The March Monthly Economic Report for EVE Online landed last week, about when we have come to expect it these days.
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 – March 2024 Monthly Economic Report
- CCP – March 2024 MER Forum Thread
- Reddit – March 2024 MER Thread
- TNG – March 2024 Activity In EVE Online
- TNG – A Look At The March 2024 Active ISK Delta
Overall Summary
With March we’re back to a 31 day month, so it is no surprise that, with two more days that February in which to make things explode, EVE Online players managed to blow up 493,867 ships, structures, and capsules, an uptick from the 446,701 that went the month before.
That comes out to 15,931 losses per day in March, an uptick over the 15,403 losses per day in February. So there were more days and capsuleers were busier to the tune of more than 500 kills on average each of those days.
Likewise, when it comes to ISK value, a total of 46.19 trillion ISK was destroyed in March, up from 40.52 trillion in February, with the average ISK loss per day in March running at 1,490 billion ISK per day, up from 1,397 billion ISK per day the previous month.
Time to drag out my average losses per day chart now that we’re three months into 2024, as there is enough data for a line to start forming.
Average losses per Day – March 2024 Edition
It looks to be very mush on track with 2021, which started off as a solid year with. We had the huge battles at M2-XFE and World War Bee was still raging. Then CCP decided to screw up the economy and make ships, especially capital ships, too expensive to lose. I bring this up for the nth time because the MER has a new chart that shows relative ship prices over time, with 2018 as the baseline amount.
Mar 2024 – Ship and Module Price Index
You can see the big bubble in ship prices, the year of disappointment as CCP leadership seemed determined to drive players from the game. As you can see, they did eventually ease up, but still, three years later, haven’t solved the mineral bottleneck (isogen) that continues to keep ship and module prices well above the baseline.
Anyway, my average kills per day chart continues to track fairly close to Jester’s chart of the last four years of average players online. His 30 day rolling average will always put his line somewhat offset from mine, but they still track.
Average Daily EVE Online Players – March 2024 Edition
Finally, for this section, the run of losses by day over the course of the month.
March 2024 – Losses per day
Nothing particularly surprising on that chart. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are the usual suspects for peaks on any month, and on no days did the pattern of ISK losses and the count of losses look particularly out of whack.
Top 20 Most Frequent Losses by Class and Hull
Once more, what ship classes and specific hulls were blown up the most in New Eden last month.
| Class | Count | % of Mar | Hull | Count | % of Mar |
| Capsule | 136,220 | 27.58% | Capsule | 134,557 | 27.25% |
| Frigate | 69,816 | 14.14% | Caldari Shuttle | 17,110 | 3.46% |
| Shuttle | 45,547 | 9.22% | Mobile Tractor Unit | 12,732 | 2.58% |
| Cruiser | 41,279 | 8.36% | Amarr Shuttle | 12,560 | 2.54% |
| Destroyer | 35,925 | 7.27% | Venture | 12,388 | 2.51% |
| Corvette | 17,729 | 3.59% | Gallente Shuttle | 9,158 | 1.85% |
| Combat Battlecruiser | 14,718 | 2.98% | Heron | 8,772 | 1.78% |
| Mobile Tractor Unit | 13,289 | 2.69% | Ibis | 8,570 | 1.74% |
| Interdictor | 11,619 | 2.35% | Vexor | 6,582 | 1.33% |
| Heavy Assault Cruiser | 10,172 | 2.06% | Ishtar | 6,488 | 1.31% |
| Assault Frigate | 9,319 | 1.89% | Minmatar Shuttle | 6,104 | 1.24% |
| Hauler | 8,716 | 1.76% | Algos | 5,775 | 1.17% |
| Battleship | 8,031 | 1.63% | Thrasher | 5,713 | 1.16% |
| Interceptor | 7,978 | 1.62% | Exequror Navy Issue | 5,479 | 1.11% |
| Stealth Bomber | 5,323 | 1.08% | Sabre | 5,091 | 1.03% |
| Tactical Destroyer | 4,906 | 0.99% | Catalyst | 4,556 | 0.92% |
| Strategic Cruiser | 4,698 | 0.95% | Caracal | 4,211 | 0.85% |
| Mobile Warp Disruptor | 4,358 | 0.88% | Velator | 4,084 | 0.83% |
| Covert Ops | 4,260 | 0.86% | Retribution | 3,343 | 0.68% |
| Mining Barge | 3,952 | 0.80% | Flycatcher | 3,220 | 0.65% |
Shuttles remain high on the list. I know, they are cheap and disposable, but there is more going on there which I will get to later.
