Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I like the idea, but i don't see the point. 5 hours is a little weak.

Honestly, cancel this and do it right. 5 hours isn't right, nor is it being skillpoints based for just that.

The '99 things' initative highlights that many people are happy to see a more complete solution, a separation of the teleportation potential of jump clones with their implant-saving aspect. AFAIK many are willing to have shorter JC timers if they're in the same system/station as the other clone, and understand the power projection potential problems of having the ranged jumps be more frequent. But they also shown that players don't want to be tied to yesterday's start-of-session clone choice the next day, and that's where I feel 5 hours just isn't enough.

A 10hour reduction if in the same system/station sounds much more appealing, more likely to lead to fun options to mix things up for those that have the opportunity to fly various doctrines (remember we still can't use even a fraction of our SP or wealth at once anyway).
Don't make people train or plan to train a skill for this, especially if it's likely to be changed Soon. Almost as bad a 4 racial ECCM skills as a 'fix' for ECM, only hurts the new guys & those hoping for slightly varied session start-times.

wanted to say the same... make it 1,5h plz

Please consider raising this bonus to 2 hr per skill level, and maybe increase the 'rank' a bit if you're worried about it being abused. Level 3 would be fine for most casual players, for instance.

1 - 23 hr 22 hr
2 - 22 hr 20 hr
3 - 21 hr 18 hr
4- 20 hr 16 hr
5- 19 hr 14 hr

This prevents people from doing twice per 24 hour period, but makes it easier for those of us who end up with weird play times. The 1.5 mark would also be fine, but makes it hard for people to remember when it's 'up'.

5% per level would end up with 18h, can we have that extra 1 hour at least please.

Its a simple tweak.

Apparently there are allot of people who want to jump clone every half a day........

Good God Go Outside and stare at nature, workout, physically move @ss from seat.

Its a 5 second tweak.

no biggie... but could just do 2 hrs per skill level and still have no significant hit to the game, but give people the option to swap clones more often.

It would be more interesting to have the skill allow for a rebound back, only to the clone you just jumped from for the next 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 hours dependent on the skill lvl.

I support this change.

Any chance of a skill to create more jump clones? Advanced infomorph psychology perhaps?

6 clones is just not enough any more after the crystals/snakes/slaves a set of really spendy implants I was given for an alliance tourney team a few years back and a set of +5's for those times when I know I'm going to be away from the game for a few days. That leaves me with 1 "cheap clone" I can use for general pew pew, I would love to be able to put a few clones and ships in various npc null'ss and be able to go pew in other locations for a weekend or whatever without having to setup cyno chains and spend a couple hundred mill on jump fuel b4 I even get there.

Also having more then 1 clone per station would be awesome while your at it.

I will say that this seems very balanced. it's certainly better than the time creep that was there before... I rememeber plenty of times when I had to do "nothing" because I was on cooldown from the day before while being in an expensive combat clone (that would be very bad idea to bring on the specific situration)

I will say that jump clones main function for most people is implant switching, and I hope that the next iteration of jump clones would involve some "smarter" way of switching implants... such as being able to switch clones at a much faster rate if the clone is in your current station (honestly all other locations shouldn't be changed in duration, but I am okay with this 19h delay)

:D and as a disclaimer, I would say that the current cooldown when switching implants (and not considering jumpclones as a means of travel) can cause alot of "risk aversion" this both counts of combat clones and "skill training" clones making the delay much much smaller on changing implants if it's in current station would allow more people to get into action when they might have chosen otherwise because they were on a cooldown or the cooldown would fit badly on their planned adventures for the next day... speaking out of own experience here, where I used to fly a lot with full snake clone, forcing me to stay mainly in my "snake clone ship" :3 as I never knew when I would need it next (I used it almost daily) but it also meant I couldn't really switch out of it to jump into a ships like dictors other stuff that might die... as it would be stupid) just my two cent, ofc it's all a "choice" :D