Player Features and Ideas Discussion

What about different objects being tradeable via contracts?

(I think of whole POSes or POCOs)
Would that be possible?

If I have a death star and I somehow need to transfer it to someone else, this is a very lengthy and complicated process.
Ok, fine... this creates opportunities to intercept or scam, but... meh.
Maybe I just want to sell the whole thing.

edit:
At least for a POCO it should be possible to wrap some sort of contract around the "Transfer ownership" option.

I'd love this, so I could go have a nosy round to see who's going to be trading what from where, long before it actually gets on the market.

Please please please clean up copy contract or make a bulk contract option (maybe some of the code could be reused for bulk fit :p).

Allow creation of Contracts to Militia.

Really? Pampering players who don't know how to use the market? They made their choice to not look up the value of their stuff and put this kind of thing in the open world. And if you undercollateralized your contract by accident, you have plenty of time to cancel it as you don't have to wait 5 minutes like on the market.

This is, in hindsight, certainly 1 use for it but not the only use. Undercollateralized contracts are already easy to find now; this would just create a short lived surge and then all of them are gone.

I see the following happen all the time when searching courier contracts:

1. Enter some parameters and search available contracts.
2. Let's say 18 available courier contracts are found and listed. At the bottom it says "Found 18 contracts".
3. Pick one you like, fly over to that region and accept it. Yay! It was still available and you got it!
4. Run the search again, to see if anything new happened while you were flying over.
5. You now see only 17 contracts listed, and they're the same ones as before except for the one you accepted, BUT IT STILL SAYS "Found 18 contracts" for a few minutes, until the next time the contract system is "refreshed".

Why can't the number at the bottom of the screen match the number of items in the list*?? How hard is that? It just looks amateur.

*this is assuming the list is only 1 page long, I know.

i would like the ability to make pre defined contracts lets say 1 Dominix 5 Garde etc 300 Mio save the settings with a name domi blabla

now i have only to select the saved settings with name domi blabla and press make contract or enter the number of contracts and then press make contract

Hello CCP,

Kind greetings from Red Frog Freight! Thanks a lot for looking into the contracts system and possible future contracting update!

Here is the list of proposed changes gathered from our Staff and Pilots. We hope you will find it useful! We have divided the proposals in three categories:

1. Critical changes:


• ability to be able to see the content of the private Courier Contract prior to acceptance;
• ability to contract populated containers within Item-Exchange contracts;
• Allow more than 200 items stacks to be included in a contract.

Important Quality-of-life changes:

• ability to set up rules for private Courier Contracts that are posted to the Corporation - ie. Contracts with specific collateral / size will get auto-rejected.
• ability to create task contracts for moving a freighter.
• there are now so many windows that user needs to go through to create a Contract, maybe it would be possible for the game client to gather all needed data via one window?
• public contract API
• Courier Contract delivery time bonus
• option for a Corp Contract Reward tax
• ability to set the autopilot destination to the package destination (via selecting and right-clicking it) regardless on which character the package is located;
• Implement an optional warning upon undock “Your Freighter is leaving with an empty cargo hold!”

Lower-priority changes:

• ability to create a “Contract Template” for frequent use, containing the information that will be auto-filled upon selection;
• redesign the “Contracts in Progress” window, to contain more data, allowing the Contract in-question to be quickly identified by the pilots doing a lot of them. This is true especially in regards to multiple Contracts leading from and to the same places.

I will update this thread should we receive more feedback from the pilots :)

Thanks again for doing this revamp :)

Here is a wish list that I can think of right now.

1. Summary in front page of the contracts completed since last log in. Allow acknowledgement of notifications. I want this to particularly apply to courier contracts. Make sure this doesn't clear if characters on the same account log in in sequence.
2. Filters in the "My Contracts" section so you can search for "To" or "From".
3. Ability for issuer to see contents of a courier contract from the contracts screen whether Outstanding, In Progress or Finished.
4. A quantity count of items in a contract displayed somewhere.
5. A value estimation of goods in contract displayed in the screen where you set price or collateral.

I once had an issue where I set a 900k m3 filter for courier contracts. That still allowed for a 900,000.01 m3 contract to be shown. Pls. don't round off before filtering.

I am violently opposed to any idea of making courier contact contents visible in advance.

The ability to create contract traps is a feature not a bug.