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New contact ISK charge vs. contracts
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Thrysis Sebellum
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2012-01-24 02:53:26 UTC
(Posted in a petition, was suggested I make a post here.)

I can understand the "tax" for new contacts, it's a neat way for the "government" to charge ISK for things. However, I wanted to contact a player who somehow failed out a contract I had to move a couple of ships for me. It was my first contract and I wanted to ask some questions of the person that just cost me a bunch of money. I think in this scenario, I should not have been charged the new-contact-fee. What do you think?

This evemail message is subject to a CSPA service charge of 2,950.00 ISK,
which you must accept to complete the invitation.

Awfully expensive, don't you think, after having lost money to the contract setup that the player lost me. (And still have no idea where the stuff I wanted couriered is!)

- TS / WB
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#2 - 2012-01-24 04:42:03 UTC
First off, there's a reason you always use proper collateral when you're making courier contracts. Second, if the 3k ISK that the CSPA charges is a burden to you, you should go and kill a highsec belt rat (one is all you need) and you should be fine, it's really NOT that much ISK at all.
Tidurious
Blatant Alt Corp
#3 - 2012-01-24 05:23:45 UTC
OP must not realize - players can modify what the charge to contact them is. You can set it from anywhere between 0 and 1M ISK for initiating contact.

It's also a way for players themselves, using the above tool, to reduce the number of unimportant conversations they get invited to. Scamming alts use this all the time to avoid the tiresome "WTF happened to my ISK?!?" conversation after each successful scam. Folks are a lot less likely to contact if it costs 1M ISK or so...
Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
#4 - 2012-01-24 05:42:19 UTC
It also makes it (a bit) harder for EVE mail spam to occur.

(Compare that to the "buy gold" or "buy credits" mails that land in your box on a regular basis in WoW/TOR.)
Rina Asanari
CitadeI
#5 - 2012-01-24 07:03:41 UTC
To an extent, the idea has merit. In this case the OP had some prior dealings with the person he tried to contact, namely though the contract said person failed to fulfil.

So maybe someone should be exempt from the tax if there has been some dealings with the addressee in the past (the last five days or so)?
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#6 - 2012-01-24 14:52:10 UTC
Rina Asanari wrote:
To an extent, the idea has merit. In this case the OP had some prior dealings with the person he tried to contact, namely though the contract said person failed to fulfil.

So maybe someone should be exempt from the tax if there has been some dealings with the addressee in the past (the last five days or so)?


Maybe, but still, it's 3k ISK, it's really not that big a deal.