Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The ability to create multiple of the same contract would be cool.

Say I have 30x5 run BPCs, I would very much like to create:

30 contracts for 1 bpc
Or
3 contracts for 10 bpc's

And so on, if the UI can be tweaked to make this quicker that would be awesome. The current - right click, create contract, select item bleh bleh bleh starts heading off into track and field gamers claw after a while.

Cheers

B.

I've completed over 6000 courier contracts for several courier corps. While many posts in this thread focus on setting up various types of item exchange contracts (or large numbers of contracts), my comments apply ONLY to receiving a courier contract.

First and foremost, the courier contract window needs to have an indicator next to any assigned contracts (but not accepted) where the cargo contains either a plastic wrap or assembled container. Most courier corps double wrap for a variety of reasons, and without going into this alot those damn containers surprise us haulers, and then we have to do alot of extra work. Haulers would rather see the "container/plastic wrap" flag set, and then go back and work with the customer to get the contract remade. I'm sure to some degree this applies to corp haulers too.

The ideal solution would be allowing triple wrapping or quad wrapping, but I suspect there's a substantial programming obstacle to this. Most likely the DB schema for courier contracts won't support it, or infinite wrapping would be onerous for users in some way I don't understand.

On another topic, rejected courier contracts need to autodelete after some period of time. Let's say a month. The items in the rejected courier contract would be place back in the issuer's hangar at the starting point by the system. I've opened tickets with CCP to have this done, but they won't intervene even when the player issuing the rejected courier contract and their whole corp failed to log on for weeks/months.

Yuri Fedorov said "Please add the region name of the destination/ drop off system in courier contracts. Currently only the name of the pickup station's region shows." I'd like to also make this request.

Didn't read the other suggestions. lol, yolo, trollface

Anyway, I'd like to see a contract option for delayed completions of the terms given to the second party. Example: I have 100 tritanium and I want my friend to turn it into a widget. Contract says he gets the 100 tritanium now and either he delivers my widget in x number of days or i get the 1b collateral he put up when he accepted the contract. If he delivers the widget in a timely manner, then he gets his 1b back and an additional 100 isk as payment according to the contract terms.

Edit: I suppose what I'm asking for could be conceived of as accepting a contract which, itself, contains another contract with different terms.

I'm not sure what you mean by trustworthy, but untrustworthy players will continue to be untrustworthy.. Let's not make it harder for them to be so..

As far as the interface and such, its an annoying trolling method to repeatedly assign someone contracts that pop up..

Not sure if these have been brough up before but, specifically for courier contracts:

New Search Criteria
Route Length in Jumps
Pickup location (in addition to the destination location we already have)
Add sliders to the pickup and destination location so I can search for all contracts (for example) that start within 3 jumps of Amarr and end within 3 jumps of Jita so I can more easily maintain a full cargo hold.

I want it easier to find back older contracts.
suggestion: Be able to look back contracts by item types as well. (should narrow it down greatly)

+1

or lower the 'time to complete' integer

As I mentioned on the post I created about the contracting system a few days ago (https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=358865&find=unread):

Currently the contract skills only allow to create a maximum of 21 public contracts on your behalf.

What I suggest is to create advanced contracting skills similar to the market order skills so that players dedicated to trade via contract are able to do so without having to create their own private corp to do so.

Also, I suggest that the current limit of 500 contracts to your corp or corp members to be changed so that it applies to your alliance or alliance members too (not all alliances have dedicated logistics corps).

Also, as someone suggested, make it possible to accept a public contract from anywhere (similar to how private contracts can be accepted regardless of the region).

+1