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Latest EVE Online Pulse Video Recaps Its Stellar 20th Anniversary Year

From the heart of Jita 4-4

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The latest Pulse video from the EVE Online team recaps the year that was 2023, its 20th anniversary year, all from the heart of Jita 4-4.

The video series typically goes through just the upcoming announcements and recaps some of the goings on in EVE Online's universe, New Eden. This time, though, it's a special year in review for EVE Online, with CCP Mirage, CCP Convict and CCP K1P1 recapping the updates that have released throughout 2023. The team also revealed some interesting stats from players this year as well, such as which corporations caused the most ISK loss during Factional Warfare this year, the most used colors in the new SKINR feature, and more.

Some other interesting stats were revealed during the video, including the number of jumps in and out of the new system Zarzakh since the Jovian stargates went live earlier this year (Alsavoinon seems to be the busiest overall), as well as the number of pirate signups by players and corporations since Havoc launched last month

The new Scope video also showcased the most undocked ships in 2023 by Security Status, and man there are a lot of people using mining vessels as both High and Low sec saw ORE hulls represented in the top three. I was pretty happy to see the Astero make it in the top three of Low Sec undocks myself, and I'm interested to see how this changes in 2024.

The team also briefly recapped the recent EVE Vanguard First Strike event that took place earlier this month, though it didn't go into any insights into how the test turned out, or any player stats. The team did release a series of infographics on social media earlier this week, so we do have some numbers about what went on planetside in Vanguard at least.

Some other interesting numbers from the video:

  • Capsuleers loving blowing stuff up and destruction in New Eden reached 858,694,417,416,749 total ISK in value this year.
  • 28,717 Upwell player structures were wiped off the map in 2023
  • 296 corporations signed their groups up for Pirate factions
  • 5328 individual characters signed on to join either Angel Cartel or the Guristas in Factional Warfare

EVE Online has had a banner year for the MMO, which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. The team released two expansions this year, made a 20th Anniversary mosaic celebrating its capsuleers, had record attendance at this years EVE Fanfest in Reykjavik, and even revamped its physical monument near the harbor in the Icelandic capital commemorating the second decade of New Eden. This year also saw likely the biggest heist in EVE Online history, with those involved still left wondering the exact reasons as to why this happened.


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Joseph Bradford

Joseph has been writing or podcasting about games in some form since about 2012. Having written for multiple major outlets such as IGN, Playboy, and more, Joseph started writing for MMORPG in 2015. When he's not writing or talking about games, you can typically find him hanging out with his 15-year old or playing Magic: The Gathering with his family. Also, don't get him started on why Balrogs *don't* have wings. You can find him on Twitter @LotrLore