Jita Park Speakers Corner

Now I know CCP has their *reasons* for the jump clone timers. However, even at max skills jump clone timers are silly. Imagine yourself as a pvp'er and you dock up 40 jumps from your PVE clone/equipment, and you need to remain vigilant for a chance to lose your alliance approved fleet ship, and yet nothing may happen at all. That's just the nature of Eve. As it stands you have 2 options, spin your ship and talk smack in local, or log off for a day. This effectively stops you from playing, and that's just not kosher.

1. I know many, if not most, have a second (or 12) account(s), And jump clone timers are a mute point for you. But for me having another account just makes Eve more like work. Buying ships and skills and managing moving toons from A to B is just annoying, and takes away from the isk and time I'd spend playing the game. Someone could easily spend billions of isk on skills alone, and not have any money left to fly what they trained for. Each account doubles the amount of time and money you need to spend on your toon(s) and may hinder your ability to fly the nice ships you'd like to wreck. The bigger your family, the less you have to spend on luxury goods and this is true for anyone whether you are carrier farming Sanctums and Havens or level 4 missions in empire.



2. Previously, if I were in a capital, I would simply jump home. The nerf on jump range for capitals has changed that. And now instead of one or two jumps home, It's more like 4-5 plus jump fatigue. Arguing the need for better jump range isn't my intention here. I realize CCP has a game play style they want to bring to us, and they should have the liberty to at least try new things. However this change did negatively impact game play for solo account holders.



3. Lastly, I'd like to mention Alpha clone accounts. I know this will come up in discussion so I'd like to say that Alpha clones, while they fulfill their intended purpose of bringing new players into the game, do not play well for experienced players. An Alpha clone is simply to under skilled to play outside of empire level one missions. And well, anyone who has reached standings of 9 or higher would probably vomit at the idea of running missions in empire ever again, or you have better pills then the rest of us.

On a final note for those who think this idea is just to absurd, There was a time when the idea of a Rorqual solo mining would "Break the game", Or Jita would hold over 2,000 toons. (*remembers lining up in Perimeter just to get into Jita on patch days). So I feel that this idea holds good merit. At max skills, waiting out a day just to play only stops people from being active in game. Jump clone timers are a remnant of a time when the servers where antiquated and incapable of doing such things. CCP has upgraded their equipment and services several times in the past, and now I think it's time we look at Jump Clone timers.

Power projection, is maintained with Sovereignty and jump fatigue. The jump clone action doesn't move ships, travel is still a thing.

Right, ships without pilots are useless, because players without playing is useless.

The skill to reduce the time between two clone jumps is one of the best skill to have at 5 imho. Reducing the clone jump time farther would be bad.

Why not give people the possibility to install multiple clones on one Station und let them change on station without timer? Would let you change from your armor into yout agility or learning clone any time without letting you "travel" all over New Eden three times a day.

Completelly agree with OP
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