EVE General Discussion

Right now the only thing that stops me from logging in and playing everyday is the 24hr timer on jump clones. I work a 9 till 5 job. I get up at 8AM have breakfast leave at 8:30AM. I get home from work at about 5:30PM. At this point I want to relax do some PvP until I go to bed, but it always comes down to the fact that to do 2 or 3 hrs of PvP would mean being out of my learning clone for 24hrs (Assuming I don't want to risk a 550m pod every time I go out in a frig.)

So basically I think the timer for Jump clones is absurdly long to the point where during the week I only log in to update the queue and check the trades.

I also can't see any point in it being so long. I understand that it's in place to prevent people jumping all over the galaxy. However a timer of say 6 hours would stop people being able to do this, and it would also mean I could log in jump to a pvp clone, have some fun and jump back to a learning clone later.

How do your work colleagues put up with your stench? Do they ever mention this to you?

So… remove learning implants?

I knew a lot of people would respond like this. Yes I could use +3s, but I still don't really understand the point in the timer being 24hrs instead of 6hrs. We shouldn't have to compromise for bad design.

Because 24 hours was the compromise to put it in in the first place.

Self destructing your pod was how it was done back in the day, harden up and self destruct your pod when you are already in your non training clone.

It is only your opinion that this is bad design. Actions have consequences in eve. This isn't WOW where you can simply teleport all over the map and be back home in time for tea. You have to consider and plan what you are doing beforehand, and this jump clone mechanic encourages that.

It'll just shift the complaining to other implants and implant sets. If CCP ever bothers to do anything about the issue, they might as well come up with an actual solution to the entire implant set change problem, instead of just treating the most vocal symptom.

Its not bad design it is intended to be this way. All actions in this game have drawbacks.

I agree with the general concept here, but this would make deathclone travel much more commonplace, which is the exact kind of rapid travel they were trying to avoid in the first place.
There's other mechanics you could add to mitigate this, but it makes the system potentially complicated.

Just make the ISk cost the same as the medical clone cost.