I was thinking nastier.
How about crashing on Earth, Mars and other important atmospheric worlds for humanity.
Or maybe ammonia giants.
GALNET - Target the Titans – Guardian Nanite Torpedoes Released - 26 FEB 3310
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How about crashing on Earth, Mars and other important atmospheric worlds for humanity.
Or maybe ammonia giants.
The attacks on the Titans are having an effect - especially at Taranis - that's visible in the Journal progress indicator for the Titan's system. It's just going to take a fair bit longer for it to accumulate to visible levels.
From what little data we have it looks like there might be some benefit to removing a Titan's other systems too, in terms of making that easier, but it'll need more data to see if it's significant or indeed real.
The Frontier Unlocked video did mention about "needing to work something else out"... but what that is isn't clear yet.
It seems unlikely the plan is for this to take another 50 years per Titan, so the idea there might be something 'more' eventually added seems reasonable. We have months to fill until PP2, so no rush.
Smacks to me of the usual 'you missed something' they say after every 'sneak peek' video.
We never have found anything was missed.
Oh, no, I don't think anything was missed. I think maybe there's something else since U18... perhaps we need to wait and see what happens when we've ganked the first titan.
Well after today’s mini-maintenance, the UI indicators have disappeared entirely and the Titan system tab looks exactly like it did before U18. What gives, Frontier?
*Edit - seems like it’s just Elite doing Elite things and sometimes the indicator is there, other times it disappears and reverts to pre-U18 display.
*Edit - seems like it’s just Elite doing Elite things and sometimes the indicator is there, other times it disappears and reverts to pre-U18 display.
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It is there - and we have progress! More progress than before the restart ....
Was that ring always a progress bar or had we made so little progress previously that I just hadn't noticed?
Prior to the maintenance change there was less than .1% progress iirc, so probably the latter.
So, it's like peeling an onion: get rid of the outermost progress bar, then move on to the next?
I looked at it more like a variant of our shield displays, so the outer layer gets mashed, and that's it. (The "circle" progress bar is a common widget in the game)
lol That titan sure looks like it’s struggling with that exhaust log.
At first I thought it would work like our shield indicators, with rings fading out from outward in. But the screenshot implies that each ring is a progress bar for each "phase" of Titan-bashing--the active "phase" ring goes bright and starts to shorten clockwise, when it goes to 0 the next ring inward goes bright and starts to shorten. Peeling an onion
Time will tell 
I guess for those disappointed the spectacle factor is not higher, I imagine Tanner's talk about superpower ships could include flotillas of capital ships jumping in with the heavy artillery, once a Titan has been weakened enough, and its sinuses are thoroughly clogged, to deliver the coup de grace... (and then leaving right away, before they rust through
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Battle is joined.
Short description: Skin dancing helps (B5 reference)
shoot yellow heat ports with torps, have to be a little close to target them but no big deal, you are already skin dancing anyway.
Torps smack it, it hollers. Enough times and a corn cob pops out. Shoot corn cob. Corn cob goes away, repeat process.
You'll have plenty of munitions with the size 3 as each has 128 torps. All you have to do is tank the turret fire or, you know, you can I guess shoot the turrets. Missiles, too, but you have caustic sinks to handle that to get here in the first place.
Short description: Skin dancing helps (B5 reference)
shoot yellow heat ports with torps, have to be a little close to target them but no big deal, you are already skin dancing anyway.
Torps smack it, it hollers. Enough times and a corn cob pops out. Shoot corn cob. Corn cob goes away, repeat process.
You'll have plenty of munitions with the size 3 as each has 128 torps. All you have to do is tank the turret fire or, you know, you can I guess shoot the turrets. Missiles, too, but you have caustic sinks to handle that to get here in the first place.
I'm helping!