It is time again for the EVE Online Monthly Economic report. Once more, everybody is keen to see how the Havoc expansion that landed last month is doing. Now that we finally have some numbers, we can get a feeling for its reception.
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As usual, I am just going to write about destruction. You can find things about the general New Eden economy here:
- CCP – November 2023 Monthly Economic Report
- CCP – November 2023 MER Forum Thread
- Reddit – November 2023 MER Thread
- TNG – Killing Is Just A Means To Communicate Activity In EVE Online
- TNG – Record Active ISK Delta On Tranquility In November 2023
Going straight into the top level numbers for destruction, in November CCP recorded 571,018 losses in the killdump.csv file, which put the count up almost 124K kills above October, which itself was 50K above the September count. That is a very significant rise in destruction which I think we can attribute in large part to the Havoc expansion landing mid-month and the anticipation in the build up to the expansion.
The total ISK value of recorded losses was 49.8 trillion, up a bit more than 4 trillion ISK from October. That jump is much less that the 11 trillion boost we saw in October over September, so it seems while a lot more ships and pods are exploding, they are perhaps not as expensive on average.
All those kills made November the most active month of 2023 so far, handily passing previous record set for the year in March, when it comes to my ongoing kills per day metric. In fact, that is the highest average kills per day recorded since the start of the pandemic back in 2020, when March and April saw 21,308.93 and 20,564.73 kills per day respectively.
The 2023 numbers so far:
- January – 13,729.96 kills per day
- February – 14,307.75 kills per day
- March – 14,878.67 kills per day
- April – 13,663.50 kills per day
- May – 13,028.03 kills per day
- June – 13,175.07 kills per day
- July – 13,959.19 kills per day
- August – 12,502.19 kills per day
- September – 13,254.87 kills per day
- October – 14,390.10 kills per day
- November – 19,000.06 kills per day
(For past years, I did monthly stats from 2020 forward here.)
For a visual, here is what the monthly average losses per day looks like from 2020 through to November 2023.
Average losses per day in New Eden 2020-2023
As usual, I will line this up against Jester’s average logged in players rolling 30 day average chart. He has not updated his site since November 1st as of my writing this, but he did post the chart to reddit along with some vague demands and unsupported criticism of CCP.
Average Logged in players
That chart is always going to be behind due to the whole function of a rolling average, but it seems to be spiking up in a similar trajectory as my simple average daily kills per month line.
Back to the kill data, I felt that this month maybe something a little more detailed than the average daily kills would be warranted, so I went into PowerBI and broke things out for the daily totals for both kills and ISK lost just to show the ebb and flow of the month.
Nov 2023 – losses per day by ISK and count
You can clearly see the weekends in there, with Sundays falling on the 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th… and maybe a little dip on the 23rd for US Thanksgiving. And the loss count tracks the ISK total close enough to see them mostly in parallel, save for the last day of the month, which I will get to in a bit.
The Havoc expansion landed on the 14th and you can see the following weekend taking off, that being when the first insurgencies completed. The 18th was also boosted a bit by the fight at W-4NUU, which added 2K kill mails and a half a trillion of ISK to the day.
So the top ten days when sorted by ISK loss and total kill count were:
| Date | Count | Sum of ISK Lost | Date | Count | Sum of ISK Lost |
| 18th | 37,030 | 3.050 trillion | 18th | 37,030 | 3.050 trillion |
| 25th | 27,038 | 2.589 trillion | 26th | 27,700 | 2.405 trillion |
| 26th | 27,700 | 2.405 trillion | 19th | 27,056 | 2.300 trillion |
| 5th | 21,518 | 2.304 trillion | 25th | 27,038 | 2.589 trillion |
| 19th | 27,056 | 2.300 trillion | 24th | 22,084 | 1.734 trillion |
| 11th | 20,361 | 2.026 trillion | 17th | 22,072 | 1.669 trillion |
| 30th | 15,911 | 1.905 trillion | 22nd | 21,603 | 1.622 trillion |
| 4th | 19,308 | 1.783 trillion | 5th | 21,518 | 2.304 trillion |
| 24th | 22,084 | 1.734 trillion | 11th | 20,361 | 2.026 trillion |
| 12th | 19,723 | 1.687 trillion | 16th | 20,195 | 1.323 trillion |
Those two selections are close, but not the same. The 18th tops both, but after that there is some variation. And then there is the question as to what happened on the 30th that led to the end of the month uptick in losses. The 30th makes the ISK top ten, but not the loss count, the one day where the two really do not track together.
The main outlier I see is that on the 30th 522 Epithals were destroyed for a value of almost 600 billion ISK.
That is way outside of the norm. I mean, Epithals die every day, but the number is usually 50-80. 2,735 were recorded destroyed in November, which means almost 20% of them died on November 30th. So I dug into the data again and found that on November 30th 472 Epithals, with a value of 558 billion ISK, were destroyed in the L-1SW8 system in the null sec region of Fountain.
