The April Monthly Economic Report for EVE Online landed this week, so it is time to dive into that once more.

EVE Online nerds harder

As usual, I am going to focus mostly on destruction. You can find things about the general New Eden economy here:

• CCP – April 2024 Monthly Economic Report
• CCP – April 2024 MER Forum Thread
• Reddit – April 2024 MER Thread
• TNG –  April 2024 Activity In EVE Online
• TNG – A Look At The April 2024 Active ISK Delta

Overall Summary

With April we’re back to a 30 day month, so one might expect something of a drop in the total given that EVE Online players had 24 fewer hours to explode things.  But you would be wrong.  They managed to blow up 501,859 ships, structures, and capsules, a nearly 8K uptick from the 493,867 that went up in March.

That comes out to 16,728 losses per day in April, also a noticeable uptick over the 15,931 losses per day in March.  That is nearly 800 more things exploding every single day, though we’ll get to why that might not be as significant as the high level numbers might indicate… ans the come down starts when we get to ISK.

For ISK value a total of 42.48 trillion ISK was recorded as destroyed in April, down from 46.19 trillion in March, with the average ISK loss per day in April running at 1,415 billion ISK per day, down from 1,490 billion ISK per day the previous month.

That sank the average cost per loss, another metric in my spreadsheet, from 93.53 million ISK per loss to 84.64 million ISK per loss.

How did this happen?  I’ll throw a meme out for it and we’ll get into the details later.

It is an old meme, but it checks out

Okay, we’re now four months into the year and we’re now hitting a point where somebody has wrecked my pet theory that losses per day is a reasonable indicator of player activity in New Eden.  Ideally, my chart should correspond in some way to Jester’s daily rolling average chart.

Average Daily EVE Online Players – April 2024 Edition

Compare that to my average losses per day chart.

Average losses per Day – April 2024 Edition

At first glance the 2024 line appears to be following Jester’s 2024 line.  But his chart is a 30 day rolling average so it is still influenced by March numbers.  It won’t turn… or stay flat or dip a bit… until the May chart comes out.

Finally, for this section, there is the losses per day chart, which I usually trot our as a demonstration of the normal ebb and flow of New Eden destruction, peaking on weekends and dipping mid week, with ISK loss and hull count moving together.  But this month that last bit seems set to mock me.

April 2024 – Losses per day

Some very expensive ships were lost around the 5th of the month, as we see ISK losses spiking well above the loss count, while on the 22nd of the month the loss count spikes without a corresponding spike in ISK.  I refer you to the meme above for that, but I’ll have data to follow up on that.

Top 20 Most Frequent Losses by Class and Hull

Once more we kick off with the raw losses for the top categories.

Not for the last time in this post I am going to say something about shuttles.  Generally speaking, shuttles are in third place most months, behind the ever at the top capsules and the perennial second place entry, frigates as a class.  Last month, for example, shuttles rang in at 9.22% of the month’s total losses.  This month they surpassed 15%.

Hulls Lost only Once This Month

Once again I have filtered out all of the POS towers and modules… POS kills continue… and fighter squadrons and other odd and uninteresting… to me at least… kills to get to the more interesting stuff, with links to the kill on zKillboard… when possible.

We have some AT ships on the list this month, starting with the Cybele, an ATXIX reward ship, and only the second one recorded as lost, and the Laelaps, an ATXVI ship, which perished up in Vale of the Silent.

The Miasmos hulls, Amastris and Quafe Ultra editions, are hold overs from the Odyssey expansion.  The Amastris edition did not make it to zKillboard.  Somebody post that kill please.

The others on the list are a bit more commonplace, though the Komodo, the Guristas faction titan, is notable for its expense.  And the Syndicate Mobile Large War Disruptor… I haven’t seen one of those on the list before.  Over at zKillboard it records the last loss back in 2021.

Top 20 Total ISK Lost by Hull Type

Looking into that top hulls that made up the ISK losses in April.

Capsules, as always, top the list through sheer volume, even at a paltry average of 27.79 million ISK per loss.