Hulls Lost only Once This Month
This month, setting aside the POS modules and fighter groups, didn’t see much interesting being lost just once.
| Hull | Count |
| Avatar | 1 |
| Boobook | 1 |
| Civilian Amarr Shuttle | 1 |
| Civilian Caldari Shuttle | 1 |
| Erebus | 1 |
| Hubris | 1 |
| Leviathan | 1 |
| Loggerhead | 1 |
| Pharolux Cyno Beacon | 1 |
| Shapash | 1 |
| Violator | 1 |
| Wyvern | 1 |
The Shapash was the only AT ship lost in March, and that was only the second one destroyed in game.
Then there is the Boobook, that special edition Caldari shuttle that blocks cargo scanners, which was trying to slip something out of Jita.
The Violator is a Pax East 2013 corvette that has a boost to webs.
The rest seem about the norm. It seems like we lose one Wyvern a month.
Top 20 Total ISK Lost by Hull Type
What were the hulls that made up the ISK losses in March.
| Hull | Count | Sum of ISK lost | % of Mar | ISK per loss |
| Capsule | 134,557 | 3,683.99 billion | 7.98% | 27.38 million |
| Vargur | 835 | 2,072.11 billion | 4.49% | 2481.57 million |
| Ishtar | 6,488 | 1.820.52 billion | 3.94% | 280.60 million |
| Loki | 1,838 | 1,511.38 billion | 3.27% | 822.29 million |
| Paladin | 740 | 1,416.58 billion | 3.07% | 1914.29 million |
| Tengu | 1,532 | 1,244.37 billion | 2.69% | 812.25 million |
| Golem | 464 | 1,036.96 billion | 2.24% | 2234.83 million |
| Gila | 1,694 | 950.50 billion | 2.06% | 561.10 million |
| Praxis | 2,522 | 810.26 billion | 1.75% | 321.28 million |
| Proteus | 807 | 652.59 billion | 1.41% | 808.66 million |
| Athanor | 297 | 552.51 billion | 1.20% | 1860.30 million |
| Kronos | 269 | 537.87 billion | 1.16% | 1999.51 million |
| Nestor | 225 | 533.73 billion | 1.16% | 2372.12 million |
| Exequror Navy Issue | 5,479 | 501.36 billion | 1.09% | 91.51 million |
| Rorqual | 71 | 471.15 billion | 1.02% | 6635.93 million |
| Orca | 277 | 464.15 billion | 1.00% | 1675.64 million |
| Barghest | 195 | 450.42 billion | 0.98% | 2309.85 million |
| Occator | 576 | 428.00 billion | 0.93% | 743.06 million |
| Fortizar | 40 | 409.31 billion | 0.89% | 10232.70 million |
| Naglfar | 88 | 403.52 billion | 0.87% | 4585.47 million |
Again, lots of capsules add up. Seven of the top 20 were expensive battleships… though given how many Praxis hulls were lost, they didn’t cost as much per unit than the Vargurs that rang in at almost 2.5 billion a pop.
And so many Ishtars. Not a hugely expensive hull, but even they add up when they are the 10th most destroyed hull of the month.
