It's called risk vs reward, one of the foundational concepts of Eve that makes Eve what it is. You're balancing the risk (losing your implants) against the reward (having fun in a Rifter roam). This is working as intended.

Nope. Implants are supposed to give you an "edge" the same way T2 and T3 ships do and carry with them the same penalties. Plan ahead.

I agree, let's put in more features that actively encourage people to log off rather than have fun with their spacebros.

I'll still be risking my implants when I use them while flying the ships I bought them for. You also can't argue that forcing people to be stuck in one set of implants is a good idea. Lets say I'm flying my Machariel and I have my snakes and large projectile hardwirings in. Suddenly I'm overcome by an urge to fly my Vindicator, and I really want to swap to a Slave set and large hybrid hardwirings. Both sets of implants are expensive as hell, and I want to use (and risk) both of them, but instead of being able to do that, I'm stuck in my snakes, so I can't fly my Vindicator (or have to fly it really badly).

You can change out your implants, you're not trapped in them or forced to use them in combat. However, you have to think ahead and plan. This is intentional, it's a tradeoff. You're asking for all of the benefits of having implants, but without the drawbacks unless you choose to risk them.

I dont understand how this encourages people to log off, but rather perhaps plan better for their future, It is known and has been known for a long time that this mechanic is in place. It is on the player to decide exactly what it is he wants to put into his head.

It is also not CCP's fault that you feel that you have to put these implants in your head to fly the ships. Implants are a perk not a right. they enhance your base abilities, and cost a lot to match. Your sudden urges must be balanced by choices you have previously made. Jump clones are available, if you have burned your daily jump doing something else, i dont see the problem with forcing you to deal with it.

The fact that the implants are expensive and not an issue, the choice was yours. They are not necessary to use the ship.

I really hate it that im responding to a forum post with "Suck it up you little ***** , man the **** up" but there isnt much else to say about this.

Implants are a CCP isk sink, they help transfer isk between players and out to lp stores. they cant be re-traded once they are used. working as intended.

I can't buy ONE SET of implants that will work with all my ships

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Am I supposed to commit to only flying a Machariel because I bought implants that go well with one? What if I want to fly a Deimos instead-- suddenly my hardwirings are useless and I can't change them without waiting literally a day or throwing away hundreds of millions of isk.

Yes. And that is the point.
You can just as easily opt to NOT min/max and buy/use implants that aren't so narrow in their application (at the cost of not being AS good within any particular specialty).
Alternatively, you could buy and mainly use ships that get the most out of the implants you chose to plug in and use.
Or you can also say "screw it" and just hop into the ship needed for that situation because it's better than sitting around complaining "I don't want to fly it because I can't use the setup to its maximum potential." (I should should point out that this is the same excuse people give with regards to skills... ex. "if you don't have 'perfect' skills for XX ship, you shouldn't use it").

If you want the awesome benefits they offer, then you have to risk losing them.

How absolutely thick are you? If you undock without the implants plugged in, YOU LOSE THE AWESOME BENEFITS THEY OFFER.

I will echo what I have said in my previous posts: implants are perk that grant you an edge... not a requirement for flying certain types of ships. In EVE, perks have penalties. Jump Clone timers, inability to unplug implants, and cost are all the penalties involved for having something that grants you a rather high edge over others.

Yes, they're a perk that grants you an edge. Yes, they're expensive. Yes, flying with them risks losing them. This is all fine.

What I don't understand is why you should be forced to fly with them for 24 hours at a time, when they may only be useful for a fraction of that time, and may be totally counter-productive for the remainder. Every other EVE perk I can think of is either specific to the ship / fitting you're using at the time (modules, rigs, etc) or is a short-duration consumable (drugs-- while these prevent you from "switching" drugs, they don't last long in the first place). Why can I choose when I want to use officer modules or fancy hulls, but I can't choose when I want to use implants? It makes no sense.

Why is ok for me to spend billions on a ship, then choose to leave it in my hangar for an hour while I fly around in a Rupture, but it's totally not-ok for me to do the same with implants?

Implants are awesome. I love implants. But I don't appreciate the fact that the only way to get out of my implants is to burn a 24 hour jump clone timer. That said, I don't think reducing JC cooldown is a good idea (after all, it allows people to shortcut across the galaxy-- we don't want this turning into WoW, where you can teleport around the world at-will all the time). The alternative is to give us a way to step out of our implants.

Here's the basic problem: things that entomb characters in expensive stuff are un-fun. Say I'm me, a 73m SP character who spends a good deal of time flying fancy spaceships. I install a set of LG snakes and some hardwirings for flying my fancy spaceships. This owns because now I go real fast and shoot real good.

Now suppose that I'm bored and I see a broadcast about someone doing a rifter roam! I want to go on the rifter roam, but I don't really want to fly around in a Rifter with a billion isk worth of implants in my head (the same goes for the ridiculous clone costs for high-sp dudes, but that's another matter). Suddenly my choices are either to burn a jump clone timer (and if you're using JCs right, that means ending up on the other side of EVE, then flying all the way back to your rifter gang, assuming your other clone doesn't have fancy implants as well), to not go on the op, or to deal with the very high probability of burning a billion isk on a gimmick op.

This is dumb as hell.

Pilots should be able to unplug implants. There's just no reason not to allow this. It's not like doing so would allow people to use implants risk-free-- either you use them and get the benefits, or you take them out and lose the benefits. If would also allow people to swap implants and hardwirings around based on what they feel like flying, which is important given that lots of hardwirings have very specific applications. You can't even argue that allowing this would reduce spending on implants-- first of all, as previously mentioned, you buy implants to get benefits from them. You're always going to want to fly with them plugged in most of the time, otherwise the implants go to waste. Seondly, if people could swap implants around, they're much more likely to buy more implants. Right now, for example, I have a LG snake set, and some gun / navigation hardwirings. If I could swap implants around, I would definitely buy hardwirings for more types of gun at the very least (so I could use whichever hardwirings compliment the ship I select), and I might even buy a set of Halos or Slaves or Nomads as well.

Also, I could go on Rifter ops.

Please allow us to unplug implants. It's a pro-fun change, and it doesn't really have any downsides.

Or I could keep flying in my snake clone, and just play League of Legends instead of going on casual roams, which, coincidentally, IS what I do!

Implants are like rigs for the body. Don't want to risk them, change your body.

Completely 100% right.

I don't want you repackaging your used implants & contaminating our marketplace with "discounted" implants that might fry our synaptic pathways or kill us with a brain infection when we plug them in. Next thing you'll know people will be collecting corpses to take them to a chop shop and bloodstained pieces of metal out of their heads to sell to the unsuspecting public.

No thank-you.

How absolutely thick are you? If you undock without the implants plugged in, YOU LOSE THE AWESOME BENEFITS THEY OFFER.

I'm not saying there should be a risk-free way to use implants. I'm saying that when you DON'T want to use implants, there should be a way to continue playing the game without them and their awesome benefits that doesn't involve a 24 hour cooldown or literally throwing away billions of isk.

Do you not understand that the ONLY penalty of using implants have is you have to risk losing them until your next JC becomes available???? And you want to take this away because it inconveniences you to have expensive implants when your buddies take out a high-risk-of-getting-podded gang??? Really???

...and don't say "but then you'll lose them on rifter ops and have to replace them!" because no, I will not go slosh-opping in my snakes.