Hello everyone, I’m a fairly new player to EVE Online (almost 6 months in and no signs of stopping). I’m currently living that wormhole life but thought of an idea that I think would be awesome to have in the game. The reason I thought of this is because me and my fellow wormholer’s (is that a word?) often have to travel to trade hubs and back and sometimes we’d like to travel as a group to grab ships and gear etc. Wouldn’t it be awesome if we all could ride in one transport ship or shuttle? and further more what if that could be scaled up to being something like a new job/contract system. Offering people rides from Amarr to Jita or wherever they want to go, basically like a galactic Uber? Would be an exciting way to make isk, having to keep your passengers safe as well as trying to get to the destination quick. it also allows the passengers a better alternative to using the infamous “Autopilot”. Passengers could go AFK or work remotely on their PI or just do stuff IRL while their toon is shuttled to their destination by a hard working uber driver trying to make ends meet by driving a galaxy uber. you could also have a rating system to see how many jobs someone has succeeded and how many times they failed or did not make it to the desired destination, sort of like a Zkillboard stat but a Galactic uber Star rating (lol).
anyway just some random thoughts…what do you all think?
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I’ve always thought a different but similar idea could be nice.
It should also fit your use-case!
The ability to uninstall clones, trade, transport and reinstall your own clones back in clone bays.
- Got a bunch of jump clones with implant sets that you aren’t using at the moment? Unplug the clones and store them for later!
- Want to move a bunch of clones with various implant sets to a new staging system all at once? Just trade them to your hauler and move them all at once!
- Would you like to jump clone to Amarr but you don’t have a jump clone there? Pay a courier to move one of your clones to Amarr, remotely install your clone there and jump!
Obviously this isn’t a way to trade or recover implants - the implants are still stuck to the clone and the clone is bound to a player, i.e. ‘Gerard Amatin’s Frozen Clone’.
It’s just a way to store more offline clones than the current jump clone limit and a way to transport clones for other characters. These offline clones won’t count towards the jump clone limit as a player cannot jump to them until they’re (remotely) reinstalled in a clone bay.
What do you think?
It fits with the ‘call an uber’ idea of you that it lets one player move a bunch of clones for all other players at once. And when you’re at the destination everyone remotely installs their clones, jumps to it and has arrived at their new destination!
Transporting folks around was brought up back in the DUST days. One of the problems is parking the ship and the passengers in deep space and logging off… forever.
Should we add special skill books and ships? IDK.
Getting moved up the target listing? Good thing.
The rating system? This has potential.
Obviously, NPC’s can not do this, nor probably alpha clones.
As a hauler type person adding more things to carry is a ‘good’ thing.
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All very good points!
I didn’t think of that…what if someone wanted to troll and just picked up people and then logged out and never came back…or what about if someone disconnects and decides to not come back or is unable to etc.
Exactly about the haulers! Instead of transporting someone’s “valuable goods” why not transport people? its technically similar in risk and yes it could make people more of a target…but hauling ships are basically under the same sort of scrutiny when they are flying around. ANND wouldn’t more engagement and kill mails cause an increase in economy for more goods and more collaboration with others to find safe routes…or even better provide safe routes for people to go?
Love the discussion! thanks for replying