Hi Hi

For Odyssey 1.1 we are adding a skill - Informorph Synchronizing - which will lower the time between jumping clones by one hour per level.

The goal here is to avoid situations where jump clone delay pushes jump clone use back a bit each play session until eventually people wind up stranded in the wrong clone during their few hours of play time. We don't want to accelerate the rate that you can jump significantly, we just want to make sure that switching once a day is actually possible.

Maybe I should mention that while there may be plenty of feedback related to jump clones as a whole, this change is simply something very easy to do which will have a very positive affect on player experience. Feedback on large scale plans or changes to jump clones, or clones generally, while totally valid, won't have an effect on 1.1. So, if possible, please focus feedback on this skill specifically.

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I would suggest that a miner doesn't care about locking time, so a reduction in locking time is only applicable to a small niche of players: shorter locking time is a tactical advantage.

All of these skill-based modifications to the basic rules of the game are tactical (or at least strategic) in nature. Your comparison to "warp and dock" is unsound, simply because access to jump clones is skill-based in the first place.

Look at other skill-based activities in the game: there is a skill to use each class of weapon. Then there are skills to reduce the cycle time of the weapon, reduce the power consumption, and in the case of some modules, increase the number you can fit to your ship. Look at Astrometrics: there is a skill to do astrometrics at all, then there is a skill to reduce the cycle time of the astrometrics analysis process.

Thus throughout the existing skill three there are skills whose only purpose is to reduce the cycle time of some other skill. Why should jump clones be any different? Clones are part of the equipment we fit to any ship. Being able to switch every day rather than every two days is a tactical and strategic advantage. This advantage needs to be bought and paid for in the same way as any other advantage: either through training skills or through use of equipment which other players can destroy.

I am all for increasing the hour reduction of this skill from 1 to 2, along with increasing the base clone jump timer from 24 hours to 28 hours just to make it clear that you are indeed buying an advantage.