New EVE Online: Econ Dev Blog - The hidden numbers behind corporations

Eve Online's, Dr. "Eyjo" Guðmundsson, head of the Research and Statistics Team, is charging full steam ahead after putting the finishing touches on EVE Online's ground-breaking statistically-crazed quarterly economic newsletter. The good doctor has posted a new econ dev blog that focuses on corporations and some interesting numbers relating to them. Travel inside the doctor's mind as he delves into explicit detail and bombards his EVE students with insightful charts and graphs on various topics relating to EVE's corporations.

Some highlights include:

• 34,658 active corporations (Player + NPC)

• 205,000 characters are in NPC corporations

• 1950,000 characters in Player corporations

• Characters in NPC corporations average 2.7 million skill points

• Characters in Player corporations average 13.5 million skill points

• Frigates are the most popular ship piloted by characters in NPC corporations

• The tax capsule cometh (details on different corp taxes)

• 227 player-owned outposts divided among 114 corporations in 0.0 space
  

The EVE development team is looking for player comments form some of the data mines. Any capsuleers wanting to see the questions CCP is asking, and join in on the discussion can do so over on the official EVE Online forums.