Nice apples and oranges.

1 year: 39k. Same period a year ago: 43k.
6 months: 36k. Same period last year average: 42k
3 months: 25k. Same period last year average: 29k

You also haven't accounted for 'infinite' skill queue, or Multiple Character Training or any contributing factors.

Thanks for the invite but ganking is not my cup of tea, I find it quite tedious and disdainful. (personal opinion only, never been ganked but seen many newer players quit due to it)
What with my preferred style of game play being slowly eroded away, turned into something resembling a game for 12 year old's and controlled by a few empire builders, I'm really not sure what to do next.

I love Eve and have made many friends over the years but the lack of any real content is beginning to out way the reasons I play.

I am only really motivated to PVP for SOV reason lately. I think with the coming changes, I shall lose all interest.
The remaining value and motivation will be gone.

Well I started playin Eve 7 yrs ago next month. I had certain things I loved to do and trained my characters many, many months to do these things well. Hell years of training involved in some activities. CCP brilliantly just handed these activities, while eliminating the skill requirements or advantages gained to "new players" on a silver platter. Throwing in idiotic things like loot spew to entertain mindless boobs who don't belong in a game like this in the first place.

Millions of un-reimbursed skill points and Billions of isk and years of research tossed in the crapper in just one of these wonderful noobifications for my main alone. Oh and years or grinding missions to get great standings to put a POS up where I wanted basically laughed at and thrown down the drain also.

At one time I had 10 accounts, still have 3 and don't really know why....just check in and skill basically. Most of my long time in-game friends have left. All my favorite activities have been noobified for the worse and are not profitable or fun or even recognizable anymore.

More bored than bitter....ALOT of really poor decisions by CCP in the last few years. You all can interpret the numbers however you like, I just see an average of around 10K less players online when I log in then I saw a few years ago....and ALOT of those players had multiple paying accounts. I leave it to all the forum experts to figure out how many subs have been lost....

In fact my real feeling is one of sadness. Sad to see a once great game dumbed down and ruined by misguided clowns who really don't play it much, if at all.

as for trying something new....like what??? Attack the Drifters...you know Concord on Steroids armed ships? Sounds like great fun...for a mentally challenged child I guess. I'll just keep skilling an account or two, hoping for a miracle and a HUGE change in CCP's management and direction.

Penalizing your long term customers in a misguided attempt to attract new players is not a growth business plan, it's a recipe to destroy your business.

Many of us have been riding out bad change after bad change for years (since Dominion sov at least) and CCP has recently
taken a further step into the mist by not keeping players updated on what they have planned.
200 pages and no input from devs.

I would welcome anything that will bring positive change and create content, real content that is, not just "biggest fleet wins" content.