Less than yearly contracts

A big issue many have talked of recently is too many clicks. A second issue is shortage of maintenance products.

Many maintenance product are in extreme shortage because their supplies are in shortage.

Currently many maintenance corporations use multiple items at a rate less than a full unit. At the same time when contracting supplies to them you must contract at least one full unit a month.

This leads to difficulty and many clicks to attempt to create the corps to supply them and effectively contract those supplies to your own corp, as you must repeatedly create then cancel contracts after so long or inventory will grow excessive.

At the same time if you build maintenance corporations and do not contract the supplies you must regularly manually go in and use immediate order to keep them running also many clicks.

The solution I propose is a system when you can contract supplies to the corporation on a less frequent bases. Things like one unit every other month, or every third month, etc...

i think easier solution would be to allow corporations to use materials from ceo or country stock. this way you would know hoe many reserves are needed and it would be easy to resuply.

I think an easier solution would be to allow players to set up common markets more intelligently, meaning sell to own corporations first, sell all other to open market, without minimum requirements etc. Automation without clicking that is.

You can sell to own corporations / common market members first then to open market after currently, just like the real world you can not sell fractional units, which makes sense. The whole issue is you must buy every month even if not needed.