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Vested Interest
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Posted - 2009.04.24 14:26:00 -
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Sorry but if your stuff isn't getting delivered than you're doing something wrong.
I agree that the limit of 21 open public courier gigs is way too low. I don't agree that any changes to the collateral system are needed or wanted. If you want to discount someone's collateral, than do it.
I had an idea way back for personal freight/courier drones that could be tasked to one's own needs or released into a public "transit swarm" where they could be rented on a per job basis. But I think one of CCPs main design principles is that everything has to be moved from A to B by a real person 
Perhaps a zippy new courier contracts interface that separates them from the crappy old contracts screen? Some minor functional improvements would be really nice.
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Vested Interest
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Posted - 2009.04.24 17:29:00 -
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I agree with Corestwo completely.
 Originally by: Vested Interest
I want the contracts interface to work like Ebay instead of Prodigy(tm) Marketplace.
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Vested Interest
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Posted - 2009.04.24 18:02:00 -
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Edited by: Vested Interest on 24/04/2009 18:04:13
So if a courier has NPC standings he gets a discount rate on my collateral? What is the point? People either have the money to do couriering as a trade, or they don't.
a) Grind some standings
b) get a multi-bil package at discount rate (sounds like an isk faucet unless you propose to rip off the shipper)
c) keep it
d) profit
e) go to a
And the solution to the limit on public contracts is to talk my corpmates into doing courier gigs?  This is like Fedex saying "no you can only ship 10 packages today, get some vans if you want to ship more."
Look, public courier gigs create content and anything that will let heavy shippers make more of them conveniently is a big plus for the public. There are no good (non-technical) reasons to not have Advanced Contracting with 8 more contracts per level. If you're worried about making this many market contracts available than call it something like "Advanced Courier Dispatch" and make it courier-jobs only.
/edit this was a reply to Omber Zombie 
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Vested Interest
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Posted - 2009.04.25 13:16:00 -
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Originally by: zacuis
i regularly ship millions of m3 of gear around eve and never use contracts. mainly cos im worried about scams.
agreeing with Shar here, this doesn't make any sense at all.
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Posted - 2009.04.30 13:55:00 -
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in my experience the filters available on the contracts screen don't do much for couriers looking for work.
There need to be filters for min/max jumps, payment, and collateral.
In real life and games I despise user interfaces that were thrown together to do the bare minimum functionality. CSM really needs to bring this up again and again.
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