Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Would like to be able to contract a single item type, multiple stations, based on asset search for region and lump them all into a single contract that would have a 'multiple stations' alert for the contract buyer.

Example.

Buyer will receive:
Salvage goody - Station 1 - quantity 15
Salvage goody - Station 2 - quantity 2
Salvage goody - Station 3 ( warning Low Sec station) - quantity 300

you will pay $$$.

The scenario comes about in either a trader has accumulated stuffs and no longer needs or wants to coral them or a ratter has been in several systems and is working out a deal with a 'corp buyback' program...the opportunity is the spread consideration between price and pick up time.

I only propose his with single item since some items are not worth contracting price but en masse might be worth a Indies time to pick up.

Many good suggested in thread above. Pull from Stack, clearer indication of items fitted to which ships, contract description clarity (I know you can use description line) to replace 'Multiple Items' so things easier to find when scrolling are top of user-friendliness features.

i think it would be nice if we could filter by tech level

Might be nice to search contracts based on ME/PE/Meta Level. IE I want to search for an Anshar BPC with ME -1

Would also be nice to see the in game price estimate for items either as a total on the contract or per item. Might be a bit 'op'.

One thing that I've always wanted to do in both contracts and market is search for the various shorted names we use for thing, like 'MWD' or 'LSE' but I can see that being an arse to do.

As a hauler I'd like to see following changes to (mostly courier) contract system:

(some of the suggestions have already been made but I feel the need to mention them again since I consider them highly important quality of life changes)

1. More sophisticated filtering system. Currently if filter is set to highsec only, you still see contracts that lead through low/null security space (which is because no high sec route is available) although pickup/dropoff locations are both in high sec.

2. Allow us to ignore specific contracts in addition to ignoring all the contracts from a person/corporation.

3. Enable multiple selection (shift/ctrl+click) of entries in „My Contracts“ tab allowing to complete/delete multiple contracts at once, either through right click menu or through additional button.

4. Allow issuing contracts to yourself. This mostly comes from the need to haul my own assembled ships in a freighter. The functionality is already there because other people‘s assembled ships can be entered into courier contracts and be moved by a freighters. Another option would be introduction of consumable item discussed bellow.

5. Make items inside multi-layered packages visible to cargo scanners and introduce a special consumable item which would allow us to wrap our cargo making it immune or hard to scan. Introduce a new skill to make scanning such package possible/easier thus forcing gankers to invest training time into otherwise disposable alts since training to fly a freighter and accumulating enough wealth for a higher collateral jobs is a noticeable time/ISK investment.

6. Add more options for contract expiration/completion deadlines. I suggest 6h, 12h, 24h, etc. increments.

7. Add an option to enter per jump payment in addition to total amount. Have both input fields side by side and have them update each other as changes are made (similar to new directional scanner distance options)

8. Allow sorting courier contracts by payment per jump

9. Add more sorting options to "Sort pages by" drop down menu, f.e. total payment and per jump payment, etc.

10. Introduce an option to pay bonus for promptness. For example contract issuer makes a courier contract with 1 day expiration and 1 day completion deadlines and adds bonus if package is delivered within 6h of accepting rather than taking the whole 1 day. That would make contract hoarding (of which I'm guilty myself) less feasible and would give well paying contract issuers a deserved delivery speed.
Some people have requested ability to accept contracts game-wide rather than region-wide and in my opinion courier contracts were the only reason why region restriction were needed in the first place. Implementing promptness bonus makes region restrictions unnecessary.

11. Allow modification of outstanding contract properties without having to delete them and start all over again.

12. Allow mutual contract termination. If someone picks up a contract he/she can‘t complete or issuer sets wrong collateral etc., there should be an option to cancel it if both parties agree, rather than resorting to breaking the package (thus tainting contract history of both parties) and sending items and ISK back and forth through item exchange.

13. Use color codes whenever/wherever possible for various contract properties, such as marking volume red if the ship you‘re currently flying doesn‘t have big enough cargo hold, yellow if it does but doesn't have enough empty space, and green when both criteria are met.


A couple of less relevant suggestions:

14. Allow to see full courier package (or any other package/container) contents through assets window. Right now if courier package contains a container, right clicking and choosing "view contents" option in assets window only shows a container. I‘d like to be able see to full contents. Also make "view contents" list ctrl+c friendly.

15. Allow entering POS‘es and customs offices as courier pickup/destination.

Hello,

few improvements for courier contracts,

• Courier contracts sorted by ISK per jump reward with already calculated and reduced result depending how far the hauler is from the start pick up courier location.


• Ability to see the content of the courier package before accepting it - all other contracts types already have this feature.


• Ability to set search and filter for courier contracts with minimum/maximum ISK per jump reward


• Give Time bonus reward option to courier issuer, if the courier contract is completed within set time by issuer


• Ability to return an accepted courier contract within 2 minutes back to the contract issuer, in case of misclick


• Increase the limit of ignored contract issuers to 10 000


• Improve the UI how ignored issuers are being deleted


• Fix the low/null filter for couriers, even with set filter to hisec only there still pop-up couriers outside of hisec


• Create NPC freighter-size hauling missions, with appropriate LX rewards (1 million per jump minumum L4, etc)

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Price indicators and price history diagram just like the market has.

Main pain is item selection UI for item exchanges and couriers. This is basically quite painful to use. What I'd like to see is it use the main inventory UI in some way; then you have all the filtering and stack/split functionality available.

Basically have the inventory window support showing a remote location (hangar, corp hangar, deliveries), preferably independent of the contract system. Then either use its existing selection features for picking, or have a drag&drop target on the contract window (like the trade window basically).

The contract item picker is the only place you can remote split stacks though, so don't lose that (it got broken once in a patch and it was a nightmare).

Double bonus points if you can then remote stack...


A smaller change would be to filter the hangar list to hangars that actually have things in them; it's several clicks per courier contract just to reset it to "Deliveries" when I don't even have an office in the selected station.


Finer grained time settings on courier contracts would be good; e.g. 12 or 4 hour deliveries.

Built-in support for fast delivery bonus rewards would also be good; e.g. 24 hour time limit, but bonus if delivered in 4 hours.

... not having read every idea so far...

The want to buy aspect of contracts are obscure and buried in the contract system.

Agreeing with the want to buy fit ships would be very interesting.

While we're at it, it would be awesome to give in-game browser API the way to create buy contracts. Last time I checked, it could only create sell contracts with whatever stacks you have, is it difficult to give us a function which operates on item types and quantities?

That would make logistics a bit less pain to do, as you can just throw a web form where people select items they want you to buy, and it can give them a buy contract on that (with an automatic price calculation, biatch!). Later you just pick at your server for the total amounts (where the "open buy window" for item type function comes in handy), grab them, deliver them, and accept all the buy contracts - this is where we need the stack split - and we're done.

I don't use contracts all that often, but I do have some feedback on the improvements I'd like to see:

- The fitted ship contract UI needs to be streamlined somehow. Either allow us to expand and collapse all modules under a ship in the interface, or allow us to pull up the complete layout in the fitting tool.

- Make it easier to look at the ME/PE/Max runs of BPC/BPO contracts. It's frustrating when you need to open each contract to see these values.

- Make it impossible to accept a contract unless you have the required materials on hand prior to accepting it.

- Include a simple feedback system that allows buyers/sellers to leave a positive or negative rating on completed contracts. People listing reliable contracts would have an easier time building a reputation and it would make it slightly harder for scammers to spam on the same accounts, but not prevent it.