This is becoming very much a “usual suspects” sort of chart every month.  Fortizar losses were up almost 50% over March, when 40 were blown up.  Dreads don’t make up much of the total, given the clash that happened in Abhazon in April… though I suspect those numbers will pop up a bit next time as there was a return clash there just this past week.

And I suppose it is a good thing that Capsuleer Day has come around again to replenish the Praxis supplies, as they keep blowing up at a substantial rate for a battleship.

Top 20 Regions by ISK and Hull Losses

The regions where losses were happening most.

Pochven continues to blow up the ISK chart.  I wish I had some direct insight into that.

Top 20 Systems by ISK and Hull Losses

Diving a little deeper into losses by location.

On the ISK side of the chart we can see the effects of the struggle over the Imperium Fortizar in Ahbazon, as losses there were 50% above perennial champion Jita.

Meanwhile, at the top of the count side of the chart is Uitra and whatever shuttle exploit has been going on there for months and months.

Once again it tops the total kill in a system list.  Here are the ships lost in Uitra in April.  As usual, shuttles dominate, with 22,626 destroyed in the system, almost one third of all shuttles destroyed in New Eden in April.

However, in Black Rise, the system of Iwisoda emerged as a new locus of shuttle destruction in April.   Is the Uitra scam… or whatever it is… expanding?  Oh no, this is something completely different.

Here are the ship loss totals for Iwisoda in April broken out by hull.

That is a good 15,640 shuttles destroyed, about 20% of the shuttles lost in New Eden in April.  So the two systems together fall just shy of accounting for half the shuttles in April, ringing in at 49.82% of the total.

In Uitra though, the shuttle losses, if you look over at DOTLAN EVE Maps, are spread out pretty evenly across the month.  I Iwisoda, everything happened in a very short span of time, around which there was very little activity.

The destruction chart for Iwisoda – Apr 21 through 24

What apparently happened was that Snuffed Out, making mischief in low sec as usual, decided to fiddle somebody’s kill board by putting up a Raitaru, delivering 15,640 shuttles to that individual, then blowing up the Raitaru while it was in a state where asset safety would not engage.  That deposited all those shuttles out into space where they destroyed them.  The kills count against the person to whom they were delivered.

Now, the killdump.csv file, CCP’s official output of losses that comes with the MER, does not include individual pilot data.  Corps and alliances are all you get.  So with that data I could only tell you that Stay Frosty lost 15,640 shuttles in Iwisoda, eclipsing any of the regulars in Uitra by a fair margin.

However, I observed the goings on over on Twitter where Rixx Javix, CEO of Stay Frosty, spent several days posting cat pictures and telling people he was totally not bothered by some in-game incident.  Then he wrote a blog post about it where he wanted this “loop-hole” addressed.  You can judge for yourself whether it really bothered him or not.  I certainly cannot speak to his state of mind.

But yes, if you go to the Iwisoda page over on zKillboard currently, there are bunch of shuttle losses with his name on them, with Snuffed Out as the killer.  The system is otherwise not very active, so those will be there for a while.

A sample from the Iwisoda kills

They are all flagged as “padding” now, so they do not affect his kill board.  I suspect that this is somehow related to why the corps in Uitra don’t go all in on destruction, though I still haven’t figured out their game and how it benefits them.

Anyway, you can totally see that spike in losses on my kills per day chart up at the top, where losses spike while ISK is actually down.

Meanwhile, that “loop-hole” has been around for ages and I have seen it used before.  I first documented it here with the Fort Knocks Keepstar kill in December 2018, when somebody delivered a ton of Bantam frigates to Doomchincilla which all popped up on his zKillboad totals.

The PL killboard sullied with all those frigates

The “loop-hole” in question was put in place to stop a different sort of abuse.  When citadels came into the game people would create courier contracts that would send people to structures where they had no access, so they could not complete the contracts… and sometimes got ganked for the effort.  So CCP created a delivery mechanic to solve that, which assigned ownership to the recipient of the delivery, something that has been abused now and then ever since.

