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Elizabeth Norn
Nornir Research
Nornir Empire
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Posted - 2017.03.17 16:09:15 -
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Contracts had their fees increased in the last patch, at first the change wasn't included in the patch notes, but CCP Fozzie spoke to those involved in the change and the information was added, I'm mentioning this because I feel these changes were rushed and did not take into account how different contracts are from the market. In addition, the brokerGÇÖs fee is unchanged still goes to NPCs in a player structure, unlike the market where itGÇÖs possible to list items for no brokerGÇÖs fee.
Quote:The maximum possible values for contract sales tax, broker's fee and deposit have been increased by a factor of 10. This change impacts the cap for these values, but does not impact the percentages for contracts that are not valuable enough to hit the cap.
For those of you who don't know, a standard sale or want to buy Item Exchange contract has three fees associated with it, the first two behave as they do on the market (albeit with different values and an upper limit), while the third is refunded on the acceptance on your contract, these are Sales Tax, Broker's Fees, and Deposit. Previously the caps were quite low, but this worked well because of what is usually sold there, and the Contract system's differences to the market which are:-
- 14-day contract duration limit.
- Inability to extend contract duration for virtually no cost.
- Requirement to delete the contract (and lose its deposit) then recreate it in order to change price.
- Contracts are much less popular than the market.
Previously there was very little different between the cost of listing something, and selling something, however now itGÇÖs actually more expensive just to list something, up to a certain value, than it is sell that item.
It soon becomes significantly more expensive merely to list something on contracts, than it does to sell the same priced item on the market. This is a combination of the bullet points above. Contracts as a whole see much less usage than the market, many items on there would be considered extremely low volume meaning such a high tax on displaying your goods hurts even more as contracts can expire before someone even looks for the item.
I feel that without a very unlikely contract overhaul or replacement that the deposit needs to be looked at again. If you want to increase the tax on selling something, the sales tax could easily be increased, although I feel that with contractsGÇÖ already heavy limitations that isnGÇÖt necessary.
HereGÇÖs some charts of the cost to list and sell items showing you can quickly it can become two to four times as expensive just to display your products compared to selling the same priced item on the market.
Cost to list and sell chart side-by-side
The numbers, using my max trade skills and brokerGÇÖs fee of 2.24%.
Cost to list tables
Cost to sell tables.
Some more tables and charts.
The initial image I was showing people, with in-game screenshots. Note that the percentage listed for the brokerGÇÖs fee is wrong too, so potentially It may be meant to be even more expensive.
Terrible infographic.
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Caleb Ayrania
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
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Posted - 2017.03.17 17:12:21 -
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Premature feature injection..
in my EVE?
Yeah I agree the tweak/nerf of contracts fees should be looked at a bit more..
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Zahara Cody
Imperial Corrections Service.
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Posted - 2017.03.20 09:04:13 -
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Typical CCP.
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Rivr Luzade
Kenshin.
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Posted - 2017.03.20 10:11:29 -
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Weren't we supposed to get market order functionality for contracts in return, like adjusting prices without having to relist and renew contracts that expired?
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Messenger Of Truth
Butlerian Crusade
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Posted - 2017.03.20 15:14:21 -
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I would love to see the contracts system get a bit of (thoughtful) dev time - e.g.
* more options for length of item exchange contract
* ability to see the items in your own courier contracts (as you can with item exchange contracts) - if you have multiple courier contracts outstanding, then there is no easy way to find out what hasn't yet been delivered
* courier contract delivery times - similar to length of item exchange contracts, the minimum courier contract delivery time is rather restrictive. When things need to be moved urgently, people would pay above the odds for a contract that would be completed in say 2 or 4 hours (ofc gankers would like this type of contract too).
* bug fixes around the refreshing of the contract/inventory totals when you split stacks while creating a courier contract (the volume is wrong on 2 windows at once!)
*the ever-rumoured courier contract dropbox, so that haulers are widely prepared to deliver courier contracts to citadels.
* public item exchange contracts accessible via APIs, so that third party contract market interfaces can be written (similar to poe.trade). Alternatively updating the market so that it handles blueprints with different runs/research levels.
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Visit "Haulers Channel" in game for all matters courier-related.
Structure name/system API: stop.hammerti.me.uk/api
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Sheldon d'Albion
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Posted - 2017.03.24 11:14:59 -
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First thanks Elizabeth Norn for pointing out this change.
I didn't pay attention on it except that last time I try to sell something trough contratc ,
I was a little surprised by the cost .
It looks like CCP make us pay ( not for the wall ) but for development of the citadel contract .
Nothing seems to be free in this game even if you pay your monthly fee.
CCP should have done the same implementation they did with the player market
raise of the NPC transaction tax, brokker fee and let the player control the citadel broker fee .
But as you say this change almost not perceived by the majority of player .
So it is not as if we are going to massively protest in Jita .
My 2 cents
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Elizabeth Norn
Nornir Research
Nornir Empire
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Posted - 2017.03.26 23:15:12 -
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Oh yeah I forgot to mention this before, but you can actually save money by buying your own contracts if their cost is less than 20b due to the differences between the Deposit and Sale Tax caps and percentages.
Rivr Luzade wrote:Weren't we supposed to get market order functionality for contracts in return, like adjusting prices without having to relist and renew contracts that expired?
I don't remember hearing that.
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