I do find the current abilities somewhat lackluster. The TEC Rebel Titan feels like an Olive Garden breadstick that gives hellish heartburn and the Loyalists is like playing with a space turtle in it's shell. On the other hand these Titans can plow through almost anything. Giving them another special ability might necessitate a reduction in their strength. then they wouldn't really feel like Titans anymore, rather something more gimmicky.  I'm looking forward to the new dynamic from the other faction's Titans once they release, as the lack of them might be skewing my perception.

What is that ability?

I think that it is the planet eating thing.  And the mobile Capital Planet.

it really depends om the titan. Some have  a lot more of a bad-ass feel than others. i actually think the TEC rebel titan is one f the cooler ones, as long as you can keep it's AM level up it chews through caps/SBs/titans with rapid fire chain snipes. The Advent rebel titan is amazing for chewing through swarms of ships, and is basically the aoe equivalent of the TEC rebels.

Those two are probably my favorite so far, though I haven't gotten the Vasari loyalist up high enough to test out it's maw ability, so it could be pretty neat. 

The others feel like they're focused more on other  aspects to me, with the titans being more supportive. TEC loyalists turtle like crazy with dual starbases, and an uber-tank titan while building tons of Novaliths. And The Vasari rebels phause-jumping starbases are a battering ram like no other, capable of getting close to 40k  total hp + forward shield & a massive ammount of armor. The Advent loyalists niche is supposed to be being able to capture enemy ships in a variety of differant ways, but they are probably who I'm least sure of in terms of unique tricks they bring. Mostly because I'm just not a fan of getting random ships you can't pick though, not because the concept'itself couldn't work.

They get sucked towards the "maw" at the front centre of the ship, if they reach it, they're broken down into resources.

I imagine it's interruptable.

@Timmaigh: It's an engine limitation. Ships can only ever have 5 abilities, and the last one must be a passive. That means the only way to put planet draining on it would be to have it replace an existing ability. Doing so would natrually blow it's balance vs fleets all to hell. Titans are going to be a key part in late game fleets. Without one thats as effective a fighter as the rest the vassari loyalists would be doomed to lose every game. They're just too powerful for their cost and supply to be matched by anything else.

As to titan badassness?

IMHO i have to agree that the don't feel that badass much of the time. Having played the stargate mod recently however i can quite quicklly put my finger on why. Stargate has some reserchable high cost high supply, and high power capital ships. They're bassiclly a titan made using the limits laid out in diplomacy. There's a few important diffrances however. They're scaling in health, firepower, and ability points are in line with normal capital values, (in percentage terms). Their abilities whilst showing a marked increase in power over those of standard capitals are still much weaker than the normal for the new titans. What turns them into titanic bemoeths is their raw hull and sheild values. Battles with these aren't 2 minute affairs of ability spamming until the titan or it's foes are dead. They're raw 5 and 10 minutes slugfests of warring fleets and their titanic leaders trading volley after volley after volley across the void at each other. I never need to use much in the way of suport ships vs the AI, but if i where to do so i'm pretty sure i could drage these conflicts out to 15 minutes or more before the mods titan equivelents fell.

The new titans just don't have that "Fleet unto themselves" feel about them. That they're powerful is beyond doubt, even the stargate mods Aincent city ships with their, (fully upgraded and levelled), 260K EHP couldn't beat them down. But al that power s in their abilities. They're lighning bruisers that come in and deliver powerful body blows, but they lack staying power. They just feel like an oversised capital with super powered abilities. Not the super massive engines of destruction we expected.

When do we get to play as the advent and vasari?

Is true, with my friend think that, "THE TITAN´S MUST HAVE UNIQUE ABILITIES OF THE FACTION"

TEC - Frigate factory is OK.

Advent - Some control mentals.

Vasari - Like the idea of Phase stabilizer.

Attack with TEC, you can create fleet on the battle, attack with vasari can do phase jump directly on the titan, and on the war, attack with advent, do the enemy fleet killing themselves, doin the game balanced for all factions.

And this abilities do more balanced the titan, why?, because, you want have frigate factory or other attack abilities¡?, or reemplace the resistence for frigate factory, with the same lvl up, selected 2 abilities per lvl, but adding this unique ability to choise, the new great ability on lvl 6.

i know which files need to be altered since i did it in trinity to enable Pirates, but that was when these files could be changed into txt format, is there a way to do that to the rebellion files????