Reviewing 2024 Destruction in EVE Online – The Year of the Fake Kill Mail

I did it last year so I am going to do it again this year.  I have concatenated the twelve monthly killdump.csv files from the Monthly Economic reports for 2024 and pulled them into PowerBI to see if I can find anything at all interesting to say about a full year of data.  The odds of being interesting are not in my favor, but when has that ever stopped me before.

As noted previously, I also wanted to compare the totals to what CCP announced in their extremely brief glance at destruction in the year end edition of The Pulse, which featured one big number.

Specifically, CCP’s end of year video announced that total ISK destruction had been 966,404,782,603,070.

That is a big number, and I’ll just shorthand that to 966 trillion ISK for ease of use.

That number is SO big as to be ridiculous when compared to what CCP has reported in the MER every month, which totals up to 521,008,792,942,469 ISK, or 521 trillion ISK to keep things manageable.

This is the same problem I noted last year, where the community team is announcing numbers that are not anchored in reality relative to what CCP tells us elsewhere.  Last year I considered that possibly the community team doesn’t know how to interpret numbers from the MER, speculating that they were adding up the “loss” and “destruction” numbers, which would be incorrect.

However, this year loss+destruction doesn’t get us anywhere close to the number announced in The Pulse, falling a good 88 trillion shy of the mark, so I have changed my theory.

I have changed my theory and now just assume that the community team doesn’t look at the MER at all… and it wouldn’t take much to convince me that CCP doesn’t look at the MER at all either.  It certainly isn’t great that they put together these number for us then ignore them otherwise. The MER could very well be just some data they dump on us monthly without ever looking at it as what it reports certainly doesn’t seem to influence any decisions they make.

Anyway, I suspect that the community team just adds up numbers from zKillboard and publishes those.

That is not necessarily a bad thing.

One of the things I have noted in the past is that CCP is not very good at estimating the value of ships and in their “all embedded in HTML so I cannot extract any useful data from it” monthly battles summary they report both the CCP estimated value of the destruction as well as the zKillboard value, which is inevitably much higher.

What that means is what the community team says is completely detached from what CCP reports in the MER… and I also think they don’t even look at the MER, but that is just my bias at this point.

And with that you might well ask if I should just stop right here and cease this fruitless monthly and annual reporting on destruction in New Eden if my numbers aren’t… real?  Is “real” the word I am looking for to describe pretend numbers in a pretend location in a video game?

Anyway, I am invested already, so I won’t stop.  Not yet anyway.  As I repeated often during the SuperData chart era, even incorrect data has value if collected in a consistent way.  Absolute values may be incorrect, but valid trends will still be visible.  And the actual count of losses is likely to be more accurate, it is just ISK that CCP is bad at.  For all its merits, zKillboard can’t grab every loss mail.  So off we go, fingers in ears, loudly going, “Lalalalalala I can’t hear you!” as you raise your objections about the data I am about to present.

Overall Summary – Was 2024 a Good Year for New Eden?

At first glance 2024 certainly looks like it was a good year for losses, considering that there wasn’t any sort of major war in null sec.  But we’ll get to regions and locations for losses.  The total values for 2024 were:

• 2024 Total Losses: 5,886,112
• 2024 Total Value: 521.01 trillion ISK
• Avg Losses per month: 490,509
• Avg Value Lost per month: 43.42 trillion ISK

The previous benchmark year was 2020, when the pandemic got us all to stay home and have a really big war in null sec where everybody piled on Goons and we had Guinness Book world record setting battles and lost trillions of ISK over somewhat minor objectives.  What did 2020 look like and how did it square up to 2024?

• 2020 Total Losses 5,674,137 (2024 had 211,975 more losses)
• 2020 Total Value 459.45 trillion ISK (2024 had 61.56 trillion ISK more in losses)
• Avg Losses per month 472,845
• Avg Value Lost per month 38.29 trillion ISK

By the numbers, 2024 looks like it eclipsed the activity of 2020, without even a major null sec war.  How can that be?  Is low sec just that hot still with the Havoc expansion?

Well, the difference in total losses is inflated by the now rampant AIR Career Program skill point farming.  As we’ll get to later, there were almost 400K losses in Uitra, including almost 300K shuttle losses, all due to farming skill points.  That wasn’t happening on such a grand scale until 2022 or so.

Meanwhile, the ISK lost… that is mostly due to long term effects of CCP’s ill considered scarcity plan which made everything more expensive.  The game hasn’t recovered from that still and CCP continues to stand by its mineral bottlenecks in a “one step forward, two steps back” approach to maintaining scarcity.

