Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I just noticed this behavior again and this should really be changed.

Currently, every page in the Available contracts window seems to be a separate search, which results in that you have the best contract (eg. on page 1 the best reward of 200M) on top and the worst at the bottom, on page 2 you have the same (another 150M on top and the worst 500k at the bottom), on page 3 the same (a 100M on top, 500k at the bottom). This is all the more obvious when you search for contracts (Courier contracts in particular) across the entire universe.

This is highly confusing and absolutely unintuitive. Instead of this page split, the best contracts should be on the first pages and the worse somewhere at the end. I can understand that his results in low payment contracts never being seen in this particular search setting, but honestly, a Courier for 10k/jump should incinerate and burn to ashes by itself.

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Another thing that I also recently noticed concerns more filter and route settings, which also has been mentioned before.

Basically, for courier contracts I would like to be able to set parameters to search CCs going from a particular security level to another.

For instance: I want to do some Low sec to High sec/High sec to Low sec runs. Currently I don't have any feasible way to search for this particular travel setting. I can only search for CCs in Low sec and High sec, which results in a massive list of contracts and the above mentioned problem.

But I would appreciate if I could tick some boxes to only search contracts that originate in Low or High sec and go to High or Low sec.

We could think about "destruction contracts" also.
You point one or more structures, and you place a contract on the destruction of these.
If a fleet destroy the structure they gain the price.

I'll keep it short and consise.

A quick survey in Jita and Sinq Laison reveals that the majority of public contracts are used for blueprints and fitted ships (not counting courier contracts). Therefore these two use cases are in my opinion the most important to improve.

Improvements to the search contract window:

1. Make the order and visibility of columns configurable (like in the overview)
2. Add more columns like ME, TE, contract name, estimated value, corp/alliance fitting, etc.
3. Resolve [Multiple Items] (pick the most common variable / or the ship that is fitted)
4. Display fitted ships as corp of alliance fitting when they match (different color and column with name of the fitting)
5. Ability to make custom columns with regular expressions (I know this is never going to happen, but one may hope)

Improvements to the contract window itself:

1. Display fitted ships in a fitting markup (like the new fitting windows)
2. When the same fitted ship (or container with items) is multiple times in the contract, display this with a numerator (i. e. 3x, 5x, ...)

In bigger corps and alliances contracts see the most use as distibution of doctrine fitted ships. Therefore special attention to showing corp or alliance fittings would be highly appreciated, as well as a way to template these contracts.


tl;dr: the user should be able to easily evaluate a contract without having to open it.

I would like to have an Option "Current Empire" in addition to "Current Station/System/Region". With this option you could search for contracts located in a specific empire's regions. For instance, I am in Domain and want to see all contracts in regions controlled by the Amarr Empire, or I am in Immensea and want to see all contracts in the sovereignty space of Nulli Secunda.

Might not be as useful in 00 Sec, as Sov changes sort of regularly and NPC 00 sec is limited to 1 region anyways; however, since I do not overly care about these regions in space, for High sec it would be a great help.

Directly related to revamping the contract system is replacing or removing the obsolete button for assigning base price value to a contract. I have made a thread on the subject, as I am unaware if base price is used anywhere else in the game, especially the internals.

How about an ability to loan money, with some sort of penalty clause if it is not paid back (Like collateral but at the end)

Can we remove this '' illigal goods '' contract block when we are contracting stuff in low sec and 0.0?
atleast for item Exchange contracts, and esp for 0.0 were there is no Security?

Contracts is a Security i know, but its also a way to transfer stuff remotly, so why would it block that in 0.0?

Can we please get the ability to enter number values smaller than 1 million for Price (Buy & Sell) and Reward and Collateral (Courier) in the contract filters?

It is commendable that CCP wants to force people this way to give proper payment for contracts, the player base vehemently stems itself against that force.

Also, in the same regard, I would like to have a filter option where I can limit the contract search to a specific amount of ISK per jump. Here the ability to enter numbers smaller than 1M is especially important because even more players don't want to pay properly. While I very much like to only do CCs with 1M reward/jump, the reality forces me to also accept those with lower payment to get a living from it.

I'd like to be able to clone contracts I've already made, both recent still-active contracts, and old ones from months or years ago.

Simply right-click on a contract, then select a new "clone" or "copy" entry from the menu, and then I start creating a new contract with as many fields as possible already filled out, with the same data as the old contract, but of course me being able to modify everything that I want to modify.