Sic transit gloria legion: July ratting

Like in June, I processed the downloaded Dotlan data for July 2015. Let's see the ratting charts first: I've deleted the points for the long downtime to avoid ruining the trends. Which are historic: for the first time ever, there was more ratting in nullsec than in highsec. We can say that the "carebears to null" Sov upgrade plan of Fozzie worked. Even better, look at the 3-days average graphs (thin lines). Highsec is oscillating weekly, because human players play more on weekends. Nullsec has little oscillation, due to being populated by nolifers and bots. However in the last two weeks the same oscillation appeared. So not new bots were planted, but real players were lured from highsec to nullsec. Good job Fozzie! Also, both lowsec and highsec shown a small increase, so the total PvE activity grown a lot in the middle of the Summer. Aegis will probably be remembered among the best patches.

Let's see the nullsec regions! The biggest winners were Tribute, Fade, Period Basis, Pure Blind and Etereum Reach. The biggest losers: Cobalt Edge, Querious, Immensea, Stain and above all The Spire that fell out of the picture.

The ratting density of both Goons and FCON reached bizarre levels. You can't throw a Stratios without hitting a ratter. The two traditional renters, XWX and B0T on the other hand are collapsing. XIX (Legion of xxDeathxx), TNT, TRI and RED fail to utilize their space and will likely lose some of it (one of them to MoA). Ruca Emperor jumped out of nothing 3 months ago and now holds one of the most utilized Sov. SMA keeps increasing ratting. So far nothing is groundbreaking, but when I looked at the #4 ratter, I didn't know to cry or laugh. Sic transit gloria mundi, especially that SMA!!! is taking systems from them. Dear orphans of Elo Knight, if your EVE plan is not "literally rat more than SMA and get dunked by them", join MoA!

The absolute number of Imperium (CFC) ratting in July was all time highest. However it's a slight decrease in percentage of total, so others grown more. Still, more than 1/3 of the ratting bounties went to Imperium wallets. According to this old 2013 Feb data, 32T ISK was paid for ratting bounties, but obviously not all for nullsec. As bounties increase with decreasing sec status, we can estimate around 25T payout for 81M dead rats. This means that the 36.7M rats of the Imperium netted them around 11T ISK. That's some serious ISK, and they lose only around 3T a month. However if you divide it with 40K pilots, you get mere 270M/month income. That's not so intimidating, isn't it?