So you can see more than a 5 trillion gap in the average losses per month… and there is an underlying average price per loss of 82.29 million ISK in 2020 versus 88.54 million ISK per loss in 2024… is suppressed by the fact that a huge number of the losses are shuttles blow up for AIR Career Program goals.

If you remove Uitra from the totals… you don’t even have to get to the other systems where people are doing this… 2020 remains the benchmark for activity.  2024 was the year of the AIR Career Program and the ongoing CCP ruination of the economy.

Congratulations all around!

And you should keep this in mind when you look at things like Jester’s charts, where logins are also no doubt being inflated somewhat by people sitting in Uitra working on skill point farming.  I mean sure, they are logged into and playing the game, but if people are drawn to what is arguably an exploit, is that a good thing?  You make the call!

Anyway, just to round this out, the data for the intervening years starting with 2023:

• 2023 Total Losses: 5,212,934 (2024 had 673,178 more losses)
• 2023 Total Value: 478.99 trillion ISK (2024 had 159.51 trillion ISK more in losses)
• Avg Losses per month: 434,411
• Avg Value Lost per month: 39.92 trillion ISK

2022:

• 2022 Total Losses: 4,497,590 (2024 had 1,388,522 more losses)
• 2022 Total Value: 361.49 trillion ISK (2024 had 159.51 trillion trillion ISK more in losses)
• Avg Losses per month: 374,799
• Avg Value Lost per month: 30.12 trillion

2021:

• 2021 Total Losses: 4,899,115 (2024 had 986,997 more losses)
• 2021 Total Value: 408.49 trillion ISK (2024 had 112.52 trillion ISK more in losses)
• Avg Losses per month 408,260
• Avg Value Lost per month 34.04 trillion

In the end, we’re better off than the 2022 and the Year of Disappointment, but 2020 remains a high point for the game… and apparently a period that CCP has decided was a bad for New Eden and which it has actively preventing from occurring again.

Top 20 Most Frequent Losses by Class and Hull

The usual suspects that I pull in every month. Capsules dominate the count because everybody has one and a lot of them get destroyed.

Class	Count	% of 2024	Hull	Count	% of 2024
Capsule	1,482,459	25.19%	Capsule	1,465,773	24.90%
Shuttle	767,041	13.03%	Caldari Shuttle	309,962	5.27%
Frigate	726,816	12.35%	Amarr Shuttle	195,044	3.31%
Cruiser	495,836	8.42%	Ibis	163,508	2.78%
Destroyer	407,152	6.92%	Mobile Tractor Unit	147,431	2.50%
Corvette	309,835	5.26%	Gallente Shuttle	144,490	2.45%
Combat Battlecruiser	185,715	3.16%	Venture	129,035	2.19%
Mobile Tractor Unit	154,173	2.62%	Minmatar Shuttle	107,329	1.82%
Interdictor	121,773	2.07%	Vexor	83,798	1.42%
Heavy Assault Cruiser	107,835	1.83%	Heron	79,244	1.35%
Hauler	107,761	1.83%	Ishtar	70,603	1.20%
Assault Frigate	96,610	1.64%	Catalyst	67,114	1.14%
Interceptor	94,392	1.60%	Algos	65,196	1.11%
Battleship	94,164	1.60%	Exequror Navy Issue	64,425	1.09%
Stealth Bomber	52,982	0.90%	Reaper	63,687	1.08%
Mobile Warp Disruptor	52,780	0.90%	Thrasher	55,866	0.95%
Strategic Cruiser	52,045	0.88%	Sabre	54,283	0.92%
Tactical Destroyer	49,336	0.84%	Velator	47,717	0.81%
Covert Ops	47,749	0.81%	Caracal	44,428	0.75%
Mining Barge	47,473	0.81%	Gnosis	37,112	0.63%

I guess is capsules make up 25% of losses, the chance of you being podded… or self destructing… is about 50-50?  You get away about half the time.  Or maybe people don’t care about pods.  I tend to try and save even an empty pod unless I need to get back into a fight just to deny the enemy a kill mail.  But I am like that.

Meanwhile, 1 in 8 losses in New Eden are shuttles… even with capsules in the calculation of the whole.  If we remove capsules that brings the loss total down to 4,403,653 and the percentage of the remainder is about 17.5% of losses, which is a little more than 1 in 6 losses in New Eden.

Again, this is the corruption of the data by the AIR Career Program… and I do not doubt I will feel the need to bring that up again a few more times as we progress through the data.

Hulls Recorded as Lost only Once in 2024

For the monthly data I usually filter out the POS structures and fighter groups.  But given 12 months of data, why not see what only got blown up once in 2024 according to CCP?

