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Mayobe
Minmatar
Brutor tribe
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Posted - 2009.05.27 01:30:00 -
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Obviously courier contracts are borked. I was thinking that another way to go about them would be to create a new can type called 'Insured Sealed Container'. When creating a courier contract the issuer could purchase one or more cans of whatever size and 'seal' them. The cans would be un-openable until the contract completes successfully, and the contents could be insured the way ships are.
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Jaabaa
Minmatar
Dental Drilling Corporation
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Posted - 2009.05.27 01:36:00 -
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Edited by: Jaabaa on 27/05/2009 01:35:51
 Originally by: Mayobe
Obviously courier contracts are borked. I was thinking that another way to go about them would be to create a new can type called 'Insured Sealed Container'. When creating a courier contract the issuer could purchase one or more cans of whatever size and 'seal' them. The cans would be un-openable until the contract completes successfully, and the contents could be insured the way ships are.
Your insurance on a contract = the field "COLLATERAL".
If the person accepting the contract doesn't deliver, you keep the collateral.
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Mayobe
Minmatar
Brutor tribe
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Posted - 2009.05.28 03:57:00 -
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Let me try to explain this....
Large collateral amounts prevent people from accepting these contracts on grounds of common sense. Why in the hell would I risk 10m for the chance to make 1m?
Collateral amounts have to be high like this because otherwise the contractee will simply walk off with the goods.
The courier contract system is functional from a technical perspective and broken from a gameplay persepective.
Understand?
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Syndoral
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Posted - 2009.05.28 04:16:00 -
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Well, you also run into the fact that the most rewarding of contracts take you to 0.0 where they will be waiting to kill you and keep the collateral you paid for some trash they put in the contract.
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Fullmetal Jackass
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Posted - 2009.05.28 11:24:00 -
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It's not a bad idea if CCP wants more people to use the courier system. I never ran many couriers because the pay is not worth the risk. And I never send anything courier for the same reason. Most people wont run a courier if the collateral is too high.
Everyone knows most courier missions, which should be ok income for newer players, are just scams.
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Kessiaan
Minmatar
MicroFunks
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Posted - 2009.05.28 11:43:00 -
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I really don't see anything wrong courier contracts. It seems like there's a lot of scams because all the good contracts get snapped up quickly.
I use courier contracts to run skillbooks out to lowsec sometimes (as I'm in FW and the closest station that sells skillbooks is in enemy highsec) and I've never had to wait more than 24 hours. Also used them to run small items out of Jita that I bought on an alt, one time I had to wait two days but that was the longest.
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MacMasters
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Posted - 2009.05.28 12:00:00 -
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colateral! the system works as it is. its just ppl are too tight to pay the price haulers are asking. supply and demand etc. pay up or get over it and do it yourself
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