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"...any implants in the originating body are carefully picked out by machines..." No wonder there's a 24 hour delay.... So..., as long as I pay my clone cost shouldn't I be able to play "mix and match" with my implants? Speaking of paying for a high quality clone, wouldn't it be costly to use a new clone each jump? Aren't I paying millions for each non-jump clone? Yet, I pay nothing once my 100,000 isk jump clone is installed. o.0 ...Nevermind me, I'll crawl back into my plot hole now.... By the current mechanic there's got to be at least ''some'' (i.e. ''a lot'' of) meat-recycling going on (or some major cost shifting). As for implants, perhaps there's some kind of risk involved in changing them, so the med-staff make a policy of not allowing it. --1819 10/1/2012 Faulx | "...any implants in the originating body are carefully picked out by machines..." No wonder there's a 24 hour delay.... So..., as long as I pay my clone cost shouldn't I be able to play "mix and match" with my implants? Speaking of paying for a high quality clone, wouldn't it be costly to use a new clone each jump? Aren't I paying millions for each non-jump clone? Yet, I pay nothing once my 100,000 isk jump clone is installed. o.0 ...Nevermind me, I'll crawl back into my plot hole now.... By the current mechanic there's got to be at least ''some'' (i.e. ''a lot'' of) meat-recycling going on (or some major cost shifting). As for implants, perhaps there's some kind of risk involved in changing them, so the med-staff make a policy of not allowing it. --1819 10/1/2012 Faulx | ||
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| + | ''Well, what you're generally paying high amounts for - in terms of regular, non-jump clones - is 24/7 upkeep and data transfer services. It's easy to do a proper, non-degrading cloning when you're safely nestled in a machine inside a station; it's rather harder to get it done when you're out in the middle of space and when the timing has to be absolutely perfect, so that kind of thing costs rather more money. | ||
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| + | As for the cost of using a new clone each time, it's a good point that's been brought up by others as well, but honestly, it isn't that expensive. The main reasons for this are that a) biomass is cheap and easily available through various means, and b) the process has been streamlined to eliminate efficiency. There may well be, uh, yeah, some meat-recycling going on, but that falls under the same purvey as the adage about law and sausages.''--[[User:CCP Abraxas|CCP Abraxas]] 09:30, 5 October 2012 (GMT) | ||
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Interesting revisions, the bit you changed made things much more consistent, so good job there. The things you removed sounded like a good basis for explaining Jump Clones and allowing death while Walking in Space (at the risk of losing SP prior to "backing up your mind"). It definitely makes sense in light of the AD&D insurance article. *Hopes you're transitioning those concepts to a time when WiS is available rather than deleting them altogether.* --1712 10/1/2012 Faulx
Thanks! We're definitely keeping WiS in mind, and yes, one of the reasons for cleaning up the clone lore is so that we can have a graceful transition to WiS without having to retcon a ton of established fiction.--CCP Abraxas 10:32, 3 October 2012 (GMT)
"...any implants in the originating body are carefully picked out by machines..." No wonder there's a 24 hour delay.... So..., as long as I pay my clone cost shouldn't I be able to play "mix and match" with my implants? Speaking of paying for a high quality clone, wouldn't it be costly to use a new clone each jump? Aren't I paying millions for each non-jump clone? Yet, I pay nothing once my 100,000 isk jump clone is installed. o.0 ...Nevermind me, I'll crawl back into my plot hole now.... By the current mechanic there's got to be at least some (i.e. a lot of) meat-recycling going on (or some major cost shifting). As for implants, perhaps there's some kind of risk involved in changing them, so the med-staff make a policy of not allowing it. --1819 10/1/2012 Faulx
Well, what you're generally paying high amounts for - in terms of regular, non-jump clones - is 24/7 upkeep and data transfer services. It's easy to do a proper, non-degrading cloning when you're safely nestled in a machine inside a station; it's rather harder to get it done when you're out in the middle of space and when the timing has to be absolutely perfect, so that kind of thing costs rather more money.
As for the cost of using a new clone each time, it's a good point that's been brought up by others as well, but honestly, it isn't that expensive. The main reasons for this are that a) biomass is cheap and easily available through various means, and b) the process has been streamlined to eliminate efficiency. There may well be, uh, yeah, some meat-recycling going on, but that falls under the same purvey as the adage about law and sausages.--CCP Abraxas 09:30, 5 October 2012 (GMT)