Hull	Count
Advanced Small Ship Assembly Array	1
Angel Large AutoCannon Battery	1
Biochemical Silo	1
Caedes	1
Caiman	1
Civilian Gallente Shuttle	1
Cobra	1
Cynosural System Jammer	1
Dark Blood Control Tower Small	1
Federation Navy Firbolg	1
Federation Navy Siren	1
Guristas Control Tower Small	1
Guristas XL Torpedo Battery	1
Hybrid Polymer Silo	1
Jump Bridge	1
Laelaps	1
‘Prometheus’ Fortizar	1
Sansha Control Tower Small	1
Scarab II	1
Serpentis Control Tower Medium	1
Shapash	1
Sidewinder	1
Silo	1
Small Mobile ‘Rote’ Siphon Unit	1
Syndicate Mobile Large Warp Disruptor	1
System Scanning Array	1
Taipan	1
Thukker Component Assembly Array	1
Utu	1
Vanquisher	1
Vendetta	1
Whiptail	1

That is 32 hulls or structures that were blown up exactly once, about half of which are POS related or fighter groups.  The rest… well, those are some rare items, with some irreplaceable (and very undervalued by CCP’s calculations) Alliance Tournament ships along with some faction capitals.  I’ve linked out to the interesting ones over at zKillmail for your appreciation.

Top 20 Total ISK Lost by Hull Type

This is where the money went I suppose, where the ISK was burned up by explosions.

Hull	Count	Sum of ISK Lost	% of 2024	ISK Per Loss
Capsule	1,465,773	41.69 trillion	8.00%	28.44 million
Vargur	11,570	26.13 trillion	5.02%	2,258.74 million
Ishtar	70,603	18.41 trillion	3.53%	260.68 million
Loki	21,332	16.65 trillion	3.20%	780.48 million
Paladin	7,264	14.16 trillion	2.72%	1,949.39 million
Golem	5,780	12.06 trillion	2.31%	2,086.42 million
Tengu	15,313	11.96 trillion	2.29%	780.78 million
Gila	22,718	10.20 trillion	1.96%	448.79 million
Kronos	5,121	9.73 trillion	1.87%	1,900.44 million
Praxis	31,837	9.44 trillion	1.81%	296.54 million
Proteus	8,994	6.84 trillion	1.31%	759.98 million
Athanor	3,436	6.23 trillion	1.20%	1,813.00 million
Nestor	2,703	6.08 trillion	1.17%	2,249.55 million
Revelation	1,208	6.08 trillion	1.17%	5,029.66 million
Exequror Navy Issue	64,425	5.82 trillion	1.12%	90.39 million
Fortizar	414	4.85 trillion	0.93%	11,712.55 million
Orca	2,900	4.73 trillion	0.91%	1,631.41 million
Legion	6,406	4.68 trillion	0.90%	730.95 million
Occator	6,257	4.61 trillion	0.89%	737.39 million
Barghest	2,215	4.39 trillion	0.84%	1,979.91 million

Capsules, which make up 25% of the count of losses only make up 8% of the ISK lost… but that is still enough to keep them at the top of the list.

The Top 20 Hulls with the Most ISK per Hull Lost

Just to flip this around, this is the same data set as above, but sorted to show the top 20 ISK per loss hulls.  I don’t usually do this table with the monthly posts because it tends to be the usual suspects… also, it exposes where CCP’s valuation is garbage… but for an annual post we might as well get it on the record.

Hull	Count	Sum of ISK Lost	% of 2024	ISK Per Loss
Erebus	2	.18 trillion	0.03%	87.71 billion
Leviathan	4	.34 trillion	0.06%	84.04 billion
Vendetta	1	.08 trillion	0.02%	83.73 billion
Avatar	11	.86 trillion	0.17%	78.60 billion
Ragnarok	12	.88 trillion	0.17%	73.05 billion
Komodo	2	.14 trillion	0.03%	67.57 billion
Cybele	4	.19 trillion	0.04%	48.28 billion
Python	2	.09 trillion	0.02%	46.20 billion
Loggerhead	2	.07 trillion	0.01%	36.25 billion
Sotiyo	12	.43 trillion	0.08%	36.16 billion
Utu	1	.03 trillion	0.01%	31.87 billion
Wyvern	17	.54 trillion	0.10%	31.69 billion
Revenant	3	.09 trillion	0.02%	31.20 billion
Nyx	62	1.68 trillion	0.32%	27.13 billion
Vanquisher	1	.03 trillion	0.00%	25.21 billion
Hel	62	1.55 trillion	0.30%	24.99 billion
Azariel	2	.05 trillion	0.01%	24.80 billion
Aeon	8	.18 trillion	0.04%	22.96 billion
Nomad	113	1.53 trillion	0.29%	13.53 billion
Ark	200	2.43 trillion	0.47%	12.17 billion

That all the AT or faction ships I highlighted on the lost once in 2024 table are not on this list is because CCP’s only values ships based on what their hull price is on the open market.  But nobody sells AT ships on the open market.  The might do an auction on contract, but mostly these are deals… and rare deals… done directly.

