Let me put it this way, which makes more sense?

Flat clone costs and the removal of standings requirements for jump clones in high sec.

The game needs more isk sinks, not less.

You make an argument for clone insurance, but you don't articulate what the mechanic actually is

That might be because if I did so, I'd be repeating myself, since I did just that in an earlier post in this thread.

As far as using alts to spam into combat, ship losses are why this isn't done on a regular basis, at the lower tiers clone costs are fairly trivial anyway if you're determined to spam ships into combat.

Of course, we're the ones who have newbies in ships which can be spammed into combat

It would potentially be more of an isk sink because of the sheer number of players who don't lose pods on a regular basis. Instead of buying a clone and forgetting about it until the next time they have to upgrade, they'll have to buy a new clone once every insurance period and when they have to upgrade if they want to stay covered. Obviously this would decrease the sink for PVP'ers, but overall it evens things out across the board and doesn't arbitrarily punish people who do their PVP in areas of space where either bubbles are allowed or smartbombs are much more common.

Removing clone costs entirely wouldn't be a good idea because that would remove an isk sink, which is needed because of the inflation in the game (the sinks don't come anywhere close to balancing the amount of isk pouring into the game from things like mission bounties). Keeping clone costs flat across the board isn't a good idea either because what would be a manageable clone cost for a new player would be absolutely trivial to someone with a lot of skillpoints, and a meaningful cost for someone with a lot of skillpoints would be far too much for a new player to bear. And reducing clone costs at the higher levels doesn't address the issue that it still unfairly affects those who do their PVP in certain areas of the game.

As far as using alts to spam into combat, ship losses are why this isn't done on a regular basis, at the lower tiers clone costs are fairly trivial anyway if you're determined to spam ships into combat.

I smell a use for frozen corpses on the horizon.

It would be nice to see those using their corporate clone vats as "respawn points" actually having to start worrying about putting in what they take out. Eve is harsh/has consequences/leet PVP and all that stuff.


It would certainly be the end of disco SB pod popper BSs.

that and they could add biomass to ship wreks... i mean there are 1000's of people on the larger ships so that means potential for lots of spare parts to make your clones out of.

also, I'd be real interested if we could see data on clone usage across the base.

how many never use them and how often the pvprs (at their varying degree of pvp activity) use clones.

Remove them goddamn clones completely. Everyone is always auto cloned.

i would go for this as long as you do insurance for clones...

Why??

Adding complexity for the sake of complexity is poor game design.

1. isk sink as the insurance runs out after 90 days

I don't think you understsand how insurance works wrt isk sinks and faucets.

Enlighten me then... Its a sink because you dont get isk back if you are not podded after the 90 days.