Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I have every racial ship skills from Frig to BS at level V. I have HAC, CS, Marauders, Logistics, AF, and Recon at V. I can use ALL tech II weapons from rockets to tech 2 tachyons, and all tech 2 drones (except fighters). And this is where my problems start. I have multiple ships that I like to fly, but if I want to optimize a ship via implants I am stuck flying that ship (or similar ships) for 24 hours, or stuck flying another ship with sub par implants.

Why am I punished for being so broadly trained? Why can't I fly A Paladin with large beam implants for one mission, then fly a nighthawk with heavy missile implants in the next, then fly a blaster/drone Ishtar in the third mission?

This goes for PVP as well, why can't I quickly hop from my sniper BS to an interceptor and have optimal implants for both?

My simple solutions would be a new skill

I'm bad at naming things, so I'll just call the skill "Headroom"
Level 0 implants work exactly like they do now.
Level 1-5 Allows 1 additional implant to be installed PER SLOT

Only 1 implant for each slot may be active at any time.

So at level 5 you could have 6 different implants in each slot, with only one active implant at a time.
Switching which implants are active should only be allowed while docked.

What this does is allows the same character the ability to optimize multiple ships with out having to clone jump. (I'm not even sure clone jumping was really meant as a way to switch implants anyways...)
You can keep only one implant per slot and it works exactly how it does now.
Your added convenience/utility comes with the price of being able to potentially lose 5x as much isk when podded.

Thoughts? Ideas? Concerns of overpoweredness I haven't thought of? Maybe an even better way to accomplish this? Implants is a 10 year old feature that hasn't had its core implementation changed at all since it was introduced.

OP,

All I read is "I can fly every sub-cap ship in the game, Me is special, blah, blah, blah...".

Whatever you are whining about, the answer is NO.

Jump Clones.

Agreed, sure if they added that you could have 1 very very expensive clone or you could just jump clone lol

I didn't mean for it to sound so much as a whine. I was just trying to describe why I would enjoy the feature.

Jump Clones have a 24 hour timer that means I can only switch implants once per day, when I would like someway to be able to fly multiple ships in the same day and still have relevant implants.

Changing the jump clone timer wouldn't be an option because it would allow people to hop around too much.

I rarely fly without implants, even in PVP. A couple of 2% damage implants are cheap and increase damage by about 5%, which is a lot considering some of us train for 20+ days for similar performance gain.

Its just annoying to want to be able to enjoy different ships, but I either have to un-dock with implants that do nothing for my ship (And I would rather not risk expensive implants that are basically useless in the wrong ship) or jump clone and be stuck with a certain ship type for 24 hours.

I would still be stuck switching between my expensive high-sec carebear set and my cheap roaming pvp set only once per day.

.....

And then CCP gave us extra jumpclones. And shorter JC timers.

And it was good.

But not good enough for the OP, apparently.

It isn't so much a compromise as it is an arbitrarily 24 hour limitation.

There is nothing currently keeping me from having optimal implant sets for my 6 favorite ships.
I'm just limited in how often I can enjoy those ships to their full potential.

CCP reduced the time, you can now train a skill that means it's only 19 hours at level 5. Plus they gave us another skill that allows for another 5 clones.

So it's far better than it was, but still means we have consequences attached to our choices. After all, things that can be had too easily, become boring far quicker.

Fake edit: All sub cap ships you say? Noob.