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EVE Richness Metric

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Barakach
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#61 - 2012-11-24 03:57:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Barakach
I've read within the last year or so, that the average person has about 600m in their wallet. I'm not sure if the "56k SP" type chars were excluded or not.

I know I was making about an average of 300m/day for a few months strait earlier this year.
Tul Breetai
Impromptu Asset Requisition
#62 - 2012-11-24 07:53:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Tul Breetai
Joneleth Rein wrote:
Tul Breetai wrote:
Demolishar wrote:
Tul Breetai wrote:


I would point out that costs are based on PER CHARACTER, and not PER PLAYER. Just because you own both characters doesn't mean you get a buy-1-get-1 on assets...


If I had 1 billion on my alt, and 1 billion on my main, I'd have 2 billion. It doesn't matter what I spend it on. There are literally millions of characters with 5000 isk and 56000 SP out there, should they be counted too?


What are you talking about, that's not what I posted!P

But really, what does sp have to do with anything?



56k are a character's starting skill points...



Yeah... and that would be a poor ass character regardless. But, as was pointed out already, measuring per player is prolly better, so sp aside, the 5k would be counted towards the player, no? What's the point then? The stats in the link did differentiate between active/inactive, though the numbers aren't clear as to how many active/inactive...

There's nothing worse than an EVE player, generally considered to be top of the food chain in the MMO world, that cannot smacktalk with wit and coherency.
Kinis Deren
Mosquito Squadron
D0GS OF WAR
#63 - 2012-11-24 10:09:11 UTC
Jiska Ensa wrote:
There was a time about a year ago when there wasn't a single ship I could fly that I couldn't replace 10 times over. I felt very rich.

Then I trained capitals and the illusion was gone :(

"Richness" is just a mind state. A noob given 20 million isk by some generous player typically feels very rich. I was once that noob and I had a great time blowing it all on crap-fit frigates :)


Elliot Vodka wrote:
Its about the assets you can afford to replace. ;)


I think Jiska and Elliot are on the right track here. How about a Richness Quotient (RQ) = Income/Expenditure, with both I and E values selected over a timeframe that matches playstyle? So, RQ < 1 you are obviously heading for insolvency, RQ = 1 is break even, RQ > 1 you are accumilating wealth.

Since labels of wealth are relative to what everyone else has, if we could obtain the RQ of the entire game population, I'd suggest the top 1% of the distribution could be classed as "Rich".
Scorpii Borealis
Tradors'R'us
IChooseYou Alliance
#64 - 2012-11-24 10:12:24 UTC
Demolishar wrote:
How's this for a metric:

If you measure your wealth in integer M, you're poor.
If you measure your wealth in integer B, you're middle class.
If you measure your wealth in integer T, you're rich.

Would y'all say that's accurate?

Wealth is not money, it's happiness.