, I'm more satisfied with this last statement than your previous as I was only saying that some of the larger corporations surely have a large number of titans sitting around waiting to be active. I wasn't saying they would have enough to replace 70 immediately, I was saying dozens which could be 24, 36, or 48. I say this simply because if you months of time on your hands and raking in serious resources on a large corporation level, why not spend it all on building the biggest ships in the game?