Top 20 Regions by ISK and Hull Losses

Where the explosions are, generally speaking.

Region	Sum of ISK Lost	% of 2024	Region	Count	% of 2024
Pochven	32.00 trillion	6.14%	The Forge	636,474	10.81%
The Forge	23.60 trillion	4.53%	Pochven	250,907	4.26%
The Citadel	22.44 trillion	4.31%	The Citadel	219,533	3.73%
Delve	19.63 trillion	3.77%	Heimatar	217,355	3.69%
Vale of the Silent	18.80 trillion	3.61%	Lonetrek	216,147	3.67%
Querious	13.99 trillion	2.68%	Essence	211,894	3.60%
Metropolis	13.94 trillion	2.68%	Delve	189,685	3.22%
Genesis	13.73 trillion	2.63%	Vale of the Silent	187,155	3.18%
Lonetrek	13.62 trillion	2.61%	Metropolis	182,215	3.10%
Sinq Laison	13.55 trillion	2.60%	Catch	161,805	2.75%
Catch	13.42 trillion	2.58%	Black Rise	161,749	2.75%
Perrigen Falls	11.47 trillion	2.20%	The Bleak Lands	159,706	2.71%
Fountain	11.23 trillion	2.16%	Genesis	151,759	2.58%
Essence	9.58 trillion	1.84%	Placid	150,183	2.55%
Providence	9.06 trillion	1.74%	Querious	149,736	2.54%
F-R00030	8.80 trillion	1.69%	Perrigen Falls	144,617	2.46%
Placid	8.72 trillion	1.67%	Sinq Laison	140,475	2.39%
Black Rise	8.48 trillion	1.63%	Fountain	113,531	1.93%
E-R00024	8.45 trillion	1.62%	Curse	98,852	1.68%
Heimatar	7.98 trillion	1.53%	Providence	86,728	1.47%

The great ISK faucet of Pochven; there was no surprise in it coming in first place for ISK.  It is an ISK sink as well.

For the count, there was a time when I would point out that The Forge is where Jita is located and that the more players concentrate, the more losses show up.  Instead I now had to point out that The Forge is where Uitra is located as well, and it posted 3x the loss count of Jita, as the next table will show.

Top 20 Systems by ISK and Hull Losses

Here we get down to the system level.

System	Region	Sum of ISK Lost	% of 2024	System	Region	Count	% of 2024
Ahbazon	Genesis	9.40 trillion	1.80%	Uitra	The Forge	397,273	6.75%
Jita	The Forge	9.16 trillion	1.76%	Jita	The Forge	134,052	2.28%
Uedama	The Citadel	5.83 trillion	1.12%	Ahbazon	Genesis	119,328	2.03%
Tama	The Citadel	4.03 trillion	0.77%	Heydieles	Essence	65,213	1.11%
Sivala	The Citadel	3.30 trillion	0.63%	Malukker	Heimatar	63,558	1.08%
Heydieles	Essence	3.08 trillion	0.59%	Tama	The Citadel	63,549	1.08%
MJ-5F9	Perrigen Falls	2.83 trillion	0.54%	Akiainavas	Lonetrek	46,355	0.79%
4-HWWF	Vale of the Silent	2.75 trillion	0.53%	MJ-5F9	Perrigen Falls	42,724	0.73%
Sakenta	Pochven	2.72 trillion	0.52%	Kourmonen	The Bleak Lands	42,662	0.72%
1DQ1-A	Delve	2.67 trillion	0.51%	Jouvulen	Lonetrek	41,084	0.70%
Kaunokka	Pochven	2.07 trillion	0.40%	4-HWWF	Vale of the Silent	38,251	0.65%
Kourmonen	The Bleak Lands	2.05 trillion	0.39%	Kamela	The Bleak Lands	36,499	0.62%
Otela	Pochven	1.93 trillion	0.37%	Amamake	Heimatar	35,534	0.60%
Turnur	Metropolis	1.91 trillion	0.37%	Uedama	The Citadel	34,753	0.59%
Gheth	Devoid	1.86 trillion	0.36%	Fliet	Essence	34,003	0.58%
KBP7-G	Providence	1.86 trillion	0.36%	Vlillirier	Placid	27,413	0.47%
Amamake	Heimatar	1.79 trillion	0.34%	Vard	Heimatar	24,998	0.42%
Ignoitton	Sinq Laison	1.77 trillion	0.34%	Miroitem	Sinq Laison	24,287	0.41%
Angymonne	Pochven	1.72 trillion	0.33%	K7D-II	Querious	23,134	0.39%
Kinakka	Black Rise	1.68 trillion	0.32%	TDP-T3	Perrigen Falls	22,751	0.39%

