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Cost of Shuttles
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Flap jak
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1 - 2011-12-31 04:08:33 UTC
if a shuttle can cost on average 10,000 isk how much does a loaf of bread cost in eve?

hell a can of what i assume is soda costs about 45-50 isk.
Jorn Isu
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#2 - 2011-12-31 04:11:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Jorn Isu
Flap jak wrote:
if a shuttle can cost on average 10,000 isk how much does a loaf of bread cost in eve?

hell a can of what i assume is soda costs about 45-50 isk.

The quafe you buy as a trade good is .1 m^3 in volume. That's 100 liters of soda. If we assume (bad assumption, but bear with me) that soda costs the same relative to everything else in EVE as it does in real life, we can assume that our 50 ISK of Quafe is roughly equivalent to, let's say, 50$.

So a shuttle costs the same as a cheap car.

If we assume our pilots are buying in bulk (I don't know about you, but I don't go down to the store for 100 liters of coke), we can assume that the value of the Quafe is, say, $20. That makes our shuttle $4000.

Alternatively, let's say that the value of soda has gone up relative to everything else. Let's say that, because Quafe is so addictive (it's got what plants crave, after all) that they can sell it for the equivalent of $2/liter. Now our shuttle is suddenly worth $40,000.
Jorn Isu
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#3 - 2011-12-31 04:12:32 UTC
-- derp
Beaches
#4 - 2011-12-31 04:13:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Beaches
spaceships, start at ~10,000 ,
pants like ~500,000,000
replacement eye, ~1,250,000,000

In the future, why can't we replicate organic, normal eyes? If we can make clones? Why can't we have some simple class and dignity consisting of a single piece of glass on a gold chain which we can tuck into out breast pocket?
lior narkis
Massive Dynamic weapons
#5 - 2011-12-31 04:22:09 UTC
Pro question: How many shuttles can you buy for one monocle? :D
Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#6 - 2011-12-31 04:32:42 UTC
Jorn Isu wrote:
Flap jak wrote:
if a shuttle can cost on average 10,000 isk how much does a loaf of bread cost in eve?

hell a can of what i assume is soda costs about 45-50 isk.

The quafe you buy as a trade good is .1 m^3 in volume. That's 100 liters of soda. If we assume (bad assumption, but bear with me) that soda costs the same relative to everything else in EVE as it does in real life, we can assume that our 50 ISK of Quafe is roughly equivalent to, let's say, 50$.

So a shuttle costs the same as a cheap car.

If we assume our pilots are buying in bulk (I don't know about you, but I don't go down to the store for 100 liters of coke), we can assume that the value of the Quafe is, say, $20. That makes our shuttle $4000.

Alternatively, let's say that the value of soda has gone up relative to everything else. Let's say that, because Quafe is so addictive (it's got what plants crave, after all) that they can sell it for the equivalent of $2/liter. Now our shuttle is suddenly worth $40,000.


Actually if you work it out, the density of Quafe is 5000 kg/m^3. That of water is 1000 kg/m^3. Quafe is probably concentrate, so it costs more than mere Coke.

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Kietay Ayari
Caldari State
#7 - 2011-12-31 04:34:38 UTC
ISK is a capsuleer currency. A small amount of ISK is worth more money than most regular people would see in their life. Just because capsuleers don't want to have to type in 90,000,000,000,000 every time they buy a frigate.

Ferox #1
Flap jak
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#8 - 2011-12-31 04:47:53 UTC
Kietay Ayari wrote:
ISK is a capsuleer currency. A small amount of ISK is worth more money than most regular people would see in their life. Just because capsuleers don't want to have to type in 90,000,000,000,000 every time they buy a frigate.


i see... so every player that starts off in EVE is like some kinda rich kid riding his fathers coat tails?
Morganta
The Greater Goon
#9 - 2011-12-31 04:49:37 UTC
well everyone says 1 isk is a fortune to the lesser forms of life we endlessly trade, smite, and cart around in our cargo holds
apparently the joy of ownership of a liter of quafe and a unit of frozen food would set them back about 16 years pay so I'm still a bit unsure just what the regular joes of New Eden eat, because it aint quafe, frozen food, or genetically engineered beef

unless.....