Top 20 Regions by ISK and Hull Losses
The regional breakout of where destruction happened.
| Region | Sum of ISK Lost | % of Mar | Region | Count | % of Mar |
| The Citadel | 2.43 trillion | 5.26% | The Forge | 43,956 | 8.90% |
| Pochven | 2.33 trillion | 5.04% | The Citadel | 26,804 | 5.43% |
| The Forge | 2.19 trillion | 4.73% | Pochven | 23,958 | 4.85% |
| Delve | 2.10 trillion | 4.55% | Essence | 19,365 | 3.92% |
| Querious | 1.56 trillion | 3.37% | Delve | 17,040 | 3.45% |
| Catch | 1.36 trillion | 2.95% | Lonetrek | 16,783 | 3.40% |
| Vale of the Silent | 1.28 trillion | 2.77% | Genesis | 15,743 | 3.19% |
| Genesis | 1.17 trillion | 2.54% | Catch | 15,285 | 3.09% |
| Lonetrek | 1.15 trillion | 2.50% | Vale of the Silent | 14,853 | 3.01% |
| Sinq Laison | 1.07 trillion | 2.31% | The Bleak Lands | 14,604 | 2.96% |
| E-R00024 | 1.06 trillion | 2.29% | Querious | 14,179 | 2.87% |
| E-R00025 | 1.03 trillion | 2.23% | Curse | 12,876 | 2.61% |
| Perrigen Falls | 1.02 trillion | 2.22% | Metropolis | 12,516 | 2.53% |
| Devoid | .99 trillion | 2.15% | Perrigen Falls | 12,475 | 2.53% |
| Essence | .97 trillion | 2.09% | Black Rise | 12,262 | 2.48% |
| E-R00028 | .94 trillion | 2.04% | Heimatar | 11,627 | 2.35% |
| Metropolis | .89 trillion | 1.93% | Sinq Laison | 11,095 | 2.25% |
| Fountain | .81 trillion | 1.76% | Placid | 10,003 | 2.03% |
| Curse | .77 trillion | 1.67% | Fountain | 7,684 | 1.56% |
The Citadel and Pochven topped the ISK list, while The Forge ran away with the total hull count, though that was padded by some of the usual suspects that I’ll get to below.
Top 20 Systems by ISK and Hull Losses
Which solar systems saw the most losses.
| System | Region | Sum of ISK Lost | % of Mar | System | Region | Count | % of Mar |
| Jita | The Forge | 815.18 billion | 1.76% | Uitra | The Forge | 22,149 | 4.48% |
| Ahbazon | Genesis | 812.95 billion | 1.76% | Jita | The Forge | 12,667 | 2.56% |
| Tama | The Citadel | 643.74 billion | 1.39% | Ahbazon | Genesis | 12,309 | 2.49% |
| Uedama | The Citadel | 415.44 billion | 0.90% | Tama | The Citadel | 8,643 | 1.75% |
| Perimeter | The Forge | 402.85 billion | 0.87% | Heydieles | Essence | 6,584 | 1.33% |
| 1DQ1-A | Delve | 369.92 billion | 0.80% | MJ-5F9 | Perrigen Falls | 4,470 | 0.91% |
| J152820 | E-R00024 | 340.28 billion | 0.74% | Vard | Heimatar | 4,177 | 0.85% |
| DW-N2S | Immensea | 334.42 billion | 0.72% | Kourmonen | The Bleak Lands | 3,926 | 0.79% |
| MJ-5F9 | Perrigen Falls | 318.41 billion | 0.69% | 4-HWWF | Vale of the Silent | 3,536 | 0.72% |
| G-0Q86 | Curse | 241.73 billion | 0.52% | Kamela | The Bleak Lands | 3,485 | 0.71% |
| Sivala | The Citadel | 238.99 billion | 0.52% | G-0Q86 | Curse | 3,484 | 0.71% |
| Heydieles | Essence | 229.29 billion | 0.50% | Abune | Essence | 3,446 | 0.70% |
