Automatic acceptance of contracts

I just did a counting, and it took me 18 clicks to accept a contract, and delete the multiple mail notifications, then return to the company list I was previously at.

This was 100% needless, since I control both parties involved.

With about 30 companies, I've been spending a couple of days trying to set up all of the contracts between them.

The real kicker here is that 1 of the companies that I had setup about 20 contracts for ... vanished.

I couldn't find any news about it having closed in the past 12 months.
The first I knew was when I was trying to clear out automatically generated purchases.

This probably deserves another suggestion post, but it would be nice if companies and countries didn't bulk order goods that are on contract.

It is bad enough to have a country order 100+ months of a good without it being something that is already sufficiently covered with contracts.

I've tried turning off the auto-buy and the newbie help features, but the country still insists on making "random" purchases, even for things already on order in sufficient qty to last 12+ months.

You can handle contracts on your local market in bulk instead of doing individual contracts one at a time. Go to Trade -> Offer Contracts -> Scroll to the bottom and type in a percentage like 80 and select Offer on local contract only. What this does is have all your corporations offer 80% of their monthly production to other corporations on your local market. Then after the page refreshes you’ll see an “Accept Contacts� link on the top of the page. Click on that. Then scroll to the bottom of the page and select “Accept local market contracts only�. This will then have your corporations seek out those original offered contracts and accept those offers. If you go back to your offer page you should see what percentage of your offers have been accepted.

Note that the next month you may see red cation signs in your corporation page because you failed to satisfy those contracts. That should resolve in another month since our corporations didn’t withhold enough material.

Thanks for the advice.

I did look into this, but didn't spend the time to figure out which of the 30+ local markets was the best one to join.

Some of them ask for 25%+ to be put on the market, and I have corporations I want to give 100% to my country. At least until I have more capacity.

My concern is that other countries will take the produce I wanted my own companies, or countries, to use.

Markets mostly are bad for profitability. That is my opinion and the general consensus among most eco or veteran players. The only use I ever have for them is when I want a specific contract that I can set for myself, such as a very high quality weapon contract where profits are not the goal.

"My concern is that other countries will take the produce I wanted my own companies or countries to use."

Exactly. Make your own market.

Local markets are within just one country. Since you have 2 countries, create your own common market for just you. Put 100% of product on the market so it's available if needed and take only what you need.

You can also look at production contracts from your corporations and direct them to your country.