Your first link is over 3 years old. Prices in characters fluctuate quite heavily during the time of the year and during various events. And links 3 years old in the Eve economy are worthless. Though you're right you won't get the titan with the pilot in any of those.
Your currency converter is also converting at $15 = 481m isk when in reality $15 will now get you over 700m isk.
Lastly hull cost for a titan hasn't been 40b in years. That guy was very wrong. They are closer to 90-100b if you get a deal and 110-120b on the market.
Read the full context of their hard up for money comment and it's clear they are using hard up for money to mean rich not poor.
You are right that without an alliance you won't do much with your titan.
My qualifications for my statements are as a super capital pilot and a capital builder and I have been one for a number of years now.
I wasn't going for finely-tuned accuracy; I was making the point that $1500 is not enough to go from never-played-EVE to flying-a-titan. Your numbers make that more true, rather than less.
> Read the full context of their hard up for money comment and it's clear they are using hard up for money to mean rich not poor.
The context was that the titan pilot needs $1500 badly enough that they're willing to sell their character for it. That doesn't mean "rich". "Hard up for money" is not an ambiguous idiom.
You're right. I read the hard up comment wrong repeatedly somehow.
When people say $1500 though they are generally just referring to the ship itself not the pilot and modules. $1500 has been pretty standard price for a long time though you're also correct that now it's tilted towards $2K as the price of some materials has gone up quite a bit over the past year.
Your currency converter is also converting at $15 = 481m isk when in reality $15 will now get you over 700m isk.
Lastly hull cost for a titan hasn't been 40b in years. That guy was very wrong. They are closer to 90-100b if you get a deal and 110-120b on the market.
Read the full context of their hard up for money comment and it's clear they are using hard up for money to mean rich not poor.
You are right that without an alliance you won't do much with your titan.
My qualifications for my statements are as a super capital pilot and a capital builder and I have been one for a number of years now.