EVE General Discussion

I would only like a 23 hour clone jump, if you can only play at a specific time each day, and you happen to move once a day during the midweek, your timer will slowly craw more and more out of sync. A 23 hour will allow the timer to remain in the optimal gaming time of your choice.

The 24h cooldown is fine, and totally reasonable. However, I think it'd work if it was 24h per clone.

For example, I have clones A, B and C.

I am in clone A, my nullsec PvE clone. After doing some ratting, I decide I'd likt to join a PvP op. The front line is away from my ratting grounds, so I jump into clone B. Clone A is now on cooldown, as I have just jumped out of it.

After some pew pew, my pod is still somehow intact. But there's no more fight to be had, so I jump into clone C in highsec to buy some things for importing. Clone B is now on cooldown.

I'm now "stuck" in clone C, with both my other clones on cooldown. 2 jumps to 3 clones in under 24h, but each clone still has its own 24h cooldown.

Seems like a reasonable compromise to me.

Now this I like and then we already got a skill allowing us to have 5 of them and enough penalty and freedom at the same time.

It really is annoying me too, I don't mind only beeing able to jump once a day but 16h would be a lot better. At least then you can jump to where you want to play that day without fearing for the consequences the next day around.

What about if it was twice every 48 hours?

Yeah seriously. We planned where we wanted to be and committed to the move. Travelling actually had logistical implications. I liked it when the other side of the galaxy was a LONG way away. It made exploring places you had never been more exciting because of what you had to put into planning your trip there. A move was a MOVE.

EDIT - And yes I understand that the reasons people are giving are not travel related necessarily....just being nostalgic.

The problem is when you have the timer and you're in expensive implants the only option then becomes "don't fly."
Not much of an option.

Have to say, I'm not quite against the idea of "Free Clone Swapping" or even a "Swap to Empty clone" button as long as it only allows you to swap between clones in the same station. More clone swaps means more PVP,

Ah, but now you are presenting a completely different problem and not the one that was discussed earlier on.

Right, so we remove clones and are presented with a new problem: inability to swap implants to match current needs.

This problem had a pretty decent suggestion that was mentioned earlier on which was simply paying a certain fee in order to be able to replace them. This is actually acceptable because once you are out there flying, if you are popped you are popped regardless of whether you risked implants or not.

A 10% cost of the value of the implant would be a decent start if I were to pick some arbitrary value. Expensive to swap often but the upside is that it can be done anywhere (or at least anywhere where there is a medical facility) assuming you happen to carry the extra implants.

A similar alternative could be to have some kind of "rental" system where you can rent additional loadout slots from the medical facility. Again, the price should then IMO be a percentage of the value of slots that you decide to keep on your hired loadouts. Players can thus swap implant loadouts at any given time if they're in that station. This is a lot closer to the current clone mechanics but then without the clones of course. And you'll obviously have to go to the station where you stored your spare implant loadouts.