sol740
Member
That seems correct. Some people have $15,000 and hundreds of ships in the game. From the numbers thrown about it seems you'd need thousands of hours to get close to having that, and everything you have could be permanently lost while theirs is infinitely replaceable, still leading to big difference in power.
You can pay Cash for in-game UEC, which you can use to buy ships and weapons and all the rest. That's just buying real money ships with extra steps?
Someone dumping that much cash, or even a grand into the game would seem like a relative minority of the overall backers, but I haven't scanned the numbers, so I could be wrong.
Also I wasn't aware you could buy ships by paying for UEC, so that's a bit disappointing, but since I backed at a somewhat small cost, in hopes of getting a "dream", at this point I am just hoping for a decent space-travel sim, with interesting missions/jobs and player interactions.