EVE General Discussion

Rich is when you can afford what you need and all it's left is what you want.

Depends on what you want to do with that ISK...

My net worth is 120B or so and I get called poor on a regular basis. I'd say rich and poor varies by what you do in EVE, and how long you have been playing. Note that the figures below are purely my own creation and are for just "rich" rather that "ultra rich".

Nullsec alliance people: Titan ownership is the "rich" threshold.
Wormholers: 100bil net worth
Highsec in general: 20bil liquid
Jita: 500bil net worth

On the other hand, we can use stats from EVEBoard to make a more scientifically accurate study.
Tracking 1,862.82 billion SP and 61.83 trillion ISK in 51,440 pilots!

When we cut out people in EVE who don't really matter or are probably alts ( <10M SP) we get 37,000 pilots.

61.83T/37K = about 2bil per pilot on average. That's just liquid ISK though.



EDIT: I seem to remember there actually being a graph out there that shows average liquid ISK against SP.

I'm rich enough that I can give away nice ships to new players, usually 1 Billion worth a month. This weekend I bought a guy I just met a CNR, well just because I can... When you give a Hulk, Drake, Raven, etc people are generally thankful...

That's a pretty meaningless definition. For all we know you make 1.5 bil a month and the spare 500mil is spent on a PLEX.

If you think that, you're doing it wrong.

Here is the thing about ISK, there comes a point where you get so much that it out grows your play style. Sure you got 200bil in ISK but if your just flying around in faction / t2 fit BC's what does that count for?

Point is unless your looking in to capital ships, running a corp / alliance, or large scale industry / trade what use is that 200bil?

If your just doing pvp in T2 fit cruisers and frigs and that is fun and how you spend all your time, then having a constant 2-5bil in liquid ISK is rolling in the dough.

TL;DR Rich is relative to your game activity imo.

A corpmate of mine said last night, in response to a question asked by another corpmate "Nah, I'm not gonna buy that right now. Im broke. I just bought a new dread and I'm down to 8 Bill"



I personally rarely see a bill ISK because I spend it. I dont rat my face off for hours on end with a carrier supporting a tengu, so I don't rake in Billions in bounty prizes. I know guy that do this as a sole means of income and are way way way more rich than myself.

I dont really like ratting, unless I'm in a group, probably because I have yet to train into Caldari T3 cruisers, and a Proteus isnt the best for ratting. (but for some reason, I dont mind staring at asteroids.... im weird).

I struggle to get by on about 750M at a time, My wallet usually fluctuates between 200-750M. This is because I don't stay liquid. I usually immediately invest in some sort of asset, such as ships or equipment. I purchase much more than I need, on purpose.

Some people stock pile ISK for when they need it. I stockpile ships and modules to use as I need them. I have a ton of sub caps and enough fittings to fit probably 20 more ships. If I were to liquify my assets, I would probably triple my wallet. Maybe quadruple.


Its all relative.

On the other hand, I am so poor, homeless people give me their spare ISK.

Being a casual player due to not having much real life time to invest, to follow career paths in the game that CCP later nerfed does wonders to the pocketbook. Fortunately I am able to derive some fun factors out of being meager and scraping by and do not need the fancy stuff to play.

The problem is that while I can make literally as much isk as I want very easily, I get very lazy after I make about 30bil. As long as I can afford endless Talos's I'm good.