All of which I guess shows that a few dedicated individuals can mess with the destruction stats by blowing up shuttles… messing up my average kills per day metric by basically exploding about 30K more shuttles than expected (the March total was 45,547 while April saw 76,798 shuttles pop) while other ship class losses, such as capsules and frigate, were actually down for the month.

Systems with Just One Recorded Loss

We got a story out of the data this month, so a less dull post than usual I guess.  But in digging through the system level data I was a bit surprised to see how many systems recorded just ONE LOSS in the month of April.

I mean, there are a lot of systems in New Eden, and 7,486 saw at least something blow up.  I suspect there is a range of systems out there were no ships blew up, but they don’t make the data set.

So just to make this post super extra long, here are the 392 systems where exactly one ship was recorded lost by CCP… though this data does not 100% agree with what appears on zKillboard.

We shall see what the May stats will bring.

The April Monthly Economic Report for EVE Online landed this week, so it is time to dive into that once more.

EVE Online nerds harder

As usual, I am going to focus mostly on destruction. You can find things about the general New Eden economy here:

• CCP – April 2024 Monthly Economic Report
• CCP – April 2024 MER Forum Thread
• Reddit – April 2024 MER Thread
• TNG –  April 2024 Activity In EVE Online
• TNG – A Look At The April 2024 Active ISK Delta

Overall Summary

With April we’re back to a 30 day month, so one might expect something of a drop in the total given that EVE Online players had 24 fewer hours to explode things.  But you would be wrong.  They managed to blow up 501,859 ships, structures, and capsules, a nearly 8K uptick from the 493,867 that went up in March.

That comes out to 16,728 losses per day in April, also a noticeable uptick over the 15,931 losses per day in March.  That is nearly 800 more things exploding every single day, though we’ll get to why that might not be as significant as the high level numbers might indicate… ans the come down starts when we get to ISK.

For ISK value a total of 42.48 trillion ISK was recorded as destroyed in April, down from 46.19 trillion in March, with the average ISK loss per day in April running at 1,415 billion ISK per day, down from 1,490 billion ISK per day the previous month.

That sank the average cost per loss, another metric in my spreadsheet, from 93.53 million ISK per loss to 84.64 million ISK per loss.

How did this happen?  I’ll throw a meme out for it and we’ll get into the details later.

It is an old meme, but it checks out

Okay, we’re now four months into the year and we’re now hitting a point where somebody has wrecked my pet theory that losses per day is a reasonable indicator of player activity in New Eden.  Ideally, my chart should correspond in some way to Jester’s daily rolling average chart.

Average Daily EVE Online Players – April 2024 Edition

Compare that to my average losses per day chart.

Average losses per Day – April 2024 Edition

At first glance the 2024 line appears to be following Jester’s 2024 line.  But his chart is a 30 day rolling average so it is still influenced by March numbers.  It won’t turn… or stay flat or dip a bit… until the May chart comes out.

Finally, for this section, there is the losses per day chart, which I usually trot our as a demonstration of the normal ebb and flow of New Eden destruction, peaking on weekends and dipping mid week, with ISK loss and hull count moving together.  But this month that last bit seems set to mock me.

April 2024 – Losses per day

Some very expensive ships were lost around the 5th of the month, as we see ISK losses spiking well above the loss count, while on the 22nd of the month the loss count spikes without a corresponding spike in ISK.  I refer you to the meme above for that, but I’ll have data to follow up on that.

Top 20 Most Frequent Losses by Class and Hull

Once more we kick off with the raw losses for the top categories.

Not for the last time in this post I am going to say something about shuttles.  Generally speaking, shuttles are in third place most months, behind the ever at the top capsules and the perennial second place entry, frigates as a class.  Last month, for example, shuttles rang in at 9.22% of the month’s total losses.  This month they surpassed 15%.

Hulls Lost only Once This Month

Once again I have filtered out all of the POS towers and modules… POS kills continue… and fighter squadrons and other odd and uninteresting… to me at least… kills to get to the more interesting stuff, with links to the kill on zKillboard… when possible.

We have some AT ships on the list this month, starting with the Cybele, an ATXIX reward ship, and only the second one recorded as lost, and the Laelaps, an ATXVI ship, which perished up in Vale of the Silent.

