Player Features and Ideas Discussion

My biggest complaint on the contract system is how it searches for "things" it automatically does an any search which if you're contracting to a short character name it brings up a load of random things. even if you drag the character name in off info it still does it, putting quotes on the name helps some but depending on the name it can be pretty bad.

Think the best way would be to improve the contract system so if you drag a character / corp in it automatically goes to that one via the metadata behind the link.

Also unable to contract illegal things is entirely annoying.

Also a small slightly off topic - in the contract window you can remotely split stacks but you cant split stacks in the asset window.

It would be nice if the contract search/API could flag courier contracts that had containers in them, since those plastic wraps cannot be item exchanged. Or, even better, let us item exchange plastic wraps with containers in them!

The ability to set an early completion bonus (with at least hourly increments) on courier contracts would be great. Mentioned already so +1 to that.

There is an odd bug/behavior when you right-click a plastic wrap (and possibly other items) in your private hangar to create an item exchange contract. If you accidentally select the "on behalf of my corporation" checkbox, then uncheck that checkbox and blow through the asset selection step without touching/changing anything, you end up creating an empty item exchange contract.

It would be nifty if the contract API returned the ID of the plastic wrap associated with each courier contract.

Major +1 to all the BPC related improvements suggested here (ME/PE, etc.). Also it would be really nice to be able to setup buy contracts for BPC's. Perhaps not researchable ones with varying ME/PE, but at least for the seeded ones like faction ships, ascendancy implants, etc.

Making it easier to block people's contracts would be good. Am never sure if using standard block also blocks their contracts and regardless, having the option to do both at once, or at least having the ability to block a users contracts in their right-click menu would be great.

LOAN Contracts:
Currently a loan contract has no practical use because it's not enforceable.

SOLUTION:
1. Require a sum on money and/or items to be put in escrow in a given station in return for the loaned item. The goods and cash to be delivered to the lender in case of default. Return them to the borrower if the borrowed goods are returned.

2. Permit the lender to extend the loan contract in return for extra cash or items being put into escrow.

The loan contract can then form the basis of a reasonable banking system within Eve. A real economy may develop as a result.

take isk out of contracts. make it pure barter. :)

I think courier contracts aren't worth doing them even for a new player .

My suggestion is this:

1.If there could be a lower limit price according to jumps low-high sec etc ,cargo capacity and total cost of the collateral.I mean they can't place 1b collateral and pay for 1 million for total.A mechanic that will auto calculate and fix that to be more balanced.

2.Do u know the company u-ship that runs in usa?Imagine something like that in EVE.A player needs to transfer let's say a 20000 m3 cargo that worth 100m.It will have bidders for some hours that want and can transfer this thing and the best price gets it.The bidders will have a status rating according to delivery time ,contact with player etc and the person who made the contract will able to rate the transfer and how pleased he was.
If for some reason they fail or the contractor needs the items in specific time then the bidder will get really terrible rating.

Of course all players would be able to see the rating of each transporter in the contract menu or special menu.

The way we split stacks is a bit weird, say you have 10 items and you want to split 2 off, for whatever reason you're left with the 8 selected rather than the 2.

Know this is probably an overall UI thing but its still annoyingly obtuse.

Same could be said for the list returning to the top after using this option.

This response indicates a misunderstanding of the term "escrow".

The proposal is that the borrower deposit physical assets (including cash) into a secure, concord-controlled escrow vault. While the contract is in force, neither party has access to the cash or assets since they are in a vault, and not in a player hangar or wallet.

If the borrower defaulted, concord would immediately deliver the cash and assets to the lender.

If the loan contract was completed successfully (by the borrower contracting the borrowed goods back to the lender), the cash and assets would be returned to the borrower.

If the loan contract was extended, the cash and assets would remain in escrow until one of the above conditions were met.

Obviously, this arrangement prevents people without collateral from borrowing expensive things that they can't afford.

It's parallel in the real world is a mortgage - a loan backed by assets.

This is the foundation of a banking economy.

In this way, I see no reason why the process cannot be extended to providing mortgages on expensive ships, POSes, POCOs and stations.

It gives less wealthy alliances a way to build infrastructure without ready cash - they can pledge future earnings in the contract - like you do when you buy a house.

Can we get a list near the contract "to" field within item exchange and courier contracts. I propose to list the 5-10 most selected entities we have contracted too and be able to select them. I would like this to be done with portraits, which could be corp / alliance logo's too. This would speed up contracting a lot.

For me such a list would have Alts, PushX, etc in them, and I would not have to type, check, etc if its the good entity, I just know.

1) more contracts per character
2) allow us to set up multiplay contracts at the same time ( if they are totally the same ).