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With the Phoebe release in November 2014 we started "Phase One" of the sovereignty changes. Those changes included significant changes to the speed of long distance travel and power projection, as well as smaller changes to the hitpoints and resistances of Sovereignty structures.

Now it is time to look back a bit and evaluate the effects of those changes.

Read more about the effects and results of those changes and check the interesting stats presented in CCP Fozzie's blog Where we stand.

I noticed a distinct lack of statistics about black ops battleship usage, which was a large area of concern for both the CSM (according to the summer summit minutes) and the player base as a whole when the changes were announced.

Certainly in the 38.1% of nullsec PvP that HERO accounts for, black ops usage both for bridging and combat has dropped dramatically due to jump fatigue. What about the rest of the game? Are you happy with the changes in black ops activity?

Still doesn't stop be from wanting to be reimbursed sp across 12 alts that will now never use their caps again

Nice read, thx.

lol ofc the numbers went high people logged in to suicide their caps ,loot at numbers now they heading DOWN

well that being said im greased up ready for another penetration from CCP fossil

Reading that dev blog is proof that some people are incredibly optimistic no matter what lol. No, the jockeying for position that resulted from phoebe isn't proof of success, like wise I'll be their are increases in low sec and wormhole activity, but that's because null coalitions are taking low sec moons they might not have bothered with otherwise and because null coalitions have to rely on wormholes for travel and content now.

Those coalitions have concentrated in 'near null' while still possessing deep null. With the exception of the Immensea/south area, it's business as usual in null, it's a renters paradise. Phase to has to address the VALUE of null, not just how it's won or lost.

I'd be very interested to see a little bit more information on the "characters in null sec" statistic. Not the numbers themselves, mind you, but the same statistic in relation to other numbers.

Specifically, I think it would be worth looking at four additional graphs:

1. Active Null Characters Normalized by Total Active Characters

2. Active Null Characters Normalized by Active Lowsec Characters

3. Active Null Characters Normalized by Active Highsec Characters

4. Active Null Characters Normalized by Active Wormhole Characters

It's really, really easy to find SOME sort of statistic to support literally any viewpoint. What we have right now is a single snapshot taken out of context and being used to give positive support to changes. A much more credible way to look at the information you've presented is in the reference of the other major groups of space. Knowing that the number of players went up is one thing, but knowing that both the number of players went up AND knowing that this change is actively moving players towards null sec and away from other types of space (which should be the goal here) is quite another thing entirely.

Of course, the axes can be obfuscated the exact same way as the original graph. The dates and trends are really the only important things.

Given the decline of the average player count I can't help but wonder where the slight uptick of Null population came from? Could you show us a graph of Highsec, Wormholes and Lowsec populations for the same time periods? That uptick had to come from some where and it wasn't from more players being online it seems.

Can someone smarter than me explain how they would meta the **** out of the graphs if they had a Y-axis?

Will there be any restrictions on the use of the entosis module in conjunction with bastion/siege modules?