I think you've focused on a very small group of people here and most people who use JC's don't do it for the "Risk Free Travel" but simply because what they want to do that day requires different implants and so they jump out of their "Current\Training\Whatever They Were Doing The Day Before Clone" and into their "Combat\Logi\Industrial\Scout\Gimp-in-a-Suit" clone.

Right tool for the right job and all that...it's not always about PvP\PvP avoidence you know.

people commenting in here about jumpcloning as a form of risk free travel are morons.

Jump cloning is almost purely used to switch between implant sets depending on what you want to be doing at the time.

Except that what actually happens is when people are stuck on the cooldown of the wrong clone with the wrong implants, they simply don't play. They don't join their friends on a lowsec roam, or they can't fly their special ship because they're missing that 3% powergrid implant, or they happen to be 40 jumps from anyplace useful and don't want to burn an hour traveling while their friends wait for them.

Why ?

Is it important to limit the fun ?

Skills for flexibility need to make in session swapping viable.
This is not viable with your proposed idea
A jump every 22 hours instead of every 23 hours is more or less pointless



Base time between jumps before any sync skill should be 16 hours.
So I can do a 8 hour sess in a choosen clone each day and I'm not punished for starting 8 hours earlier at the weekend when I'm not working.

Each level of syncronisation skill should add 1 to maximum number of intermorphs I can accumulate before braindamage.
one level of intermorph is removed every 16 hours from the last jump.

e.g. at level 3 sync I can make up to 4 jumps in a burst if I want but it will take

4 x 16 hours for the intermorphs to reduce back to 0.

Attributes/training implants mechanics are as bad as learning skills, tbh. It really isn't an interesting choice, nor is it fun and that is why they were phased out. Attributes/training implants mechanics should be just removed for a flat SP per day; this would best be done in conjunction with the ending of the active skill queue and the flat accrual of SP into a spending pool for you to assign. But that would cause a majority of veterans to cry and wail about hills, snow, walking, and no feet or some such silliness.

The easiest solution for CCP to do, without making the BitterVets cry foul, is eliminate the +4 & +5 stat implants, increase all base stats by 2, implement corpse reprocessing for implant salvage and then put in implant BPOs for low-grade implants +1 & +2 stats yes 2 tiers complete with the percent bonus contribution in 2 levels 2.5 percent & 5 percent. Allow invention to create the high-grade bpc's +3 stats / 5 percent .

The materials necessary for the implants should be something like PI materials, minerals, and implant salvage. For the high grade implants they could require r32 / r64 as well like t2 parts/ships etc. (i'm not an industrialist so someone else should figured out what would best)

This still rewards those players who risk more money with a slightly better training time. Makes the choices of which JC you use actually interesting, not can i jump back to Training Body today or tomorrow and how much further away is random skill V now because i keep switching to a pvp body.

With all due respect, why does it matter what you want? Shouldn't it be what the players want? You make the game, but we're the ones who literally pay your salary. We're not asking to easy-fy EVE, we're asking to play the game without sitting in station waiting for a pointless timer to go off. I've said before and I'll say it again--waiting in station for 12 hours because I wanted to PVE yesterday makes me just shut off the game. Is that what you want from your players?

I don't get it. What other type of change is it other than a quality of life change? What are the other design goals? What "strategic implications" are you talking about? "When you are ready for jump clones, be sure to spend an extra day to train this to L4"...That is some grand strategy?



What is the point in adding a barrier to the game that is not significant? If its not significant, why have it at all? Just give it to everyone for free.

To me this looks like adding complexity for the sake of complexity. This as a skill does not enrich the game. It just adds a little speed bump. What is gained by having this a skill over just a base timer change?

Another isk sink. Another stretching of the skill queue - insuring more revenue (if people stick around).

yeah, you are right... what's the point in having to train skills at all... we should all just be given all V characters so we can get on with playing the game...



wow...

You should remove jump clones from the game.

Updated OP to reflect that we are also going to add another skill in this patch which allows for 5 more jump clones per character, bringing the max up to 10.

Many people asked for this skill and while we don't expect most players to need it, we wanted to support those that do. The skill will be called "Advanced Infomorph Psychology" and will require basic informorph to be level 5 before training.