The October 2025 EVE Online Monthly Economic Report

The October 2025 Monthly Economic Report for EVE Online has arrived, nicely landing in the first full week of the month.  That is what we like.

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As always, others write and comment about the MER, so if you want different views or the raw data, you can start with this list.

• CCP – October 2025 Monthly Economic Report
• CCP – October 2025 MER Forum Thread
• Reddit – October 2025 MER Thread
• TNG – <nothing yet>

CCP highlights

• There has been a significant increase in commodities faucets due to the Crimson Harvest event.
• MPI continues to fall.

I mean… sure… that is what Crimson Harvest and the Winter Nexus do, flood the economy with commodities that can be turned in for ISK.  So you can see in the sinks and faucets chart commodities booming past bounties.

Oct 2025 – Top Sinks and Faucets

And lest you think that this is just some wormholer finally emerging into k space to sell their accumulated blue loot, the commodity breakdown shows that is not the case.

Oct 2025 – Top Commodities

Miscellaneous for the win.  You can see, on both charts, the spikes that come with each Crimson Harvest and Winter Nexus, the former being miscellaneous, the latter being Overseer’s Personal Effects… because Sansha Clause or something.  Wait, is “Sansha Clause” the reason CCP chose incursion rewards for Winter Nexus?

And, yes, the MPI continues down, even at is stays in the all time high end of things.

Oct 2025 – Economic Indices

Meanwhile, the plan to bring down to price of PLEX continues to succeed as the price point headed down closer to the 5 million ISK mark.

Oct 2025 – PLEX Price Slope

The price drop has started to taper off, so it seems likely that it will hover above the 5 million mark for now, barring some big change.  There is a point to have PLEX be worth more as it does encourage people to buy it to gain ISK in game.  The problem may have been more softness in that market as much as the ISK speculators… some of whom are probably not happy now.

Destruction

On the destruction front, things were up compared to September by all measures.  September had the second lowest losses per day, behind only July, and the lowest ISK losses for 2025, both by total and by ISK losses per day.  October turned that around and established itself… as merely in the bottom half of months so far this year.  Still, at least that is pointed in the right direction.

• Loss Count Total
  • Jan – 514,511 total losses
  • Feb – 427,027 total losses
  • Mar – 538,625 total losses
  • Apr – 464,177 total losses
  • May – 530,632 total losses
  • Jun – 476,877 total losses
  • Jul – 427,662 total losses
  • Aug – 442,795 total losses
  • Sep – 420,017 total losses
  • Oct – 460,583 total losses
• Avg Losses per Day
  • Jan – 16,597.13 losses per day
  • Feb – 15,250.96 losses per day
  • Mar – 17,375.00 losses per day
  • Apr – 15,472.57 losses per day
  • May – 17,117.16 losses per day
  • Jun – 15,895.90 losses per day
  • Jul – 13,795.55 losses per day
  • Aug – 14,283.71 losses per day
  • Sep – 14,000.57 losses per day
  • Oct – 14,857.52 losses per day
• Total ISK Value Lost
  • Jan– 46.86 trillion ISK
  • Feb – 44.55 trillion ISK
  • Mar – 50.78 trillion ISK
  • Apr – 47.77 trillion ISK
  • May – 52.10 trillion ISK
  • Jun – 51.39 trillion ISK
  • Jul – 45.80 trillion ISK
  • Aug – 46.39 trillion ISK
  • Sep – 40.94 trillion ISK
  • Oct – 48.20 trillion ISK
• Total ISK Value Lost per Day
  • Jan – 1,511.77 billion ISK per day
  • Feb – 1,590.99 billion ISK per day
  • Mar – 1,638.07 billion ISK per day
  • Apr – 1,592.22 billion ISK per day
  • May – 1,680.63 billion ISK per day
  • Jun – 1,713.09 billion ISK per day
  • Jul – 1,477.51 billion ISK per day
  • Aug – 1,496.51 billion ISK per day
  • Sep – 1364.76 billion ISK per day
  • Oct – 1554.73 billion ISK per day

The question is, as always, where did this destruction occur?  So it is time to break out the region and system tables.

