One last weekly update. There is rarely a clean transition from war to peace. The Imperium will be clearing out left behind PAPI structures for a while still. But the pace of things has wound down significantly over the past week.
PAPI forces are all returning to their respective homelands. Brave is clashing with Psychotic Tendencies in Geminate, and I can only wish them the best in that fight. And they have their first ihub in NBPH-N in the region.
TEST though seems to be struggling to get to its new home in Outer Passage. They do not appear to hold any ihubs there yet. The word is that they have made it at least as far as A24L-V in Insmother on their route home, but that fuel constraints are hitting hard.
TEST has also dropped out of the Alliance Tournament. I hadn’t heard why… probably ISK… but when they were pulled by CCP in the Alliance Tournament Feeder draw stream (you can see that at the 30 minute mark when they draw for spot 17), CCP Aurora said that TEST had asked to be left out. They are still listed in slot 17 (see brackets here), but I guess they have decided to forfeit.
Progodlegend got up at another TEST town hall to motivate the troops during their retreat. He once again tried to sum up the war favorably, declaring that 4,500 Goons just sat in 1DQ for 13 months. I guess the battles in NPC Delve and M2-XFE, and the Guinness Book world records that went with them, were all just some sort of collective Goon fever dream.
You tell yourself whatever story you need to in order to get to your objective I guess.
And the rest of the former Legacy coalition is scattered about, settling into new homes or looking for a couch to crash on.
The overall PAPI coalition looks to be breaking up. Pandemic Horde reset a large number of other null sec alliances, while the PAPI Assemble Discord server looked to have been taken down.
No more honking
Without PAPI there is no blue donut to fight for now.
One Year Ago
Niarja fell to the Triglavians, and the WWB participants were involved.
CCP added metaliminal storms to null sec so we could have space weather to worry about.
We fought over the O-PNSN Keepstar and lost, but at the fight over the KVN-36 Keepstar it was a server crash that saved the day for the Imperium.
In my week seven summary I looked at what coverage the war was getting, our losses, and Legacy getting pushed back in Querious.
Imperium Space Cleanup
In the Imperium regions of Delve, Fountain, Querious, and Period Basis all of the ihubs have been retaken and we’re in the count down to when GSOL can start installing Ansiblex jump gates again to facilitate movement around our space again. Right now, if you don’t have a bridger and a cyno handy, moving around means taking a lot of gates.
TCUs, or territorial control units, are getting cleared out as well. Those are less critical as their primary function these days is to act as a flag on the map for a given system. They are a legacy of Dominion sov. If you go to the null sec influence map for yesterday you will see that Delve TCUs have been retaken, but that TEST and Warped Intentions still have some down in Period Basis. Those will be taken care of soon enough, but the ihubs are what matter.
Delve is Goons, Anime is Cartoons
And now it is the rebuilding time. Structures are being put down again. ADMs need to be raised in some systems to support infrastructure hub upgrades. A new standing fleet for home defense has been arranged. A list of supplies went out that the coalition will need to help rebuild. I got my Planetary Industry stuff rolling again to help fulfill a few items on the long list of needs.
There is a lot of work still to be done, but plans are rolling out to focus our efforts in building a new Delve.
My Participation
I went out on a few ops this past week. The pace of operations definitely started to taper down as the week went along. The almost constant tempo of pings showing up for structure shoots fell off noticably. Still, I got in on a few of them.
An Astrahus blowing up
We also got to run out and blow up a Hel supercarrier, which was a fun distraction.
Hel tackled in Catch
I did lose one ship this week, a Purifier to a gate camp. It was a dumb, avoidable loss where I immediately said, “Why did I do that?” But I am not going to count it as a war loss because the group that got me, Pax Sex and his gang, are neutrals that used to hunt in Delve in peacetime. Losing ships to them is a normal thing now and then. So my total losses for the war are:
- Ares interceptor – 18
- Malediction interceptor – 7
- Drake battle cruiser – 7
- Atron entosis frigate – 7
- Cormorant destroyer – 5
- Purifier stealth bomber – 5
- Crusader interceptor – 5
- Rokh battleship – 5
- Scimitar T2 logi – 5
- Ferox battle cruiser – 4
- Jackdaw destroyer – 4
- Scalpel T2 logi frigate – 3
- Guardian T2 logi – 2
- Sabre interdictor – 1
- Eagle heavy assault cruiser – 1
- Scythe T1 logi – 1
- Raven battleship – 1
- Crucifier ECM frigate – 1
- Gnosis battlecruiser – 1
- Bifrost command destroyer – 1
- Hurricane battle cruiser – 1
- Sigil entosis industrial – 1
- Mobile Small Warp Disruptor I – 1
That is 86 ships and a deployable. I am surprised I didn’t lose more really.
