Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Allow contracts for drugs.

Enable some way to remove autocomplete entries from courier contracts. e.g. I once made a courier contract to the wrong Jita 4-4 station. Autocomplete now gives me that station as an option every time, with no way to remove it. Similar issues occur when 0.0 stations get new names.

Allow contracts to split stacks would be nice.

Example: I try accept a WTB contract for one Tritanium, but it can not be completed as I only have a stack of 5 Tritanium.

Creating Contracts:

• It would be cool if this could be done in 1 screen/page - or - possibly 2, with the second screen just being for confirmation + the ability to disable this confirmation
• drag a contact or multiple contacts from my contact list into this screen to choose who the contract is for.
• The 'I will give/receive' part would be cool if it looked like the UI when interacting with a poco. Allow me to drag items from my inventory / containers onto one side, and on the other to click / drag from something like the filter used for the market

Viewing Contracts:

• I think the give/receive part should look like the poco UI
• For BPCs, could you add something in the window that reflects estimated isk/time saved for research levels?

Finding Contracts:
Please Please Please integrate with the market window in some way. One example might be, you click/search pyrite and see market stuff on one tab, and contract stuff another tab with the ability to filter out multiple items.


edit: i know this thread is moreso for UI / usuability, but i always thought it would be cool if eve had options contracts

I use the contract system for several things. Mostly issuing collateralized courier contracts, but also to transfer bulk BPCs between my characters, to trade BPOs, to scam traders (mostly through tricking people into believing a want to sell contract is a want to buy), to scam couriers (mostly through overcollateralized 'set up to fail' contracts), and I frequently use the contract system's search facility to purchase BPCs.

I do not use the contract interface to browse for-sale ship fits.


My requests:

1) Collateralized loan contracts.

We have collateralized courier contracts where player 1 "borrows" goods from player 2 with system-enforced collateral, then returns them to a different place and receives a fee, or fails the contract and forfeits the collateral. A collateralized loan contract would entail player 1 "borrowing" goods from player 2 with system-enforced collateral, then player 2 repaying the loan with system-enforced interest and in doing so regaining access to the goods. (Or, player 2 could default, keeping the ISK and forfeiting the goods to player 1).

Just as in courier contracts, only one party - the borrower - would have the capacity to declare a default within the system.

This will dramatically change the game economy by reducing the labour involved in facilitating loans, and will also facilitate the odd scam. (Borrowing 3b, collateral = 2 Kronos hulls, interest = 12% over 14 days, oh wait, did I forget to pay that back? Enjoy your expensive Kronoses).


2) Better BPC trading interface

Try to use the contract interface to purchase a Process-decrypted (1 run, -1 ME, -1 PE) Kronos BPC now and you will see what I mean here - you cannot tell without looking at the contract which ones have which ME/PE. The current interface is terrible for BPCs.


3) Keep the ability to deceptively rename contracts when you link them.


4) Totally redesign the "Available Contracts" page.

Have the system automatically categorize item exchange contracts as "Fitted Ship", "Multiple Fitted Ships", "Ship Fitting Without Hull", "Blueprint Collection", "Single Blueprint" and other categories including one catchall. Let us filter by categories (i.e. if I want a Kronos BPC, I can look under "Single Blueprint" and "Blueprint Collection" without having to see Kronos-related entries such as a fitted Kronos with a faction module BPC in it, which would come up as a false positive under the current search system).

Haven't read all the suggestions but here are my few quick / easish ones

Ability to ignore single contracts, rather than the issuer, Someone might link scam contracts in jita, but still have 'cosha' contracts that im intersted in

Following on from above, Ability to ignore certain types of contracts, For instance I dont care about 'bandit spur' but they clog up my contract screen when im looking for Bargains

Ability to just search for BPO / BPC of a type, for instance, Just Mods or Just Ships , rather than pick a particular mod, for instance i want to search for ALL MODS and BPC

Remove the 'Expired' Auctions - Once i claim my item, the expired contract sits in my outsanding list until the buyer acepts the isk, WHY?? I dont care if he has my isk or not, I have paid for item, so it isn't outstanding.

Ability on hauling contracts, to offer bonus payments depending on time frame. I want to pay someone to delvier quickly so put it in the contracts.

Payment option within hauling contracts, to be per jump payment, not total, I like to pay my haulers on per jump basis, working it out (especially when your unsure on total jumps until creation) would be nice to put in 250k per jump then let contract do it itself based on all highsec route (so if they take low sec shorter route they still get the total amount offered in payment)

Ability to offer multiple pick up from single courier job - This might be abit harder, but would be nice

Time left on contract or time of finish rather than this "less than one day / one hour etc"

WTB Contracts for BPCs , I want to buy Nightmares for eg, only option is nightmare bpo :( (and ye i would want to buy one thanks)

[*] Meta item searching - I want to search for all meta 11-15 mods for instance

Repeat payment contracts .....

Players make repeating payments for stuff all the time, principally renting space. Since there is currently no ability for corps and allainces to issue bills, right now everthing is handled manually by pulling wallets and trying to sort out who paid for what this month. Its a complete PITA.

A "repeating payment" contract would allow players to set up a regular payment for a fixed amount every week / month / day etc. Breaking or cancelling this contract is pretty easy ( cancel the contract or leave the wallet empty ). And the scam potential would be useful too.

While the copy contract option (that many apparently don't know about) does do this, it would be great if we could produce multiple indentical contracts with fewer clicks.

It would also be great if we could put up some kind of stacked contract, where a single contract slot provides multiple indentical contracts that can be accepted either as singles or as mutliples. So I could put up one contract with 50 identical items in it and customers can accept it, depleting the number in the stack until it is all gone. This would give us some of the functionality we have in market orders, but for items that can't be sold on the market (i.e. BPCs). I'd suggest adding a new contracting skill to set the maximum number of instances in a stacked contract.

Also, the finished contracts display is buggy. It sometimes has contracts missing from it. I think some bug fixing is required here.

Not sure if it is mentioned in the 3 previous pages but here it goes:
Batch contacting.
Ability to create a template, and then select , for example 10 BPC that i want to to sell, and create 10 individual contracts with the same attributes as the template.

Also, allow for select all, or select a few with control, or shift key, on the finished contracts tab.

Let us recontract existing contracts:

If I get a contract from a character and want to contract this stuff to another character, I want to be able to click "Recontract" and get immediately to the contract setup window where I can enter the new/next recipient. The contract is then accepted into a buffer and immediately recreated as a new contract to the next recipient. I don't need to go to my assets and find the stuff (in the worst case have to wait 5 minutes because of asset delay) and set up a new contract from there.

Please allow for contracts that behave like blueprints.

That is, give users the ability to save a limited number of contracts in template form.

The template can be named, and when called up lists what's on the contract, just like a blueprint's bill of materials.

At the start of contract creation, a template contract prompts for a hangar, then displays a window not unlike a manufacturing window, that line by line indicates which items are accounted for and which are missing from the hangar.