OMG!!!!!

SOYLENT GREEN IS FROZEN CORPSES!!!
Professor Alphane
Les Corsaires Diable
#10 - 2011-12-31 04:50:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Professor Alphane
No we are sponsored by a corp, they pay for our cloning and capsuleer implants at least that is how I understood it.

/edit

Q. How much does the Space Shuttle cost?
A. The Space Shuttle Endeavour, the orbiter built to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, cost approximately $1.7 billion.

source NASA

//edit $170,000 = 1 isk approxamatly

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Syphon Lodian
Fabled Enterprises
#11 - 2011-12-31 04:53:45 UTC
Like Kietay said, there are different currencies. I haven't read much of the fiction on the matter, but I imagine there are thousands or millions of 'currencies' on any of the given planets in all the hundreds of systems. Not all the denizens of the EVEverse are capsuleers. In fact, it's kinda rare even though there are thousands of us. All these planets and moons we fly by, are populated. You can see lit-up cities on the Temperates.

Only the big Empire factions or super-corporations hire capsuleers, and they can deal in ISK. It's basically a universe run on as a corporatocracy. The haves and the have-nots, it's like a nightmare world, tbh.
Bane Loppknow
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2011-12-31 05:08:45 UTC
mother of god... WE ARE THE 1%
Cyprus Black
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#13 - 2011-12-31 05:33:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Cyprus Black
lior narkis wrote:
Pro question: How many shuttles can you buy for one monocle? :D
Oh God! I'm so bored that I'm actually calculating this. Dirty math here so bear with me...

1 PLEX = $19.95
1 PLEX = 3500 AU
1 PLEX = 450,000,000

1 AU = $0.0057
1 AU = 128,500 ISK

1 Monocle = 12,000 AU
1 Monocle = $68.50
1 Monocle = 1,530,000,000 ISK

1 Shuttle = 10,000 ISK

1 Monocle = 153,000 s
One Hundred & Fifty Three Thousand Shuttles

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rodyas
Tie Fighters Inc
#14 - 2011-12-31 05:40:17 UTC
Bane Loppknow wrote:
mother of god... WE ARE THE 1%


With the billion of isk you can have in the wallet or assets, pretty sure we are the .5% or maybe even the .01%.

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Skorpynekomimi
#15 - 2011-12-31 06:01:54 UTC
Shuttles bought where, though? I occasionally pick up a bundle cheap/make them in highsec, and haul them down to a known pvp area in lowsec and sell them in bulk at a hefty markup.
Shuttles: Extra armour and speed for your pod!

Economic PVP
Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#16 - 2011-12-31 06:03:11 UTC
the average person planet side makes less then 1 isk in their lifetime.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2011-12-31 06:15:03 UTC
Herping yourDerp wrote:
the average person planet side makes less then 1 isk in their lifetime.


They gank each other for shoes

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Professor Alphane
Les Corsaires Diable
#18 - 2011-12-31 06:28:09 UTC
rodyas wrote:
Bane Loppknow wrote:
mother of god... WE ARE THE 1%


With the billion of isk you can have in the wallet or assets, pretty sure we are the .5% or maybe even the .01%.


If you consider how many people could actually be living in the whole of new eden and how many pod pilots they are I'd imagine there would be many many more noughts between the 0. and the 1

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Cyprus Black
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#19 - 2011-12-31 08:17:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Cyprus Black
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:


They gank each other for shoes
To be fair, we pod pilots gank each other for far less.

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Flap jak
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#20 - 2011-12-31 09:03:20 UTC
Herping yourDerp wrote:
the average person planet side makes less then 1 isk in their lifetime.


that just seems so over the top though. i mean its hard to believe i could make over billion times more then one man could over his whole life time. that's a understatement too.
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