That rise in the 7-day average concurrent user metric at the end of the month may ensure I finally get to see a positive value for the Average ISK Delta for two consecutive months.
I can point to two events that may account for the rise in players on Tranquility. The first is the launch of the Legion expansion on 27 May. New content (and new promotions like PLEX giveaways) tend to bring players back to take a look. But on top of that The Imperium took the occasion to launch a new war.
The Imperium's leader, Asher Elias, declared the coalition was heading to Insmother to do battle with Gobbins and the PanFam coalition. If I understand the situation correctly Insmother is the last region under PanFam's control outside the Dronelands.
Did the changes made in Legion influence the decision? The rollback of 2020's Surgical Strike changes may help. Beefier ships, especially titans and supercarriers, make pilots more confident of bringing their toys out to play. Add in changes to make combat in sov null more interesting as well as removing enemy skyhooks less painful logistically and I can see why patch day would trigger the movement of a lot of ships.
As of now, the Imperium has set up a keepstar in X2-ZA5 to stage out of for the campaign. Right now it appears someone went around and reinforced all the infrastructure hubs in the UR-HG4 constellation in a typical harassment move hello at the start of a campaign. Hitting the I-Hub in GK5Z-T was probably a more serious move to gain a foothold in the region itself.
I'll come up with better graphics and better maps if PanFam actually fights. I imagine a lot of people interested in EVE Frontier with no EVE experience might want to see what a player war in the EVE universe looks like. Those players are already getting dunked on by Rooks and Kings. Perhaps fighting involving more ordinary players might be a nice change of pace.
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