Losing a Medical Clone

Starwalker had a very anxious time following the loss of his second pod – the medical clone was not insured. The first clone was insured and Starwalker ETA level clone (6.1 million skill points) woke in the clone vat in Inaro with his nearly 5 million skill points intact. However, in the excitement to return to Bille in another Rifter Starwalker made a mistake – this second medical clone was not insured or upgraded. Consequently, when the second pod was killed Starwalker was returned to the clone vat in an Alpha level clone (0.9 million skill points).

The effect of this is to lose 5% of the gained skill points; Starwalker (randomly) lost his level 5 Standard Missiles training and went from just under 5 million SP to about 4.75 million. (http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/What_happens_when_my_character_dies)

The anxiety was not from discovering this loss – that was actually a relief - but the period immediately before it when EVE client stated that Starwalker had zero skills and zero skill points. That was truly horrifying and the assumption now is that the client was having some problem that seems to have gone away. Starwalker has lost 5% of his skill points but that is considerably better than 100%.

Postscript: Miura Bull confirmed that the behaviour seen above - EVE client reporting zero skills and skill points - is a bug that occurs when you are podded twice within a short time period.