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EvE's top 47 ISK owners - What do they do in real life?
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Barrak
The Painted Ones
#1 - 2012-08-28 16:31:03 UTC
Hey,

I was gobsmacked after seeing this link in another thread somewhere......

http://eveboard.com/fullranks/47-most-isk

I was wondering if any of these top earners use their real life knowledge on EvE mechanics..... what I mean by this are the highest earners all traders in real life or accountants or financial analysts?

I had no idea that there was the potential to earn that much ISK in game and if my memory serves me right.... that is straight up ISK and doesn't include assets.....which, again, is staggering.

Anyhows..... just curious

Regards

Barrak
Inquisitor Kitchner
The Executives
#2 - 2012-08-28 16:34:07 UTC
I own 7 of the 47 toons on there, and in real life I am a billionaire.

If you want to know how I did it just send me 2 billion ISK to cover my time with you (my time is expensive) and soon you'll be on that list.

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared." - Niccolo Machiavelli
TRUE ZER0
SILENT INC
#3 - 2012-08-28 16:34:36 UTC
How much PLEX can you afford?

How many monkeys do you have protecting your moons?
Hauling Hal
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2012-08-28 16:37:19 UTC
I'm sure there's people with more ISK than that. Is that just people that have registered their chars on that site and made them public or kept them private, hence anon entries?

Aaah, the home page says: "Tracking 1,825.58 billion SP and 61.42 trillion ISK in 50,368 pilots"

There are far more than 50,368 pilots in the game, so I assume it doesn't have all of them. In fact it doesn't have my industrial alt and he has a large amount of ISK.
Barrak
The Painted Ones
#5 - 2012-08-28 16:43:15 UTC
:)

Thanks for the replies chaps.....

It would be great, though highly unlikely, to hear from the actual players themselves. Though, I do note that not many of them post a huge amount.

Would be interesting to know if most of hte profit comes from trading, speculation, mining etc etc.....

I'm not digging for secrets or anything (unless of course this information is considered secret), I was simply amazed that that amount of ISK existed for players.


Regards

Barrak
TRUE ZER0
SILENT INC
#6 - 2012-08-28 16:43:44 UTC
Hauling Hal wrote:
I'm sure there's people with more ISK than that. Is that just people that have registered their chars on that site and made them public or kept them private, hence anon entries?

Aaah, the home page says: "Tracking 1,825.58 billion SP and 61.42 trillion ISK in 50,368 pilots"

There are far more than 50,368 pilots in the game, so I assume it doesn't have all of them. In fact it doesn't have my industrial alt and he has a large amount of ISK.


Yes you have to register. When you register you have to choice to show your ISK or not.
Myxx
The Scope
#7 - 2012-08-28 16:47:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Myxx
some people have significantly more isk than those in that list. I know someone who would place well within the top 20 in that list and they aren't listed (because they don't use the API at all), but they're a long time player. You'd be surprised that a lot of people who might place in that list are just regular pencil pushers for a living, including the person that I know.

But to give you an idea of how not-accurate that list is, the guys who pulled the phaser inc scam last year, or the year before (i forget) netted 1 trillion isk between two people. Split evenly, thats 500bn each.

Titans4u netted somewhere around 500-700bn (again I forget, need to go digging if you want numbers) and that was a single guy.

Haargoth Agamar is estimated to have made off with several hundred billion in "stuff" from his heist and defection.

A lot of people aren't listed simply because it can be a very smart idea to not show off your wealth like that, especially when you start talking in the hundreds of billions of isk arena.
Dirk Culliford
Zero G Universal Enterprises
#8 - 2012-08-28 16:49:04 UTC
There's people with at least one trillion isk in game.

Bear in mind some unique ships and t2 bpos sell for upwards of 100b easily these days. One of those would put you in that rich list. Some got there by hard work but a lot of people were just in the right place at the right time
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#9 - 2012-08-28 16:56:16 UTC
Barrak wrote:
Hey,

I was gobsmacked after seeing this link in another thread somewhere......

http://eveboard.com/fullranks/47-most-isk

I was wondering if any of these top earners use their real life knowledge on EvE mechanics..... what I mean by this are the highest earners all traders in real life or accountants or financial analysts?

I had no idea that there was the potential to earn that much ISK in game and if my memory serves me right.... that is straight up ISK and doesn't include assets.....which, again, is staggering.

