Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Infomorph psychology currently allows you to install one additional jump clone per level where ever you please, subject to standing.

However, once you jump to it you have 24 hours before you are able to jump again - and if you are jumping into an empty clone for combat or the likes, this can result in a not insignificant loss of skill training through lack of implants, or just being stuck in a part of space where you don't really want to spend an extended period, being bored to death on your main character.

How about another skill that decreases the time it takes you to "recover" from using a jump clone - and knocks off 3 hours per level off the time you have to spend?

Or just reduce the timer to 6 / 12 hours. More jump cloning means more people willing to "jump" into combat without having to sit on their arses for 20 hours after the op is done. Which I know is a big turn off for a lot of people when they head into null.

After all - my pod can explode half a dozen times within an hour - and so long as I keep my clone up to date it does me no harm. So why not drastically cut the next-jump timer too.

Thoughts?

That works for me, but i bet there's a rebuttal coming along any second now that this idea breaks the game somehow.

I like your idea...

I can be the first to point out a negative effect:

I am suspecting that the reason there is a 24 hour counter is so you cannot escape pvp.

Example: (in its simplest terms)....
You gank / pew pew someone and their pod gets away and they get in thier pvp ship and come back to you.
Their corp is closing in too to try to catch you.
However you dock up and jump clone 25 jumps away and wave goodbye.
Now they fly all the way to meet up with you and you jump another 25 away.

At least now - a corp has a chance to catch up to you and chase you down.

That's a very intuitive look at an old dreary mechanic, it's dynamic, I like it

If it's to be added, however it must be considered the consequences on TimeZone warfare.

Some factions have to travel great distances to reach a POS at the correct cycle time, and this could potentially remove that vital barrier.

Good, but needs discretion and moderation.

10k (or, more realistically, 4k) is pretty insignificant…

And anyway, a reduction to 23h to make it an actual once-per-day thing, rather than a silly fence-post error, is enough to make a worth-while change. Cutting the timer down by 12-15h makes it quite a bit too cheap and convenient.

I would like to be able to jump between appropriate clones for the task at hand more than once every 24 hours personally.

I know you know you wanted to give it a +1. >;]


This is a feature that a lot of people want. An hour a day, a percentage of the day, 3 hours a day... the 24hr wait time is a bother. It makes it hard to use clones if your play time is inflexible. Take a 9to5er for example. If they work late one day and get off one time the next, then they are stuck in their clone when they login. Not earth shattering, but annoying. Let’s look at the weekend. If you jumped during the week, you are stuck for a much longer time.


I think a lot of the reason it hasn't been added is that so many other things need to be tweaked and duct-taped. There is a possibility that the clock cycle is linked to down time, but, even if that's the case, it could be worked around. That said, it would be all the more reason to put it off.

Personally, I think the time should be flatly reduced to 23 or 22 hours. That would make it more forgiving.

+1

I would support this if the base timer got changed to 50 hours and the new skill reduced it by 5 hours per level.

I like this idea. I think that starting at 3h is a bit short, since it doesn't require pretty much any commitment, but something along those lines would be cool.