Fox Gaden
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.01.31 17:15:00 -
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf wrote:Suicide seems to be a way since your consciousness is instantly transferred to a new body when you die. I'm guessing that's how you get to the war barge before you deploy to battle. I'm just guessing.
In EVE you can transmit your consciousness to another clone in another part of the galaxy without committing suicide, but this requires special skills, and uses a special type of clone called a Jump Clone. In such cases your original clone is not killed, it simply becomes brain dead until you jump back to it. Presumably all stations have facilities for keeping these brain dead clones alive, while only certain stations have facilities for growing new clones. While you can leave your jump clone in any station, you can only place your skill clone at a station with a metical facility.
Suicide is a more widely available transport option though, as it does not require additional skills. Suicide would transport you to your Skill Clone, wherever it is. A method often employed by inexperienced explorers lost in warmholes. This method of transport has the disadvantage of destroying your original clone and any expensive implants you had plugged into your delicate head. I would guess that it is probably a more traumatic experience than jumpcloning as well.
I suspect that the method used to take you from your mercenary quarters to the battlefield would be at type of Jumpcloning. I also suspect that the clones used in battle are generic (cheap) universal clones rather then the custom grown clones used by EVE pilots. The clone in your mercenary quarters though is probably a high quality custom clone of your original body, or if you eat right and donGÇÖt abuse yourself it might actually be your original body.
To the OPGÇÖs question, I expect it will be several years before a DUST player will be able to fly to other planets in an EVE ship, simply due to the mechanics of it being a bit complicated. In the mean time all travel will likely involve transporting your consciousness to a clone at your destination. Just prey there is no server crash, lag, or solar flair interference during that transmission or you might find that GÇ£you are not all thereGÇ¥. |