Definitely invisible, as in, "I was fighting this HUGE laser face thing, and then it turned very very blue and proceeded to kill me. However my captains decided they wanted to hang out at Gravity Central Cafe and left all their ships unattended. A few minutes later, the giant blue suddenly vanished, but it continued to fire lasers everywhere. Unphased by this nonsense, the captains stayed in the cafe, all the while the strike fighters fought off the bombers that kept flying out of nothing. The radar claimed the Eratica was now about to enter phase space. The Captains then played poker to decide who would get the experience, but were told no one gets anything because the Eradica didn't die in their gravity well. In fact, a star base in the neighboring gravity well registered Eradica weapons fire before communication was cut. The captains then began a rebellion."

I was a bit shocked when I read the duration increase numbers.  I figured 75 at level 1 and 90 and level 2 would be lots and incredibly ugly when facing it as an enemy.  I'm wondering if IC didn't overdo it on purpose to show how powerful it is and plan to bring back down to somewhere between the two extremes.

I'm saying that if my Captains weren't so easily brainwashed by big blue lights, they could have actually launched a missile and finished that thing. And if it really was invincible, THEY COULD AT LEAST GO TO THE CAFE IN THE NEXT GRAVITY WELL. "What do you mean, the light tells us there are no incoming missiles" is not a proper way to report to your commanding officer!

The xp distribution before shiny would be good, if nothing else. Though if they suspend the Eradica's phase jumping while in shiny mode, I'd be fine with it not giving xp until it officially dies. The trailer still bothers me, I keep thinking now, "Was the Eradica so weak that it got hit once and went Genocide Mode?"

Woah, hold on. When did this start getting personal? I typed what I believed was a bug while testing and during Beta. Someone asked for clarification, so I gave it as a dramatized story. Of course you retreat your ships when the Eradica becomes invincible. Of course it's supposed to be a given that you cannot defeat the thing when it is blue. I left my forces there to test bugs about the Eradica, and I did in fact confirm one.

Sorry about running with the 'hey my Captains are playing poker" bit. I seriously didn't think anyone would take that bit seriously. However, the dramatized story was akin to a parable. It has only one point, and that was to confirm the fact that when I said 'invisible', I meant 'invisible'. The story was actually a runthrough of the exact same events [while avoiding the words 'invincible' and 'invisible'] as my earlier post that was direct. In fact, you answered the question that the post asked. The story was there to make it clear that the Eradica was invulnerable for a set time, and then turned invisible whilst staying invulnerable. It also had enough time after it changed to invisible to phase jump, engage, and kill a fully upgraded star base.

I dont think adding a little humor to his post hurts anything. No reason to get worked up about it.

I was actually disappointed with the "Unyielding Will" visual representation, i expected it to look like in the trailer, when Eradica is hit by Coronata first time, you know  blueish, semi-visible with that hexagon pattern... instead, it looks fairly shit. 

Invisible Eradica's is still a bug...

Fighting one in orbit around a sun. It turned invincible. (Perfectly normal). Then it turned invisible.

Seeing as this "bug report" has devolved into a balance discussion, I'll add my two cents.

First on the "bug"

As a software programmer, that screams that this ability needs to be changed. If the default installation of Sins has the strong potential to reliably reproduce this, due to a fundamental limitation of the engine; it should be reworked to be different. I'm sure most of us have already modified this file (I have) and I still occasionally see this behavior.

Now on balance

I completely agree with Riddle on this. The ability is VERY good, in my opinion too good. This titan is nearly impossible to kill in it's own culture after upgrades [which for the record I'm ok with] 

What I'm not ok with is that your reward for finally killing this thing and it's massively synergistic support fleet is that you get a choice. You can retreat two or three phase jumps giving your enemy plenty of time [4 mins]  to easily pump a new support fleet that will easily clean up whatever fleet you may have left [which by this point your fleet has no AM to combat their new support fleet which does]

I'm not a balance person, so I don't know exactly how to make it feel powerful and still balanced enough to not be this.

There's a few options I see and that I think is fair.

1. The ability no longer makes it invincible. It instead fully restores shields and gives half hull strength (or whatever) plus a decent armor bonus (plus it's current stats on weapon cooldown and am regen)

2. It remains exactly as is but no phase jump ability [thus less running from it and burning up your AM on jumps] Makes it very defensive as I feel it should be. Perhaps include the ability to phasejump within your culture (essentially giving you one offensive jump assuming the engine allows that)

3. [more out there idea] on death you can re spawn the titan anywhere in your culture (Thinking of you deliverance engine ) I can think of many awesome uses for this... and strangely none of them seem as broken as the ability seems now. NOTE: does not cost money, crystal, or metal but does have a 4 minute timer as is now. Can be used very defensively as well as offensively in this situation.