ZKillboard did not record any of those kills, but the site depends on player APIs for that data, so it not as definitive as CCP’s data. DOTLAN does show a blip on that date, two bursts of kills in its data. So something was going on in a system on a dead end path in space held by The Initiative on that day, but I couldn’t tell you what.
Addendum: I am told this was INIT farming LP to get an Angel titan quickly using a method that was later declared and exploit by CCP. Mystery solved. Also, if I am able to spot this sort of thing in the data than it is no wonder CCP was on top of it.
And since I am trotting out additional charts, I have a couple more I make every month but don’t post very often because they don’t offer quite the clear insight… in my view anyway… that the average kills per month chart does.
The first is the average daily value of losses for a given month.
Average Daily Loss Value
Once again, November 2023 is way up, with the only competitor being January 2021, which saw the second battle of M2-XFE, the day more titans were destroyed in a single engagement than any time in EVE Online history. There was a world record set for that, and CCP detailed what happened.
The other chart is the average cost per loss. That balances total losses and total cost of losses, which gives 2023 pretty high marks relative to past years.
Average cost per loss per month
November was way down, in part because while the total ISK loss was up a bit, the number of hulls lost was up by a lot more over the previous month and… that’s the way division works.
Top 20 Most Frequent Losses by Class and Hull
The usual chart, with the usual suspects.
| Ship Class | Count | % of Nov | Hull | Count | % of Nov |
| Capsule | 169,236 | 29.64% | Capsule | 167,464 | 29.33% |
| Frigate | 87,017 | 15.24% | Caldari Shuttle | 16,081 | 2.82% |
| Cruiser | 44,655 | 7.82% | Venture | 14,346 | 2.51% |
| Destroyer | 41,573 | 7.28% | Mobile Tractor Unit | 11,462 | 2.01% |
| Shuttle | 40,565 | 7.10% | Amarr Shuttle | 11,342 | 1.99% |
| Hauler | 29,273 | 5.13% | Ibis | 9,051 | 1.59% |
| Corvette | 20,879 | 3.66% | Heron | 8,618 | 1.51% |
| Combat Battlecruiser | 14,085 | 2.47% | Gallente Shuttle | 7,459 | 1.31% |
| Mobile Tractor Unit | 12,013 | 2.10% | Thrasher | 6,952 | 1.22% |
| Interdictor | 10,820 | 1.89% | Badger | 6,885 | 1.21% |
| Heavy Assault Cruiser | 9,890 | 1.73% | Tayra | 6,271 | 1.10% |
| Interceptor | 9,568 | 1.68% | Caracal | 5,727 | 1.00% |
| Assault Frigate | 9,244 | 1.62% | Catalyst | 5,715 | 1.00% |
| Battleship | 7,800 | 1.37% | Vexor | 5,670 | 0.99% |
| Tactical Destroyer | 5,032 | 0.88% | Ishtar | 5,462 | 0.96% |
| Stealth Bomber | 4,985 | 0.87% | Exequror Navy Issue | 5,310 | 0.93% |
| Mining Barge | 4,828 | 0.85% | Sabre | 5,107 | 0.89% |
| Mobile Warp Disruptor | 4,591 | 0.80% | Tristan | 4,973 | 0.87% |
| Strategic Cruiser | 4,519 | 0.79% | Velator | 4,804 | 0.84% |
| Covert Ops | 4,385 | 0.77% | Minmatar Shuttle | 4,373 | 0.77% |
Hulls Lost only Once This Month
This time around I decided I we had seen enough of POS towers and modules, so I removed those along with fighters, which pared down the list considerably.
| Hull | Count |
| Civilian Amarr Shuttle | 1 |
| Echelon | 1 |
| Echo | 1 |
| Erebus | 1 |
| Gallente Listening Outpost | 1 |
| Hubris | 1 |
| Hyasyoda Research Laboratory | 1 |
| InterBus Shuttle | 1 |
| Ragnarok | 1 |
| Taipan | 1 |
| Wyvern | 1 |
There were no Alliance Tournament ships among the single kills, though there were two Laelaps kills in November, so some AT ships died.
From that list however, there isn’t a lot truly special. I mean, the Civilian Amarr Shuttle is a bit interesting, and the Echelon, a one time give-away ship back in 2010, is very rare… but I bet a lot of people still have one in a hangar somewhere. I know I do. And the Echo and the Taipan, both Pax East give away back in 2013, are pretty rare indeed… hrmm, an Angel Cartel and a Guristas rookie ship both dying as the Havoc expansion launches?
But nothing earth shattering on this list for November.