| 4-HWWF | Vale of the Silent | 224.62 billion | 0.49% | Nagamanen | The Citadel | 3,413 | 0.69% |
| Eredan | Devoid | 218.86 billion | 0.47% | Akiainavas | Lonetrek | 3,384 | 0.69% |
| Sakenta | Pochven | 202.24 billion | 0.44% | Fliet | Essence | 3,089 | 0.63% |
| Kourmonen | The Bleak Lands | 200.11 billion | 0.43% | Sujarento | The Citadel | 2,848 | 0.58% |
| Turnur | Metropolis | 184.17 billion | 0.40% | Perimeter | The Forge | 2,822 | 0.57% |
| Kaunokka | Pochven | 181.37 billion | 0.39% | Deven | Essence | 2,819 | 0.57% |
| K7D-II | Querious | 180.80 billion | 0.39% | Q-CAB2 | Tribute | 2,624 | 0.53% |
| F4R2-Q | Catch | 179.05 billion | 0.39% | Auga | Heimatar | 2,503 | 0.51% |
On the ISK side of the chart, Jita, Ahbazon, and Tama are not all that surprising, being places where lots of capsuleers end up, while Perimeter was boosted by its own event in March with the destruction of two TTC Sotiyos. That put it on CCP’s chart for battles… something I wish they would just break out as an actual chart and not an HTML doc you have to mouse over for data.
Perimeter and 2,155 participants
While the top null sec system was the Imperium capital of 1DQ1-A, which included the Avatar up in the “hulls lost once” section. Another lesson in “don’t accept random fleet invites.”
On the kill count side, Uitra once again tops the list, which makes me wonder, no doubt not for the last time, what is being exploited by killing thousands of shuttles every month?
Here is what was destroyed in Uitra in March 2024.
| Hull | Count | Sum of ISK Lost |
| Caldari Shuttle | 7383 | 163.13 million |
| Amarr Shuttle | 5952 | 128.14 million |
| Gallente Shuttle | 2665 | 39.41 million |
| Capsule | 2176 | 41.73 million |
| Minmatar Shuttle | 2035 | 34.49 million |
| Ibis | 1704 | 176.73 million |
| Merlin | 119 | 43.22 million |
| Venture | 26 | 27.46 million |
| Velator | 18 | 1.84 million |
| Bantam | 15 | 2.05 million |
| Badger | 8 | 8.63 million |
| Heron | 8 | 3.77 million |
| Impairor | 8 | .84 million |
| Reaper | 8 | .79 million |
| Gnosis | 5 | 321.00 million |
| Condor | 4 | 8.75 million |
| Cormorant | 3 | 7.50 million |
| Kestrel | 3 | 2.78 million |
| Corax | 2 | 4.02 million |
| Atron | 1 | .46 million |
| Catalyst | 1 | 3.90 million |
| Coercer | 1 | 9.61 million |
| Griffin | 1 | .43 million |
| Incursus | 1 | .80 million |
| Magnate | 1 | .36 million |
| Tristan | 1 | .61 million |
The ISK amount lost is almost trivial, but that is 18,035 shuttles destroyed in Uitra, more than one third of all the shuttles destroyed in New Eden in March. Again, I don’t understand what is gained, but it keeps on happening every month.
Top 20 Corporations for ISK Destroyed
Finally, just to round out the stats for the month, here are some corporation stats starting with which corporations destroyed the most value in ISK.
