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 (http://"http://www.mmocrunch.com/2011/12/01/mmocrunchs-2011-mmo-awards/"), 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
Low Sec
Null Sec
Wormhole Space
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
Jita
Rancer
Tama
HED-GP
EC-P8R
M-OEE8
PF-346
Old Man Star
N-RAEL
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
Frigate
Battlecruiser
Cruiser
Battleship
Rookie ship
Industrial
Interceptor
Destroyer
Shuttle
Stealth Bomber
Heavy Assault Ship
Assault Ship
Force Recon Ship
Covert Ops
Interdictor
Mining Barge
Combat Recon Ship
Exhumer
Command Ship
I’ll filter the rookie ships, shuttles and capsules out of the types, which gives the following top 20:
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Drake
Rifter
Hurricane
Kestrel
Raven
Caracal
Thorax
Harbinger
Thrasher
Manticore
Bestower
Myrmidon
Vexor
Dominix
Megathron
Rupture
Merlin
Punisher
Crow
Incursus
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
Atron
Slasher
Rifter
Kestrel
Catalyst
Drake
Thrasher
Merlin
Raven
Cormorant
Crucifier
Tristan
Executioner
Caracal
Punisher
Dominix
Coercer
Incursus
Vexor
The top 20 ships that people have been using to shoot at things (based on final blows):
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Hurricane
Drake
Vagabond
Zealot
Sabre
Harbinger
Megathron
Armageddon
Rifter
Rapier
Abaddon
Dramiel
Taranis
Cynabal
Tempest
Broadsword
Ishtar
Manticore
Crow
Raven
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
Energy Weapon
Hybrid Weapon
Combat Drone
Heavy Missile
And then by type:
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425mm AutoCannon II
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II
Heavy Pulse Laser II
Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
200mm AutoCannon II
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.
(http://content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2971/3235/hulls.png)
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.
(http://content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2971/3235/techlevel.png)
(http://content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2971/3235/race.png)
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
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 (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 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4041300/Soundboard/Stokar%20%28copied%20from%20Alexander%29.mp3), if you want some insight into the mind of the kind of player that loses shitfits constantly.
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