EVE Online: Seven Million Missiles an Hour

2012-02-03 - By CCP Diagoras - EVE dev-blogs

After the popularity of the statistics that I’ve been posting to twitter, I decided to take a look at 2011 as a whole. Some of the numbers are pretty staggering! Many stats, broken down into categories.

Planetary Interaction

There was an average of 64,840 planetary export transactions per day, or 2,701 per hour. Of that, 26,693 were in high sec, 6,936 in low sec, 15,844 in null sec and 15,366 in wormhole space. An average of 64,627 characters exported goods from a planet each month, with the annual total being 195,449 different characters.

The top five systems in empire space for planetary interaction and the average number of export transactions per day were:

Sobaseki	448.77
Perimeter	259.68
Maurasi	193.09
Muvolailen	156.79
Elonaya	153.17

Barren class planets were unsurprisingly the most utilised. Average number of export transactions per day per planet type:

Barren	20,386.70
Gas	11,441.06
Lava	11,072.17
Storm	6,419.07
Temperate	5,267.01
Plasma	4,456.42
Ice	3,473.48
Oceanic	2,323.80

Production

A lot was built! Just under 62 billion missiles. That’s an average of 7.08 million an hour. I’m pretty certain that’s more missiles than the Persians had arrows. 13.2 million ships, too - an hourly average of 1,506.

Average production per hour by hull size and tech level:

Hull size	Tech 1		Tech 2	Tech 3		Total
Shuttle		495.31			495.31
Frigate	391.24		80.96		472.20
Cruiser	110.06		33.79	13.15		157.00
Battlecruiser		105.59	4.00			109.59
Industrial		85.47	6.79			92.25
Destroyer		59.11	6.42			65.53
Battleship		60.61	2.39			63.00
Mining Barge		29.68	12.00			41.68
Capital		5.99	0.29			6.28
Industrial Command		2.72			2.72
Total	1,345.78		146.64	13.15		1,505.57

Average production per hour by hull size and race. This excludes any ships not belonging to the four main races, hence the lower totals:

Hull size	Caldari	Minmatar	Gallente	Amarr	Total
Shuttle	143.54	93.60	144.22	113.95	495.31
Frigate	136.84	144.25	99.62	82.26	462.98
Cruiser	43.75	44.25	32.34	32.05	152.39
Battlecruiser	43.93	38.98	13.84	12.85	109.59
Industrial	19.91	16.13	25.57	14.75	76.35
Destroyer	10.30	33.38	13.67	8.19	65.53
Battleship	13.48	16.79	12.36	16.15	58.78
Capital	1.58	0.83	2.21	1.37	6.00
Total	413.34	388.21	343.81	281.56	1,426.92

Production of ships per hour by sec group:

High Sec		1,346.77
Low sec		34.39
Null sec		120.63
Wormhole Space		3.77

The top 15 ships built in 2011 and their total, excluding shuttles and frigates:

Drake		330,752
Hurricane		262,808
Thrasher		256,829
Noctis		139,330
Retriever		127,981
Catalyst		115,061
Covetor		113,702
Badger Mark II		110,761
Bestower		99,534
Caracal		97,565
Rupture		92,589
Vexor		90,300
Cormorant		81,749
Manticore		80,064
Stabber		76,372

Also, our congratulations to the mighty Dreddit corporation for producing more Rifters than anyone else in 2011! 7,829 of them to be precise.

People blowing each other up

In 2011, 5,381,636 kill reports were generated; that’s an average of 14,744 per day or one every 5.86 seconds. 65% of these kill reports were caused by damage inflicted by a player, whilst non-player controlled entities (from Serpentis to CONCORD) were responsible for the remaining 35%.

Average destruction rate in PVP of the various hull sizes:

	Daily		Hourly
Frigate		2,315	96.48
Capsule	2,291		95.47
Battlecruiser		1,207	50.28
Cruiser	1,016		42.34
Deployable Structure		529	22.05
Battleship	523		21.81
Rookie ship		448	18.65
Industrial	403		16.78
Destroyer		371	15.45
Shuttle	208		8.67
Mining Barge		159	6.64
Capital	27		1.11
Industrial Command		9	0.39

By tech level:

	Daily	Hourly
Tech 1	7,859		327.46
Tech 2		1,574	65.57
Tech 3	79		3.28

By race, excluding rookie ships and capsules:

Race		Daily	Hourly
Minmatar	2,041		85.05
Caldari		1,758	73.26
Gallente	1,172		48.85
Amarr		1,079	44.98
Other	721		30.04

Overall, 576,860 different characters lost ships to non-players in 2011, and 422,801 lost ships in PVP scenarios. 155,087 characters scored at least one final blow, too!

The Market

To finish this blog off - If there’s one big thing in EVE, it would have to be the market. In total in 2011, 348,483,735 market transactions were performed with a total combined trade value of 2,692,367,631,609,430 ISK. That’s a lot. To break that down, 2011 on average:

	Day	Hour	Minute	Second
ISK	7,376,322,278,382	307,346,761,599	5,122,446,027	85,374,100
Transactions	954,750	39,781	663	11

Here's hoping for an even more productive and explosive 2012! If stats like these interest you, don’t forget to follow my twitter account and the comments thread of this blog. I’ll try to answer as many of the questions that come up as I can.

- CCP Diagoras

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