Other Items
CCP release the Monthly Economic Report for July, which I covered a bit. It generally showed that July was kind of a slow month.
We also got a quick, three day login campaign for some skill points. CCP hands those out like candy these days.
And CCP did the draw for the Alliance Tournament brackets. The feeder round starts on September 4th.
The Final PCU Report
With each of the weekly updates I have reported the peak concurrent user count for that week, mostly as a record to see if those numbers tracked along with the intensity of the war. There are a lot of other factors that play into online numbers, but they did seem to generally follow the war. CCP reported that at one point during the second M2-XFE Keepstar battle more than one third of accounts logged into the game were in that system, T5ZI-S, or 1DQ1-A.
Anyway, I made a little chart out of the data with some annotations.
Over the timeline of the war
Over the 60 data points… I counted day one of the war as the “zeroth week,” which means that the numbers at the bottom of the chart are offset by +1… the following states can be derived:
- Average weekly PCU – 33,893
- Maximum weekly PCU – 40,359 (Week 15)
- Minimum weekly PCU – 24,262 (Week 52)
- Median weekly PCU – 35,075 (Week 9)
Weekly PCU isn’t all that accurate of an indicator. It is more of a flavor for how each week went. But it doesn’t reflect well if a whole week was busy or if we just had a busy day. You can go to EVE Offline for a more granular look at the war.
The last year chart via EVE Offline
My chart lines up somewhat with that chart, though that cuts off the start of the war, which probably drops the average a bit when compared to mine.
And, of course, the final data set listing:
- Day 1 – 38,838
- Week 1 – 37,034
- Week 2 – 34,799
- Week 3 – 34,692
- Week 4 – 35,583
- Week 5 – 35,479
- Week 6 – 34,974
- Week 7 – 38,299
- Week 8 – 35,650
- Week 9 – 35,075
- Week 10 – 35,812
- Week 11 – 35,165
- Week 12 – 36,671
- Week 13 – 35,618
- Week 14 – 39,681
- Week 15 – 40,359
- Week 16 – 36,642
- Week 17 – 37,695
- Week 18 – 36,632
- Week 19 – 35,816 (Saturday)
- Week 20 – 37,628 (Saturday)
- Week 21 – 34,888
- Week 22 – 33,264
- Week 23 – 33,149
- Week 24 – 32,807 (Saturday)
- Week 25 – 31,611
- Week 26 – 39,667 (Saturday)
- Week 27 – 34,989 (Saturday)
- Week 28 – 34,713
- Week 29 – 35,996
- Week 30 – 38,323
- Week 31 – 38,167
- Week 32 – 37,259
- Week 33 – 35,886 (Saturday)
- Week 34 – 35,626
- Week 35 – 35,379
- Week 36 – 35,085
- Week 37 – 34,394
- Week 38 – 36,319
- Week 39 – 35,597 (Saturday)
- Week 40 – 35,384 (Saturday)
- Week 41 – 33,708
- Week 42 – 33,521
- Week 43 – 33,731
- Week 44 – 33,742 (Saturday)
- Week 45 – 33,758
- Week 46 – 31,768
- Week 47 – 29,898
- Week 48 – 31,462 (Monday)
- Week 49 – 27,914
- Week 50 – 26,045
- Week 51 – 25,661
- Week 52 – 24,262
- Week 53 – 24,290
- Week 54 – 24,922
- Week 55 – 26,259 (Saturday)
- Week 56 – 27,176
- Week 57 – 29,953
- Week 58 – 29,111
- Week 59 – 29,749
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