Quote Originally Posted by MCerberus View Post
You get your legacy after act 1, what level is it at? You might be surprised.
I'm legacy level 4 right now. The official announcement of letting people qualify for the free month via legacy level included examples of what kind of character level spreads would have enough XP between them to have legacy level 6. For one character, it was "level 50 and has spent some time doing endgame."

Quote Originally Posted by Salur View Post
I really do think an academic examination of MMO economies would be fascinating to read, though. Especially given how the developers could change the world inputs and supply to an extant not possible in the real world.
CCP has an actual economist on payroll to analyze EVE Online's economy and prepare detailed reports on it. Presumably you can find the reports somewhere on the game's website.