Flying Solo In EVE: Going Into A Brief Lull

EVE Online is currently in the calm before the storm. The Capsuleer Day event is over, Warpath is solved, and the story is leading into the Cradle of War expansion next week. Time to take a breather and look back at last week.

ACU/PCU the last week of May 2026

Between the last day of the Memorial Day holiday weekend in the United States and a final surge of players looking to get the new Navy faction destroyers early, EVE-Offline.net continued to show an average of around 26,000 accounts, +/- 500 accounts, logged in at any one time last week. Because the month ended last week I can also show Jester's chart showing the average logged at any one time for the year.

999 over the lockdown numbers

I've kept track of the changes each month to calculate the monthly totals in 2026. The average in May was 25,629, raising the ACU for the year to 25,014 accounts. One of my predictions for the year was Jester's chart would show the highest ACU number since 2014. Through the first five months Tranquility is ahead of the pace.

Falling prices and falling demand last week

The global PLEX market experienced a decline both in price and volume last week as sales promotions declined to just a single mastery pack sale. The amount of ISK traded for PLEX fell 25.1% compared to the previous week. I know the sale was aimed at the expected flood of new players coming in to check out the new PvP-free region, but I think the sale might have been better with the launch of the expansion. I have the feeling the big promotions will come on launch day for CoW as the mastery sales event ends on 8 June.

Selected stats through the end of May

I'm not going to lie, I really didn't play that much last week. Mining didn't really pay off in the Capsuleer Day event so instead of running a second character through the event I just did the minimum to complete the track with one. Well, I did do something else EVE-related. I played with AI to generate my original character I could use for future.

At a dinner party

I don't think the picture turned out too badly, although I don't think formal dinner parties are really his idea of a good time. I picture him overlooking his ship more than anything else. I did go for an anime style, just to see what it would look like. The facial tattoos didn't really come out right.

At the landing pad

Of course, now I have to learn how to import ships into the program so I have real internet spaceships in my shots.