Essentially I'm looking to see Galaxy Legion support trading a little more. It would be most helpful if a sort of semi Live/Message (Online/Offline) system for trading were to be implemented. Sort of like a confirmation system.

For instance..

Player A Proposes To Player B - - - - - - For Player B's
150 Time Manipulators --------------- 300k em
150 Coal Pieces ---------------------
XXX XXX

Accept/Confirm? [ YES ] ----- [ NO ] {VERY Important these two buttons have enough distance to prevent accidental clickings)
(Transaction Completes Upon Acceptance)

Only the transaction? It has to be initiated by adding things into the list; 5 minutes at a time as to not comprimise the time needed to trade/use time manipulators or negate their value.
What I propose for player B or the one who didn't initiate the proposal is that once the second party accepts the trade it would add however many minutes to the Trading timer... that the other player requested. So if Player A requested Player B's 3k em, 1 ctp, 2 EM, 5 PQ that'd be a total of 20 minutes added to Player B's timer once Player B accepts.

Artifacts would be deposited into Player B's cargo hold, EM would be deposited to Player A instantly upon confirmation. Both sets of goods would stay caput until such time the "prisoner-esque" exchange is done.

Also; these trade messages would be implemented into a tidy little "Trade Message Box"; the use of this function would cost 25-40 Energy or something minor. Such a cost would be worth evading a scammer. An option for evading the energy cost for a minor rate of 1gp per 10 energy would also add an in-game function of supporting the game. So it'd be a button that interactively has the GP logo "Spend 5 GP To Complete Trade" after a "Spend XX Energy To Complete Trade". The cost of the trade would be on the one whom accepts the trade/has to confirm and not the one who initiates it.

Reasons I don't think this would be abused badly :
1) it would still consume time from player a and player b
2) player b is somewhat likely to be a regular trader and instead of having to sit as his computer for 20 minutes clicking the timer each time he can read a newspaper or do something exciting while he waits... instead of staring at the timer every second to make use of every in-between 5 minutes
3) It should only be capable of being between Friends/Legion-mates/trade-pacts.

Reasons I think it would be of benefit
1)Players with a life would be able to pace their game play a little more
2)Prevents scammers or unknown traders
3)Presents a new option into trading.

Reasons I think this is advantageous
1)Prevents scammers from truly scamming someone
granted the proportions aren't realistic probably but just an example.
2)Secures large trade transactions into a trustworthy format.

Edit> These messages would be auto-pruned after say perhaps 5 days. You could view your history of "trade messages" in a sort of e-mail/personal messaging format where it'd show
Trade - From: nickname - # Of Artifacts In Trade. < Linked Text would link to detailed message)

Meh really? Bah humbug. Bah humbug.... baaahhhhahahaha humbug. Just when I thought I was on to something :-/. Still.... there are concepts in my idea not entirely elaborated upon with what webguydan might have in mind

lol, almost every possible idea has been suggested. i personally have 5 pages of just suggestions myself... the only 'new' areas to ponder are the legion oriented activites, specifically bases. but any sort of legion oriented activity, even beyond bases. The badge system too can use new ideas, but a couple big but good ideas were suggested a while back that covered it... anyway, thats besides the point. the point is that if you suggest something, odds are its already been suggested. dont let that hinder you though. keep the suggestions coming. its much better than necroing a thread.

Thanks Vekno, and yeah something like this or better is a *must have* lol