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Cancelled Contracts?
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VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2011-12-21 06:48:09 UTC
I was looking at some of the courier contracts available, and someone in Viziam warned me that people could drop a contract and keep my collateral once I'd accepted it. Is that true? I would think such a massive loophole wouldn't be allowed, but I'm not putting up every penny I have to take a mission if all they have to do is press cancel and leave me stuck with a pile of veldspar or something.

I'm aware of the tactic to get someone to accept a lucrative contract out in dangerous territory... then kill them making it impossible to complete... but I'm more than willing to take on that kind of PvP. I shouldn't be playing EvE if not. But again, why would anyone need to bother killing you if they could just cancel the contract? Same Question remains. Can they?

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Xercodo
Cruor Angelicus
#2 - 2011-12-21 07:07:24 UTC
I think they can forcefully fail the contract yes...

But i haven't touched the public ones in forever so I might be mistaken...

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malaire
#3 - 2011-12-21 16:40:16 UTC
I don't think they can Cancel contract once it has been accepted. And they can only Fail it if you don't complete the contract within given time (at least 1 day).

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Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#4 - 2011-12-21 17:50:34 UTC
malaire wrote:
I don't think they can Cancel contract once it has been accepted. And they can only Fail it if you don't complete the contract within given time (at least 1 day).


This. The issuer of the contract cannot cancel it once it's in progress. You can, however.

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VKhaun Vex
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2011-12-22 02:18:57 UTC
Ah, they gain the option to fail it only after the time expires. That makes more sense.

Thank you.

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