Region	Sum of ISK lost	% of Oct	Region	Count	% of Oct
Metropolis	4.04 trillion	8.38%	Metropolis	35,198	7.64%
Pochven	2.89 trillion	5.99%	Pochven	29,464	6.40%
The Forge	2.57 trillion	5.33%	Etherium Reach	23,591	5.12%
Vale of the Silent	1.70 trillion	3.53%	Placid	20,384	4.43%
Etherium Reach	1.69 trillion	3.51%	Heimatar	18,979	4.12%
Querious	1.67 trillion	3.46%	The Forge	17,431	3.78%
Insmother	1.59 trillion	3.30%	Delve	17,093	3.71%
Heimatar	1.38 trillion	2.86%	Insmother	16,797	3.65%
Sinq Laison	1.37 trillion	2.84%	The Citadel	14,018	3.04%
The Citadel	1.32 trillion	2.74%	Vale of the Silent	13,581	2.95%

In a bit of a surprise turn, Pochven was knocked off the top spot and replaced by Metroipolis, a region of most high sec systems, but which has a corner of the low sec faction warfare space that Amarr and Minmatar forces fight over.

When you see that it is often a sign that there has been a big battle somewhere in the region.  But when we drill down to the top ten systems for ISK and overall coutn, Metropolis doesn’t make the list.

System	Region	Sum of ISK Lost	% of Oct	System	Region	Count	% of Oct
Jita	The Forge	1209.71 billion	2.51%	Ala	Pochven	12,364	2.68%
Ahbazon	Genesis	874.13 billion	1.81%	Ahbazon	Genesis	10,849	2.36%
GOP-GE	Querious	579.10 billion	1.20%	Jita	The Forge	8,023	1.74%
C-J6MT	Insmother	541.06 billion	1.12%	C-J6MT	Insmother	6,546	1.42%
T8T-RA	Querious	506.52 billion	1.05%	G-QTSD	Etherium Reach	6,509	1.41%
Dal	Heimatar	473.96 billion	0.98%	Tama	The Citadel	5,415	1.18%
4-HWWF	Vale of the Silent	451.98 billion	0.94%	Amamake	Heimatar	5,181	1.12%
G-QTSD	Etherium Reach	417.92 billion	0.87%	Dal	Heimatar	3,501	0.76%
Angymonne	Pochven	417.47 billion	0.87%	Heydieles	Essence	3,313	0.72%
2E0P-2	UUA-F4	359.85 billion	0.75%	Kaunokka	Pochven	3,174	0.69%

Instead, there is Jita at the top, where we generally expect to find it, then Ahbazon, one of the usual suspect systems that almost always makes this list.  But the highest Metropolis system in the rankings was Gukarla, which was in 12th spot with 314.78 billion ISK lost, and when it came to loss count it was down at 97th place with just 826 losses.

So something expensive happened there.  There were also a number of other Metropolis systems in the top 30.  So action there was spread out.

That led me to the usual break down by day so I could plot battles on the daily losses chart to see when things happened.

Oct 2025 – Losses per Day

I was able to spot some clear battle events, but Gukarla was the only one in Metropolis that made the top of the list even by day.  It looks like faction warfare between Amarr and Minmatar was just running hot in October, burning down 4 trillion ISK in destruction.

Otherwise, outside of the noted battles, the usual cycle of weekend peaks seemed to persist, though the losses on the 19th were related to something going down, likely a structure kill, in the Ala system in Pochven, where about 5K shuttles were destroyed.  That helped propel it to the top of the loss count side of the chart above.

That wraps up October.  Looking forward, the November MER should be interesting.  Not only do we have the Catalyst expansion showing up to skew numbers, but there was also the whole fiasco with PanFam in the Drone Regions.

A Preview of November Numbers

Among other things, such as a Keepstar exploding, that whole escapade led to this 254 billion shuttle kill in The Forge.  Shuttles will be on the menu like they haven’t been since they nerfed Uitra.  But we’ll have to wait until December to see how that plays out in the numbers.