Flying Solo In EVE: Capsuleer Day Event

Tomorrow is the 23rd anniversary of the launch of EVE Online on 6 May 2003. I'm running through the latest 5 week event designed to celebrate the occasion (as well as bring in more money). While today is a little early to expect to see CCP's 2025 tax filings to appear on the Icelandic taxing authority's website, we do have news that Pearl Abyss is selling off CCP Games. So while we wait for Pearl Abyss to schedule the next earnings call here's my weekly look at EVE Online.

A bumpy week on the global PLEX market

The global PLEX market experienced a weekend spike of about 250,000 ISK as the Capsuleer Day event kicked off on Thursday but fell back down to normal by Sunday. We can perhaps attribute the spike to the news of PLEX for Good becoming a permanent fixture in New Eden. I can see the purpose of the move. Instead of PLEX remaining on the books as departing players buy up the secondary currency in case they come back to EVE in a year or three, they are encouraged to just wipe out their accounts. I guess that's one way to ensure the bitter vets don't return.

Last week's ACU and PCU

And of course I look back at player activity using Chribba's EVE-Offline.net. The late surge in accounts logged in to participate in the Capsuleer Day event raised the average concurrent users logged in for the week up to 25,000 +/- 500 accounts. I should also note the peak for the week returned to approximately 1900 UTC on Sunday, indicating the big null sec war involving The Imperium, Init., and WinterCo is probably over. Or at the minimum, the major structure bashing is over.

Selected stats through 3 May

Now for the main event. The Capsuleer Day celebration began on the final day of April and is very much like the previous Gallente election event. To receive Society of Conscious Thought ships this year one must participate in the event, with the Praxis battleship serving as the big prize at the end of the rewards track.

My progress through Monday

I don't have a big desire to get another Praxis but finishing all 5 tiers of an activity results in receiving 500 event points and 10 PLEX. I'm thinking I'll just do the mining and the security missions. Players do get points for trading Warpath Operational Intel for rewards, but I don't know about if PLEX is a reward for completing all 5 tiers of trades.

On the mining. I can say from experience that is a lot of Plagioclase. On the plus side I was still able to mine as late as 1900 UTC on Sunday. I just need about 10 more runs with a Skiff to finish the final tier. I think that's less than 3 hours. Perhaps I'll dual box and put mining boosts on a command ship.

I do have to say I was feeling a little burned out after this weekend. I think the Gallente election and Capsuleer Day events were a little too similar to run back-to-back like this. Also, I'm not a big fan of the time-limited boosters. I'll wind up buying the boosters to get through the rest of the event, but I'm not quite sure I want to do the activities on a second pilot. The rewards just don't feel like they justify the grind. But receiving 95 PLEX for the event and another 5 PLEX for the AIR Daily Rewards on each character might prod me into running through the event twice. I'll have to see how I feel after I get my first 1000 points.