EVE General Discussion

depends on how they price them imo, at a low price that just suggests a grab the money and run situation. at say $1,500 that is 100 months at the standard price, and well that price might make sense, although it is high enough I wonder how many would take it? Also if they offer say one each year at fanfest for the charity auction that seems reasonable to me.

I would guess it was probably a decent amount overall due to volume, but I can only speculate that it greatly increased with the recent industry changes. looking at my old industry spreadsheet I don't even have it listed anywhere. if I remember right it was around 11k per hour per slot? although some of that depended on the facility, and standings.

Long as they don't get rid of slaves or snakes...implant sets that fit playstyles are something I really like about eve.

It's almost as if some dev who kept klinging (and for good reason) to the old EVE, the good EVE, left and now all the carebare fcks have taken over. We'll have raids, and mounts and pandas.

It's an isk sink, which is needed. Also, just because you want things easy doesn't mean it's good. You know, easy blues, easy farming, easy RMT, easy ganks.

Speaking of new clone mechanics I can see a lot of possibilities for them, assuming CCP doesn't just let this drop.

1: Genetically engineered clones that allow certain advantages (and disadvantages) in any number of things, including what learning implants provide now. Or perhaps you could obtain a clone specifically designed to participate in EVE's sister games (DUST or Legion, and Valkyrie)... same character but different capabilities and aptitudes.

2: Permanent implants, where you have a contract with the cloning company to have certain implants already implanted before you even jump into the clone. Very useful in a situation where the odds of frequent character death in isolated area's is high.

3: The introduction of multipurpose implants, the catch being that these need to be put in place at a particular stage of the clones development to keep the implant from being rejected... basically you would be growing the clone around a particularly powerful and flexible implant or set of implants.

Only the tip of the iceberg of course, but any one of the above would have more meaning and impact on the game than the minor "experience tax" we have had up to this point.

"Oh I got podded should I upgrade my clone or not I can't decide this game is so hard" said nobody ever.

Relax, we recently had a huge increase in taxes on anything built in this game. The clone cost isk sink should be insignificant compared to that.

So a CCP developer is handing out new information, on a "third party" website before EVE-O forums?
And to be active on that particular website, you need to pay a member fee aswell?


I see a confict of interest there, a violation with the EULA and a moral border that has just been crossed!

Troll away my post, but im rite!

it wasn't the cost that was the problem it was the alpha clone and loss of SP. But don't worry I see ship replacement in the near future and the masses all coming out and saying that is the best thing CCP can do to bring new people into this game. The bar has been lowered and in will come 10 yr olds with daddys credit card (which for you scammers is a great thing) who wont care if they die in a pod because there are no repercussions. The good thing about this is the sales of frigates will increase thus my profitability will increase. How long until all risk is removed from EVE because after all greed is good right.