August ratting data

Like in July, I processed the downloaded Dotlan data for August 2015. Let's see the ratting charts first: As you can see highsec and nullsec ratting remained mostly the same, except for the Aug 22-29 week, where nullsec ratting dropped.

The reason is the Providence war: Please note the different scale, Provi ratting is about 10% of the Imperium. While Provi lost more rats relative to the baseline, their absolute losses are 100K rats/warday while 600K rats/warday for the Imperium. Using the old CCP tweet, we can estimate 0.31 MISK/rat average nullsec bounty, so the war caused 31B ISK/day loss to Provi and 186B ISK/day loss to the Imperium. It's no wonder that they avoid wars as possible, the opportunity cost is devastating and way higher than anyone elses. So just by resisting and keeping fighting the Imperium of Evil can be defeated as the war costs break them. This new info can help the morale of attacked alliance. All they need is one guy checking dotlan every day and announce "yesterday by forming against us and running around entosising, the ratting in CFC regions was 150B less than usual! Let's do that again until they run out of money!"

Let's see the nullsec regions! The first 3, like last month are Imperium regions. All 3 got on the "top 10 NPC regions" list of Dotlan, beating highsec regions. The next four are all renter regions. It seems renting will remain viable after all. Providence lost ratting for the war, Fountain for the departure of Black Legion.

There are much to see here. At first, all Imperium alliances lost ratting percentage due to the Providence war (orange). All, except Goonswarm itself, they reached a new record. While the minions were fighting, the masters were filling their wallets. Goonswarm also increased its land size, mostly from TNT who were stripped of their Pure Blind holdings. The xxDeathxx renters decreased their performance despite the increase of ratting in many of their regions, due to the decrease in Perrigen Falls and Kalevala Expanse. Soviet-Union keeps growing steadily, along with Solar. The most surprising is that B0T, which was meant to be closed, is now increasing its landmass.

Ratting in the Imperium overall didn't change much since last month, however it includes the Provi campaign. This means that they'll likely increase their ratting in September.