Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Not ideal, but you can use a WTB contract. That's how we work with all our customers.

Thing I ran afoul of today: If someone rejects your contract, you have to manually delete it or your stuff stays in limbo. This can be a problem, especially when subcontracting corp contracts where coordination among operators may be imperfect, this can result in people running around trying to find a contract.

What I would prefer is if rejecting a contract automatically deleted it from the other end, returned the stuff, and sent a notification (or at least a note in the contract window) to the contracting party that the contract had been rejected. This way, you still know it gets rejected, and, if someone never knew the thing was contracted out in the first place, they can easily find it.

1) Watch-list for contracts. Wish there was a way to store contracts you like. For example: auction has 7 days left, you only want to bet in the final 1-2 so the price doesn't skyrocket. The only way you can do this is either manually saving it in the notepad or bidding on it so you get a warning when someone outbids. By adding this watch-list, for contracts 1-10M in value (you pay 10k), contracts 10-100M (you pay 100k) and for 100m+ (500k, 1M would cut into the profits a lot for contracts closer to 100m). Would be another small ISK sink.

2) "Viewed" column. On the long voyages through space I sometimes like to browse the contracts. Problem is most of the contracts are the same as the ones I've seen a few days before. I propose a new column named "Viewed", consisting on a white round circle (if you haven't seen the contract), a green circle (if you've seen the contract and bid on it) and a yellow circle (if you've seen the contract but skipped the bidding part).

3) Flag system. A lot of the contracts are scams (i.e. exchanging 700m+plex for a plex), so I block and ignore contracts from that user, but other people might not realise it's a scam until it's too late. A flag system would make that contract a suspect for anyone viewing it afterwards. ((( I KNOW it can be abused to make other contracts seem like scams when they are not )))

I second this idea and agree it would be beneficial to the entire community. This idea is known as a limit order and some may compare it to a stop order. Although your argument to avoid paying higher prices is not valid as that is just life, my friend. But I think I get what you are trying to say.

Basically the way it works is that you put a price range in which you would like to accept an auction contract. The system or exchange would then keep your order active until the trade value goes beyond that range (above or below). The other variant is you put a price range you want to keep your order active then a price that you want the system or exchange to place an order automatically if it reaches that price range.

The only problem is that both of these types of orders are based on having multiple quantities of an item, such as a stock, instead of just one unit of a specific item. For goods this idea may not work as intended but nevertheless would be cool to have. However, I think it could be possible to have some sort of option to execute bids or purchase a contract if it appears in a particular region and at a particular price should it get posted. This needs to be developed in such a way that people could not take advantage of it like maybe having the ability to do this for a short period of time and in a limited number of these types of orders being taken place per person.

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The Watch-List however would be great to receive a notification of activity, such as in Eve Mail notifications area, when a particular contract changes status or has some activity. I don't do much auction contracts so I'm unfamiliar with exactly what is currently in the production environment but you definitely needs some meaningful data to be in the notification itself, more than you have been outbid, the buyout price, and when the auction is over.

Instead, we need information that will help to rebid quickly if there is time left on the auction, time remaining broken into weeks/days/minutes/seconds that is left on the auction, a link inside the notification to quickly pull up the contract for the purpose of rebid and view contract details, amount of highest bidder and percentage of how much higher the bid is compared to your last bid, etc.

BPC cost/run
if you have a contract that has 1 copy or multiple exact same copies, it would be nice to sort and see if its a better deal to buy a 10 run BPC or 10 1 run BPCs.

Short term courier contracts. 2, 4, 8, 12 hour choices. Sometimes it needs to get there fast.

This very much.

Its very frustrating now because it doesn't even tell you all of the illegal items. It tells you one of the boosters - you search for it and unclick it then find out there is another booster. Please just have an easy option to exclude them all from the contract if you want to keep boosters unavailable in contracts. Maybe just have a message saying "you included boosters in your contract but they can not be contracted would you like to make this contract without the boosters?"

Also when a ship is full of something it seems you do not get the option to have the contract include what is in the ship. It would be nice if we had that option.

Finally please allow us to contract more than 200 items.

Hey, how about a relist button for expired contracts?
A button which would just copy the contract and let us adjust the price would be REALLY helpful!
There are people who spend 6-7 hours just relisting contract which have expired, I have no problems with the taxes and similar stuff but this relist button could be of much help and it doesn't have to be just an expired contract that we'd wanna relist, it could also let us edit the contract by adding more stuff to it, there's a problem when you cancel a contract and then all your stuff gets mixed with your lovely 500+ item storage in jita and you have no clue what you were selling >.>
Please do this for us ♥.

Allow players to modify the price of contracts. For fitted ships in a deployment market it's not normally an issue, but for high value low-volume items like BPOs there's nothing a seller can do short of canceling the contract (and eating the often significant broker's fee/deposit) when he gets undercut.

Alternatively you could create a filterable market section for researched Bluprints and Blueprint Copies, which should be more feasible once the industry changes go through and ME and PE levels only go from 0-5.