Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I have made two contract ideas to forums earlier and recently I got idea of third contract idea.

Old idea: Fitted ships that are sold in contract system could have more clear interface so that you know how ship is fitted better.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=331463&find=unread

Old idea: Contract could have outpost/station is inaccessible filter so we don't need to open these contracts and waste our time with them.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=324493&find=unread

New idea: Repeat contract button. Lets assume I want to sell big packs of skill books. I have bought big pile of ten different skill books. I do ten split stacks so I can get one book of each type on hangar floor. Then I create contract and put sale price and other info there. Then contract is sold and I want to replace it with new contract. Then I have to go through all that trouble of splitting stacks and typing in contract data. If there was repeat contract button everything would be easier. I would search sold contract for these skillbooks and press repeat contract button. Then contract system automatically collects all necessary stuff from hangar floor and inputs all data and then it asks if I accept this new contract. If there is no necessary stuff on hangar floor or I'm in wrong station then I get error that says what is going on.

Edited extras:

Why so sad face CCP SoniClover?

I want to chime in on this because I've always thought it was fairly pointless to be able to see contracts from anywhere in the game but not actually being able to accept them unless you're in the same region of space. It really does not make any sense.

Atm contracts take 4 windows to create. Shouldn't need more then 1

doing private contracts I type in the name and it always gives me a list of 10 people with the one I want around 6th. The list should start with the closest match not alphabetically. Even better choice of partial or exact match only.

I'd like the option to select multiple identical items that I could create individual contracts for with identical options. Like fit ships for alliance

Be nice to have at least 1 default filled in form if not more be able to save so people who do the same contract over and over again can do so much quicker. Like someone who puts up a new buy contract for something when the old one gets filled or expires.

How about more then 2 weeks with item exchanges?

Changing the sort order for contracts changes only the 100 listed. So when I want them ordered by price I still need to go through more then 1 page.

People can place buy orders for blue prints that don't exist (like faction ships) but can't place orders for copies (Yes I know ME and PE are variables) but how many Dramiel bpc's are there that have better then ME0 PE0?

You can do courier contracts but how come you can't do loan contracts? I'd like to do corp ship contracts where the corpies when there done with the ships can return them to the corp by completing the contract. same as a courier they don't return it by a set time corp keep the collateral. It would be no different then a courier so no reason you can't do it.

Don't cancel insurance because a ship gets stuck in an item exchange contract. Doesn't happen when you do a courier so its not something you can't do.

How about hiding contracts at stations people can't dock at? Like in 0.0 or factional warfare.

Could do something about more options for expiration times.

sometimes I create a contract then realize I don't have enough isk. Even if I transfer enough I still have to cancel the contract and start again.

I'd like to have an option to block all contracts from your black list.
When someone block a scammer in Jita, I'm pretty sure he will also want to block all contracts from the scammer.

Make Courier contracts deliverable from the ship's cargohold.

I cannot remember having read that yet, correct my if I am wrong...

Give us the option to add an additional note to failed contracts so that other people who check contract histories can comprehend why a contract failed. This is particularly interesting for courier contracts and would make scams and traps harder.

Currently you have to laboriously check killboards for losses on that particular day. With a comment added to a contract, which can contain a simple remark "ganked" or a link to a killmail, this could be made a lot easier and more intuitive.

I'd like to expand on this idea. I'm currently going through my jump clones and collecting various pieces of mission loot scattered around the place, and shipping them closer to "home" for refining purposes. Although they'll all eventually go to my refining alt, I want my main clone to pick them up and deliver them to wherever, but I noticed a few issues:

1. As above, I want to contract to myself in discrete packages, perhaps one for refining, perhaps another for selling.


2. But, containers tend to be rather unwieldy, whereas shrink-wrap is always the perfect size.


3. As per the quoted post, I'd also like to use my freighter to carry fitted ships, without resorting to my Orca (which is too small for battleships), but I'd rather a better solution be developed for carrying fitted ships than wrapping them up in shrink-wrap (that is also highsec friendly, such as a T2 Orca, or a special shipping container for freighters)


4. Maybe I clicked the wrong button, but I wanted to make a courier contract to my alt, but then transport it myself, from the location I created it in, and deliver it to where the alt was. It either "disappeared" (i.e. went straight to the alt in the current location), or it said I couldn't accept it since it was my contract (depending on the contract option I chose). All I wanted to do was deliver a contract I had created, that was destined for an alt (that doesn't want to undock), mark it as delivered, then log on with the alt and accept it. Maybe I confused myself, but it didn't seem to want to let me do that.

Ability to set contracts available based on standings.

Be able to create an exchange contract from a Buy order- the prospective seller pays the contract costs, the buyer's offer is subtracted in full from their wallet and put into escrow as part of the contract at the moment the contract is made.

If one is bidding on an auction one should be able to see the identity of the highest bidder. This is the format of all popular & legitimate real world electronic auction sites and helps one recognize if the seller may be using a known alt in order to falsely raise the price on an item.

This would assist in:

a: Saving the buyer from wasting time on auction cheaters.
b: Help CCP out financially as the auctioneers may be forced to invest in more characters/accounts in order to falsely bid up prices without being discovered.