EVE General Discussion

What is the lore reason only capsuleer's have clones available to use. It seems the ideal of this type of cloning along with real time memory recording would be something all citizens of New Eden would want. Otherwise why would any NCP want to join a crew.

And yes I did Google it.

I can imagine a lot of them wanting it. But there is a reason that compared to the amount of people there actually are in the New Eden cluster, there are so few capsuleers: It is mindbogglingly expensive. To become one and to sustain one.

For comparison, a few million Isk is but small change for capsuleers. On most planets you can set an entire family up for quite a comfortable life for the same amount.
Imagine being middle class, working hard and supporting your family from a yearly wage of 20k Isk. Now imagine paying for cloning facilities from that......

Must be something with the neurons and the complexity of the clone that sets the price so high, remember we had clone grades until recently and the best were very expensive. They must have finally figured out how to unify all clones, hence the removal of grades.
As Ezwal stated we capsuleers are the high end of the society, we get all the benefits, because we do all the dirty work for the empires and we also shape their fate for the most part. Think of us as a super soldiers in which the defense department invests a lot to be the most efficient.

Your Google-fu is weak!

Cloning in EVE
TRANSNEURAL BURNING SCANNER
The Capsule and the Clone
tldr;
- brain scanning kills the original subject
- brain scanning equipment requires bulky equipment
- brain scanning equipment is a bit sensitive, so it doesn't work too well in "uncontrolled environments"
- brain scanning is VERY expensive (100,000 ISK or more per clone).
- non-capsuleers in EVE earn, at most, about 10 to 15,000 ISK in their lifetimes.

- the purpose of a capsule is to basically render the "command structure" of a ship redundant... making it so that a ship can run efficiently with a minimal crew
- the capsule (that the player's character is in) provides the necessary controlled environment and space for the brain scanning equipment to be installed and used
- what crew you do have are for ship/weapon/module maintenance and re-calibration... basically they are there for fixing things by hand and system support... both of which you can't be in a capsule to do


Exception:
- DUST/Legion neural implants: new technology... somewhat unstable... very expensive. It essentially replaces entire sections of the brain and allows the host to be instantly cloned at the time of death.
The current empress of the Amarr Empire used this tech. She's now shares her body with a psychotic consciousness that drives her to wage war and chaos.

#1 Not everyone can be clone like a capsuleer (something in the lore about having to meet mental requirements).
#2 The price. 100k isk is nothing for us, for a eve citizen it's a LOT of money. The price of a nice frigate can set a family for LIFE apparently.



...'because insurance' isn't a valid answer/reason. Look at the US... then look at Canada. Yeah big difference, yet the US makes more money, etc, but yet insurance in Canada isn't a rip off...

Also why should an insurance pay for your expensive things? This would be like you paying your $30 a month for health insurance and then asking for a bionic arm and leg... you won't get it, you'll get a plastic replacement. Now for the guy that pay's $3000 monthly insurance... he might get it

I draft all of mine from people I've "rescued" during incursions.

Life for non capsuleers is in fact "brutal and short".


New Eden has trillions of people in it, and competition for resources (jobs) is high. So they will indeed sign on as crew because the alternative is poverty.

Capsuleers are supposed to be incredibly wealthy individuals, and the ratio for isk value isn't 1 isk=1 USD, it's much much more in favor isk for in-game lore purposes.

Consider that null-sec capsuleers own space larger than empire space, which is multiple worlds running all sorts of operations. You're living as a capsuleer at a scale of wealth so far removed from what's really comprehensible in an OOC sense; hell, you've already bought immortality, if that says anything at all, and that's the baseline for any capsuleer in EvE regardless of how successful or unsuccessful they are.