The EVE Online monthly economic report is out for November so it is time to see if New Eden has settled down to a new “normal” now that the company seems to have finished with the “Chaos Era” and has laid off null sec nerfs for now.
The target for CCP for much of the year has been NPC bounty proliferation, so I we had best start there one more time.
November 2019 – Top Sinks and Faucets over time
NPC bounties appear to have settled at a new plateau that is a bit below where things had settled before the Chaos Era over the summer. Chaos, with the Blackout, saw a very steep drop, but that recovered once local chat returned, with the cyno changes having a fairly small impact overall. Blackout aside, the changes that CCP did between February and June appear to have had the biggest impact on NPC bounties. The overall monthly numbers for 2019 so far:
- January – 83.8 trillion
- February – 69.8 trillion
- March – 71.4 trillion
- April – 57.2 trillion
- May – 55.5 trillion
- June – 48.2 trillion
- July – 29.1 trillion
- August – 21.1 trillion
- September – 20.6 trillion
- October – 41.5 trillion
- November – 44.8 trillion
The surprise this month was which region ended up at the top of the list for NPC bounties. The top ten regions for November were:
- Outer Passage – 6.30 Trillion
- Delve – 4.86 Trillion
- Branch – 2.95 Trillion
- Deklein – 2.91 Trillion
- Cobalt Edge – 2.51 Trillion
- Esoteria – 2.40 Trillion
- Fountain – 2.04 Trillion
- Tenerifis – 1.95 Trillion
- Omist – 1.50 Trillion
- Malpais – 1.35 Trillion
Delve, last month’s top of the list, was up a bit, having done 4.7 trillion ISK in October, but Outer Passage, went from third to first, jumping from 3.7 to 6.3 trillion ISK in bounties.
Who lives in Outer Passage? Right now Circle of Hell owns most of the systems in the region, but Fraternity, evicted from the south, along with allies Blades of Grass and Lord of Worlds have moved into the south end of the region, and they have every reason to want to build up a fresh war chest now that they are being sheltered by PanFam and NCDot.
On the mining front things were more in line with the usual expectations, which is to say that Delve was at the forefront.
November 2019 – Mining value by region
The top ten region list for mining value in November was:
- Delve – 4.55 Trillion
- Esoteria – 2.43 Trillion
- Outer Passage – 2.00 Trillion
- Querious – 1.39 Trillion
- Domain – 1.14 Trillion
- The Forge – 993 Billion
- Malpais – 953 Billion
- The Kalevala Expanse – 910 Billion
- Feythabolis – 781 Billion
- Sinq Laison – 737 Billion
Compare that to the October top ten list:
- Delve – 3.7 trillion
- Esoteria – 2.2 trillion
- Querious – 1.19 trillion
- Domain – 1.19 trillion
- Fountain – 1.16
- The Forge – 1.1 trillion
- Malpais – 900 billion
- Lonetrek – 805 billion
- Cobalt Edge – 801 billion
- Metropolis – 795 billion
While Delve remained at the top, as with NPC bounties, Outer Passage again vaulted up the list, landing in third spot. There is definitely some economic binging going on there.
Meanwhile high sec remained a viable mining location. Overall, the amount of ore mined must have gone up fairly steeply, as not only are the numbers up for many regions, the price of minerals was down again for November, so the value or ore mined was less.
November 2019 – Economic Indices
While mineral prices are at a low point for recent history, the long term price indices shows that prices still remain above the all time low the New Eden economy saw back in 2010.
November 2019 – Economic Indices – Full History
The 2010 low point was related to the fact that, at the time, the drone regions in eastern null sec did not have NPC bounties. Instead, the drone NPCs there, from which the area derives its name, used to drop minerals. As such, to cash out of ratting there required hauling minerals to market in places like Jita.
As usual, you can find all the charts and the raw data available to download on the dev blog page for this MER.
Related economic posts:
- INN – Outer Passage Out Rats Delve
- The Nosy Gamer – EVE Online’s Stormy 3rd Quarter
- Evehermit – A Flat Bounce
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