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[Mangala]

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One thing I keep a close eye on as part of my role at CCP is the level of PVP activity within EVE. Seeing how many of you blow each other up and how often you do so is an important metric for seeing how much fun everyone is having. So, conveniently timed for MMOCrunch declaring EVE to be the Best PVP MMO of 2011, I present to you: many, many numbers regarding explosions in New Eden.

The information in this blog is limited to kills that have taken place since the new kill report system was introduced in the Trinity expansion on December 5th, 2007, up until very early in the morning of November 29th, 2011. Unless otherwise stated, we’ve also limited this to PVP, so ships lost to NPCs won’t count in the totals.

In total, 13,540,707 ships or structures were destroyed in this period in PVP, belonging to 1,075,754 characters or corporations. NPCs destroyed 7,559,088 ships belonging to 1,936,205 characters. That makes a total of 21,099,795 ships/structures blown up belonging to 2,251,177 different owners. To be fair a lot of those are rookie ships and such, but either way – that’s a lot of explosions.

From December 5th, 2007 until November 29th, 2011, 1,455 days passed. That’s 2,095,200 minutes. So, if you count everything that generated a kill report, how many things blew up per day/hour/minute on average?
14,502 per day.
604 per hour.
10 per minute (roughly one explosion every six seconds).

Where are all these explosions happening? First up, let’s take a look by security group:
     
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	PVP	PVE	Total
High Sec	1,974,022	6,317,926	8,291,948
Low Sec	4,126,911	510,683	4,637,594
Null Sec	7,061,988	568,353	7,630,341
Wormhole Space	377,786	162,126	539,912
	13,540,707	7,559,088	21,099,795

Which systems? Well, apparently low sec travel routes and Jita are quite active. I thought it would probably be of interest to show the proportion of the explosions that were probably more of a “squish” sound than a boom, because some places happen to have a rather high rate of podkilling:

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System	Explosions	% Capsules
Amamake	163,106	24.74%
Jita	160,742	28.20%
Rancer	157,429	43.98%
Tama	153,503	20.37%
HED-GP	138,101	38.05%
EC-P8R	137,094	38.15%
M-OEE8	121,044	40.34%
PF-346	106,272	39.85%
Old Man Star	87,008	14.94%
N-RAEL	78,560	41.69%

So whilst it’s been known for a while that travelling through Rancer will often result in being podkilled, it’s now official. It may be low security and therefore have no warp bubbles, but just under 44% of the losses there have been capsules. Probably best to make sure your clone is up to date before going there on a picnic.

The probably all-important question is up next; what has been getting blown up? Well, here’s the top 20 ship groups and then individual types for your enjoyment:

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Capsule	3,468,179
Frigate	1,738,142
Battlecruiser	1,299,488
Cruiser	1,011,138
Battleship	921,451
Rookie ship	805,728
Industrial	613,317
Interceptor	485,349
Destroyer	364,079
Shuttle	358,370
Stealth Bomber	334,478
Heavy Assault Ship	319,003
Assault Ship	268,630
Force Recon Ship	198,800
Covert Ops	152,634
Interdictor	143,217
Mining Barge	103,393
Combat Recon Ship	87,454
Exhumer	84,301
Command Ship	60,812

I’ll filter the rookie ships, shuttles and capsules out of the types, which gives the following top 20:

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Drake	505,263
Rifter	427,151
Hurricane	331,441
Kestrel	216,275
Raven	170,418
Caracal	167,771
Thorax	147,500
Harbinger	141,159
Thrasher	140,916
Manticore	136,193
Bestower	131,990
Myrmidon	129,330
Vexor	128,384
Dominix	126,295
Megathron	120,963
Rupture	116,389
Merlin	115,942
Punisher	108,978
Crow	105,390
Incursus	104,600

And what do NPCs manage to destroy? Well, from the looks of things, the tutorials are killing quite a few players:

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Condor	416,008
Atron	370,865
Slasher	262,312
Rifter	225,672
Kestrel	222,612
Catalyst	212,036
Drake	198,481
Thrasher	191,311
Merlin	173,076
Raven	161,661
Cormorant	159,616
Crucifier	155,691
Tristan	144,963
Executioner	113,012
Caracal	109,367
Punisher	108,685
Dominix	100,247
Coercer	99,493
Incursus	87,827
Vexor	74,613

The top 20 ships that people have been using to shoot at things (based on final blows):

