Planned new feature to address new player movement:

For players less than thirty days old, once per player corporation joined, and
For all players, once a year

You may push a button in your corp interface (while a member of a player corp and docked) that:
- Moves your medical clone to a station designated by your corporation, and
- Automatically moves you to your medical clone

Exact method of corporations designating target station still being ironed out, but it will involve at the very least being able to designate a default station for all corp members, and will likely be allowed for *any* station with a corp office, regardless of system sec status.

This seems to us like it solves the "I want to recruit people to nullsec" concern, and also gives non-nullsec recruiters an easier way to get genuinely new players to the right location easily.

Thoughts? Pasting this into the FAQ and also trying to get it into the blog proper.

You should need to be present for the medical facility to physically copy your consciousness onto a new clone,

First understand your lore your consciousness is copied at the moment of death then sent f.t.l. to your new clone. with this being how it works the new feature does not break lore.

now on to your idea this will be far more used by non-new players as a coast around null free card so no to your idea from a game play stand point.

To keep it short no interdiction nullified shuttle, go and train t3 or interceptors.

Its hard enough to catch those two nullified ships and a shuttle have an even smaller sig radius than a interceptor.

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Gonna say this. An inty should be a good first ship to offer your new 0.0 home and should be in place. And if they google travel fits for them well the one I run while I can't say for sure its poster is accurate in it being damn near instalock proof but will say by seat of pants flying she is zippy as hell. Warp rigs means not same as me you aren't catching up too well either once clear.

But barring that even....I am of the opinion our noobie noob not in a nullifying inty probably needs to meet mr. bubble and die in it. Only to get that little eve lesson out of the way. My first time out new as hell I read many guides on what to do out there. I even read what to do in a bubble guides. And my first time in the pretty blue sphere of death I had a full on noobtard stupid attack and did everything wrong. Broke my cherry though, not as nice as I'd like but well I got that eve experience we all get in 0.0 out the way for the first time.

If mr. noob meets mr bubble on the first run out there....well....they get those lessons sooner than they'd maybe like to but still good lessons all in all they will eventually look back on. Med cloned moved just a nice insurance policy if that happens.

I don't see that as an issue, they cannot do much in a shuttle anyway except simply travel. Veteran players already use interceptors in this way anyway, and it is annoying for new players to have to train for a T2 ship in order to do this also.

So you are saying I can now make a brand new NPC alt, not bother to activate a training queue and use it to stroll through gate camps and scout out any territory, then get caught, biomass it and start again?

Sign me up.

It could have a small skill requirement. The main point would be that it is less than that of an interceptor, so that new players can use it. Also it is pretty easy already to scout with a 1 day character anyway and then biomass. If you want to scout properly though with a cloaked covert ops or recon you still need to train for it, and a "t2" shuttle wouldn't change that.

This is a massive buff to scouting with alts that adds nothing to gameplay for new characters, other than a perceived problem with lore.

I know the consciousness is copied at the moment of death, but to actually install the clone in the first place, that should require you to be present at the medical facility, or else logically why could I not simply install my clone wherever I want across the galaxy.

It could have a small skill requirement. The main point would be that it is less than that of an interceptor, so that new players can use it. Also it is pretty easy already to scout with a 1 day character anyway and then biomass. If you want to scout properly though with a cloaked covert ops or recon you still need to train for it, and a "t2" shuttle wouldn't change that.

The problem I see with this is - as others have pointed out - that it will be the least benefit to new players, and more benefit to older players who will exploit it.

So please tell us, on a brand new clone what is the training time for an Inty. They don't need all those other fitting skills at V either. Just the Inty to get out there.

...that kind of stuff is what excites a new player, not a 23 day slog for an interceptor.

It is just over 23 days for a new player. The problem is they want to train other stuff also, telling them to slog it out for 23 days just so they can travel to null sec in a poorly fit interceptor which is no use for anything else is not viable or fair to ask of them. They want to train up to fly cruisers and battlecruisers to run missions or rat, as that kind of stuff is what excites a new player, not a 23 day slog for an interceptor.

It is just over 23 days for a new player. The problem is they want to train other stuff also, telling them to slog it out for 23 days just so they can travel to null sec in a poorly fit interceptor which is no use for anything else is not viable or fair to ask of them. They want to train up to fly cruisers and battlecruisers to run missions or rat, as that kind of stuff is what excites a new player, not a 23 day slog for an interceptor.

Last I checked you can install medical clones from a medical facility to any station that your corporation holds an office in, including ones without their own medbays.
So, uh...

Last I checked you can install medical clones from a medical facility to any station that your corporation holds an office in, including ones without their own medbays.
So, uh...

[quote=Lugh Crow-Slave][quote=Medalyn Isis]now on to your idea this will be far more used by non-new players as a coast around null free card so no to your idea from a game play stand point.
I don't see that as an issue, they cannot do much in a shuttle anyway except simply travel. Veteran players already use interceptors in this way anyway, and it is annoying for new players to have to train for a T2 ship in order to do this also.

I don't see that as an issue, they cannot do much in a shuttle anyway except simply travel. Veteran players already use interceptors in this way anyway, and it is annoying for new players to have to train for a T2 ship in order to do this also.