Topic: Mail with attached items including COD

Currently there is mail. Currently there is direct-trade.

If a mail message had an attached direct-trade offer (a button at the bottom that when the receiver clicks it opens a direct-trade window with the sender, exactly as if the sender were online and sending a direct-trade offer), then two people could conduct a direct-trade transaction without simultaneously being online.

Note that I'm not suggesting mail that freights items from one terminal to another; obviously that would destroy the locality of markets.

Possibly this change needs a fee associated with it (same as if the transaction were conducted on the market? 1000 nic, same as a private assignment? 5000 nic?) - in order to provide a tuning knobto control how much this additional trading opportunity changes the economy; but perhaps not.

Re: Mail with attached items including COD

its called contracts AFAIK.

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Re: Mail with attached items including COD

I agree that this matches some of the use cases of contracts - but I was trying to pick out these particular features as potentially easier to implement than the general case.

Maybe it's exactly equivalent effort.

Re: Mail with attached items including COD

Did contacts get implemented? Or are they on the RADAR?