EVE General Discussion

You could probably find a precise answer somewhere within the Evelopedia. Yet off hand i recall some ages ago reading that a single shuttle, amounted to the income an average baseline family might invest/save away for retirement purposes or similar when the time came.

Dollars? Lol. You have no power here.

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It's settled, I will now buy tobacco in EVE and smuggle it out to sell on the streets of Detroit or Chicago for crazy profits!

You can buy a well equipped used Datsun 280z for one ISK in Tama on planet 5... but it's probably stolen so don't ask a lot of questions. My whole Drake maintenance team got Datsuns last year as their x-mas bonus for not all dying.

This is old info, and I've honestly forgotten where I've heard it, but the figures I've seen tossed around are 50ISK=live comfortably your entire life, and richest man in RL=2500 ISK.

It's not very easy to convert, as planet based and ISK currency are entirely two different beasts. 1 ISK would basically be useless on a planet with very little interstellar commerce.

We don't have a formal hull repair training program. Honestly most of my crew I found in cans floating around space. Sometimes those guys are engineers, so I tell them you keep the ships in good repair, washed, and waxed, and I don't jettison you out the airlock. It's a mutually beneficial working relationship. SO! The engineers found out that if they train the others the probability of becoming frozen space debris is lower. However, if they all die on me than there's no one to train the new meat for the grinder... It's kind of like Gantz. They get enough points they get released. I think you can see now how the Datsuns fit into all of this.

It has never really been said by CCP, but otherwise, it depends on where you're looking:

There have been people who have worked out (based on RL commodities such as tobacco and alcohol) that 1 ISK is mid-$40 range, while some of the Chronicles that have been written have stated that just a few ISK left as a tip for a waitress at Jita are worth more than her entire year's wage.

I'm at work, presently, so doing various searches for this is not the easiest for me, but drop your question into Google and you'll find a wealth of information.

Just my 0.02isk:

I had taken a stab at writing a short story at one point, and needed to do some research on this subject. I turned to Google to see what I could come up with, and the answers are about as varied as the ones in this thread.
I ran across some info equating 1 isk to 1 Euro based on the marketing slogan claiming Quafe is the most popular soft drink in New Eden (thus rendering the value of the isk to be very comparable to non-pod-pilot wages due to the assumption that the drink is popular with all people, not just pod-pilots).
Others claimed that just a few isk would equate a lifetimes worth of wages for a single family household.

I wound up leaning more towards the latter, simply because it allowed me to write the story such that pod-pilots were viewed by common planet dwellers as nearly god-like. After that the story got all sorts of non-canon, and wound up in the "unfinished" folder. Eve players are very picky about lore specifics, and I'm not one to rock that boat, but I still tend to lean towards the idea that a few isk is worth an amazing amount of money to the people who live on the planets we never set foot on.

At least they have the benefit of being infinite space pants (as in “infinite space-pants”, not “infinite-space pants”), which I suppose comes at a premium…