Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'd like to bring up an idea following on the latest dev blog about NPC Industry Work Teams (click here for the blog) -

The NPC team idea is a good one. But I would eventually like these teams to be replaced by players.

Wouldn't it be awesome to have, say for example, a new booster line (Inferno Industry boosters?) and implants that would allow you to essentially "copy yourself" into a jump clone made specifically to do industry jobs?

Let me explain: Say instead of an NPC team, players were given the ability to use jump clones to impart similar or better bonuses to industry jobs through the use of booster consumables and implants. Then a player would "install" his jump clone to do the industry job and then clone jump into another jump clone to do other stuff (PvP, mining, hauling, etc).

Players in the same corporation or alliance would be able to use and "install" their jump clones to augment or add various bonuses to the industry job. This could be done after the initial installation of the job.

Jump clones that were on boosters to enhance bonuses would suffer various penalties after a period of time or after the completion of the job, or the clones would simply "die" and be biomassed for extreme cases - like building a Titan. Jobs that are located at POSs or outposts that get destroyed would also result in the loss of the installed clones.

For small corporations and alliances, NPC teams would still be available at either a slightly lower bonus or slightly higher cost.

This idea would require perhaps some change or addition to the lore, in that, you would have to say a capsuleer would be "copying himself" for a period of time, instead of only being incarnated in one clone at any given time. And there could be various implants that would allow this to happen, at least temporarily. There may be a "carrying" penalty that follows the player through clone jumps to sustain the "copy" of himself that is doing the industry job.

I think this would be a great idea, although I'm not sure how easy it would be to code. Anyway, discuss.