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Whether you play EVE Online or not, the chances are you have read a lot about the harsh, cut-throat universe of New Eden. Alliances routinely clash over territorial disputes, spies work to destroy organizations from the inside and death is inevitability. While dying in most MMOs means repining at some far-away camp and having to repair your gear, death in EVE is a somewhat more vicious affair. When your ship is destroyed, whether it is by NPCs in a particularly tough mission or pirates hunting in a low security system, it is gone for good. While insurance will provide a sum of ISK to help with the loss, you will need to re-buy a new ship and all the equipment that went on it. This would be like having to buy a new set of armour every time you die in World of Warcraft; a scary notion.
For the denizens of New Eden, losing a ship is a strictly in-game financial loss but for those that do not play EVE the scale of those losses can be hard to grasp. Jump on Contact tackled this issue head-on recently with a handy chart showing the rough value of EVE ships in both ISK and US Dollars. The prices show the sheer scale of the losses incurred in large battles and are based on a player buying game time codes for cash to be sold in-game for eve isk.
