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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Flying Solo In EVE: A New AI

A new week, another look back at last week in EVE Online. As usual, I'll start with the average number of concurrent users (ACU) logged in last week.

From EVE-offline.net

In what I consider a good sign Eve-offline.net still showed the ACU at 25,000 +/- 500 accounts. Yesterday's federal holiday in the U.S. might keep the ACU at that level one more week. But after that I expect the line to tick down another 1000.

PLEX continues its downward trend

A factor in my belief in a lowering ACU is the continued decline in the average price of PLEX. Between 9 February and 15 February the average price of PLEX fell 3.6% down to 4,252,000 ISK on an average of 1,470,000 PLEX traded daily. I track the amount of PLEX for sale on the global PLEX market and the amount increased by 13% last week.

2026 stats by week

Overall, the amount of PLEX traded last week increased by 4.7%. Reflecting the declining price of PLEX, the amount of ISK players spent acquiring PLEX only increased by 2.3% last week. Imagine that! A lower price of PLEX resulted in increased sales. In all seriousness I spent enough time working with the price of consumer packaged goods to expect that result. Of course, sales help as well and the latest one ended at downtime today.

As a veteran player I often skip past a lot of content meant for newer players. One of those features was the AIR Career Program. I didn't start paying attention until I started to train up one of my PI alts. I reached some goal and received a Catalyst and a SKIN. But the delivery was kind of cute.

Introduction to IRIS

I met a new AI, IRIS. I guess AI assistant technology has come a long way since Aura was first introduced back in 2003. I have to say, I liked the interplay between the two, so kudos to the writer. I'm now looking to trigger another AIR Career reward just to see if the interaction is different.

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