Eric Raeder
No Fee Too High
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Posted - 2015.04.26 18:42:52 -
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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.
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