The Richest Player: Big Data – Part One

Money is an integral part of RoF, and any (server) economy, essential for keeping the economy and shops alive. It plays the single most important role in any economy. I’ve personally always thought that the RoF economy was a bit unbalanced: The rich few had almost all of the money, it seemed, while others had few. Especially Nuehoujuu_ stood out as an extremely rich player. This is what /money top, displaying the richest ten players on the server, told me:

1: Nuehoujuu_ – 3,749,139 Cookies
2: tyukmn – 1,576,195 Cookies
3: virazu – 1,104,105 Cookies
4: bartcrestbreaker –  1,041,354 Cookies
5: kalliee –  962,569 Cookies
6: scottbot7000 – 492,546 Cookies
7: pigpiglwj – 407,735 Cookies
8: thoughtcarton – 341,653 Cookies
9: Starburst_ – 204,061 Cookies
10: kuyajer – 193,988 Cookies

Something that should immediately catch your attention is the fact that Nuehoujuu_, better known as cloudmario, has 3.75 million Cookies. That makes him a RoF millionaire- a title shared with only three other players. None of the other players even manage to reach 2 million Cookied. It confirms my suspicion: cloud is filthy rich. Some interesting observations regarding cloud’s wealth:

• It is 19.3 times kuyajer’s wealth, the 10^th richest player on the server
• 180.5 times shadow5980’s wealth, the 100^th richest player on the server
• 90.2 times the 50^th richest player on the server
• 2.4 times the second richest player on the server

I could go on and on with comparisons like this, but I think you get the point. There is a clear class divide, and Nuehoujuu_ is its prime example. To put things even more into perspective:  If you were to combine all of the money of the 50^th to 100^th richest players, you’d still need to multiply that by a factor of 2.7 to get the same amount of wealth as cloudmario.

Now that we’ve established how rich he is compared to other players, here are a few more fascinating observations. With his money, cloud would be able to:

• Rank up all the way from Player to Grandmaster 66 times
• Buy 3000 diamond pickaxes and still have over half of his money left
• Buy everything in the Player shop- 113000 times.
• Buy everything in the Player and Crafter shop- 52000 times.
• Buy everything in all the non-prestige shops 6.8 times- costing him 550000 Cookies each time.

A Player earns between 10 and 30 Cookies each survived round. Taking the average, that’s 20 each round. This Player would need to play 187457 rounds to catch up to Cloud. The average round length is 25 minutes, meaning he’d have to play for 4.68642375×10^6 minutes. That’s 3124 hours, or 130.18 days.

It would take a Player 130 days of playing RoF non-stop to amass the same amount of wealth as cloud.

Of course, no man would ever reasonably keep the rank Player forever without ranking up and earning more cookies each round, nor did I take Supercookies into account. But I thought this would be quite interesting anyway.

Puts a perspective on things.

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This is the first part of a two-parter in which I analyze RoF’s economy. If you liked this, be sure to give Part Two a read– in which I calculate total cookies in circulation and more interesting observations based on obtained data.