You can buy PLEX, which are monthly timecards using in game currency. All PLEX are originally bought using real world money, and can then be applied to a game account or sold. This, in effect, allows you to place value on eve currency since you have a representation of direct item to cash value.
PLEX are currently work around 600-650 million. A PLEX on amazon costs, 19.95. So using that, you can say 'it's worth x amount of USD'. The hull for a titan costs several billion, so you can easily apply "Oh well, if a plex is 600million, and it would cost about 7billion for this titan... it would cost "math" number of PLEX, therefore if someone was (russian) that obsessed with itnernet spaceships, they could buy afford to buy it by spending this much real world money."
That doesn't mean people are buying spaceships, but it is just a way people love reporting about eve because it's such a god damn time sink.
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