Anyhows..... just curious

Regards

Barrak

no no no. 1) That is not an accurate representation of their wealth. They have multiple accounts and lots of assets that don't show up there. 2) Moreover, this is a tiny sample of people who were willing to give out their api key. The real top owners probably are less inclined to do so. I would say there are at LEAST 100 accounts that have assets and ISK well over a trillion ISK. At LEAST. The real top end ISK accounts would consider the people on this list "baby rich". If there's one thing EvE has taught me, it's that when you finally achieve a goal you thought was impossible a few years prior, you realize that goal was entry level to a far broader game, and you are just getting started. Never fails...

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Kenneth Feld
Habitual Euthanasia
Pandemic Legion
#10 - 2012-08-28 17:09:12 UTC
Barrak wrote:
Hey,

I was gobsmacked after seeing this link in another thread somewhere......

http://eveboard.com/fullranks/47-most-isk

I was wondering if any of these top earners use their real life knowledge on EvE mechanics..... what I mean by this are the highest earners all traders in real life or accountants or financial analysts?

I had no idea that there was the potential to earn that much ISK in game and if my memory serves me right.... that is straight up ISK and doesn't include assets.....which, again, is staggering.

Anyhows..... just curious

Regards

Barrak


That list is not evenly remotely close to accurate for EvE, only for registered users of that site

The top ten on that list would be considered poor by the actual top ten in EvE
Roxwar
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2012-08-28 17:27:46 UTC
i know someone who was my ex CEO on my alt, who has been playing sinse the beta days, and he;s well into the trillions made up of liquid and assets.

Would be interesting if someone came up with an app that pulled every API in EVE's DB and just requested the liquid balance to keep it anon.

Then we'd see numbers that made peoples eyes water....
Molic Blackbird
Orion Faction Industries
Orion Consortium
#12 - 2012-08-28 17:39:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Molic Blackbird
Barrak wrote:

I had no idea that there was the potential to earn that much ISK in game and if my memory serves me right.... that is straight up ISK and doesn't include assets.....which, again, is staggering.




Making ISK in Eve is very easy if you make that your goal. After that goal is established, it just takes a few years to end up with 100's of billions of ISK without much effort. Many ISK making activities in the game can achieve it such as Mining, Mission running, Manufacturing, trading, and so on.
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#13 - 2012-08-28 17:44:42 UTC
They probably did not waste time in-game but instead worked their ass off in real-life, spent their years worth of salary to buy PLEX which then they sold for ISK and then added themselves to eveboard.

Lol

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Jovan Geldon
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2012-08-28 17:46:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Jovan Geldon
If you think 265 bil is more ISK than anyone else in EVE has, you are sorely misinformed, friend

Hell, judging by that list I should be in the top 200, which I know is bullshit
Rodj Blake
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#15 - 2012-08-28 17:53:13 UTC
Wealth isn't simply about ISK, it's about assets as well.

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Jotram
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
#16 - 2012-08-28 18:07:16 UTC
i have over 250 billion across 3 accounts not including assets, i got it a easy way, i stole it all 3 years ago and invested it into t2 BPO's etc

i am not in the list as i do not have any accounts uploaded there.
Barrak
The Painted Ones
#17 - 2012-08-28 18:17:14 UTC
okay... so clearly I am a little misinformed/educated in relation to the balance of wealthy characters, however my original request still stands......

Are these mega rich players your average joe or are they applying their real life trades to EvE?

Regards

Barrak
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#18 - 2012-08-28 18:21:35 UTC
Barrak wrote:
okay... so clearly I am a little misinformed/educated in relation to the balance of wealthy characters, however my original request still stands......

Are these mega rich players your average joe or are they applying their real life trades to EvE?

Regards

Barrak

Average joes. Could be anyone. I don't think there's any RL correlation. There may be some stockbrokers or investment bankers... but that's just chance. EvE may have one of the most complex MMO economies... but relative to the Dow Jones it's a stick figure cartoon. Anyone can play this game given the desire... the truth is that a fool and his money are soon parted. Don't be a fool and you can do really well. Hell... even if you are a fool you can do really well. Just be lucky if the latter is the case.

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Ifly Uwalk
Perkone
Caldari State
#19 - 2012-08-28 20:03:56 UTC
I have 17 million, can I help?
Skorpynekomimi
#20 - 2012-08-28 20:13:15 UTC
Rodj Blake wrote:
Wealth isn't simply about ISK, it's about assets as well.


Ayup. I rarely have more than a couple of hundred mil in ISK in liquid assets. Whenever I do, I tend to go shopping and blow it all on skillbooks or ships or whatever.
I have something like two billion in assets, I think. Although half of that is my Orca, Hulk, and Mack.

Economic PVP
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