EVE General Discussion

I recall seeing a dev post at one point stating that they were looking at the clone costs for higher-end clones. I haven't really seen anything about it since, and clone costs have been the primary reason why I never roam around in cheap, disposable ships anymore. While I may have been around a long time, my income has not markedly improved over my years in EVE, and the cost of my clone has become rather prohibitive.

How about we reverse the costs on clones. The lower the clone grade, the MORE expensive it is. New players shell out 150mil for each clone popped, and 10yo bittervets should get free clones. problems solved, eve is left with only bittervets to populate its space. will the last titan out please turn off the servers?

Dumbest thing ever.

Having a massive amount of SP doesn't make isk grinding much faster than basic skills. At-least not at the exponential rate of clone cost increase. Plus most SP is situational, it allows for more avenues to interact with the game, yet you can only interact via so many methods at once.
Once past 54m SP, which happens to be just about the 3 year retention mark. The bang for the buck in t1 frigs and cruisers starts to spiral sharpy as you always have to pay for the next grade higher. Specially if you die quite often due to bubbles or simply CCPs awful latency during the ship transfer in podding. With just leads to even more grinding. Punishing old pvpers who play the longest with more pve time. Or its just a ploy to force long standing hooked customers to plex more often as they think those that have been playing for that long will not leave for any reason. That or it makes them create alternate accounts supported by large SP highsec dwelling ex-mains because that's where the safest money is right?

They had more avenues for sinks to lighten the load of clone costs such as bounty concord taxes and activation and claiming of killrights in highsec not lowsec. Yet they didn't go for these obvious small sinks which would add up over time. And leaving new modules as drops only are lost sinks when bpc LP store versions could add to sinks. Dusters should at least help drain some isk yet they have yet to ever revisit their old archaic ratios.

My sign says it all.

you get a free clone, every time your pod is destroyed. If you don't want to pay for a clone upgrade that will preserve all your skillpoints, then don't. After your pod gets destroyed a few times your cost for that clone upgrade will become cheaper. Problem solved. No need for CCP to waste yet more manpower considering how best to mollycoddle folks.

This could be easily gamed just by focusing on having lots of assets and keeping your wallet small. Besides, it's not like my wallet has lots of ISK in it, anyway.

In regards to the original question, would a passing dev care to respond, even if it's just "we're still looking at it but don't have anything concrete that we can share"?

Just curious - I notice when passing through FW systems that upgraded system offer a discount on medical costs. I'm sure it wouldn't be the most convenient arrangement, but could high-SP characters not take advantage of this to lower their costs? (iirc the discount can be up to 40+% which is significant when you're getting up to the 100's of millions of ISK)

Characters are just another commodity.

In real life if you owned some sports car and suddenly ran out of money to run it, what would you do? Oh of course, YOU'd scream to the government to reduce fuel prices and refuse to ever drive again until they do.

Everyone else with common sense would sell it (to someone with the cash to buy it and run it), and buy a smaller, more economical car that they can afford to run.

Sorry, no interest in selling my character. My character is my history and reputation within EVE (such as they are). Moreover, after using the character for 9 years, I've kind of grown attached. Finally, I like being able to do all of the many different things this toon is capable of. I just find the exponential ramp-up in clone costs prohibitive, especially since I can only use something like 30% (or less) of those skillpoints at any given time.