Total ISK Lost by Hull Type
Which ships contributed the most to November’s 49.8 trillion ISK in losses.
| Hull | Count | Sum of ISK Lost | ISK per loss | % of Nov |
| Capsule | 167,464 | 3.78 trillion | 22.58 million | 7.59% |
| Vargur | 764 | 1.66 trillion | 2176.57 million | 3.34% |
| Loki | 1,831 | 1.47 trillion | 801.30 million | 2.94% |
| Ishtar | 5,462 | 1.41 trillion | 258.32 million | 2.83% |
| Tengu | 1,445 | 1.16 trillion | 805.84 million | 2.34% |
| Paladin | 568 | 1.16 trillion | 2036.23 million | 2.32% |
| Epithal | 2,735 | .97 trillion | 355.79 million | 1.95% |
| Golem | 448 | .95 trillion | 2111.57 million | 1.90% |
| Badger | 6,885 | .93 trillion | 135.22 million | 1.87% |
| Tayra | 6,271 | .89 trillion | 141.25 million | 1.78% |
| Athanor | 449 | .85 trillion | 1890.63 million | 1.70% |
| Gila | 1,673 | .78 trillion | 467.68 million | 1.57% |
| Praxis | 2,875 | .77 trillion | 268.82 million | 1.55% |
| Fortizar | 66 | .69 trillion | 10436.26 million | 1.38% |
| Kronos | 318 | .61 trillion | 1920.48 million | 1.23% |
| Rhea | 49 | .55 trillion | 11240.83 million | 1.11% |
| Exequror Navy Issue | 5,310 | .52 trillion | 98.29 million | 1.05% |
| Proteus | 656 | .51 trillion | 780.09 million | 1.03% |
| Bestower | 1,458 | .46 trillion | 318.02 million | 0.93% |
| Nestor | 218 | .46 trillion | 2118.68 million | 0.93% |
Again, capsules lead the way through sheer volume, followed by popular expensive ships.
Most ISK Lost per Hull Lost
Which ships were the most expensive to lose on a per hull basis in November.
| Hull | Count | Sum of ISK Lost | ISK per loss | % of Nov |
| Leviathan | 2 | 178.34 billion | 89.17 billion | 0.36% |
| Erebus | 1 | 85.48 billion | 85.48 billion | 0.17% |
| Avatar | 2 | 160.56 billion | 80.28 billion | 0.32% |
| Ragnarok | 1 | 69.24 billion | 69.24 billion | 0.14% |
| Wyvern | 1 | 32.90 billion | 32.90 billion | 0.07% |
| Sotiyo | 5 | 161.36 billion | 32.27 billion | 0.32% |
| Nyx | 7 | 189.97 billion | 27.14 billion | 0.38% |
| Hel | 5 | 107.78 billion | 21.56 billion | 0.22% |
| Tatara | 25 | 380.52 billion | 15.22 billion | 0.76% |
| Rhea | 49 | 550.80 billion | 11.24 billion | 1.11% |
| Nomad | 9 | 98.56 billion | 10.95 billion | 0.20% |
| Ark | 17 | 177.81 billion | 10.46 billion | 0.36% |
| Fortizar | 66 | 688.79 billion | 10.44 billion | 1.38% |
| Anshar | 24 | 222.66 billion | 9.28 billion | 0.45% |
| Azbel | 42 | 334.39 billion | 7.96 billion | 0.67% |
| Bowhead | 20 | 138.36 billion | 6.92 billion | 0.28% |
| Rorqual | 43 | 265.50 billion | 6.17 billion | 0.53% |
| Fenrir | 35 | 188.75 billion | 5.39 billion | 0.38% |
| Charon | 86 | 453.53 billion | 5.27 billion | 0.91% |
| Moros | 19 | 97.67 billion | 5.14 billion | 0.20% |
Hey, surprise, titans are expensive. Not as expensive as they were back in 2014, but not cheap.
Top 20 Regions by ISK and Hull Losses
Which regions say the most destruction.
