Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You managed to get the corpse of a highly skilled pilot.
It has implants, and the player is out at least 100 million to replace due to clone costs and implants.

Now, with the zombie rigging skill, you can take one of the corpses previous skills, and have your ship use that value instead of your own.

Example: You are flying a battleship, let's say a Raven. You have Caldari BS to level 3.
You manage to obtain a corpse that had Caldari BS to level 5.

It could take you over 50 days to train that to level 5, but if you rig this corpse into the hull, you can hardwire the skill into the ship itself.

That one hull will still use all of your other skills, but will always use the Zombie Rigged corpse's skill for Caldari Battleship at level 5.

As with any rigging, rigs cannot be removed intact, and are destroyed by the attempt. For this type, the corpse is also lost.

Clarifications, as seen needed so far:
You have to be able to fly the ship already.

This is intended to improve skills you already have, not give you brand new ones entirely.
You must at least have the skill injected. That means you must meet all the prerequisites for it's use as well.

It only applies, like any rig, when you are flying that ship.
(Or like an implant only helps when that clone is active, same concept I guess)

Oh, and in case anyone forgot, this would eat a rig slot too, WITH a possibly high calibration cost.
Even a titan may have three rig slots, but only 400 calibration points.
A rig this useful could use 300 to 350 reasonably, leaving only enough room for a relatively minor second rig.

Vet with 150m sp: self destruct, self destruct, self destruct. get a bunch of newbie characters, tadaa, titan pilots for the price of a clone.

No. Pilots need to train skills to fly ships.

Nope, you are substituting the zombie rig experience level for your own, not adding it cumulatively.

Now, if you had no skill in an ability, you would probably find it more practical to train to level 1 rather than waste an otherwise expensive zombie rig for something you could already do cheaply.

This is intended to improve skills you already have, not give you brand new ones entirely.

Nick you've been coming up with a number of bad ideas lately. Have you been drinking?

Not nearly enough, it seems.

The biggest obstacle my ideas seem to meet is perception.

I know my ideas would work, but I am perhaps the worst person to do public relations about them.
(The same difference in the way I think tends to make me an awful spokesperson)

In some cases, people would need to see the ideas working before they could believe them. Lucky for me this is not such an obstacle in real life, lol!

go buy a bazaar pilot if you your current pilot isnt getting the job done for you, or wait and skill up till it passes muster.

Not, just no, but emphatically NO !!!!

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Updated the OP with a few clarifications.

It helps when people point out how these things are so easily misunderstood.

Well gee, let's do some math.

Say you have a new character. You want to train for this titan, and you will be using that amazing shortcut.

The prerequisites for injecting that skill are: 193 Days, 5 hours, 32 minutes.
To train Titan to level 1, required to fly the ship: An additional 2 hours 13 minutes.

Now, you DID say level 5. That would indeed add over two months.

So, ah, who exactly did you have in mind with this skill? They are just everywhere, aren't they?

Or at least, their corpses are, right?

Killing a Titan happens all the time, I understand, so these must be quite common. That point being made, the life expectency of the ship with this rig is therefore equally low.
So, the question becomes, do the titans last an average of two months?

Longer? It is no longer cost effective to expect this, unless you are sacrificing an expensive character for this repeatedly.

And after those two months, the process has no value, unless you decided to cross train your titan alt into using that relic analyzer too..... oh the scanning titan is truly a highly sought asset to many alliances!!

The same logic applies to the jump freighters.

Unless you plan on using this exclusively, you are going to keep training the character. That means the use of this mechanic encounters progressively diminishing returns.

Could someone do this? Obviously.

The cost, in order to be profitable, would need to be exceeding the clone cost to replace, of course.

And, self interest point: You don't want your competition to have this, or you could be facing a zombie pilot from your own alliance in that titan about to DD your cap fleet. Something to consider, you crating risk for yourself that way....

Oh, and in case anyone forgot, this would eat a rig slot too, WITH a possibly high calibration cost.
A leviathan may have three rig slots, but only 400 calibration points.
A rig this useful, as you pointed out, could use 300 to 350 reasonably, leaving only enough room for a relatively minor second rig.

That is a likely expectation.

It would give the pilot a taste of having the ship with that skill maxxed.

Perversely, it could create hesitation to use, if the rig is difficult to replace for some.
For others, who embrace a more "use it or lose it" philosophy, it would make them see how far they could go with it, and possibly choose different skills to focus on before others.

Admittedly, his logic failed to spot the obvious, and he assumed he had found a gaping flaw in the OP.

I am sure he doesn't always jump to wild conclusions that often!