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Hurricane	925,522
Drake	908,400
Vagabond	593,096
Zealot	466,449
Sabre	447,654
Harbinger	360,268
Megathron	313,688
Armageddon	256,671
Rifter	250,641
Rapier	247,652
Abaddon	241,913
Dramiel	233,302
Taranis	224,093
Cynabal	208,933
Tempest	207,350
Broadsword	206,377
Ishtar	199,092
Manticore	195,879
Crow	189,165
Raven	188,639

It would also seem that projectile weapons are extremely good at getting those much-loved final blows. Final blow weapons, top five groups:

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Projectile Weapon	4,553,113
Energy Weapon	2,039,118
Hybrid Weapon	1,794,480
Combat Drone	1,448,419
Heavy Missile	1,033,373

     
   And then by type:
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425mm AutoCannon II	897,443
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II	861,826
Heavy Pulse Laser II	603,060
Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile	579,528
200mm AutoCannon II	570,666

So, a high rate of fire seems to be of great use for scoring final blows. Not all that shocking.

Whilst writing this I was told that the idea of me writing a blog and not adding in some graphs is ludicrous, so I made some pie charts for you all to enjoy. In this, I broke down all ships by their hull size and excluded rookie ships, capsules and shuttles. "Other" includes structures, mining barges/exhumers, capitals and a couple of others which were too small a slice for it to make much sense to include.




Two more, these by tech level and faction. Tech level excludes rookie ships, capsules and shuttles, whilst race/faction includes rookie ships and shuttles. The "other" under faction is primarily structures that aren't of a particular race and pirate faction ships.





Now it’s time to put some names to all this destruction.

The top five killers (final blows), where the victim was not in a capsule, rookie ship, shuttle or tech one frigate. The brackets show the total kills and the number of unique victims:
Marovinchian (5,463 / 1,265), DiamondDog (4,455 / 4,259), Loren Gallen (4,383 / 3,555), kerjin (4,373 / 2,994), Hera Darkthorn (4,055 / 3,531).

The same again, but for player corporations rather than individual characters:
Sniggerdly(43,712 / 32,037), Genos Occidere(43,154 / 30855), GoonWaffe (39,943 / 25,922),  Fremen Sietch (39,405 / 27,820), North Eastern Swat (32,704 / 24,330).

And for alliances (total/unique victims):
Against ALL Authorities (115,425 / 56,169), Pandemic Legion (91,301 / 49,606), Morsus Mihi (85,062 / 38,735), Red Alliance (69,726 / 34,727), RAZOR Alliance (58,754 / 28,887).

The top five killers of capsules (again, final blows) and the number of unique victims:
ANGRY23 (4,448 / 4,198), DiamondDog (4,302 / 4,145), Xavier Theakstone (3,786 / 3,612), Lithia Tsanov (3,283 / 3,084), Mist3r Evil (3,280 / 3,171).

And the capsule stats but for corporations: the united (38,756 / 33,778), GoonWaffe (24,313 / 18,844), Sniggerdly (21,786 / 18,918), Fremen Sietch ( 15,453 / 13,369), Interstellar eXodus (14,574 / 12,276).

I’ll try to be fairly active in the comments thread and answer what I can. If there are a significant number of requests for more information, I'll probably do another blog.

Hope you enjoyed the numbers!

CCP Diagoras

[Mangala]

Apparently this guy, really likes loosing ships (he tries to pvp, yet never seems to learn from his losses). Points for tenacity:

http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=7099

Rote Kapelle love him!!

Nope. He was our favorite punching bag for a while, even got him on TS ranting once. TBH I don't think he's actually mentally well, sounds like he might have had a stroke or a tumor or something, but he keeps on keepin' on.

Edit: Damn Smuggs you fast. I think the recording is public and it might have even been linked somewhere else, lemme see if I can search-fu it.
Edit the Second: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4041300/Soundboard/STOKAR.swf It's just a soundboard, but you can sort of get a sense of what you're dealing with.
Edit the Third: I've been cleared to link the original recording, if you want some insight into the mind of the kind of player that loses shitfits constantly.

[Mangala]

And RVB are doing well during 2011:

Top 10: 2011 so far, kills in high sec, excluding capsules, shuttles and rookie ships.
Blue Republic 28,406
Red Federation 23,603
Interstellar Brotherhood of Gravediggers 7,775
Suddenly Ninjas 3,638
Nova Ardour 2,699
Privateers 2,521
Concentrated Evil 2,118
Gank Bangers 1,994
The PriestHood 1,921
Guy Fawkes Trust Fund 1,789

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