I will declare that ISK losses is the real measurement for how destructive a system really is.  Ahbazon, a cross-roads low sec system astride the short route between Jita and Amarr is a hot spot for interdicting traffic.  By taking Ahbazon the route between the two trade hubs is 12 gates.  But if you want the safe route is 46 gates, causing people to decide to risk it.

Not that trade interdiction is all that happens in Ahbazon, but it is part of its fame.

Meanwhile, Uitra makes a mockery of the destruction count side of the table, where it sits in first place with three times to number as second place Jita.  But when it comes to ISK Jita is still in second place which Uitra is way down in 3,344th position.  Uitra remains the center of New Eden for staged, fake kills.

2024 and the Uitra Connection

Since I am apparently not going to let go of the whole Uitra thing quite yet, let’s just drag some more numbers out into the light of day, including what blew up in Uitra in 2024.

Hull	Count	Sum of ISK Lost
Caldari Shuttle	158,729	3,907.89 million
Ibis	79,001	7,226.35 million
Amarr Shuttle	59,812	1,410.71 million
Minmatar Shuttle	35,934	652.67 million
Gallente Shuttle	35,690	547.28 million
Capsule	20,582	2,172.15 million
Velator	4,360	405.71 million
Merlin	975	225.09 million
Reaper	588	58.13 million
Impairor	398	37.50 million
Bantam	298	35.93 million
Badger	276	245.36 million
Venture	186	110.19 million
Gnosis	147	7,664.73 million
Heron	93	112.03 million
Cormorant	42	97.02 million
Griffin	40	17.08 million
Condor	27	29.97 million
Kestrel	16	16.46 million
Sunesis	9	118.04 million
Incursus	7	6.51 million
Corax	6	9.78 million
Catalyst	5	18.90 million
Slasher	5	7.00 million
Caracal	4	45.35 million
Dramiel	4	260.41 million
Tristan	4	5.27 million
Tayra	3	9.13 million
Algos	2	8.35 million
Atron	2	2.59 million
Coercer	2	20.31 million
Cormorant Navy Issue	2	29.94 million
Dragoon	2	3.54 million
Executioner	2	.89 million
Imicus	2	4.21 million
Navitas	2	1.71 million
Orca	2	2,442.22 million
Praxis	2	551.55 million
Thrasher	2	18.07 million
Vexor	2	32.07 million
Astero	1	245.71 million
Iteron Mark V	1	63.46 million
Magnate	1	.36 million
Osprey	1	28.93 million
Probe	1	.38 million
Procurer	1	17.41 million
Retriever	1	34.80 million
Stormbringer	1	132.10 million

As one expected, there were a crazy number of shuttle explosions in Uitra, along with corvettes.

The highest total of losses are for the Gnosis hull, which has to be from people forgetting to correctly challenge a duel and getting CONCORDed.  As I described in my post about doing the AIR Career Program, it is the ideal ship for getting electronic and capacitor warfare options handled as well as shield and armor reps.  That has to be from people being sloppy.  I cannot imagine people throwing away a 40 million combat battlecruiser hull on purpose.

Just to nail down how out of wack Uitra’s shuttle loss numbers are, here are the top 20 systems for shuttle losses in 2024.

System	Region	Class	Count	% of 2024	Sum of ISK Lost
Uitra	The Forge	Shuttle	290,165	37.83%	6.52 billion
Akiainavas	Lonetrek	Shuttle	39,139	5.10%	.85 billion
Jita	The Forge	Shuttle	37,639	4.91%	195.04 billion
Jouvulen	Lonetrek	Shuttle	37,086	4.83%	1.00 billion
Malukker	Heimatar	Shuttle	26,541	3.46%	.57 billion
Trossere	Sinq Laison	Shuttle	20,043	2.61%	.40 billion
Ahbazon	Genesis	Shuttle	16,647	2.17%	132.11 billion
Iwisoda	Black Rise	Shuttle	15,671	2.04%	.29 billion
Couster	Essence	Shuttle	14,749	1.92%	.24 billion
Deepari	Domain	Shuttle	14,410	1.88%	.56 billion
Korama	Lonetrek	Shuttle	10,307	1.34%	.56 billion
Pasha	Tash-Murkon	Shuttle	9,139	1.19%	.21 billion
Dodixie	Sinq Laison	Shuttle	6,309	0.82%	12.06 billion
Kusomonmon	The Citadel	Shuttle	6,265	0.82%	.13 billion
Conoban	Kor-Azor	Shuttle	5,940	0.77%	.13 billion
Kisogo	The Forge	Shuttle	4,552	0.59%	.11 billion
Embod	Metropolis	Shuttle	4,504	0.59%	.09 billion
4-HWWF	Vale of the Silent	Shuttle	4,213	0.55%	.23 billion
Hadaugago	Heimatar	Shuttle	3,832	0.50%	.07 billion
Tama	The Citadel	Shuttle	3,564	0.46%	17.65 billion

