Discrepancy with ship-based contract fulfillment regarding ‘BLCK’:
Essentially, a ship should be able to receive goods from a buy they have posted, without requiring sufficient storage on the planet itself.
In the current implementation, if you do not have a base on a planet and post a buy, the goods are always delivered into your WAR, and never into your ship despite there being sufficient space. e.g. in order to buy 2kt on a planet you must have 4 WAR units rented, despite having a completely empty 2k ship landed on the planet.
This is especially problematic with larger ships, as you require either a higher WAR level, or to split the buys into many smaller chunks - small enough to each fit into a WAR, and manually move the goods to your ship before the next contract can be filled. This later option is a hassle, as it requires both parties to coordinate each fulfillment in order to pass all goods through a single WAR.
I am aware of why sells cannot be done from a ship, as a sell has a stage where the goods are provisioned into a ‘BLCK’ material, which cannot be moved. This is ofc incompatible with a ship, as you could simply fly away and invalidate the purpose of the ‘BLCK’.
However, this is not the case in the situation I am describing - when a ship-owner posts a buy, the contract fulfillment results in an immediate transfer of goods. i.e. the goods never form a ‘BLCK’. That said, it does appear to be a quirk of the implementation that the goods are temporarily formed into a ‘BLCK’ in the providers base for a couple of seconds whilst the contract is processed, but even that does not have any bearing on this situation - the ‘BLCK’ is in the base, and is never required to be stored in a ship.
I believe this should be treated identically to a ship-owner receiving goods from an accepted sell, whereby the goods are immediately transferred from a ‘BLCK’ in the sellers base directly into the ship - here there is no such requirement for the goods to all be store-able in a WAR.
Therefore, I am wondering why there is such a restriction on ship-owners being able to post large buys. Most likely this is an implementation oversight, and just has not been raised earlier due to large ships being relatively new & rare, and that the base-owner posting sells instead is generally an acceptable work-around.
Thanks 