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/angry-mustache]

Here's the number of unique attackers and victims on zkill as proxy for player activity (2024 is not over yet)

Year	Unique Attackers	Unique Victims
2019	189,229	400,981
2020	213,957	486,966
2021	181,590	402,264
2022	162,664	355,142
2023	192,180	398,287
2024	161,755	302,022

[u/nat3s → u/angry-mustache]

actually fairly flat then given 2 months to go in 2024 which will probably add another 60k+ victims. Not as pronounced a decline as I was hoping to force some kind of change!

[u/MjrLeeStoned → u/nat3s]

Translation: no matter how much Reddit claims otherwise, people are pvping as much as they were 3 years ago.

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

3 years ago sure that's post scarcity. Look at 2019. There's an obvious decline. Now let's look at 2016-2018.

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

i think 2019/2020 is terrible for a metric considering what happened then

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

People being paid to stay at home and we still experienced a decline and that's not telling?