Uitra accounts for almost 38% of the 767,041 shuttles blown up in New Eden in 2024.  You can see a few other career agent systems on the list, but Uitra is the place to go.

Finally, who is involved with the kills.  Here are the top 20 corps for shuttle kills in 2024.

Class	Killer Corp	Count	% of 2024
Shuttle	Trata de Clones	27,758	3.62%
Shuttle	State Protectorate	26,038	3.39%
Shuttle	State War Academy	25,987	3.39%
Shuttle	SPKur	19,767	2.58%
Shuttle	Science and Trade Institute	18,495	2.41%
Shuttle	Monster Raving Loonies	16,903	2.20%
Shuttle	Lowlife.	11,970	1.56%
Shuttle	School of Applied Knowledge	10,985	1.43%
Shuttle	Haakario Industries	10,308	1.34%
Shuttle	AMIRUS	9,402	1.23%
Shuttle	OldGangsta Association	9,207	1.20%
Shuttle	The-Blazing-Phoenix	8,236	1.07%
Shuttle	Red Spider Nebula	7,257	0.95%
Shuttle	The Hunter’s Nightmare	6,761	0.88%
Shuttle	Set inc	6,665	0.87%
Shuttle	Injector Collective	6,279	0.82%
Shuttle	Cristone D Monkey	5,646	0.74%
Shuttle	Deacon’s Deathloop	5,496	0.72%
Shuttle	University of Caille	5,413	0.71%
Shuttle	Claire Leanne Oult Corporation	5,398	0.70%

It is interesting that some people just stay in NPC corps to do their skill point farming while others apparently want the AIR Career Program credit for joining a corp.

Top 20 Corporations for Kills and Losses

Looking at corporation activity.

Killer Corp	Count	% of 2024	Sum of ISK Destroyed	Victim Corp	Count	% of 2024	Sum of ISK Lost
State Protectorate	75,283	1.28%	.31 trillion	State Protectorate	117,009	1.99%	.91 trillion
State War Academy	61,088	1.04%	2.87 trillion	State War Academy	111,526	1.89%	4.33 trillion
Vigilant Tyrannos	55,857	0.95%	8.54 trillion	Science and Trade Institute	77,415	1.32%	2.84 trillion
Tribal Liberation Force	37,779	0.64%	.19 trillion	School of Applied Knowledge	72,759	1.24%	2.50 trillion
KarmaFleet	37,010	0.63%	3.01 trillion	Scan Stakan	65,781	1.12%	5.69 trillion
ChuangShi	33,320	0.57%	3.76 trillion	Pandemic Horde Inc.	62,195	1.06%	4.20 trillion
Pandemic Horde Inc.	31,925	0.54%	1.84 trillion	Tribal Liberation Force	56,711	0.96%	.53 trillion
Chaos arbiter	30,790	0.52%	2.59 trillion	KarmaFleet	46,225	0.79%	4.38 trillion
Science and Trade Institute	29,840	0.51%	1.02 trillion	Chaos arbiter	44,301	0.75%	2.64 trillion
Lowlife.	29,718	0.50%	4.39 trillion	Federal Navy Academy	43,992	0.75%	2.65 trillion
A Blessed Bean	29,226	0.50%	2.14 trillion	Center for Advanced Studies	41,177	0.70%	2.19 trillion
Rattini Tribe	29,088	0.49%	2.49 trillion	ChuangShi	35,441	0.60%	3.32 trillion
SPKur	27,965	0.48%	.00 trillion	University of Caille	32,422	0.55%	1.63 trillion
Trata de Clones	27,954	0.47%	.00 trillion	Republic Military School	31,666	0.54%	1.63 trillion
Scan Stakan	25,444	0.43%	2.54 trillion	Imperial Academy	30,746	0.52%	1.46 trillion
School of Applied Knowledge	23,913	0.41%	1.13 trillion	EVE University	29,166	0.50%	1.24 trillion
Best Kept Dunked	23,064	0.39%	1.73 trillion	24th Imperial Crusade	29,104	0.49%	.37 trillion
Fuxi Legion	22,777	0.39%	2.51 trillion	F.13 – Union of Russians	28,033	0.48%	.87 trillion
Know-Nothings	22,207	0.38%	1.83 trillion	SPKur	27,980	0.48%	.00 trillion
KUSION SPECIAL TEAM	21,306	0.36%	2.02 trillion	Trata de Clones	27,937	0.47%	.00 trillion

If you know your corps you will be able to spot some of the big NPC corps as well as leading corporations from the big null sec alliances on the killer end of the equation.

