Quote Originally Posted by Klive View Post
Could you guys go into a little detail about some of these ideas? For example, I have not played Eve and have no idea what the contracts are about. Plus, if you give your insight into why this might work FF14, that would be cool.
A contract is exactly what it sounds like. A player puts up a contract (sell, buy, or courier) for a certain item that is usually rare and can't be found on the market. There's a bit more to it than that, the specifics of which would take me too long to explain. In EVE it's a good way to relieve dumb people of their money.

It would probably be a bit redundant in this game. What would be the point of them in XIV? Courier services aren't really needed because FFXIV has no PVP and as a result any good ol' bear will just carry his stuff himself. Buy/sell contracts would be pointless because the rare stuff can't be traded in any manner. So basically, it would be a different version of the market wards that is easily manipulated.

I'm not sure who suggested this, but it makes no sense.

I love EVE Online. There's no other game like it, but the only thing I could ever see working in XIV is their market system.