The Miasmos hulls, Amastris and Quafe Ultra editions, are hold overs from the Odyssey expansion.  The Amastris edition did not make it to zKillboard.  Somebody post that kill please.

The others on the list are a bit more commonplace, though the Komodo, the Guristas faction titan, is notable for its expense.  And the Syndicate Mobile Large War Disruptor… I haven’t seen one of those on the list before.  Over at zKillboard it records the last loss back in 2021.

Top 20 Total ISK Lost by Hull Type

Looking into that top hulls that made up the ISK losses in April.

Capsules, as always, top the list through sheer volume, even at a paltry average of 27.79 million ISK per loss.

This is becoming very much a “usual suspects” sort of chart every month.  Fortizar losses were up almost 50% over March, when 40 were blown up.  Dreads don’t make up much of the total, given the clash that happened in Abhazon in April… though I suspect those numbers will pop up a bit next time as there was a return clash there just this past week.

And I suppose it is a good thing that Capsuleer Day has come around again to replenish the Praxis supplies, as they keep blowing up at a substantial rate for a battleship.

Top 20 Regions by ISK and Hull Losses

The regions where losses were happening most.

Pochven continues to blow up the ISK chart.  I wish I had some direct insight into that.

Top 20 Systems by ISK and Hull Losses

Diving a little deeper into losses by location.

On the ISK side of the chart we can see the effects of the struggle over the Imperium Fortizar in Ahbazon, as losses there were 50% above perennial champion Jita.

Meanwhile, at the top of the count side of the chart is Uitra and whatever shuttle exploit has been going on there for months and months.

Once again it tops the total kill in a system list.  Here are the ships lost in Uitra in April.  As usual, shuttles dominate, with 22,626 destroyed in the system, almost one third of all shuttles destroyed in New Eden in April.

However, in Black Rise, the system of Iwisoda emerged as a new locus of shuttle destruction in April.   Is the Uitra scam… or whatever it is… expanding?  Oh no, this is something completely different.

Here are the ship loss totals for Iwisoda in April broken out by hull.

That is a good 15,640 shuttles destroyed, about 20% of the shuttles lost in New Eden in April.  So the two systems together fall just shy of accounting for half the shuttles in April, ringing in at 49.82% of the total.

In Uitra though, the shuttle losses, if you look over at DOTLAN EVE Maps, are spread out pretty evenly across the month.  I Iwisoda, everything happened in a very short span of time, around which there was very little activity.

The destruction chart for Iwisoda – Apr 21 through 24

What apparently happened was that Snuffed Out, making mischief in low sec as usual, decided to fiddle somebody’s kill board by putting up a Raitaru, delivering 15,640 shuttles to that individual, then blowing up the Raitaru while it was in a state where asset safety would not engage.  That deposited all those shuttles out into space where they destroyed them.  The kills count against the person to whom they were delivered.

Now, the killdump.csv file, CCP’s official output of losses that comes with the MER, does not include individual pilot data.  Corps and alliances are all you get.  So with that data I could only tell you that Stay Frosty lost 15,640 shuttles in Iwisoda, eclipsing any of the regulars in Uitra by a fair margin.

However, I observed the goings on over on Twitter where Rixx Javix, CEO of Stay Frosty, spent several days posting cat pictures and telling people he was totally not bothered by some in-game incident.  Then he wrote a blog post about it where he wanted this “loop-hole” addressed.  You can judge for yourself whether it really bothered him or not.  I certainly cannot speak to his state of mind.

But yes, if you go to the Iwisoda page over on zKillboard currently, there are bunch of shuttle losses with his name on them, with Snuffed Out as the killer.  The system is otherwise not very active, so those will be there for a while.

A sample from the Iwisoda kills

They are all flagged as “padding” now, so they do not affect his kill board.  I suspect that this is somehow related to why the corps in Uitra don’t go all in on destruction, though I still haven’t figured out their game and how it benefits them.

Anyway, you can totally see that spike in losses on my kills per day chart up at the top, where losses spike while ISK is actually down.

