EVE General Discussion

The main idea with jump clones is that they are for power projection, I don't even think they were intended to protect people from losing implants in the first place.

How about we make Pods immune to warp bubbles instead.

If they made pods immune to warp bubbles I would be willing to PVP WAY more without even jumping to an empty clone, because it's way too easy to lose 2 bils worth of clone these days.

Catching a pod before it warps out should be a challenging and rewarding feat, not just shooting fish in a barrel, like what happens when a ship blows up in a bubble and leaves the pod behind, unable to do anything but DIE.

Make up a lore reason like "the pod uses a special Jovian miniaturized version of the warp drive, that cannot be affected by the bubble's scrambling signal".

Change pod mechanics, only way to catch a pod would be to manage to lock and warp scramble it before it aligns and warps away.

Hell, you could even slow the align time a bit to make it balanced, just PLEASE make them immune to bubbles.

You COULD increase it's base speed to 1kmps if you don't want to make it immune to bubbles, that would also be fair, a 200 mps pod is WAY too easy to catch in a bubble.

I swear I'd PVP in my +5, hardwired clone if they were immune to warp bubbles or had an increased base speed.

I think, rather than change the overall timer, introduce a timer for each JC. Once you jump, you cannot jump back to the clone you jumped from, for 24 hours.

So, say you have 2 JCs in 0.0, in systems next door to each other. Lets call them system 1 & 2 . You also have a JC in highsec. You are currently in a third system

You JC from system 3 -> highsec. Your clone is left behind in system 3, but you cannot jump back to it for 24 hours. You can however, still jump to the JCs in either system 1 or 2. Once you do so though, you can not jump back to the High sec clone for 24 hours. The other JC in 0.0 (which ever system you did not jump to) is still available though.

Lets say you stay in high sec for 6 hours. When you jump, you cannot go back to your high sec clone for 24 hours, however, your original clone (the one in system 3) is now available in 18 hours.


So, owning 5 JCs, you could theoretically jump 4 times a day. Or is it 5 times a day....this has actually kinda confused me ha



If that makes sense

Edit: yep 5 times a day. Forgot about the original clone so yeah, 5 JCs = 5 jumps a day...but the first JC would be ready to be jumpped to again before the last JC.

So you won't stay in your jumpclone for a day just to shave a few minutes off of training times? Implants make a decent difference over the span of months, but for a day it is pretty small.

Besides, put +2 or +3 implants in your jump clone and stop worrying about it. They are cheap as dirt.

Just an hour off the 24 hour cool down period would be, heaven.

But this has been requested to death on the forums and i have to see yet a Dev response to it.
So I fear it's a 'deal with it' situation.

Nah. Makes things too easy and convenient.

At most they should reduce it to 23h (although 23h55m will work too) just to get rid of the silly fencepost error and make it a once-a-day thing rather than a once-a-bit-more-than-a-day.

The best idea i ever saw was the idea of varying cooldown by range....

In-Station clone swaps with a 1 hour cooldown, In-System clone swaps with a 6 hour cool down, In-Region clone swaps 12 hours, and Cross Region clone swaps 24 hours... it just seems to solve all the issues doesn't it?

No mass projection across regions of people jumping back and forth constantly, but the ability to swap between pvp and pve clones relatively easy.


WHY WONT CCP/CSM ATLEAST COMMENT

You want to send my jumpclones to concentration camp?

removing them all together will have the complete opposite effect. you have even less people inclined to pvp.

I mean unless you're a drooling at the mouth sperg who facerolls their keyboard while playing, I don't see how exactly you can lose a pod unless you're just being stupid.

+1.. reduce the timer. don't care how