Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I understand your pain, but why not just ask for corp/alliance buy/sell orders? That way multisell/multibuy can remove all that work from you, and distribute it to every player that wants it? :-)

+1 from me.

I know the pain of fitting doctrine ships for contracts, anything to make that easier is needed.

The thing is, I'm generally all for simplifying tedious repetition, but in this case I think it would be "silly" to further increase the need for contracts when there should already be a universal system in place to handle this based on market mechanics.

You assume that I have no experience with setting up doctrines or even fitting multiple ships, so you dismiss my point by pointing out that I haven't thought about someone still having to fit them, and then arguing that some arbitrary time constraint makes this necessary to do beforehand.

So I ask you to consider the following, right now the reason for not putting up sell orders for doctrines are:

Price manipulation/sniping individual modules in order to mess up a deployment phase, or just for the lulz/profit.

Speeding up the deployment phase/handholding so noone fucks up and forgets scripts/ammo/whatever.

Now, what I propose is to expand the scopes of sell/buy orders, so that players have the ability to specify corp/alliance, and standings. Even going so far as to give different prices to different standings on sell orders. What would this effect have on the issue at hand? Firstly, it would eliminate my first point, unless ofcourse there is internal greed issues, but I consider that an internal affairs issue. The 2nd point, with multi-buy, the argument for speed is gone, and the handholding argument is kind of tied to the same issue, as it is more likely to be something in the middle/end of the list of modules/ammo that is forgotten when everyone has to fit their own ship.

So while less handholding might be inconvenient, I'm arguing that this is eve, and if the cost of this luxury is abit of carpel tunnel for middle management, so be it, you got the create similar contract which simplified this by about 90%, and now you want the last 10%.

That being said though, I have been in this situation myself, so I'm not going to -1 the suggestion, but I feel dev time should be spent on something else, so +0.

I said nothing about a time constraint I pointed out you may not be able to during as there is a good chance the fitting service may be shut off at your station