Player Features and Ideas Discussion

BPO/BPC with ME/PE/Runs without having to view or mouse over the contract.

This can either be done in the existing table, or it could appear on the contracts itself.
Example: http://imgur.com/ZRyOlg7

The other way would be to simple have a column which would state ME / PE / RUNS. You could sort the list by each then.
And the search filter could incorporate this as well to be able to search for it.

This!

For courier contracts, allow user to set a predefined load value (say 900000m3)
If items selected exceed the predefined load then automatically sort from the selected items a cargo manifest that fits the predefined load limit.

Would make shipping raw materials much much easier :)

While the current contract system works, I think a way of helping it along would be divving up some of its functions into separate gameplay mechanics. I would like item shipping to be an entirely separate part of the game to be invested in; An idea would be to have item shipping with NPCs via interbus as was originally intended, and have tariffs placed on them in relation to location, distance, etc. So you could have your stuff shipped within lowsec, but it would cost a bit more than shipping things the same distance over hisec due to distances involved. You could do the same thing in nullsec, except the tariffs would go towards whoever owns the stations there. It would be a great way to make some passive income if you extended it to PI and the customs offices; you could have them ship various materials and goods from office to station at a price that's taxed from the custom office's owner.

The trick would be balancing it so it's always more cost-effective to move it in a freighter over this method. The difference being that it would take significantly less time at the cost of extra expense. You could even expand on this further by making the NPC corps have active stocks and shares based off of their returns from player taxes and general randomness with in-game lore stuff going. If they have some in-game event that's unfavorable to one faction over the other, you'll see stock prices for their shares go up and down just as you would in the real world. it would be expanding on the market in all the right ways, and adding an actual stock exchange to the game would add a lot of realism and be and interesting way to open the game up a bit.

-Contract from a stack. I have a stack of five Atrons, but want to move just one.

-Contractable illegal goods in general. Can't give that Helios to someone because I looted a slave. Grr... However, courier contracts should still remain clean IMO.

-Accept from anywhere.

Other things of my own:
It'd be nice if expired contracts just returned to the hangar automatically, and if won auctions just delivered their isk or item automatically. Uneccessary clicking here.

Echoing again the "streamline creation" process, it's clickier than needed.

More contract slots please, the fact that I individually can get 300 market slots but only 21 contracts is silly.

A bug exists for mass courier contracts wherein if you have more than 100, contracts randomly become undeliverable until you lower the number.

"Copy Contracts" is nice and should basically skip me straight to the final confirmation window. I chose "copy" for a reason, I should not have to click through the whole damn list again (and re-select items, in the case of a courier).

Allow delivery of courier contracts to POS structures.



I probably have more and I'd like to prioritize some of the ones I highlighted above, but gotta get to work.

Additional +1. Especially for a group where "fitted ships are on contract", finding the fitted ships is a PITA. Expand contract slots this way, and I'd be a happy logistician.

+1 for being able to put up standings-limited contracts. I can think of several ways NMG would be able to use this on (merc) contracts, and of course it's of use to anyone who lives with blues, especially in an area where you *can't* just lock reds out of station (highsec, lowsec, NPC 0.0, Providence for neutrals).

For me, I'd like to see a "return" option on courier contracts-- that is, "I can't complete this contract, but here's your stuff back". Why? Well, I accidentally accepted a JF package from Sendaya, back when BL *and* PL were staging there. It contained a container, meaning that with the plastic wrap, it was now *two* containers and impossible to contract back to its owner. This created a bad situation where their stuff was locked in my hangar because of two screwups and some unfortunate mechanics.

Just so happens I posted about some improvements to the contract system just recently.

Please allow boosters or 'contraband' items to be able to be put inside public contracts. There is already a warning box which appears before you attempt to undock with a contraband item in your cargo, or when you attempt to jump into a system where an item in your cargo would be considered contraband. You could add a warning window to a contract that contains contraband items, and maybe add an optional filter which filters out contracts which contain contraband items for those people who want to avoid them.

Would it be possible to extend the amount of time that a contract can be issued. 14 days isn't really enough for some contracts, putting up some 'rare' modules/items which aren't listed on the market can often take several relists before they sell. Maybe you could double the current limit which is 14 to 28? This would be short of 1 month, <30 days so a character would have to re-plex to re-issue a contract (if that's a concern) and would still be 3x shorter than the current market cap.

This should probably be integrated somehow with the existing billing feature.

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