Comments on: Eve Online Economic Report (#1)

By: Amelia Neblett

Amelia Neblett — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:11:12 +0000

Amazing! Photograph browsing search engines all day for this and i as a final point think it is listed here!

By: Janek

Janek — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:15:57 +0000

For those that are interested, the next economics devblog is up: http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=505

(Although of course you can only read that with an active account I think. Still, graphs.)

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:18:36 +0000

I loved eve. I played it for a year when it was released…. but alas I almost lost my real life due to the fact that I could do nothing but play eve with every spare second I had.

I split with my girlfriend and so was without internet for 2 weeks, resulting in some cold turkey eve style. Probably for the best.

I can’t touch MMORPGs anymore for fear that they will be as good as eve. Only if I win the lottery and have an insane amount of time on my hands, will I ever venture back down that road.

But I really do miss eve, I miss my corp and I miss the insane strip mining sessions, I miss the space battles…..

I don’t miss my RL friends taking the piss out of me for not coming out because of a “corp mining session”, and destroying my cruiser by sccidently settting a smart bomb off next to a station.

By: josh g.

josh g. — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:44:10 +0000

Eve *does* let you visualize recent podkills on the galactic map, though. Not a graph, but still a nice violence-related data visualization.

By: Janek

Janek — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:32:30 +0000

I’m looking forward to the analysis of the tech 2 market: such high-demand low-supply items lead to a wonderfully volatile market, particularly when planned changes are announced. It was fascinating watching, say, the Sacrilege’s price spike ahead of the recent Rev 2.2 patch, and slowly stabilise again.

By: David

David — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:25:11 +0000

That’s why I blow other people up for money. Not the most relaxing way to play the game, but the regular adrenaline spike keeps me paying my subscription charge!

By: John P

John P — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:56:51 +0000

I loved eve when I played it, but I never got very far. I think the reason i’m awful at maths was part of it. Mining with a mate in a 0.7 sec is soooo relaxing though. Can’t really justify the monthly fee just for that tho

By: arqueturus

arqueturus — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:25:03 +0000

These are active accounts only, not including 2 week trial accounts but what Jim says is right, most veteran players have 2+ accounts. This is due to the fact you can buy game time cards for ingame currency, so if you’re rich, you can play for free.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:19:57 +0000

It’s quite possible the fact that most hardcore Eve players have more than one account. The actual number of players is probably 60% of the number of accounts.

By: Andrew Farrell

Andrew Farrell — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:07:06 +0000

Has the number of inhabitants really doubled in the last year? For god’s sake, why? Or is this like Blizzard’s “everyone who has every had an account” figure?

By: Del Boy

Del Boy — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:55:16 +0000

I *think* I’ve spotted a trend there.