You realize of course what happened to the Jove as a result of their genetic manipulations right ? I think I'll stick with relatively sane enhancements . Or at least as sane as you can get with super solider cloning .

I would think it has to do with "you" being human...there would be a lot of psychological trauma that cannot be undone (since it is your "mind" that is being preserved) if you suddenly found yourself in another body that isn't your own (even if you wanted it). Just trying to gain control over the new body would scar your mind, and then there are the body's own instincts and desires that you just cannot understand...even if you found your way back to your own body, you'd be damaged beyond repair, all but useless.

It would be a similar thing, maybe to a slightly lesser extent, if your "mind" were to be thrown into another human's body/clone...there are things about it, even though it is human, that you just won't be able to understand or control properly.

I wonder if your "mind" is even compatible with any body but your own...most likely not.

It was a dev post years ago... I would be a needle in a haystack find.

According to the novel "Templar One", which goes into some detail on the development of the cloning system, the somewhat modified human brain shape found on a stored Sleeper in one of their stations was a required part of the cloning system.

In EVE Online, normal bodies can be interfaced and their consciousnesses downloaded into cloned bodies thanks to the "pod", the containment system that holds capsuleer pilots in their ships. This system is capable of downloading the state of every neuron in the brain and transmitting it through a network to a medical cloning bay, which holds custom copies of the pilot's body.

To shrink this huge and advanced system into something that can fit in a skull is no easy task, and required some... interesting modifications. This technology was developed, but isn't easily modified, and can't currently be adapted to brains of non-human origin by any of the Empires. So sorry, no giant octopus bodies for dustbunnies. At least not yet.

Our combat clones are already engineered. As for six arms, who's to say you'd have any idea how to use them? Your mind is still a Human pattern after all, and it stands to reason that your hosts mind should be too. Even if you had 6 arms, the chance is the other 4 would just hang limply at your sides.

Well basically the guy was asking to have his mind shoved into a slaver hound body and the dev replied the 'human mind' couldn't handle that transition despite that we handle the transition into 'ships' all the time as their bodies but its all because the ships where built to the accommodation the mind entirely in its raw interfaces as though sitting at the ships own consoles or something.

It maybe just because somewhere in that machinery the subconscious is still aware of the frail human body inside that pod.

I guess the best guess as to reason not why would be to google up phantom limbs.

However if they offered wolf shaped helmets for aurum I so buy up on that.

Actually, I think it would fail not based on the brain, but based on the "you". Your "mind" doesn't have the knowledge of extra arms or another body, so forcing you into something alien would be a shock; at the very best, you'd have to go through a long period of time adjusting to your new form until you've become comfortable in it (though you'd probably never be as good as with your real body), at worst, you've just fried your mind (kinda like a capsuleer going into a clone way to "small" for them when podded), and going back to your body won't fix it.

It would take years and years of research to find just how to fix that problem, IMO, since its not possible to "skill" for it until enough people that have gone through the process and given up their knowledge (or something like that...no clue how they work lol)

Jovians are so evolved it be hard to call them human. Why the last time I saw one, they had translucent clammy skin.
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Also I believe Jovians went above and beyond the concept of human by their own tinkering. Why reproduce when you can clone the next generation? why have one heart? lets have two! Why have emotion? they get in the way of higher thinking! The simple fact they have the technology to do this quickly, effectively and over their own life times is what caused the 'condition' in the first place where the experiments can take them no further in development and in the process not only have they lost their humanity but probably what it means to be a functional life form.

Nobody has seen a living Jovian in 8 years, all have been prerecorded smart AI personalities, message boxes, and left over tech.

They were manipulating the genes for generations...there were no origninals.In the end its what happens when you dont have enough genetic diversity.Everyone gets sick and dies from the same cold instead of some beating the virus and surviving thereby passing on the antibodies.

I point to the bubonic plague as an example.

Who says they didn't try?

I would like to be a giant enemy crab.

god that would be hell on the psyche, not impossible tho you are right. that said they are in the first year of research on this tech, and have a lot of other problems to work out(both IRNL and in the game). but thta would be cool to see.

some one wanted to know what ccp will do after seven years??? this might be it.