Work Contracts

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Just wanted to put forward a fairly simple idea… work contracts. Basically, one party gives materials and a sum of money to another party, and receives back a finished product. I realize this could be done easily with a sell and a buy contract, but it would be nice to have a tidy contract.

This would be even more convenient if the contract selection could allow you to select specific recipes, and the number of iterations, and then it could auto-fill the ingredients and output. Overall, a relatively simple idea, but I don’t know how that would pan out in coding terms.

This would be even more convenient if available through LMs. You could ship ingredients to a planet with a specific CoGC, leave an ad (with autoprovision?) and come pick up your product later.

Would love to hear from others if this would be something they would use?

PS: why can’t we have autoprovison on regular buy/sell contracts? Not just in LMs? Maybe a question for another thread lol

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Great QoL idea!

Essentially you are talking about outsourcing or equipment leasing. The only difference, Work Contracts require manual operation/interaction from the equipment owner (creating production orders).

Therefore, the idea may even be extended to the Leasing Contracts. The Lessor makes the building available for a Lease. The Lessee get temporarily direct access to the production window to operate the building production queue and pays the defined by the Lessor leasing fee (hourly rate?). This will require though a special handling of the building’s inventory, as the Lessee may store and retrieve the Leasing relevant goods and materials.