Generic CULTCLONES can be created by any clan member (though ask me to help you do so before creating one, as I have certain requirements).
These clones will be named CULTCLONE-1, CULTCLONE-2, etc., and will be available for use to all of our org players above a certain rank. What rank is that? The rank that pays me $25 per month on Patreon. As I said before, you're welcome to bring your friends into the org, but they will be one rank below the CULT players, and that rank won't be given CULTCLONE access. It's simple pay-to-win, there's nothing complex about it.
Note that in order to create a CULTCLONE you'll need to make a NEW Star Citizen account (and of course buy a Starter Pack for it so it can play the game).
- CULTCLONES keep the default avatar the RSI website gives you on account creation.
- CULTCLONES keep the default face that pops on your screen during character creation.
And then there are the personalized clones. These clones will be named ICYCLONE or ICYCALMCLONE or whatever, RECOILCLONE, etc. Perhaps even ICYCLONE-1, ICYCLONE-2, etc., because I think we'll end up needing multiple ones once all the mechanics mentioned in this article get implemented:
Multiple Package Clarification
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm ... rification
CIG wrote:Players will always be able to hire NPC crewmen in the game, contracting computer-controlled crews to help man turrets, run consoles and fly escort. If you would like the option of customizing your crew, you can create your own NPCs by using a Game Character slot. You will go through the same character creation process as your player character but will then have the option of handing off control to an AI. As an additional bonus, friends can ‘drop in’ to take over these crewmen themselves and to help man your spacecraft when available.
For these clones, you WON'T be making a second account, you'll just be buying additional game packages for your main account. This is all theoretical because this feature isn't in the game yet, I am just saying.
- Personal clones should use the same avatar on the RSI website as your main character.
- Personal clones should use the same face as your main character.
Keep in mind that the only reason we're using CULTCLONES now is because the additional character mechanics aren't in the game yet, and we have no idea when they might be. They will probably take years, so the additional trouble and expense for alt accounts and CULTCLONES is 100% worth it. The possibilities with CULTCLONES are limitless: imagine a Carrack/Hercules/Corsair dropping us off for a mission while the ship takes off and goes into space to wait there safely for when we need it. Or imagine a clone following behind in a rescue ship like the C8R or the Cutlass Red with medbed onboard. Or imagine an entire new squad of clones ready to come in once our main squad is dead, for an "extra life" to throw at the mission. Or more efficient mining, cargo hauling, etc. If you have two computers, you could be earning twice as much money for any given time. And, added to all this, we can be buying the more expensive ships for the clones, so that with one purchase every player will be able to use the vehicle at any time, instead of being forced to buy multiples.
For example, the Drake Vulture is coming out with 3.18, and it will allow hull-stripping ship salvage. It will cost around $135 at launch, and I am sure that several of us would have bought it. I certainly plan to buy one. But now we only need to buy one and give it to this account, and then we can all use it. And once we're done with it, that ship can be gifted to the account of whoever paid for it, since ships can be gifted once, so no one loses their money. We can also, if the ship is expensive, pool money to buy it. If we're talking a $300 ship, a few of us could chip in to get it, and then everyone has access. In this case though, we couldn't just gift the ship to anyone to get our money back: it will just have to remain with the clone account, and possibly upgraded later. Or maybe the big ship can be melted to buy several smaller ones, and then THOSE can be gifted to all the players who contributed? Maybe this will also work. I wish we had done this before ysignal bought his Corsair. If he had bought the Corsair for a clone, he could have gotten it back later by gifting, but if he gifts it now to a clone, he can't get it back, which would suck. Would have been cool for all of us to have access to a Corsair every time we log in the game regardless of what ysignal's doing. Same for Adjudicator's Carrack, really.
Or the Hercules we bought in-game for my account for that matter, because the above goes for in-game purchases too. That Argo Mole we want to buy costs 5,130,500 UEC, and we'd have given it to ysignal. But now we can give it to the clone and have access to it no matter who's online. Most of the general-purpose vehicles should be bought in this manner, and only player-specific ones like everyone's fighters or tanks for example should go to our character accounts.
Doesn't all this break game progression?
You'd think so, but in this case, I would say not at all. Once you grasp how many fuckin' HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS it would take to buy merely all the vehicles CURRENTLY in the game, and that moreover with every wipe YOU NEED TO REBUY THEM, the advantages we get via this method are merely a drop in the bucket. When would we get around to buying the 6,651,500 MISC Starfarer refueling ship, for example, let alone both that and the combat-focused Gemini variant? And then we give it to which player? Instead, we give it to a clone, and we can always have it flying nearby on longer missions, both combat and industrial ones. (And btw there is a profession where you can sell other players fuel, there is even an escrow service to make sure you don't lose your money if the refueling is interrupted, check here: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm ... -Refueling).
So in my view, clones are ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for orgs focused on domination, at any rate, and I have made the first one for us, named CULTCLONE-1, and bought the new C8R Pisces for it, and that's the only vehicle this clone now has. So it's set up to be a paramedic/ambulance for us (and we should figure out a uniform for it as well), and anyone can use it. I will give everyone the credentials on Discord soon, including access to a new email address I registered specifically for it so that we can take care of the mandatory 2FA.
We can use this thread to discuss additional roles for this clone, or the registering of further clones, etc. Please don't register a clone until you have talked to me so I can tell you how to set it up. Any questions, post here.
