Flying Solo In EVE: The End Of The Winter Nexus

I've decided to give my Tuesday column on EVE Online a name. Flying Solo In EVE seems appropriate since, apart from my time in Eve University and Signal Cartel I've pretty much flown under my own flag. The corp chat is quite, giving me a little piece compared to places like Discord which I always run for my free company in Final Fantasy XIV. 

As I plan on doing each week let's start with the average concurrent users on Tranquility last week.

As seen on 12 Jan 2026 @ 0300 UTC

As expected the average number of accounts logged in remained at 28,000 according to Chribba's EVE-Offline.net. In real terms that means between 27,500 and 28,500 accounts. Something about getting 100,000 skill points and 75 PLEX for finishing Winter Nexus' extended reward track is a pretty good incentive. I know I finished the track.

Personally I expect the numbers to drop a bit down to 27,000 next week. Is 26,000 possible? Maybe. But considering anything over 24,000 makes my prediction for overall average concurrency for the year come true, the prospect of a 2,000 user drop isn't the worst thing in the world.

The global PLEX market from creation to yesterday

Over the course of the last week the average price of PLEX only increased by 12,000 ISK. But with the end of all the holiday sales the amount of PLEX sold declined over 20% and the amount of ISK traded for PLEX declined 23%.

Weekly stats through the first two weeks

With the end of the Winter Nexus event I began to tally up how much ISK I made. The wallet of the character I ran the event with tells the tale.

Most ISK made from selling PLEX and data

I made over 600 million ISK from two sources. First, I sold 175 of the data widgets obtained from mining and data site to CONCORD for around 168 million ISK. But the big money came from selling the 100 PLEX from the rewards track, including the 75 PLEX that were the final reward. While the average PLEX sold last week was 4.6 million ISK, I sold mine for a little over 4.8 million ISK. After taxes and fees I came out with 459 million ISK.

My major expenses were the 200 million ISK I transferred to my corp and 100 million ISK I gave my PI alt. I think after creating new corp projects for automatically transferring ISK to characters who incur certain costs my office expenses are set for the year.

I will conclude with my opinion of the Winter Nexus event. The mining portion dragged, the probing and hacking portion was fun, and I didn't try the combat. At this point I need to get used to flying battlecruisers and command ships again. I like flying around in frigates and blockade runners, with the occasional cruiser and deep space transport. But if I need to start flying larger ships, perhaps I need to fly a Drake.