Vaerana Myshtana
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Posted - 2013.02.11 01:02:00 -
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Priceps Gaius wrote:Why doesn't everyone in the EvE universe become immortal themselves? Is it expensive to get this immortality implant? I mean, hell, the capsuleers have had their immortality for God knows how long, they've just been too jealous to share it. My question is, what's so special about this immortality thing that we as dirty mercs have?
Capsuleer tech requires a large, external scanning array that is too big for the head. As a result it only works when the person is in a sealed pod, not even planetary vehicles are stable enough:
http://community.eveonline.com/background/eggers/
The risk associated with the pod tech are also insane. Lots of potential empyreans get trapped in their own heads:
http://community.eveonline.com/races/wetgrave/
It is also worth noting that EVE clones are pretty expensive. The "free" clones can only hold about 900,000 SP worth of skills, so if you have 12,000,000 SP and die without a suitable "paid" clone, you will LOSE 11,100,000 SP worth of skill levels!
They haven't introduced this into DUST, but I did see a "Clones" tab on the Neocom at one point. I'm not sure if it's there right now (I'm not in front of the PS3), but it was marked with the "SOON(tm)" tag, so it leads me to believe that we may be paying for clones in the near future.
Also, we had a Dev (CCP Eterne) say that an EVE shuttlecraft (about 10,000 ISK, give or take a few grand) is "roughly the amount of money a upper-middle class family of four spends in one year":
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=529049#post529049
That, of course, would be a space-side family, as ISK is not used on planets very often and you can buy a carpload of "Planetary Currency" for 1 ISK. Either way, for the sake of doing math, we will call 10,000 ISK = $40,000 US for the sake of argument.
If you look at EVE clones, the ones that store up to 6,100,000 SP (some Dust players may already have passed this) cost 250,000 ISK:
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Station_services#Medical
That's roughly $1,000,000 US! For ONE clone!
Anyway, all political reasons aside, that's why everyone in New Eden can't use cloning technology.
Of course, there is also the need to use dead bodies as scaffolding for the cloning process, so us immortal types need lots of dead poor people to fill our CRUs and Cloning Bays:
http://community.eveonline.com/background/cloning/clon_02.asp |