EVE General Discussion

I mean I get that it would be too easy to move around if you could just jump around all the time, but 24 hours seems like an awfully large penalty to solve a relatively minor problem. Couldn't the timer be 2 hours, 4 hours, or 8 hours, and do the same thing?

I'm not really sure what you mean.

Clone jumping more often would mean that there's more pvp in the game. As we all know, more pvp means that there's a lack of consequences for undesirable behavior. This is something that's not in line with current development focus.

I would prefer it if you could just switch pods immediately at any medical station.

Never been a fan learning implants just like the skills but separate from that I would like it if you could switch from your Nano Cruiser Minmatar Pod to your Gallente Blaster Frigate Pod on the fly in side a station, like switching ships.

That way you can create empty pods for the cost of Updating your Clone and seed pods around Med Stations for PvE or PvP purposes. That way if you use an expensive pod for any purpose like a Crystal, Slave Set or +4's and 5's and want to go on a Thrasher roam or switch tanking styles and weapons you don't have to wait 24 hours.

Even better carry them from one Med station to another in your Cargo Hold. Like moving them from X Med Station to Y Med Station where you are relocating.

It doesn't really serve a purpose

The biggest argument in favor of the timer is probably that it slows down force projection - you are deployed in some faraway region, somebody SBUs your home space or hits some of your moons, now you have to make a decision on whether to jumpclone home or not.

The problem is that even if you exclude other means of force projection that might allow you to cross several regions quickly (titan bridges, jumpbridges, etc) there is always the option to do the jump via medical clone without any cooldowns (and most pvpers in 0.0 don't use expensive implant sets anyways - for me the total cost of a jump is 60m and that's probably on the upper end of the spectrum).

Whats with this sudden surge of people who want to do away with meaningfull conciquences to their actions?

It's to ensure that you can't move around (or adjust your clone setup) too easily at too little cost.

The only problem with the timer is that it's a classic timer fence-post error. It should really be 23h (or 23:55).

The idea is that if you've committed yourself to operating here, then you have to accept tha your assets are vulnerable over there.

In short, if people could jump-clone freely, then there would be no barrier to one group owning all of 0.0 (and indeed lo-sec). As it is it's easy enough for a single group to dominate vast areas

I could get behind shortening it to 23 or 23 1/2 just to stop the annoying timer-creep that occurs with a full 24 hours, but otherwise being forced to commit to a jump is a good thing.

Although, to be honest, most of my clone-jumps are done in-station between by learning implanted clone and a naked pvp clone, and a reduction when your in the same station as the clone your hopping into would be kinda helpful, but something I wouldn't care enough about to argue for.

which is?