Player Features and Ideas Discussion

If you have the time to set up ~1000 contracts I would highly recommend getting a job or something IRL

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Unfortunately (or fortunately?) this is a problem most of the player base probably doesn't run into or care much about, but after 10 years it would be nice to have the allotted space doubled or even tripled.

I think Currier contracts should become UNLIMITED, as in every one can all of a sudden with no skills offer Currier contracts for ALL of their assets in a single go.

Considering how unpopular contracts have become, I think this wont put a lagg on the servers by to big of a margin, maybe...

Also, the amount of Player contracts that can be issued at any moment should be doubled or tripled according to skill levels, because 21 sucks with MAXIMUM skills

Running CORP contracts in a 1 man corp SUCKS, because lets face the facts here, NO one really runs a Merchant corporation, its just to complicated to both introduce and maintain with no reward, so at-least make it childishly easy to use the 500 contracts for every one, as in, add an option to the right click menu and be done with it.

How do you know it's an artificial restriction? Calculating standings and watchlists for a character is very likely to be coded in an O(1) or slower fashion:

A) When a player logs in, the server checks through all the contact lists that contain that character send the relevant notifications

B) When a player enters system or a chat channel, the client has to check all the characters in local against all characters in the contact list to display the correct standings icon.

In both cases, larger contact lists mean longer calculation times.

well at the moment I have 300 odd emails to update my contact list to advise us on who's a baddie and who's a friendly who just come on line but what the use its full and it been full for months it is good intel which is needs to be collected and changed to enjoy the game.Please explain why it is set to 1024 contacts only with a player base of over 50000 plus :)

A thousand contacts sounds much like hoarding or the Facebook friends list of someone with OCD.

Why not start with a time limit and a last access time for a contact first?

Whenever a contact is check or displayed by the game should it set a contact's last access time to the current date. Contacts older than half a year should show up under a filter option where one can manually update the access time or these will get deleted automatically after another 6 months.

In short, if you have not heard or seen from someone for a year will his or her contact be deleted. This will make room for new contacts and saves one the effort of managing them at the same time. It solves two problems in one.