Meanwhile, that “loop-hole” has been around for ages and I have seen it used before.  I first documented it here with the Fort Knocks Keepstar kill in December 2018, when somebody delivered a ton of Bantam frigates to Doomchincilla which all popped up on his zKillboad totals.

The PL killboard sullied with all those frigates

The “loop-hole” in question was put in place to stop a different sort of abuse.  When citadels came into the game people would create courier contracts that would send people to structures where they had no access, so they could not complete the contracts… and sometimes got ganked for the effort.  So CCP created a delivery mechanic to solve that, which assigned ownership to the recipient of the delivery, something that has been abused now and then ever since.

All of which I guess shows that a few dedicated individuals can mess with the destruction stats by blowing up shuttles… messing up my average kills per day metric by basically exploding about 30K more shuttles than expected (the March total was 45,547 while April saw 76,798 shuttles pop) while other ship class losses, such as capsules and frigate, were actually down for the month.

Systems with Just One Recorded Loss

We got a story out of the data this month, so a less dull post than usual I guess.  But in digging through the system level data I was a bit surprised to see how many systems recorded just ONE LOSS in the month of April.

I mean, there are a lot of systems in New Eden, and 7,486 saw at least something blow up.  I suspect there is a range of systems out there were no ships blew up, but they don’t make the data set.

So just to make this post super extra long, here are the 392 systems where exactly one ship was recorded lost by CCP… though this data does not 100% agree with what appears on zKillboard.

We shall see what the May stats will bring.

The April Monthly Economic Report for EVE Online landed this week, so it is time to dive into that once more.

EVE Online nerds harder

As usual, I am going to focus mostly on destruction. You can find things about the general New Eden economy here:

• CCP – April 2024 Monthly Economic Report
• CCP – April 2024 MER Forum Thread
• Reddit – April 2024 MER Thread
• TNG –  April 2024 Activity In EVE Online
• TNG – A Look At The April 2024 Active ISK Delta

Overall Summary

With April we’re back to a 30 day month, so one might expect something of a drop in the total given that EVE Online players had 24 fewer hours to explode things.  But you would be wrong.  They managed to blow up 501,859 ships, structures, and capsules, a nearly 8K uptick from the 493,867 that went up in March.

That comes out to 16,728 losses per day in April, also a noticeable uptick over the 15,931 losses per day in March.  That is nearly 800 more things exploding every single day, though we’ll get to why that might not be as significant as the high level numbers might indicate… ans the come down starts when we get to ISK.

For ISK value a total of 42.48 trillion ISK was recorded as destroyed in April, down from 46.19 trillion in March, with the average ISK loss per day in April running at 1,415 billion ISK per day, down from 1,490 billion ISK per day the previous month.

That sank the average cost per loss, another metric in my spreadsheet, from 93.53 million ISK per loss to 84.64 million ISK per loss.

How did this happen?  I’ll throw a meme out for it and we’ll get into the details later.

It is an old meme, but it checks out

Okay, we’re now four months into the year and we’re now hitting a point where somebody has wrecked my pet theory that losses per day is a reasonable indicator of player activity in New Eden.  Ideally, my chart should correspond in some way to Jester’s daily rolling average chart.

Average Daily EVE Online Players – April 2024 Edition

Compare that to my average losses per day chart.

Average losses per Day – April 2024 Edition

At first glance the 2024 line appears to be following Jester’s 2024 line.  But his chart is a 30 day rolling average so it is still influenced by March numbers.  It won’t turn… or stay flat or dip a bit… until the May chart comes out.

Finally, for this section, there is the losses per day chart, which I usually trot our as a demonstration of the normal ebb and flow of New Eden destruction, peaking on weekends and dipping mid week, with ISK loss and hull count moving together.  But this month that last bit seems set to mock me.

April 2024 – Losses per day

Some very expensive ships were lost around the 5th of the month, as we see ISK losses spiking well above the loss count, while on the 22nd of the month the loss count spikes without a corresponding spike in ISK.  I refer you to the meme above for that, but I’ll have data to follow up on that.