| Corp | Alliance | Count | Sum of ISK Destroyed |
| Vigilant Tyrannos | none | 5810 | 895.03 billion |
| Lazerhawks | L A Z E R H A W K S | 1262 | 456.77 billion |
| Outback Steakhouse of Pancakes | Deepwater Hooligans | 1759 | 406.23 billion |
| Big Willies PVP Madness | Safety. | 302 | 397.38 billion |
| KarmaFleet | Goonswarm Federation | 3105 | 313.25 billion |
| Lowlife. | Snuffed Out | 1852 | 296.65 billion |
| ChuangShi | Fraternity. | 2911 | 286.50 billion |
| No Vacancies | No Vacancies. | 1531 | 284.57 billion |
| Infinity Avenger | Snuffed Out | 2095 | 279.24 billion |
| Singularity Expedition Services | Singularity Syndicate | 1165 | 263.05 billion |
| Clipped Wingz | Safety. | 74 | 232.73 billion |
| Fuxi Legion | Fraternity. | 1764 | 231.64 billion |
| Rattini Tribe | Minmatar Fleet Alliance | 3327 | 224.84 billion |
| A Blessed Bean | Pandemic Horde | 2709 | 216.63 billion |
| Shadow Legion X | Seriously Suspicious | 1326 | 216.25 billion |
| State War Academy | none | 3820 | 210.38 billion |
| Stardust-Guardian | Fraternity. | 1520 | 205.26 billion |
| Sargos Corporation | 4Crabs Tavern | 551 | 203.76 billion |
| Little Red Riding Hole | Wolves Amongst Strangers | 627 | 200.20 billion |
| Corporation 98675758 | GoonSwarm. | 1174 | 198.28 billion |
I suppose I could have kept it to player formed corporations, but then I couldn’t do a shout out to the NPCs of Vigilant Tyrannos who help even up the books in Abyssal Deadspace, Wormholes, and Pochven. Doing Bob’s work out there team.
Sure, some of these corps make the list out of sheer size. I helped out KarmaFleet in March, not that they needed me. But for effeciency of kills you have to give a nod to Big Willies PVP Madness and Clipped Wingz who extracted the most ISK per kill. Both did so as high sec gankers. Once again, crime pays in New Eden.
Top 20 Corporations for ISK Lost
Then, on the flip side, which corps lost the most ISK to destruction in March.
| Corp | Alliance | Count | Sum of ISK Lost |
| Scan Stakan | HOLD MY PROBS | 5,828 | 454.88 billion |
| State War Academy | none | 8,785 | 399.21 billion |
| Outback Steakhouse of Pancakes | Deepwater Hooligans | 1,206 | 387.18 billion |
| KarmaFleet | Goonswarm Federation | 4,238 | 378.71 billion |
| Singularity Expedition Services | Singularity Syndicate | 440 | 275.32 billion |
| ChuangShi | Fraternity. | 3,084 | 273.72 billion |
| School of Applied Knowledge | none | 5,592 | 268.67 billion |
| Pandemic Horde Inc. | Pandemic Horde | 3,926 | 257.24 billion |
| Science and Trade Institute | none | 8,110 | 241.69 billion |
| Federal Navy Academy | none | 4,360 | 240.29 billion |
| Brave Newbies Inc. | Brave Collective | 1,962 | 209.99 billion |
| Chaos arbiter | Fraternity. | 2,962 | 207.03 billion |
| Stardust-Guardian | Fraternity. | 1,756 | 186.83 billion |
| 4S Corporation | Goonswarm Federation | 1,788 | 185.99 billion |
| Rogue Herring. | Deepwater Hooligans | 855 | 177.43 billion |
| Center for Advanced Studies | none | 3,825 | 176.54 billion |
| University of Caille | none | 2,619 | 175.66 billion |
| Blood Raiders | none | 1,305 | 170.81 billion |
| Fuxi Legion | Fraternity. | 1,119 | 169.41 billion |
| A Blessed Bean | Pandemic Horde | 1,965 | 166.74 billion |
For whatever reason, Blood Raider Strongholds count, though killing NPC ships generally does not. The strongholds also appear over on zKillboard. Is something mis-classified?
That aside, at the top of the list is Scan Stakan which, as far as I can tell, is just all in on taking every fight they can get. Their killboard is littered with losses. They get some decent kills now and then, but not enough to make the top 20 on the ISK killed side of the equation. (They were in 31st place for March, blowing up 164.77 billion ISK.) No doubt NCDot wouldn’t let them join with a red killboard, but if they’re having fun then killboards don’t matter.
So it goes, another month in New Eden.
The Ancient Gaming Noob 