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The Odyssey expansion introduced clone soldiers to EVE as a means to give low security space a valuable commodity as well as giving players another way of repairing their security status.
Clone soldiers
Clone soldiers spawn in low security asteroid belts, following the regular faction distributions. That means you'll find Angel Clone Soldiers in Angel Cartel space, Sansha Clone Soldiers in areas held by Sansha's Nation etc.
These special clone soldiers have a spawn chance that, while higher than other officer or faction spawns, is still rare enough that you'll need to spend some time finding them. Once you find one however, they will always drop the corresponding security tag along with some random loot.
Different tiers
There are four different tiers of clone soldiers, each dropping a different type of security tag.
Faction variants
Each of the different type of clone soldiers come in the flavour of the local pirates, so there are five different clone soldier recruiters for example, one for each of the pirate factions.
Security tags
There are four different security tags, one for each tier of clone soldier. The tags can be turned in at special CONCORD stations in low security space to repair negative security status and can be sold and bought on the market just like any other item. Right Click the tag in your items and select INFO. At the bottom of the page will be a button to find the nearest CONCORD exchange facility.
Limitations of the security tags
Each tag increases your security status by 0,5 points but has innate limits to how far a specific tag can take you. The Trainer tag can only bring your security status up from -10 to -8, after that you'll need a Recruiter tag for example.
Clone Soldier Trainer Tag x 4 (between -10 and -8) | ||
Clone Soldier Recruiter Tag x 6 (between -8 and -5) | ||
Clone Soldier Transporter Tag x 6 (between -5 and -2) | ||
Clone Soldier Negotiator Tag x 4 (between -2 and 0) |
You cannot use a tag if your security status is greater than 0, but the last tag you hand in will give you its full value. For example this means you can go from -0.09 to 0.41 with your last hand in. Tags are only meant as a means of repairing negative security status. If you want to raise your security status above that you'll have to use more traditional means of raising your security status.
Station facilities
In order to exchange security tags for security status, you'll need the Security Office service, which is only available in CONCORD and DED stations in low security space. Turning tags in will have an additional cost in ISK as well. It can be quite expensive. See the Evelopedia article below...
Guides
Most of these guides are outdated but still contain a lot of general information that remains the same.
- Clone Soldier Tags (outdated)
- [Ratting] Clone Soldier Farming (outdated)
You can also read more in the Tags for Security article on EVElopedia and in the original dev blog WantToTrade: Tags for Security Status.