About the pic. You assume that on both scenarios, the titan gates will be built with the same time difference. But imagine this. Imagine that i start making my titan gate after you get a titan out or after you have build 80% of the gate. Now i have to cover that 80%. On our current situation, this means that i have to get my titan out in lets say 2 mins. If we increased the titan gate build time, i will get my titan out after 5 mins. This gives 3 more mins to the enemy titan to kill my titan gate. Now you might say, that i had 3 more mins to destroy enemy titan gate with my normal army but read below and see what is wrong with your assumption.
You just fail to understand what i am saying. THE TIME ADVANTAGE WILL BE THE SAME FOR BOTH SIDES. BUT THE FIRST GUY WILL HAVE TIME ADVANTAGE TO USE HIS NORMAL ARMY WHILE THE SECOND GUY WILL HAVE THAT SAME TIME ADVANTAGE TO USE HIS TITAN.
SEE WHAT I MEAN?
1 guy has a hammer to destroy a house within 3 days. While the other guy has a freaking tank to destroy a house within 3 days. So who has the biggest advantage? How hard is that to understand? But imagine that if we reduced the time limit to 1 day and after 1 day, the hammer guy gets a tank that will enable to kill the enemy tank. Sure the hammer guy will have even less time to kill the house but at least he has to survive less time before he can actually confront the enemy tank too. And surviving is more important than destroying the house.
With current time building requirements, the second guy can still destroy the first titan gate with some mythic gp+seige and if he fails, he still has a chance of building/finishing his titan gate to get a titan out to counter enemy titan.
IMO all titan portals should take the same ammount of time to get built according to the pop value of the units assigned to build them. And titans shouldnt benefit from any gps/techs/reliks. Titan is a terribly overpowered unit and making that unit stronger for specific gods, just imbalances the game.
PS Sorry for the caps.
[This message has been edited by NIB (edited 11-19-2003 @ 06:35 AM).]