One way or another, this really shouldn't be a skill. Just alter the jump clone timers. If it's really supposed to be a fun-enabler, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to force players to spend a week (or more) training for it. I'd go ahead and just knock four hours off the timer and allow people to swap clones within a station either with no cooldown or a very short one.

well i guess one needs shoes to leave the office eh?

edit. reduction of 1 hour per level is too low. (unless you are going to introduce an advanced Informorph Synchronizing which will reduce the time by an additional 1 hour per level.

may i suggest 1.5 hours per level. that way with the skill at V you can jump every 16.5 hours.

Hi Hi

I'm not even in the office today (Icelandic holidays happen approx every other day) but I'm really excited to let you guys know about this, so here you go:

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 like the idea, but i don't see the point. 5 hours is a little weak.

EhGǪ

You could have just reduced the timer to 23 hours and solved the same problem. That said, 1h/level is about right. Definitely don't make it any more than that since it would make it far too easy to jump around GÇö 2h would make it awfully close to a twice-a-day thing and that's too much.

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.

Just wondering, why would moving it down to say every 5 hours be "too much"?

In your opinion.

@ Tippia - force projection via cloning can already be done with death clones almost instantaneously (either 2 minutes to undock and self destruct pod or even less to undock and call for "pod express").

As such, I'd prefer this skill not to be included in Odyssey 1.1, and would prefer instead that the devs work towards a systemic improvement of the jumpclone system. A system where the two functions of jump clones (travel and implant switching) are separated. For example, allow only one clone jump per 24 hours if this moves the player out of the station (or system) he activated the jump from, but allow any amount of clone 'switches' within the same station.

While I really applaud taking on the jumpcloning mechanics, I am not sure if this is the right way to do it. I'm worried that reducing clone jumping to 19 hours may make it too easy for alliances to use clone jumping as a way of further increasing their power projection. This change basically allows them to one night (during their personal primetime) be in location A, and the next night during their primetime in location B - without requiring them to actually travel the distance inbetween, which may otherwise deterr them from doing so or at least provide a meaningful effort sink.

EhGǪ

You could have just reduced the timer to 23 hours and solved the same problem. That said, 1h/level is about right. Definitely don't make it any more than that since it would make it far too easy to jump around GÇö 2h would make it awfully close to a twice-a-day thing and that's too much.

I'm also worried that this skill will go the way learning skills went.

Do we really need it to be a skill? Just set it to 20 hours.