Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You're all missing a crucial point.

Everything the brain knows is electrical based. Even going without oxygen for short periods of time turns us into vegetables, as all that brain electrical activity gets really, really messed up.

Even if you got the corpse back before the brain "dies" you also forget that the hardware that controls consciousness transfer to a new clone has to "destroy" all brain fuctions. If the process did NOT destroy brain functions and only made a copy, then I'd just have two or more copies of myself made and multibox

We can get amnesia from even minor brain trauma. This process is a LOT worse.

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Transneural_burning_scanner

"The device is necessarily quick acting and destroys the brain in the process of scanning"

"Later refinement to the technology sped up the process and increased its accuracy, but also greatly increased the damage done by the device. It left animal test subjects completely brain dead, destroying all but the body's autonomic functions"

"Because this process must be completed in a matter of seconds, the process is incredibly damaging to the brain's grey matter. It causes numerous lesions and cell death, reducing the brain to little more than a blob of biomass. Because of this, the transneural burning scanner is only utilized at the moment before death. "

You managed to get the corpse of a highly skilled pilot.
It has implants, and the player is out at least 100 million to replace due to clone costs and implants.

Now, with the zombie rigging skill, you can take one of the corpses previous skills, and have your ship use that value instead of your own.

Example: You are flying a battleship, let's say a Raven. You have Caldari BS to level 3.
You manage to obtain a corpse that had Caldari BS to level 5.

It could take you over 50 days to train that to level 5, but if you rig this corpse into the hull, you can hardwire the skill into the ship itself.

That one hull will still use all of your other skills, but will always use the Zombie Rigged corpse's skill for Caldari Battleship at level 5.

As with any rigging, rigs cannot be removed intact, and are destroyed by the attempt. For this type, the corpse is also lost.

Clarifications, as seen needed so far:
You have to be able to fly the ship already.

This is intended to improve skills you already have, not give you brand new ones entirely.
You must at least have the skill injected. That means you must meet all the prerequisites for it's use as well.

It only applies, like any rig, when you are flying that ship.
(Or like an implant only helps when that clone is active, same concept I guess)

Oh, and in case anyone forgot, this would eat a rig slot too, WITH a possibly high calibration cost.
Even a titan may have three rig slots, but only 400 calibration points.
A rig this useful could use 300 to 350 reasonably, leaving only enough room for a relatively minor second rig.

You're all missing a crucial point.

Everything the brain knows is electrical based. Even going without oxygen for short periods of time turns us into vegetables, as all that brain electrical activity gets really, really messed up.

Even if you got the corpse back before the brain "dies" you also forget that the hardware that controls consciousness transfer to a new clone has to "destroy" all brain fuctions. If the process did NOT destroy brain functions and only made a copy, then I'd just have two or more copies of myself made and multibox

I thought Caldari were the elves, we can shoot three missiles before the first one hits the target.

Maybe give the rig a shelf-life based on corpse condition, the skill it is enhancing and a relevant skill for the player, say necromancy (or philia...). You could also extend the life of the Zombie Rig by injecting it with a nutritious goo made from the brains of lesser corpses. The corpse/janitor/slave/exotic dancer/etc market would absolutely boom. I can see the advent of a whole new class of corpse salvaging ships manned by...wait for it...Corpse Bears. Rorquals could be refitted to compress corpses.

You could say that was serious or that it was a joke. Both would be correct.

I'm not generally against this, but how is the skill selected that you want to use as a "rigg skill"? Browsing the enemies skill tree? If this would be the case I would not like this.