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Hi I am new.

I want to use Jump Clones but the guide I read is confusing.

I don't consider myself dumb. I think the guide was maybe over complcated.

Can anyone who uses them on a day to day basis help me with simple bullet points.

I am scared to lose my implants. I think there is a chance of doing that by jumping incorrectly?

Thanks for your input or help.

Khaz

Cheers Jenn.

That helps me a lot.

The first problem with jump clones is their name, or more specifically, that they share naming similarities with medical clones.

So let's rename those two: medical clones are “SP insurance contracts” and jump clones are “teleportation pads”. Also, the cloning station service is now your “Insurance office”.

Your teleportation pads are very simple to use: you always have one in your pocket, and you can pay to have new ones installed at your local insurance office if they like you enough (why there? probably some hugely complicated legal reason — better not to ask). When you activate your teleportation pad, you arrive at the location of one of your previously bought pads. Of course, the pad you used can't come with you — that would be like shipping a packing crate inside itself — so it stays where you were when you activated it. However, since you arrived somwhere where you have a different teleportation pad, you pick that one up and keep it in your pocket throughout your travels. It can't be used until 24h after you've picked it up, though. This way, once bought and teleported to, you can move your teleportation pads anywhere you like — they don't have to stay at the insurance office where you bought them.

There are two main caveats with teleportation pads (one of which is also quite beneficial): first, if you try leave two telepads in the same station, you will lose one (again, who knows why… maybe the maid thinks you're spreading to much junk on the floor and simply bins the first one she finds). So if you're in a station where you already have a pad, go somewhere else before using the one you carry in your pocket (rumour has it that these days, you can indeed jump from one pad to another in the same station without losing either one of them, but even if that's true, it's just good practice to learn not to use the pad in your pocket if you have another one in the same station).

Secondly, teleportation pads can't teleport implants for some reason. Instead, any implants you have will be stored in a negative space wedgie inside the pad until you teleport back to it — when you arrive at the other end, any implants stored in that telepad will be shoved right back inside you before you even get a chance to put the pad in your pocket. This means you can use teleportation pads to safeguard your hideously expensive implants in the safety of such a wedge while you jump to a different telepad and then go off and get yourself blown up.

…oh, and as an added bonus, your friendly Rorqual or Titan-driving neighbour can actually install a telepad vending machine into his ship, so you don't have to go to an insurance office and act all friendly towards them to get a new pad. Not counting the one you always carry in your pocket, you can have as many teleportation pads as your level in Infomorph Psychology.

Now, on the topic of blowing up, when that happens, your SP insurance policy is activated and you wake up at the insurance office where you bought that policy (just outside the door so that, while still dazed and confused from the experience, they can fleece you with a new contract). Any implants you had are blown up, unless they're stored in one of those space wedgies in the telepads you've strewn all across space. Beyond that (and having to buy both at an insurance office unless someone you know has bought one of those vending machines), your telepads and your SP insurance have absolutely nothing to do with each other. No matter where you have teleported to, if you get blown up, your SP insurance kicks in and you wake up in front of the insurance office (the telepad you had in your pocket is still in your pocket).




…idiotic enough?

Idea with a jump clone is that you have max. 5 extra clones; each must have their own set of implants.
Idea is simply to allow you to change your set of implants once per day without destroying those implants in the process.

So once you have 8.0+ standing for a corp (or have access to player run 0.0 station that has a medical lab), you can then install a clone to that station remotely.
So you now have 1 + 1 clones of which one might be at the other side of the galaxy; each day (24h) you may instantly travel that distance by 'jumping in to another clone' and you appear at the station that you have left your 'jump clone'.
Ofc. you have to buy all the implants, ships and what have you at your destination once you have jumped.