Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Current Situation: Contracts from around New Eden are visible everywhere, because these are quite different from typical market transactions.

Problem: You can only view contracts not in your region, you cannot accept them. This results in trying to start a conversation, or mailing the person who listed it, to try and get them to set it to a private contract, which DOES allow you to then accept it.


Solution: Just allow any contract to be acceptable from any location. Make the game easier to play.


I figure, if there is a way to do it, may as well just make it easy, and reduce clickage to spend money.

I did consider that a lot, no doubt about it. But the thing that caught me, is why should private contracts be the only way to accept contracts cross-region. Private contracts are for direct exchange of goods between two pre-determined parties.

You should have the same functionality in public contracts vs private. At least, to me.

I'm assuming (which, knowing EVE code, I suppose is a bad thing) that this would not be a major project. Most releases contain a few things under the 'little things' type of title. If this would be a huge project, then yeah I would not like to see a lot of Dev time dedicated to it. No argument there.

The other thing is, what if you want to grab a contract in a 0.0 region? Not always feasible to get there.

I understand the player interaction bit, but I see it more as a functionality thing. Not to mention most people in-game are under the impression that you can just accept the public contract from wherever. So you get people refusing to go through the few simple motions of re-listing a contract to you privately.