Provide proff or it didnt happen.
In all my time playing EVE, ive ever only seen this in the few mins after DT. Theres ALWAYS more then 1 player online, always.
Unless you are on SISI ofc, then its plausible.

The crazy inflation of PLEX prices could be related to this. It would be interesting to see the amount of purchased PLEX (for isk ingame), as a percentage of total paid subs and see their evolution.

I reckon less people PLEX now because it's getting more and more expensive. I also reckon some people just stopped paying for their alt accounts, because a 1bill a pop, it's just not feasible anymore.

They change standing rules so that I only get 35% refine. Is that fair NO it is not fair.

Yeah I understand that probably 98% of people got their jump clones from their buddy buddy Rorqual pilots. I know I did. So this is a problem right?

Funnily enough, it was a focus on improved PvE that led to the first major downturn in player activity in EVE, breaking an almost decade-long trend of ever-increasing growth.

In that respect, EVE proved to be very much like WoW: it turned out that in both instances, once consumed, this type of content doesn't create much in the way of player retention.

Incursions. They created a very commonplace GÇ£new raids expansionGÇ¥-bump and drop-off in the server activity. Everyone was excited for the new content, but after two months, when everything had been figure out, the server activity started to drop sharply and only stopped dropped even sharper once the next expansion GÇö Incarna GÇö was released.

Before that, we had often seen a bit of a lull at the end of winter and through spring; this wasn't a lull but a definite decline. Given the similarity of the actual content, it can probably be compared to Apocrypha, where there was an absolutely huge spike in activity, and then the average numbers kept going up.

What makes you think that?

Who are you even talking to?

Exactly, so the sharp decline from Incursion can't really be attributed to the game hitting its peak and having chewed through all its customer base.

No, when they did that, the numbers were already climbing, and the expansion gave them a nice extra boost that allowed them to keep climbing even during a period where we'd normally see a decrease.

With Incursion, on the other hand, we saw the same kind of pre-expansion climb, but once everything had been released, we saw something very new: a very sharp drop GÇö much sharper than what we'd normally see after a patch, and for a much longer period. It was so sharp and so long, in fact, that by the time the next expansion came around and made a complete mess of things, the two combined created almost three quarters-long constant trend downward. Now granted, there was some pre-patch hype before Incarna, but it was already tarnished by the money-grubbing stuff CCP did before the whole MT d+¬b+ócle hit, and the real peak at the time was due to a bunch of AT-related hype.

See, this is the part you're getting laughably wrong: they were not riding high; people were not playing more than ever. The numbers were in decline as early as January, half a year before the summer of rage started. By March, the temporary gain that Incursion had caused had been wiped out, and then the numbers kept going down. Incursion should have stopped this, but was obviously a spectacular failure in more ways than you can count, so the numbers kept going down, when they should have been going up (or at least stabilised).

GǪand guess what happened? The numbers jumped up to new record levels in response to CCP refocusing on things that matter, and away from their failed pet project.

The only one claiming that Incursions started to drive people away from the game 3 years after the fact is you. Like your failed sarcasm, this is obviously a pretty idiotic idea, which is why you expressed it, not I. I am looking at how the release of Incursion during Dec 2010GÇôJan 2011 coincides with the drop in numbers that began in Jan 2011 and continued to early June. By mid-to-late June, the monetisation flubs started coming in hard and fast from CCP, leading to the summer of rage at the end of June and which ran on through to Oct/Nov '11.

Defenders defending on their way to wherever they're going don't lose much in the way of time GÇö the handful of seconds it takes to blow a gank ship up at most. Gankers losing out on the gank of the hour so they have to wait another hour. I understand that this may come as a shock to you, but -+min < 60min.

They were 42,986 on the last sunday of October 2015.