There is a similar trend on the victim side of the table, though EVE Uni shows up there.  Sorry team.

And you may also note a couple corps whose ISK totals are so small as to not register.  You will find that their kills and losses are in Uitra and that they are on the shuttle killing corp top 20. Go figured.

Top 20 Alliances for Kills and Losses

Zooming out to the alliance level of kills and losses.

Alliance	Count	% of 2024	Sum of ISK Destroyed	Victim Alliance	Count	% of 22024	Sum of ISK Lost
Fraternity.	306,150	5.20%	30.11 trillion	Goonswarm Federation	325,417	5.53%	31.02 trillion
Goonswarm Federation	271,333	4.61%	24.12 trillion	Fraternity.	316,544	5.38%	31.67 trillion
Pandemic Horde	297,199	5.05%	23.13 trillion	Pandemic Horde	303,880	5.16%	29.07 trillion
The Initiative.	150,795	2.56%	15.28 trillion	The Initiative.	134,213	2.28%	14.55 trillion
Deepwater Hooligans	55,607	0.94%	10.74 trillion	Dracarys.	110,187	1.87%	10.78 trillion
Safety.	27,759	0.47%	9.97 trillion	Brave Collective	85,826	1.46%	8.18 trillion
Snuffed Out	61,883	1.05%	9.39 trillion	HOLD MY PROBS	73,065	1.24%	6.54 trillion
Dracarys.	73,704	1.25%	7.09 trillion	Fraternity University	43,206	0.73%	3.15 trillion
Shadow Cartel	39,434	0.67%	5.59 trillion	Minmatar Fleet Alliance	41,449	0.70%	3.52 trillion
Brave Collective	71,021	1.21%	5.58 trillion	Absolute Will	30,077	0.51%	2.62 trillion
Observatory Great Bear	32,469	0.55%	5.22 trillion	Azure Citizen	29,417	0.50%	3.30 trillion
Novus Ordo.	11,655	0.20%	4.98 trillion	Ivy League	29,262	0.50%	1.31 trillion
Minmatar Fleet Alliance	54,844	0.93%	4.52 trillion	United Caldari Space Command.	28,139	0.48%	.91 trillion
Brotherhood of Spacers	33,621	0.57%	4.33 trillion	Deepwater Hooligans	26,296	0.45%	7.03 trillion
Nourv Gate Security Commission	54,417	0.92%	3.88 trillion	Synergy of Steel	25,162	0.43%	3.46 trillion
Ahbazon-Prime	63,572	1.08%	3.80 trillion	Observatory Great Bear	25,122	0.43%	6.61 trillion
PURPLE HELMETED WARRIORS	25,693	0.44%	3.55 trillion	Absolute Honor	24,814	0.42%	1.81 trillion
L A Z E R H A W K S	16,248	0.28%	3.38 trillion	Sigma Grindset	23,399	0.40%	2.10 trillion
Wolves Amongst Strangers	15,145	0.26%	3.36 trillion	F.13	23,325	0.40%	.75 trillion
Sigma Grindset	36,788	0.62%	3.31 trillion	Empyrean Edict	20,843	0.35%	.79 trillion

Again, lots of the usual null sec suspects on that list, but you have to be an alliance to play in null sec.

That said, a full 2,413,515 of the 5,886,112 kills in New Eden in 2024, roughly 41%, involved players that were not in an alliance.

Upwell Structures Destroyed in 2024

I wanted to look at this one specifically because it was the OTHER state that appeared in the end of the year summary episode of The Pulse.  The Pulse declared Upwell structure losses at 8,149.

