EVE New Citizens Q&A

First... paragraphs. Use them. It is hard to read a block of text like that.


Second... I think you misunderstand what jump clones are for.

Mechanically, Jump Clones are merely a means of switching bodies... resulting in a change of location and/or change in implants (which are clone specific).
Nothing more.

All of your Jump Clones will have access to the same skills and skill queue. You cannot divvy up your skills in the manner you describe (unless I am horribly misunderstanding you).


As for what you want to do... euhhhh... I think you are spreading yourself out too much.
You can totally do industry and/or station trading in the clone with the +5 implants.
And you can perform PvE and PvP in the clone with the lesser implants.
And you can be a CEO of a corporation regardless of the body you are in.**

**NOTE: I HIGHLY DISCOURAGE you from starting your own corporation as you seem to be WAY too inexperienced in the context of EVE.
When you create a corporation in EVE you are essentially "planting a flag" in the ground and declaring to the rest of the game that you are ready to "play with the big boys." This means that people can declare war on you. And in absence of any experience, you will find it VERY difficult to survive.
Instead, join up with an established corporation (see: one that have survived a few wars and knows how to defend itself) and learn from the people in it.


I also think you need to slow down a bit in terms of what space you want to operate in.
Null-sec and Wormhole space kinda requires some form of teamwork with other players to operate in... especially if you have limited experience with either.

And if you do join up with some people, they may not take kindly to you skipping around to whatever and wherever your fancy takes you. The reason for this is simple; organizations want some form of commitment. In absence of that, you may be viewed with some suspicion (or even be seen as a potential threat) and shot on sight.

Null-sec and wormhole organizations are especially prone to this behavior as they constantly deal with the threat of spies and hostile interlopers.


Also keep in mind that jump clones have a 20 to 24 hour "cooldown" timer between jumps. This is to prevent large organizations from projecting entire armies of players from one end of the map to the other.
Ego... if you clone jump from low-sec to a high-sec trading hub, you are effectively "stuck" in the high-sec trading hub until the next day (unless you want to fly all the way back in a ship).

Excellent. You are on course then.


Do understand that implants (even the +5 implants) will only increase your training speed by a nominal amount.

To put it in practical terms: if you are sitting in a clone with +5 implants for about a year, you will shave off maybe about a month worth of training time. At best.

In light of this information, ask yourself which is more important; having skills trained up hours or days sooner than normal or having fun?


My personal take is that +3 implants are sufficient for most purposes and cheap enough that you do not worry too much about losing them every so often (especially if you only plug in 1 or 2 implants based on your current training focus).
"Having fun" and finding clever ways of utilizing what I have is more important than having skills train slightly faster.

I've moved this thread to the Eve New Citizens Q&A forum.

You may have missed the cooldown on jump clones. You can only jump between clones once every ~20 hours at best.

So, if you intend 10 clones for 10 things, it means you'll be training with the +5 clone for one day out of 10, doing industry for one day out of 10, doing PI for one day, etc, over the course of a week and a half.
Almost not worth the +5 implants at that rate.

One other thing, if you want a bunch of citadels and to set tax in them and have other players use them, how do you plan on defending them? If you've just jumpcloned to null to mine and one of your citadels comes under attack, how are you going to get back (and rally a defense fleet) in time?

19 hours, 20 hours, big difference.

Still means that if you want the advantage of those +5 implants without leaving the station, then any day you're in that clone you 'can't' play, and if you're using the other clones, then you're not getting the advantage of those expensive implants

Spreading the purpose so thin means that if you decide to go mining and an hour later want to PVP, or trade, you 'can't', you're either stuck mining or playing some other game than EvE that day.

By specialising the jump clones so much you're throwing away a lot of flexibility. You don't need the absolute perfect implants for each purpose. You don't need to be spread so many places across the cluster to have fun.

I have one main character who can basically do everything you listed. Course my character has been training skills for over 8 years.

Pretty much everything you listed can be done by 2 characters, 3 at the max. Most players have a 2nd alt account doing Trade, Industry, Hauling, Scouting, etc. which actively supports their 1st main account that's used for PvP, PvE, CEO, Exploration, Mining, etc. Also you can easily set up each character with 2 jump clones located in different areas.

Since your account has 3 character slots available, you could utilize those 3 characters to do various things if you don't want to pay for a second / alt account. Just remember, only one character per account can be actively logged into the game. Also the skill training queue can only be active on one character in that account unless you buy Multiple Character Training from CCP https://secure.eveonline.com/MultipleCharacterTraining/

Personally I don't think 3 characters is actually even needed but I went through your list and delegated the tasks to each character slot, then broke it down into Jump Clones which in my opinion are only good for quickly changing locations if needed.

1st Character slot = main character with +5 Implants located in High Sec (CEO, Industry, Trade)
Jump Clone (Industry)
Jump Clone (Trade)

2nd Character slot = alt character with +3 Implants located in Low / Null Sec (PvP, PvE, Hauling)
Jump Clone (PvE)
Jump Clone (Hauling)

3rd Character slot = alt character with no Implants located in W-space (PI, Exploration, Mining)
Jump Clone (Exploration)
Jump Clone (Mining)

Anyway, I suggest you reconsider the jump clone idea and delegate the various tasks to 2 characters, with each character active on a separate account. That way they can be logged into the game and work together at the same time.



DMC

i use mine for sets of implants.
High grade slaves, crystals, askiplans, halos aand a clean one for doing dumb **** in

you are not required to have ten jump clones in the first place.

put it in friendly citadels around new eden and use it for fast travels.

This is starting to feel like a troll. You do not need a specialized clone to do any of the things you listed. And if you keep them general there's no point. Can you not burn the 10 jumps or whatever in less than 19 hours?

Many people in null have a high sec clone for businessy things. Low sec piIots tend to have several pirate faction sets to swap between based on what they're flying. I cannot think of a single reason to train for ten clones.

As a general rule in eve, if you don't know why you need it then you don't need it yet.