EVE General Discussion

Why put pilots in classes?

This has absolutely nothing to do with statistics.
Plus your class boundaries are based on convenience instead of some (any) sensible criterium; that's a Cardinal Sin

The statistic here is whether people feel it's true. So far all I'm getting is people objecting on technical grounds.

Ok, then I feel those metrics could be better (not sure to what better).

Because this assumes K/M/B/T is equally linear to get to.

As such, it is as hard reaching K->M, as it is reaching from M->B, and B->T - this is something I do not find matching. So I do not feel the levels are correct.

/c

It's not about the wallet, it's about the assets.

Yeah, I changed it to "wealth".
Maybe we can call 100B-999B "upper middle class" and 1B-99B "lower middle class"

Well to me it's the raw wallet number. I have craploads of assets, but finding hard to shift said assets effciently into raw isk. So I feel (moderately) poor until I can shift my assets into a higher ratio of raw isk.

For a start jumping simply by orders of magnitude is far too blunt an instrument and, in fact, the raw ISK value of a character's assets is misleading in and of itself. A mission runner (who does nothing else) will probably feel himself rich once he has a couple of billion in cash, a CNR and a bunch of faction and deadspace shield mods, whereas a corp thief who has made off with tens of billions in minerals and a couple of tournament ships which he cannot easily sell may not - although the latter's assets are vastly greater, numerically.

The earning potential is also a major factor - it is relatively easy to make millions as a new player these days but when I started a lot of us were chuffed to bits if we got to 1 million after our first week and I, who had been given six million by people I knew out of game, was incredibly space rich because my head start was equivalent to three or four times the time I'd spent in game. While not rich in absolute terms wealth of that sort allowed vast largesse in relation to the pilots within the peer group - in a manner similar to the kid at school who got ten times the pocket money everyone else had.
The same six million now would mean broke, down on my uppers and as near totally skint as it's possible to be - and for those who deal day to day in tens of billions dropping as far as a hundred mil would probably have a similar effect...

I'm aspirational middle class, I kept the plastic on the sofa in my captain's quarter for a year after I bought it.

I can only assume integer T is technetium