Player Features and Ideas Discussion

When searching for contracts, show me all the contracts that are available to me, my corp, my alliance and public when setting availability to "Public". In the same way, show contracts that are available to just me, my corp, or my alliance when Availability is set so "My Alliance".

...removing the small pictures of contracts in Contract Window improved what...? PvP and Nullsec life, lol?
What point does this make if you need to open every single one of them to see what's in? Had a look at Auctions, is simply hilarious and idiotical: you can see only the location. Srsly now. Who was the genius...?

Add items as reward for completion of courier contract, taken from the ship to destination's hangar.

This way Ican reward people with exotic dancers instead of ISK.

I think loan contracts should be brought back. Just add a collateral option so if the person does not pay the loan and interest back by a certain time the lender gets the collateral.

My $0.02

• Could we please have expanded skills (Like what exist for Trading) for contracts that allow people to exponentially increase the number of contract slots that are available per character, particularly for Public Contracts.


• Could we allow for contracts to be accepted from other regions? Even if it is a skill in order to do this, it would be nice if I'm in Amarr, to be able to accept a contract that is attractive to me in Jita.


• Having the Public/Alliance/Corp option should provide an expanded list of results, rather than a limited list. If I'm viewing public, please don't filter our alliance and corp contracts.


• It would be nice to be able to select a particular number of a stack of items in the contract interface, rather than having to split the stack prior to making a contract.


• It would be nice if I had a screen that I could copy just that contracts items & numbers to paste into Evepraisal to get a collateral amount BEFORE the amounts screen appears. Selecting from the contract item select screen isn't optimal, especially if I'm only contracting partial assets from a particular hanger/container.

Thanks

The biggest problem with contracts is that no history on average selling prices for 'contract only' items is saved or reported...I want market type selling velocity and average sale price info for unique items.

I would like more functionality in courier and or WTB contracts. I am not quite sure what would work best, really, so I am going to describe a problem I am having in hopes others can make suggestions on improvements in the system that would resolve my little peeve.

The thing is this. I buy a lot of unresearched BPOs from NPC sell orders. I use them to make copies for invention and followup T2 production. On an almost daily basis, I identify some item I want to make, only to find I don't have the needed BPO and the only NPC sellers are 20+ jumps from my base. Yes, its not terribly hard just to go get them. But its basically a very low value use of my time, and I'd rather give some newbie a chance to earn a few million isk doing it for me. What annoys me, is that I can't get anybody to go fetch a BPO for me, because the contract system doesn't really support what I want done.

"Just set up a courier." Nope, can't set a courier contract for an item you don't own. I want someone to buy the BPOs and THEN deliver them to my base. "Just fly there in a shuttle, buy them, and set up a courier." BPOs only take up a tiny fraction of a shuttle's cargo capacity. If I was in the same station as the BPO already, I'd just fly them home myself, involving another person would be silly.

I have tried to work through the in game "haulers channel" chatroom, explaining what I want, no takers. Partly that's because most of these guys are flying freighters, and quick shuttle runs aren't really worth their time. But a lot of it is simply people are afraid I am running some sort of scam. I set a buy order for the BPO at my base, but people are afraid I will cancel before the contract is filled or I'm trying to bait them into a gank or something.

It would be helpful if I could set a buy order that a player could grab without filling, so he can be sure it won't be cancelled or filled by someone else while he is working on it, like you can grab a courier contract so its committed to you while you work on it. Preferably the potential contract filler should be able to do this from any region, not just the same region as the destination you want the order filled at.

Edit: I just realized in the last paragraph I said "buy order" when I actually meant "item exchange contract". My bad, and no doubt confusing. Buy orders in this situation are fairly pointless as they can only be seen in the same region and the whole point is I am trying to buy something being sold in a region far away.

A few small improvements:

• Show estimated value of contract (item exchange or courier), similar to the hangar view.
• Allow PE/ME search functionality for BPOs and BPCs.
• WTB Contracts with BPOs or BPCs.

Bigger ideas:

• Bring back loan contracts with collateral.
• Add a type of contract that will automatically refresh when one unit is sold until a specified limit is reached or the hangar is empty. This might help reduce load/search time by reducing number of contracts oustanding.
• Auction courier contracts where the lowest bid wins the contract.

1st- It's completely insane that I cannot contract items to my own characters on my account -and the same account too because of the following

A) Item/m3 limit: Some -what seems- mundane bureaucratic type 'limit rule' on items / m3. I don't care how much I can contract, I need to get it there, so why are you making it harder for me? Instead now I need to scroll through a checklist and deselect just enough to make the contract work. The current way to do it is not easy, it's a pain, and it makes something extremely simple, difficult and frustrating.

B) 'illegal items' blocking an entire list of items - WHY. Why is this a thing? And don't even bother answering in that RP npc nonsense (I like player RP, but some imaginary ghost embargo clerk telling me I can't contract an entire contract because of 1 item in the pile, that's just crap).

I need to move x items to y character and this completely prohibits finishing the contract unless I close out the screen, navigate through several hundred items icons (in assets) or do a search for the item and try to remotely delete it which, for the record, is also strange since it was an item dropped from a mission. If you don't want us to be able to contract these items because they are illegal, why bother having them in the game at all?

Also, if we can't contract because of some embargo clerk, where is this guy when people are doing trades with one another in station? I can fly Motherships (supercarrier is STILL a lame name) but contract an item to a low level alt? Nooooo! The almighty embargo clerk and his/her pen is mightier (damn you Trabek!) than any skill I can posses in the game. But maybe if I could train bureaucracy or npc bribing level 5 it would be OK.

C) Eve is a pretty big place, and if I happen to be at the butt end of the Eve Universe, I can't sell those items so I need to contract them because I can't now just use a bunch of jump bridges to easily move around or get lucky that my JC is in JUST the right spot to be close enough for the assets to trade them in-person to a 2nd account (if I happen to have a 2nd active - which wouldn't be a problem IF I COULD CONTRACT TO MY ALT ON THE SAME ACCOUNT). Don't make it hard for me to do this.

2nd I get that Eve is a sandbox with nails and diseases that we all play in, and scams etc yes yes these stink, but I do not like the above restrictions on contracting as it simply put, probably one of the most mind-numbingly terrible features in a game, that I've ever heard of specifically because its an otherwise completely and stupidly easy-simple task of moving items to someone else.

Also, intended rants/humor aside: Eve is an epic amazing game, so this is a small thing but it would be great to see this improved so as not to be a tedious chore of asset spreadsheet-NPC-management/oversight.

Please introduce at least 4, 6 and 8 hour "Time to Complete" options for the Courier Contracts, as currently the minimum is 24 hours, or 1 day. Alternatively, a time-based reward system with similar options would also be very welcome.

The current setting limitations do not allow to reward someone for a rush delivery. Also relevant - https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5728939#post5728939