Do the combined 2024 MER numbers agree with that?  Of course not!  Here they are:

Structure	Count	Sum of ISK Lost
Athanor	3,436	6,229.45 billion
Astrahus	2,506	3,628.91 billion
Raitaru	1,332	2,238.43 billion
Fortizar	414	4,849.00 billion
Ansiblex Jump Gate	246	84.96 billion
Azbel	183	1,397.73 billion
Tatara	94	984.30 billion
Sotiyo	90	89.49 billion
Tenebrex Cyno Jammer	48	2.69 billion
Pharolux Cyno Beacon	37	6.25 billion
Keepstar	9	26.75 billion
‘Prometheus’ Fortizar	1	1.62 billion

That totals up to 8,396 structures.  So why the difference?  My guess would be that the community team just looked at zKillboard and, as we know, not every kill lands there.

That said, the gap between the two numbers is 247, which isn’t huge I suppose… and also happens to be exactly the same as all the Ansiblex Jump Gates plus the ‘Prometheus’ Fortizar.  Is that the real difference?  I don’t know… but it could be.  The accountant in my does not like how those line up.

The POS Code Remains Safe in 2024

Finally, a look at POS, of player owned starbase, losses in 2024.  I won’t post ALL the POS modules that were blown up in 2024, but here is a list of all of the POS towers destroyed in 2024.

Tower	Count	Sum of ISK Lost
Amarr Control Tower Small	991	61.52 billion
Caldari Control Tower Small	882	64.12 billion
Minmatar Control Tower Small	617	30.37 billion
Gallente Control Tower Small	511	32.99 billion
Caldari Control Tower	278	48.35 billion
Amarr Control Tower	270	73.73 billion
Minmatar Control Tower	233	72.78 billion
Amarr Control Tower Medium	204	40.53 billion
Caldari Control Tower Medium	186	33.27 billion
Minmatar Control Tower Medium	141	28.93 billion
Gallente Control Tower	112	24.70 billion
Gallente Control Tower Medium	82	12.27 billion
Dread Guristas Control Tower	34	68.07 billion
True Sansha Control Tower	23	31.26 billion
True Sansha Control Tower Medium	19	8.25 billion
Domination Control Tower	15	26.93 billion
Dark Blood Control Tower	11	24.33 billion
Domination Control Tower Medium	11	3.31 billion
Dread Guristas Control Tower Medium	10	2.88 billion
True Sansha Control Tower Small	10	2.34 billion
Dread Guristas Control Tower Small	9	2.08 billion
Sansha Control Tower Medium	7	1.50 billion
Shadow Control Tower Medium	6	2.20 billion
Guristas Control Tower	5	5.19 billion
Serpentis Control Tower	5	4.23 billion
Serpentis Control Tower Small	5	.67 billion
Shadow Control Tower	5	6.43 billion
Angel Control Tower	4	4.23 billion
Angel Control Tower Small	4	.46 billion
Blood Control Tower	4	2.40 billion
Dark Blood Control Tower Medium	3	1.10 billion
Domination Control Tower Small	3	.86 billion
Sansha Control Tower	3	1.95 billion
Blood Control Tower Small	2	.16 billion
Guristas Control Tower Medium	2	.48 billion
Shadow Control Tower Small	2	.61 billion
Dark Blood Control Tower Small	1	.33 billion
Guristas Control Tower Small	1	.10 billion
Sansha Control Tower Small	1	.15 billion
Serpentis Control Tower Medium	1	.22 billion

That adds up to 4,713 towers blown up for a total of 726.26 billion ISK destroyed.

The legend says that an old gypsy woman declared that New Eden will only survive so long as the POS code remains in the EVE Online code base.  CCP has, at times, declared their intent to remove the noble POS from the game, taking the POS code with it.  But it has never come to pass.

Some say that is because CCP still sees the utility of the POS or that the developer time to remove the code is not worth the effort.  And some believe that Hilmar looked into the eyes of the gypsy woman as she made this declaration and blinked… only to open his eyes again to find she had disappeared.  Or maybe she was never there.  But the company seems to not want to chance fate, so you can still manufacture, deploy, and destroy POSes in the game.

2024 Monthly Destruction Posts

Just the monthly posts if you want to go back into data for a more specific point in 2024.

Notes

Finally, just a technical note, how did I concatenate those files?

I renamed them all to add in the month and pulled each into a single directory, so there were a dozen files there with a name like “killdump_04.csv.”  Then I opened up a command prompt in Windows and used the command:

copy *.csv combined2024killdump.csv

That went through and pulled all the .csv files into a single .csv as named in the command.

Then I used my standard monthly review template in PowerBI and pointed it at that file, waited a while because it takes a bit to parse 900MB of .csv data.

I did not have any errors this time because I remembered to go in and remove I had left the first row, with the titles, from all but the first file in Notepad++.  Piece of cake, all months together in one file.

As it turned out I totally lost my Notepad++ notes about doing this, so the fact that I included this section in the 2023 post paid off.  Adding it again so I will be able to find it in 2026.