Top 20 Most Frequent Losses by Class and Hull

Once more we kick off with the raw losses for the top categories.

Not for the last time in this post I am going to say something about shuttles.  Generally speaking, shuttles are in third place most months, behind the ever at the top capsules and the perennial second place entry, frigates as a class.  Last month, for example, shuttles rang in at 9.22% of the month’s total losses.  This month they surpassed 15%.

Hulls Lost only Once This Month

Once again I have filtered out all of the POS towers and modules… POS kills continue… and fighter squadrons and other odd and uninteresting… to me at least… kills to get to the more interesting stuff, with links to the kill on zKillboard… when possible.

We have some AT ships on the list this month, starting with the Cybele, an ATXIX reward ship, and only the second one recorded as lost, and the Laelaps, an ATXVI ship, which perished up in Vale of the Silent.

The Miasmos hulls, Amastris and Quafe Ultra editions, are hold overs from the Odyssey expansion.  The Amastris edition did not make it to zKillboard.  Somebody post that kill please.

The others on the list are a bit more commonplace, though the Komodo, the Guristas faction titan, is notable for its expense.  And the Syndicate Mobile Large War Disruptor… I haven’t seen one of those on the list before.  Over at zKillboard it records the last loss back in 2021.

Top 20 Total ISK Lost by Hull Type

Looking into that top hulls that made up the ISK losses in April.

Capsules, as always, top the list through sheer volume, even at a paltry average of 27.79 million ISK per loss.

This is becoming very much a “usual suspects” sort of chart every month.  Fortizar losses were up almost 50% over March, when 40 were blown up.  Dreads don’t make up much of the total, given the clash that happened in Abhazon in April… though I suspect those numbers will pop up a bit next time as there was a return clash there just this past week.

And I suppose it is a good thing that Capsuleer Day has come around again to replenish the Praxis supplies, as they keep blowing up at a substantial rate for a battleship.

Top 20 Regions by ISK and Hull Losses

The regions where losses were happening most.

Pochven continues to blow up the ISK chart.  I wish I had some direct insight into that.

Top 20 Systems by ISK and Hull Losses

Diving a little deeper into losses by location.

On the ISK side of the chart we can see the effects of the struggle over the Imperium Fortizar in Ahbazon, as losses there were 50% above perennial champion Jita.

Meanwhile, at the top of the count side of the chart is Uitra and whatever shuttle exploit has been going on there for months and months.

Once again it tops the total kill in a system list.  Here are the ships lost in Uitra in April.  As usual, shuttles dominate, with 22,626 destroyed in the system, almost one third of all shuttles destroyed in New Eden in April.

However, in Black Rise, the system of Iwisoda emerged as a new locus of shuttle destruction in April.   Is the Uitra scam… or whatever it is… expanding?  Oh no, this is something completely different.

Here are the ship loss totals for Iwisoda in April broken out by hull.

That is a good 15,640 shuttles destroyed, about 20% of the shuttles lost in New Eden in April.  So the two systems together fall just shy of accounting for half the shuttles in April, ringing in at 49.82% of the total.

In Uitra though, the shuttle losses, if you look over at DOTLAN EVE Maps, are spread out pretty evenly across the month.  I Iwisoda, everything happened in a very short span of time, around which there was very little activity.

The destruction chart for Iwisoda – Apr 21 through 24

What apparently happened was that Snuffed Out, making mischief in low sec as usual, decided to fiddle somebody’s kill board by putting up a Raitaru, delivering 15,640 shuttles to that individual, then blowing up the Raitaru while it was in a state where asset safety would not engage.  That deposited all those shuttles out into space where they destroyed them.  The kills count against the person to whom they were delivered.

Now, the killdump.csv file, CCP’s official output of losses that comes with the MER, does not include individual pilot data.  Corps and alliances are all you get.  So with that data I could only tell you that Stay Frosty lost 15,640 shuttles in Iwisoda, eclipsing any of the regulars in Uitra by a fair margin.

