<insert Surprised cat meme photo> open player count is that low, no wonder i don't see pplThose with 5 billion or more total 2.9%, which is a tad more than the 2.8% who play in Open
What is the median CR balance for all commanders?
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Fleet Carriers Carrier?I'm saving for a fleet of Fleet Carriers.
Maybe we could ask @Artie to help us again with a more updated analysis? Please?
That one was valid for end of August 2019, basically less than a week after Flight Carriers announcement
Deep Space NineFleet Carriers Carrier?
Okay, so the reasonable assumption would be that the balances have a log-normal distribution. Just spot-checking by eye, these percentages are a pretty good fit to a survival function with mu = 299M and sigma = 1310M. Plugging those in to the relevant formulas, you get:
Median: 50% of Inara profiles have a balance above/below 299M
Quartiles: 25% of profiles are below 124M, 25% of profiles are above 725M
The 90th percentile balance is 1.61 billion, and the mean balance is 707M.
Of course, the big question is how representative Inara profiles are of the player base at large. One tends to suspect that Inara users skew more active, and thus are probably richer than the typical player. But by how much, who knows!
I thought the median was the middle number in a sorted list. 
Only FD have the real figures, but if inara is close enough then Robert Maynard's figures would be as good as you're gonna get.
Interesting numbers tho.
Only FD have the real figures, but if inara is close enough then Robert Maynard's figures would be as good as you're gonna get.
Interesting numbers tho.
Credit balance of 7.1 billion. Total assets of 10.9 billion.
I'd say about 100 million, think of all those people that played the game for a week and moved on to something new.
Four rebuys before going bankrupt. Living on the edge I see.
| Credit balance | Current assets | Balance change | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86,002,866 | 145,871,412 | +13,034,309 | 20 Feb 2020, 1:51pm |
| 72,968,557 | 132,614,659 | +9,593 | 20 Feb 2020, 10:13am |
Is it your alt account or do you throw money away?
This thread is giving me hope that i might actually be able to afford a fleet carrier after all. 
7,7 billions cash, 11,8 in assets. I stopped mining, that sure is enough for at least one fleet carrier and another fancy ship + several rebuys, seeing what the average... ähm... median wealth is. I don't see FD retaining the fleet carrier for the upper 1% only. I know they like to farm some salt at times, but this would be really overkill, more like hydrochloric acid farming...
Certainly there's going to be a big clump of people who purchased, played for a bit, decided it wasn't for them, and are sitting around with a Sidewinder somewhere - and therefore certainly never joined Inara. On the other hand, they're probably not relevant to any "how much should things cost" either.
Excluding them, those numbers certainly feel about right - anyone with over a billion in cash already has nothing to spend it on, so probably already has every ship they want fully outfitted. Net assets would probably be a much wider distribution, of course, but probably still close to log-normal.
(Log-normal seems likely to be a good approximation - CG thresholds tend to look similar, with the top 10% players often contributing about half the total volume - and squadron sizes I think would also fit a log-normal curve reasonably well)
Almost certainly 100 credits, if you take a strict definition, because lots of new accounts will have that, and with probably under 4 million total accounts and a 90th percentile of a billion, any other number of credits is highly unlikely to have more than one player, and almost certainly no more than two or three.
If you group into bands then a log-normal distribution would probably give a modal band that wasn't the lowest (as long as the bands weren't too wide, and maybe excluding people with exactly 100 credits entirely), but it would still be pretty low.
Assets (stored ships and modules): 2,224,884,749
Credit balance: 819M
Screenshot is slightly outdated as Inara doesn't show state on the end of the session, rather the start. Ran few missions, earned few millions but overall level is I'mnear the border between those 82% and 18%.
Credit balance: 819M
Screenshot is slightly outdated as Inara doesn't show state on the end of the session, rather the start. Ran few missions, earned few millions but overall level is I'mnear the border between those 82% and 18%.