EVE Fiction

Right now there is an AMA going on from a Forbes financial journalist. He does a yearly examination of the top 15 richest fiction characters.

At the top of the list is Smaug with about $62 Billion US dollars worth of gold.

I thought that was a pretty rediculously small amount of wealth when you compare it to Eve.

Who would be the richest fictional character in Eve, and what would you guess their networth in national currencies is?

what about the broker?

Catiz Tash-Murkon

If you post this over in Market Discussions I'd bet you'll get some tales of riches. Maybe tall tales, but..... Some of those guys are extremely isk-rich.

Define "richest", "wealth".

1. In pure, raw, material-value-only wealth, Smaug falls way behind us simply because we exist in a universe far larger than Middle-Earth; he wasn't likely to ever pillage more than a continent, certainly no more than a planet's range. We, by contrast, have thousands of solar systems to extract wealth from; yes, we will certainly surpass Smaug (and many a fantasy character, at that).


2. Now let's add in the assumed value of unique, rare, legendary or otherwise especially valuable items. Again using Smaug as an example, I'm no Tolkien-nut, but surely his hoard included many a valuable item, even beyond the Arkenstone? Items that could be sold, in theory, for more than the mountain of gold he slept on?

Of course, he isn't the only one with rare items: A Revelation is around 2.5b last I checked; the Veldnaught is priceless. In fact, on account of rare items, I would name Entity as the richest EVE player including rare item values. He holds innumerable rare items, including 3 out of the 4 nation-issued Tier 2 battleships.


3. Now, for a final layer of mindscrewyness, let's consider the wealth of states and nations lead by totalitarian leaders, who can effectively coopt that wealth as their own: Jamyl Sarum was mentioned here before, as was Catiz Tash-Murkon.

At this point we're transcending into the realm of ludicrous amounts of resources available - Emperor Palpatine had the funds for a 900km moon to be built for him, after all, even aside from the normal expenses of running a galaxy-spanning Empire.

$15 = plex = 520m ISK (ish) so that gives you the RL value

1 metric ton of IRL wheat is currently about $300 US Dollars.
1 metric ton of wheat in isk is purchased at 242 ISK from NPCs.

So using wheat as a conversion commodity 1 ISK = $1.24

So some players would literally have trillions of dollars, while some dignitaries and rulers would have dozens or hundreds of trillions in networth.

But could you imagine buying a new spaceworthy and combat ready vessel for $500,000? Or something like $5 million for a fully fit combat-ship. That is very very cheap.

There was a news article a while back which gave 10,000 ISK as the total savings accrued by a "average family" living planetside in a lifetime. Not one person - a family.

That puts the 'average' daily wage for planetside people at 5-10 ISK, assuming family units are similar enough to 21st century Earth ones to be recognisable. (If we instead took 13th century families as the norm, where the term would refer to 30-50 people in extended family units, we're instead talking ~1 ISK for a daily wage).