Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Since hangars aren't the issues on citadels, when the delivery guy cannot dock to deliver on a citadel, they can transfer the package into the personal hangar/deliveries hangar of the contract taker from outside the citadel. The game already know that a contract package to this citadel is in the ship trying to do this and it knows who took the contract, so that should not be an issue. Tethering does not matter, but the delivery guy needs to be on grid and not cloaked with the destination citadel for the package transfer to work. With asset safety, space transportation magic got its precedent already.

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It's been mentioned in the focus group as something CCP would like to do.

Just not something to gate the release of contract functionality.

My concern is what kind of assurance or security can be granted to couriers who utilize the contract system to retrieve goods, while addressing access lists.

Simply, a courier could accept a contract, then find himself prevented from docking at the Citadel because he hasn't been granted access. Thus, that courier just got scammed...and is now floating outside a floating gun emplacement, in potentially hostile territory...

So, if we're going to allow contracts to be hosted inside Citadels, then we need to do something about enabling access to said Citadels and guaranteeing it. I can envision alot of buyers and couriers getting scammed unless their access to the Citadel is guaranteed, if only temporarily to retrieve the goods or sold product.

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Since the release of player owned citadels there has been a problem with the mechanic of courier contracts. This problem is that a person can scam you out of isk without there being anything you can do about it. This happens by the player creating a contract from a NPC station to a player owned citadel and once accepted they simply lock the station to where no one can enter it. This mechanic needs to be updated for Citadels so players are not losing so much isk. I know of at least 10 players that have quit the game entirely because of the loss of big isk. All that i am proposing is that CCP put a delivery docking system in so that players delivering stuff to player owned citadels can still deliver the stuff. All that this docking system needs to allow is for players to dock and empty their ships into a delivery bay. I understand that not every station wants people docking and using their services, so the delivery bay could just be that. You would not be allowed to use services at the station just dock and drop off. This could also be used for picking up contracts as well. If something in that bay is assigned to you, only you can see it and only you can pick it up. Same goes with the people receiving the goods. This needs to be put in every citadel so no more scamming goes on. Billions upon billions of isk are lost everyday due to this mechanic. I think its just something that was not thought of when making citadels and we need to raise CCP's attention. This would also allow for players that have been kicked from their corp to receive their stuff that is in a station because it being locked up the goods are pretty much lost from the market no one can get to them. I pretty sure that are billions of items that are locked this way and if CCP wants to keep the market healthy without having to create stuff every so often this will save a lot of the stuff. One thing they could do is make it so you have to request your stuff from either CCP or the station owner to get it back and pay to get it. This could work like insurance for your stuff. You insure your stuff in a citadel by paying the owner of the citadel a price set by the owner and if you get locked out or the corp no longer plays you can request the insurance release your stuff to the delivery bay as a form of payout.

Thanks for reading