However, I observed the goings on over on Twitter where Rixx Javix, CEO of Stay Frosty, spent several days posting cat pictures and telling people he was totally not bothered by some in-game incident.  Then he wrote a blog post about it where he wanted this “loop-hole” addressed.  You can judge for yourself whether it really bothered him or not.  I certainly cannot speak to his state of mind.

But yes, if you go to the Iwisoda page over on zKillboard currently, there are bunch of shuttle losses with his name on them, with Snuffed Out as the killer.  The system is otherwise not very active, so those will be there for a while.

A sample from the Iwisoda kills

They are all flagged as “padding” now, so they do not affect his kill board.  I suspect that this is somehow related to why the corps in Uitra don’t go all in on destruction, though I still haven’t figured out their game and how it benefits them.

Anyway, you can totally see that spike in losses on my kills per day chart up at the top, where losses spike while ISK is actually down.

Meanwhile, that “loop-hole” has been around for ages and I have seen it used before.  I first documented it here with the Fort Knocks Keepstar kill in December 2018, when somebody delivered a ton of Bantam frigates to Doomchincilla which all popped up on his zKillboad totals.

The PL killboard sullied with all those frigates

The “loop-hole” in question was put in place to stop a different sort of abuse.  When citadels came into the game people would create courier contracts that would send people to structures where they had no access, so they could not complete the contracts… and sometimes got ganked for the effort.  So CCP created a delivery mechanic to solve that, which assigned ownership to the recipient of the delivery, something that has been abused now and then ever since.

All of which I guess shows that a few dedicated individuals can mess with the destruction stats by blowing up shuttles… messing up my average kills per day metric by basically exploding about 30K more shuttles than expected (the March total was 45,547 while April saw 76,798 shuttles pop) while other ship class losses, such as capsules and frigate, were actually down for the month.

Systems with Just One Recorded Loss

We got a story out of the data this month, so a less dull post than usual I guess.  But in digging through the system level data I was a bit surprised to see how many systems recorded just ONE LOSS in the month of April.

I mean, there are a lot of systems in New Eden, and 7,486 saw at least something blow up.  I suspect there is a range of systems out there were no ships blew up, but they don’t make the data set.

So just to make this post super extra long, here are the 392 systems where exactly one ship was recorded lost by CCP… though this data does not 100% agree with what appears on zKillboard.

We shall see what the May stats will bring.

The monthly EVE Online economic report has arrived for January 2024.  The start of a fresh new year and a fresh new column in my tracking spreadsheet!

EVE Online nerds harder

As usual, I am going to focus mostly on destruction. You can find things about the general New Eden economy here:

• CCP – January 2024 Monthly Economic Report
• CCP – January 2024 MER Forum Thread
• Reddit – January 2024 MER Thread
• TNG –  January 2024 Activity In EVE Online
• TNG – A Look At The January 2024 Active ISK Delta

Overall Summary

It is starting to look like Havoc might well and truly be a success.  Its launch saw an increase in activities, but then we got into the holidays and events and that can cause a rise in activity on its own, so it felt like January might tell the tale.  Would the uptick in activity and destruction carry on into the new year past the Winter Nexus and all that?

The answer is yes.

For the top level January number CCP recorded 495,697 losses.  While that is down from the November Havoc launch peak of 570,018, it is still an uptick from the 481,332 losses recorded in December and the holidays.  Before November you have to go back to December 2021 to see that level of loss.

The total ISK value of recorded losses was 46.8 trillion ISK, down a bit from the 47.28 trillion recorded in December.  So on par there.

Moving to my average kills per day metric, January saw 15,988.94 kills per day, well down from the November peak, but a bit of an uptick from December.

So all in all, January turned in solid numbers for CCP.  This aligns with Jester’s rolling average player chart for this month, which shows numbers holding through January, though the seven day average was already starting to droop at the end, perhaps suggesting things were cooling down by mid-month.

Average players online through January 2024

The pattern of destruction through the month is not as indicative of that, though it does continue to follow the usual wave pattern of Saturday and Sunday peaks and mid-week valleys.

January 2024 – Losses by Day

Top 20 Most Frequent Losses by Class and Hull

On to the charts, starting off with the usual count of losses by class and hull.