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| === Skill points === | | === Skill points === |
| [[File:Medical window.jpg|250px|thumb|right|The medical services window, showing how many skill points your current clone can hold.]] | | [[File:Medical window.jpg|250px|thumb|right|The medical services window, showing how many skill points your current clone can hold.]] |
| The primary purpose of medical clones is to safeguard the [[Skills and Learning|skill points]] your character has accumulated. When your character is first created, and every time you "use up" a medical clone (i.e. by dying), you receive a basic medical clone (for free) which can store up to 900,000 skill points.
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| Once your character has accumulated more than 900,000 skill points (which will happen after roughly three weeks of skill training), should you die, you will lose 5% of the excess skill points (SP) you have accumulated.
| | Medical clones are the mechanism by which Capsuleers achieve immortality. Upon death, the capsuleer's entire personality and memories are instantaneously uploaded into a fresh medical clone, waiting dormant in a station's clone bay. |
| {{example|1=If a character with 1 million SP dies, but has a medical clone which can only hold 900,000 SP, they will be resurrected with 1,000,000 - 5% * (1,000,000 - 900,000) = 1,000,000 - 5,000 = 995,000 SP, which represents about 3 hours of training (depending on attributes). If a character with 5 million SP (and only a basic 900,000 SP clone) dies, they will be resurrected with 4,795,000 SP, losing 205,000 SP (or about 5 days' worth of training)!}}
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| This can be avoided by upgrading your medical clone to make it hold more skill points. You can do this through the medical facility window in any station (not just the station where your medical clone is currently located), but you have to pay a fee (higher-capacity clones cost more money). The basic clone is called an "Alpha-grade" clone and can hold 900,000 SP; higher-grade clones can hold more skill points, all the way up to the Omega-grade clone, which can hold 450 million SP (about 25 years' worth of skill training!). You can check the capacity of your current medical clone (and compare it to your skill points) in the medical facility or character screen.
| | Prior to the December 2014 Rhea release, different grades of medical clone were available for purchase, each capable of storing a different total number of skill points, and failing to properly upgrade your medical clone led to risking the loss of skill points on death. Rhea greatly simplified this system, removing clone grades and the risk of skillpoint loss. |
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| Once you "use up" a clone, you are given a new Alpha-grade clone for free, but you have to upgrade it again if your character has more SP than the Alpha clone will hold. For characters with few skill points this cost is fairly trivial, but when very experienced characters die, the cost to set up a new clone starts to become noticeable. As a rough guide, a three-month old character can expect to pay about 200,000 ISK for a new clone, a one-year-old character about 1 million ISK, and a 3-year-old character about 9 million ISK.
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| {{important note box|After you die (i.e. were podded), make sure to upgrade your medical clone to avoid losing skill points the next time you die!}}
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| The table below lists all the available medical clone grades, along with how many skill points (SP) they hold, their cost, and ''approximately'' how old your character is likely to be when you need that clone grade (i.e. when you are likely to have more SP than the previous clone grade can hold).
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| ! style="background-color:#222222" | <span style="cursor: help;" title="Clone grade">Grade</span>
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| ! style="background-color:#222222" | <span style="cursor: help;" title="How many skill points (SP) that grade of clone can hold.">SP capacity</span>
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| ! style="background-color:#222222" | <span style="cursor: help;" title="How much it costs to purchase a clone of this grade.">Cost</span>
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| ! style="background-color:#222222" | <span style="cursor: help;" title="How old your character is likely to be before they need this grade of clone.">Age</span>
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| | Alpha
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| | 900k
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| | FREE
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| | Beta
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| | 1.38M
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| | 28k ISK
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| | 3 weeks
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| | Gamma
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| | 2.05M
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| | 46k ISK
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| | 4 weeks
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| |-
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| | Delta
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| | 2.8M
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| | 66k ISK
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| | 6 weeks
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| |-
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| | Epsilon
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| | 3.75M
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| | 91k ISK
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| | 8 weeks
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| | Zeta
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| | 4.8M
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| | 125k ISK
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| | 2 months
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| | Eta
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| | 6.1M
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| | 175k ISK
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| | 3 months
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| | Theta
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| | 7.75M
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| | 235k ISK
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| | 4 months
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| | Iota
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| | 9.8M
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| | 330k ISK
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| | 5 months
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| | Kappa
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| | 12.4M
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| | 455k ISK
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| | 7 months
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| | Lambda
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| | 15.7M
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| | 650k ISK
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| | 9 months
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| |-
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| | Mu
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| | 20M
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| | 940k ISK
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| | 11 months
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| | Nu
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| | 25.6M
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| | 1.4M ISK
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| | 14 months
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| | Xi
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| | 32.8M
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| | 2.1M ISK
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| | 18 months
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| | Omicron
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| | 42.2M
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| | 3.3M ISK
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| | 2 years
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| | Pi
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| | 54.6M
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| | 5.5M ISK
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| | 2.5 years
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| | Rho
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| | 71M
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| | 9.1M ISK
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| | 3 years
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| |-
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| | Sigma
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| | 92.5M
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| | 14M ISK
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| | 4 years
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| |-
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| | Tau
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| | 120M
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| | 21M ISK
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| | 5 years
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| | Upsilon
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| | 156M
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| | 32M ISK
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| | 7 years
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| | Phi
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| | 203M
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| | 46M ISK
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| | 9 years
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| | Chi
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| | 264M
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| | 63M ISK
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| | 12 years
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| | Psi
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| | 343.5M
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| | 84M ISK
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| | 15 years
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| | Omega
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| | 450M
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| | 105M ISK
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| | 20 years
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| ==Jump Clones== | | ==Jump Clones== |
