Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I would also like to see a kind-of subscription list for contracts. Instead of having to constantly juggle around with the clumsy contracts UI, I would like to have a list/fancy window where I can see at a glance new public contracts (CCs in particular) from certain people without having to mess with the contract search settings.

The single most annoying thing about the contract system is the GUI. You can't effectively search for items like blueprints. Notes are below:

- Having to search for items by exact name can be a serious pain. The market categorizes by type and allows for favorites which is helpful but those items are all on the same playing field (i.e. - his tech 2 scram is the same as anyone else s). Not so when it comes to BP/BPC or fitted ships. Each one is different. Something that allows quick and easy drill down of what I'm looking for would be amazing. A self populating search window with adjustable bars for stats, runs, etc. A preview of fitting or drill down for items fitted on ships would be helpful as well.

- The freight contract system has a fundamental flaw. I can't for the life of me understand why I need to contract items to my alt so that they can be freighted across the galaxy (I'm specifically speaking of fitted/rigged ships). Either allow someone to assign a contract to themselves or let them place fitted ships into the cargo hold of another.

Regarding your idea of making contracts more "trustworthy", I've got a great suggestion.


Right now, courier contracts are very simple and don't allow for any parameters outside of "completion within this time period or failure".  The current system looks something like this:

1 Day to complete
1 billion collateral
15 million reward

Further parameters could be set which would greatly improve courier services for both parties.  For example:

1 Day to complete
1 billion collateral
10 million reward
20 million reward if completed within 2 hours

Even further, you could set multiple parameters on one contracts:

10 million reward
15 million reward if completed within 4 hours
20 million reward if completed within 2 hours
etc.

Right now the only options are to offer a verbally agreed tip if completed within a certain time frame, or to simply offer more reward with the hopes that a hauler will honor your request for a fast delivery.  Both of these options are not set in stone and can be easily violated (not trustworthy).

As someone who uses couriers daily, I feel like this area could use some improvement, and would benefit greatly from very little work.  I have spoken with numerous other players about this topic, and it is definitely something  a lot of players would benefit from.

This came up in another thread https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5317609#post5317609

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Re-iterating my desire to see you allow us accept a contract in a different region.

Can CCP please change the wording on the notifications when completing delivering a Courier Contract?

Currently it says:

"Deliver Courier Package" in the right click menu.
"Really Complete" in the warning notification.
"Crate Delivered" in the final completion notification.
(Technically, I would also add the "Complete" button in the contract window itself to it, but who uses this button anyways? For the sake of comprehensiveness, this button should also read "Deliver", as we do deliver something to somewhere.)

This inconsistency between Deliver - Complete - Deliver causes me every time to look at it two, three, six times in panic to absolutely make sure that it says complete and not trash or cancel/fail. Instead, I would like to see the warning notification say "Really Deliver" in order to have a smooth flow of words, which does not interrupt your clicking path and perception when you do it right but jumps to your eyes and rips them out of the holes, throwing them at your your soon to happen fail when you do it wrong.

I do like the idea to set additional bonus rewards like we have in missions.

Also i like the idea Banlish wrote about the contract work between players.

1. Add Search feature for description, i.e. DARKNESS ALLIANCE TENGU FIT 1 or ASP MINES. This would help people fitting ships for alliance to better advertise what fit is what. The second part of this is so that old items that aren't on the market anymore have a way to be searchable.

2. Do not allow accepting public contracts from anywhere. This just helps makes more incentive more people just to sit in Jita and contract spam and scam.

3. Somehow make it possible so that you can sort ships in the contract and see what is actually fit on fit ships. Sometimes you think you are getting a nicely fit Crow and an Iteron but you are in fact getting a poorly fit crow and some junk. This also goes for containers it would be nice to know (or easily tell) if you are buying a bunch of stuff in a container that you aren't going to be able to repackage and able to relist.

4. Make crystals that have been used or damaged some how stand out. There are other items that for whatever reason are unrepackageable - make it clear that these items are not simply just 1 item but are in fact assembled.

5. Make it more clear when you are buying a ship that you won't be able to repackage it remotely if you are unable to. Sometime you buy a ship in a contract and you can repackage it and sometimes you can't. Total crap shoot.

6. Make it so the final contract screen comes up first and you have to accept it on that screen to finalize it. I like to think of it as a Print preview. This way you could potentially copy and paste the contents into something like evepraiser to be sure you are listing the item for a fair price - my current work around for this is to contract the item to myself and check pricing that way.

7. Make a link in the Eve wallet that is clickable for the transaction that brings up the actual contract. For example I do a lot of corporate contracting over a number of characters. The transaction shows up in my wallet but the contract DOES NOT appear when I search for completed contract on the corporation. In order to find the contract I need to manually go through (hopefully remember) each and every character to find the contract.

8. Treat contracts being made to alliance mates or alliance available in the same way as corp contracts are in that you have more available.

9. Fun stuff. Make it so that you can see what system your courier package is actually in. This way you can tell if Red Frog has actually left.

10. Make better search feature for old contracts. I sometime sbuy stuff and then forget what Ipaid for it. If I could search "Archon" in my old contracts then it would help narrow things dow.

11. Fix the issue where you can right click and search for contracts that an individual has available but when you type the name manually under the my contracts window you aren't

12. Add a box like with evemail or donating plex under the My contracts area so when you start typing the name of someone to check their contract history it pops up with similar names.

13. Same idea as above when creating contracts. If I drag and drop the name of a character i.e. Graye....please do not prompt me with every character in eve that has a similar name.

14. Use point form on the Contract start page so you can clearly see how many contracts you have available to who

15. Create a pawn shop option. Essentially a hybrid of the old loan and sell contracts. A person could put up items and receive isk and then they can get their items back after repaying with interest.

16. I'll add more later.