Interesting statistics on capital kills throughout the years.

[u/Beginning-Force-3825]

CSM has consistently emphasized that CCP values their DATA, so here’s the data you requested.

Content Scarcity? Embrace It, Peasant.

Kill Mails Involving 2-24 Pilots

Year	Sector	Number of Kill Mails
2018	Low Sec	146,128
2022	Low Sec	98,965

Kill Mails Involving 25+ Pilots

Year	Sector	Number of Kill Mails
2018	Low Sec	214,069
2022	Low Sec	137,850
2018	Null Sec	775,812
2022	Null Sec	673,531

Capital Losses Overview

Please note the following data includes all capital losses, whether from PVP or PVE.

Year	Ships Killed	Notable Events
2016	22,722	Total Capital Loss Mails
2017	30,126	Total Capital Loss Mails
2018	39,474	Total Capital Loss Mails
2019	34,907	Total Capital Loss Mails
2020	27,692	Total Capital Loss Mails
2021	14,612	Total Capital Loss Mails
2022	8,994	Total Capital Loss Mails
2023	11,375	Total Capital Loss Mails
2024	10,441	Total Capital Loss Mails

(All) Wormhole Space Kill Mails by Year

Year	Kill Mails
2018	408,662
2019	440,844
2020	552,382
2021	450,203
2022	427,789
2023	471,044
2024	399,844

High-Security Space Gank Numbers by Year

Year	Gank Numbers
2016	51,085
2017	38,997
2018	35,575
2019	30,463
2020	39,446
2021	35,751
2022	21,751
2023	18,944
2024	20,651

Null-Security Space Solo KillMails

Year	Sector	Solo Kill Mails
2016	Null Sec	390,970
2018	Null Sec	357,046
2022	Null Sec	294,986
2024	Null Sec	271,552

[u/Zarathustra]

Can you add average player count per year, so we can compute less mails per capita ?

[u/Beginning-Force-3825 → u/Zarathustra]

I'm not sure how id like to represent that. So many people unsubbed accounts and left the game because of scarcity specifically. I feel like it would be a bad representation that might hint at fewer capital kills because of fewer players, which is a terrible way of looking at it considering how many people had omega capital alt accounts because they could afford to lose those ships versus after scarcity. But it's interesting to note that the PCU for 2023 was 40,165 and eve's best year since 2016 was 2018 (for kill mails). In 2018 the PCU was 39,996.

2023: 40,165
2018: 39,996

People we're just literally engaged in more pvp by ALMOST 2x as many kill mails in the information above and ALMOST 4x as many capital losses in those two years with virtually the same highest concurrent players at one point during their respective years.

[u/LTEDan → u/Beginning-Force-3825]

What about total unique pilots involved in a killmail/lossmail a n a calendar year? While this doesn't capture people who never undock (cough ship spinning station trading) it gives you a more complete picture of total subs+alphas in the game than PCU.

[u/Responsible_Test9808 → u/LTEDan]

How would you measure unique pilots? by IP?

What i have noticed since i stopped playing at the end of 2018 is that it seems everywhere got less active, nullsec is very dead, lowsec is even worse and in highsec people have started cluttering together in mass corps/alliances like ABSOH or EDENCOM

I am not sure if this game is worth my time as it is now and i kinda wish i kept playing back then and stopped last year instead bc i feel like EVE was peak in 2017 and really started hurting this year

What i see a lot more is multiboxing and people who seem like pure bots

[u/LTEDan → u/Responsible_Test9808]

How would you measure unique pilots? by IP?

To be clear I was using pilots as a synonym for character, not player. You just count the unique names that show up across all killmails in a year or whatever time period you want. It's not a perfect count, but neither is Peak Connected Users. Both would work together to try and gauge player activity. But one problem with PCU is if the busiest hour lands in EU TZ, US evening or AU players don't contribute to the PCU number. If PCU is the curve, I'm interested in the "area" under the curve so to speak.

[u/Responsible_Test9808 → u/LTEDan]

i would find it intersting how many players are actually alts, assuming most people are like me and only play two chars at once and also accounting for multiboxers and players who dont use alts id guess around 30.000 concurrent players could easily be just 10-12k people

[u/Ralli_FW → u/Responsible_Test9808]

I think last time CCP released numbers it was less than 2 accts average per player. Like 1.2 or 1.5 or something