| Region | Sum of ISK lost | % of Nov | Region | Count | % of Nov |
| The Forge | 3.75 trillion | 7.52% | The Forge | 57,150 | 10.01% |
| The Citadel | 2.12 trillion | 4.26% | Placid | 30,328 | 5.31% |
| Pochven | 1.70 trillion | 3.42% | Metropolis | 23,088 | 4.04% |
| Placid | 1.62 trillion | 3.26% | The Citadel | 21,904 | 3.84% |
| Venal | 1.62 trillion | 3.25% | Venal | 20,746 | 3.63% |
| Delve | 1.54 trillion | 3.08% | Pochven | 19,396 | 3.40% |
| Metropolis | 1.47 trillion | 2.95% | Heimatar | 19,211 | 3.36% |
| Lonetrek | 1.46 trillion | 2.92% | Essence | 17,286 | 3.03% |
| Sinq Laison | 1.40 trillion | 2.81% | Sinq Laison | 16,884 | 2.96% |
| Fountain | 1.38 trillion | 2.78% | Delve | 16,879 | 2.96% |
| Vale of the Silent | 1.29 trillion | 2.60% | Lonetrek | 16,459 | 2.88% |
| Querious | 1.12 trillion | 2.24% | Vale of the Silent | 15,602 | 2.73% |
| Pure Blind | 1.11 trillion | 2.23% | Black Rise | 15,531 | 2.72% |
| Cloud Ring | 1.09 trillion | 2.19% | Cloud Ring | 15,332 | 2.69% |
| Catch | 1.03 trillion | 2.06% | The Bleak Lands | 15,233 | 2.67% |
| Deklein | 1.00 trillion | 2.01% | Querious | 13,747 | 2.41% |
| Fade | .97 trillion | 1.95% | Pure Blind | 11,956 | 2.09% |
| Heimatar | .91 trillion | 1.83% | Catch | 11,366 | 1.99% |
| Devoid | .89 trillion | 1.79% | Genesis | 10,982 | 1.92% |
| Perrigen Falls | .88 trillion | 1.76% | Perrigen Falls | 10,628 | 1.86% |
Top 20 Systems by ISK and Hull Losses
And, down at a system level.
| System | Region | Sum of ISK lost | System | Region | Count |
| Jita | The Forge | 2372.29 billion | Jita | The Forge | 28,136 |
| A-AFGR | Venal | 1175.38 billion | Uitra | The Forge | 16,664 |
| L-1SW8 | Fountain | 567.58 billion | A-AFGR | Venal | 13,678 |
| Uedama | The Citadel | 469.36 billion | Ahbazon | Genesis | 8,278 |
| Ahbazon | Genesis | 414.13 billion | Aldranette | Placid | 8,264 |
| Tama | The Citadel | 384.58 billion | Tama | The Citadel | 7,808 |
| Vlillirier | Placid | 339.09 billion | Miroitem | Sinq Laison | 5,620 |
| F4R2-Q | Catch | 337.85 billion | Kourmonen | The Bleak Lands | 5,178 |
| Haatomo | The Citadel | 320.11 billion | Floseswin | Metropolis | 4,662 |
| W-4NUU | Cloud Ring | 319.75 billion | Oicx | Placid | 4,482 |
| Miroitem | Sinq Laison | 309.60 billion | Fliet | Essence | 4,250 |
| Amamake | Heimatar | 279.51 billion | Vlillirier | Placid | 4,183 |
| 4-HWWF | Vale of the Silent | 278.41 billion | Heydieles | Essence | 4,181 |
| Sivala | The Citadel | 276.66 billion | 4-HWWF | Vale of the Silent | 4,171 |
| Oicx | Placid | 267.62 billion | Amamake | Heimatar | 3,890 |
| 1DQ1-A | Delve | 237.81 billion | Kamela | The Bleak Lands | 3,696 |
| Aldranette | Placid | 236.30 billion | Huola | The Bleak Lands | 3,685 |
| DO6H-Q | Fade | 222.53 billion | Aset | Metropolis | 3,506 |
| J141001 | D-R00021 | 220.39 billion | Auga | Heimatar | 3,190 |
| Kamokor | Lonetrek | 217.21 billion | Kamokor | Lonetrek | 3,158 |
As a follow up to last month’s question about what is going on in Uitra that so many ships, mostly shuttles, are being blow up there, I was pointed to a way you can kill shuttles for AIR Career objectives to farm skill points. And, sure enough, you can see at least one corp doing that there regularly. That answers that.
Meanwhile, I wrote up at the top of the post what was going on in L-1SW8.
New Havoc Ship Losses
The Havoc expansion brought with it four new pirate faction sub-capital ships, a destroyer and a battlecruiser for both the Guristas and the Angel Cartel. The destroyers showed up early as part of the run up to the expansion, but we’ll count them as new all the same.
The Guristas got the Mamba and the Alligator while the Angel Cartel got the Mekubal and the Khizriel, destroyers and battlecruisers respectively. So I figured I ought to see how many of those were lost in November with the launch of the Havoc expansion.
| Hull | Count | Sum of ISK lost | ISK per loss |
| Khizriel | 108 | 94.91 billion | 878.76 million |
| Alligator | 51 | 30.57 billion | 599.40 million |
| Mekubal | 56 | 9.35 billion | 166.88 million |
| Mamba | 38 | 7.81 billion | 205.56 million |
| Total | 253 | 142.63 billion |
And we can celebrate the first recorded losses of each, which were as follows:
So there we have it, my attempt to sum up destruction in EVE Online for another month. We’ll get December next and, once we have a full year of data in the same format (CCP has changed the format of the killdump.csv in the past, but 2023 is consistent) I will try to put together an annual summary of what happened in New Eden. Spoiler: Capsules will be the most destroyed hull.
The Ancient Gaming Noob 