Contracts?

[Packer15]

I think I have an idea that would greatly benifit the Runescape economy, contracts. The idea goes as follows:

 

 

 

I. Acquiring the Contracts.

 

The contracts would be found in a corner of the bank. To prevent people from taking hundreds of thousands of them all contracts that have not been filled out within 1 day of acquiring them will be destroyed.

 

 

 

II. Filling Out the Contracts.

 

The contract would have multiple things to fill out:

 

1.Time in which the job shall be done-optional (if specified money must be payed in indivual incriments, not a lump sum).

 

 

 

2. Job to be done- there would be a list of jobs to choose from and there will be a place to suggest jobs that are not included on the contract as of then.

 

 

 

3. Amount of items to be used and value placed on tose items-indivually.

 

 

 

4.Payment-indivual or lump sum.

 

 

 

5.Neccessary skill.

 

 

 

6.Signature.

 

 

 

III Using the contract

 

To use the contract the contractor must look for someone who is willing to be contracted into the job the contractor wants to be done (there could possibly be a forum for contracts). When he finds an employee he will trade with him and offer the contract in the trade. If both accept then instead of going to the second trade it would go to a contract screen where the employee will be able to examine the contract, and if he likes what he sees and has the neccessary skill levels he will be able to sign it and the contract will be come official. The contractor will then deposit the neccessary goods and the payment into a contract box for the employee to remove (the payment will not be removable until the job is complete). When the employee removes the goods they will be almost like noted but they are untradeable, undroppable and the only thing that can be done with them is what was specified in the contract. When the employee finishes the job he will deposit the goods in the box and the payment will become removable unless the contractor specified that he wanted to be present at the time of the exchange. Then the contract will be fulfilled and will be destroyed.

 

 

 

IV. Contract termanation or voidness

 

If the contract is specified with a time and the job isnt finished within that time the goods will be taken from the employee and he will recieve the pay for what he had finished. If there was no time mentioned, but the employee doesnt do the job the contract will become able to be terminated. The time that this happens will vary from job to job. If the job is terminated all the materials are returned and the employee will be payed for what he got done.

 

 

 

V. Summarized

 

Put simply its a way for you to have someone do a job for you, and rest assured they wont just take the material and run e.g. running ore to your bank to give back to the other player later. And it also guarantees that if your doing the job you will be paid.

 

 

 

 

 

Please tell me what you think good or bad. And any suggestions will be much appreciated. (I am working on a way to make contracts tradeable, any ideas for that would help to).

 

Packer15.

 

 

 

P.S.- This isn't a way to buy materials its a way to have your raw materials made inot a value added material by another player, not an npc.

[Celestrana]

This is an awesome idea! I don't really have any suggestions at the moment but this will help a lot of new players and this might reduce the begging problem by offering new players a way to learn how to play the game, use/train their various skills and make some money.

 

 

 

Maybe Jagex can expand the banks to have another level as a "job center"?

[Packer15]

Thanks a lot for your post and support.

[ThruItAll]

Hmm, A pretty good idea. Add me to support list. I agree it would reduce begging, but they added the Karamja guy, and that didn't stop it. :?

 

Maybe if you reach a certain point, you get a trophy.

[nomar04]

I think this is a bad idea. It would be a lot of wasted work for Jagex to do, and there would be no good benefit. Why do you need to have a contract, when you could just buy your items up front, and not wait for them? Also, people would be posting ridiculous prices, thinking that if they post the price they want, somebody will buy it. If there were to be a forum made, it would be terrible, because a lot of idiots would be spamming it up, and posting prices that nobody would pay.

[Packer15]

Thanks for the posts guys and Nomar i see what your thinking but first off it would mainly be for things like steel bars, where if you got the stuff to make the steel bars it takes forever to make all of them, but you could pay someone 50 each to make them, and you couldnt just buy already smelted steel bars and try to sell them. Also to your second point if they didnt spam and put up ridiculous prices on normal trade they probably wont do it on contracts.

[Shlaymoed]

i think this is really complicated but its still a good idea because it would prevent scamming :)