If you had 5 characters.. and did nothing but refine that 8k per day and trade it for Zen to buy/sell keys, at the current exchange rate you could get the T6 Connie in just over 5 months. That's if you did nothing else at all and spent no money at all.
As for the 'average' players total income.. I honestly wouldn't even know how to guess at that since there is such a wide gap in player types. It's easy to do for anyone, the question is just rather or not the 'average' player knows this. Judging by the games economy, the prices ships go for, and how quickly they sell, I would have to believe Druk is pretty close to accurate in his statement.
1 Billion EC definitely does not make you rich in STO, that's for sure. I suck at making EC but I still have several billion worth of lockbox items, traits, and ships. I could make a whole lot more if I wanted to put the time and effort in to increase my 'space wealth.'
Someone with less than a billion EC can't even afford to buy one ship, so he must by definition be poor, even if we aren't taking his wealth relative to others, or looking at it from a perspective of earning income from capital instead of labor.
The most instructive view is to look at whether a person can earn his living from his capital, or if he has to work for a living.
Someone with a billion ec can earn a 10% return on it and get 100 million ec. That is a reason he has entered the middle classes.
Someone with five billion ec, who is firmly and securely in the middle class, can earn 500m ec from that same 10% return.
Space wealth starts at the 10b point, a person with that much can earn the entire net worth of a space lower middle class person from a single 10% investment. Put another way, with a single low-return investment, a space rich person can earn enough to buy the most expensive item any time he wants, and still have the capital left over to be securely space rich.
Did your father only give you just a small million dollars loan to survive when you were young, too?
Which is why they all cried when the Infinity was introduced.
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As for the 'average' players total income.. I honestly wouldn't even know how to guess at that since there is such a wide gap in player types. It's easy to do for anyone, the question is just rather or not the 'average' player knows this. Judging by the games economy, the prices ships go for, and how quickly they sell, I would have to believe Druk is pretty close to accurate in his statement.
1 Billion EC definitely does not make you rich in STO, that's for sure. I suck at making EC but I still have several billion worth of lockbox items, traits, and ships. I could make a whole lot more if I wanted to put the time and effort in to increase my 'space wealth.'
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'