Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Although this is more market than contract, I'd like to see it done anyway. I constantly buy hundreds of ships and fittings only to transport them in a JF and then assemble them to put on contracts. The purchasing of X number of ships is very time consuming, and I would love to see a "quote" system from the fitting window or somewhere similar that would allow you to buy X number of a certain ship and fitting. I would also like a way to make it easier to mass fit these ships, and put them on contracts.... although this is a niche request since not many people do this on this scale.

1) So currently, if you want to make a courier contract on behalf of your corporation starting from a station where you *don't* have an office, you are unable to do so unless the items are in deliveries. To get it into deliveries, you have to item exchange contract the items to yourself, then accept for corp. This is really annoying. You should be able to courier contract something from your personal hangar on behalf of corp if you don't have an office.

2) One feature I'd like to see is something like the Quickbar we have for the Market window. I'd like to select an item from a list I make and quickly search for available contracts instead of having to type out the exact name of the item every time.

I am missing a " Refresh Button" in the contracts UI

Items that are in both give and take categories should cancel out.

I'd like the ability to see items attached to something (ie. a fitted ship) inset in an easier-to-see fashion, and to be able to search specifically for fitted ships or packaged ships.

It would be really great if I could open the contract and at a glance see the ship's whole fit visually represented with icons, and all the empty slots made obvious.

Howabout an option to view the contents of conracts as a text list, list with small icons, grid of small icons without names (unless you mouseover), or grid of full icons with names? Similar to the options I have for looking at files on my computer.

I definitely want to be able to see a lot of contents without doing a lot of scrolling.

Lastly, it would be cool to be able to compare similar contracts or to enter several items into a contract search. I want to make sure I'm not paying 75 mil for a battlecruiser with the wrong fit.

Can we get contract 'reviews' and enable players to rate the trustworthiness of their peers? Basically an Ebay review system? Because frankly, it would A: Fix scamming pretty damn fast, and B: Let people know if they're getting a reasonable deal on things.

May have been covered but when copying a contract that includes a fitted ship, the contract system will select any ship of that type as well as trying to include the individual mods from the hangar even if they are present on the fitted ship. This leads me to two fixes:

1) If copying a fit ship, the system should only look for ships with an identical fit when copying
2) When the fit ship is found and added to the contract in 1, the system should not then add the mods from the hangar

Currently, you have to move any mods out of your hangar (as well as ships) if you do not when them to be added to the contracts and you face the "item not found" error every time you copy even if everything is present but fit to the ship

I should be able to contract "to Militia" just like I can "Corp" and "Alliance".

How about we get rid of the scammers? just kidding

Anyways, needs to be less clicky

Additional stuff:
a) Clicking on image or name of module in market window should give option to search contracts
b) Searching contracts should remember last settings after you look for contracts by right clicking on item in chat
example:
i) open contracts, look for rokh blueprint, select to show only blueprint originals, then type to search rifter blueprint and you will still be searching for originals only
ii) open contracts, look for rokh blueprint, select to show only blueprint originals, then type in chat rifter blueprint, select the text, autolink it to item, right click on it and look on contracts and contract window will revert to default values searching for everything, not just originals
c) 2 sorting of price is bad thing... one is upper right corner which is real thing you want, and second one is the column sorting of only displayed items. and yes, I did forget about it so I've spent some time as a noob buying overpriced items since I didn't use the global price sorting, only displayed items sorting.
d) location drop down menu on contract search has y-scroll bar, yet all things are visible, there is only like 2-3 pixels extra which force scroll bar to appear, so you should make minumum size of that dropdown menu like few pixels more in height so scroll bar is gone
e) contract start page is a mess...
f) usually from my client, takes me about 5-8 clicks to get my current contracts which are available or 5-8 clicks to get my past contracts, for past one that is ok, but for my available contracts I want to be able to get them in 2 clicks.

Please remove the 250 item limit on courier contracts. When you have over 1,500 different items (see laser crystals) and I have to manually break things up into groups just to make it contractable is beyond annoying and adds a lot of unnecessary work trying to calculate load sizes versus number of items per contract.