With hours of flying around in space comes more EVE related thinking and reading.
I came across this set of graphs via Twitter the other day, which showed Citadel losses by type and system security, based on zKillboard data.
You can see the original’s here:
https://www.adam4eve.eu/stats_citadels_mia.php
Interesting enough, but it got me thinking. One of the key things I dislike about Citadels is the requirement for their defences to be maned. To my mind it is a big backward step from POS, especially for the Solo or Casual player. So I went looking at the data on zKillboard for Citadels and Control Towers. Now this is not scientific – there are obviously kill mails which would be missing, they don’t differentiate between friendly fire and what not, loss values are just approximations, and my maths is not the greatest. With that in mind..
The kill statistics for all Citadels is reported here:
https://zkillboard.com/group/1657/
The Monthly averages since May 2016
Citadels lost – 177
Attributed ISK lost – 731B (Assume Hull Only)
Attributed ISK inflicted – 64B
The kill statistics for the POS group is reported here:
https://zkillboard.com/group/365/
The Monthly averages since May 2016
POS lost – 1,083
Attributed ISK lost – 277B (Assume Tower Only)
Attributed ISK inflicted – 157B
Because the statistics for POS changed noticeably with the arrival of Citadels, I also noted the Monthly averages for all POS in 2015 for comparison.
The Monthly averages for 2105
POS lost – 1,447
Attributed ISK lost – 259B (Assume Tower Only)
Attributed ISK inflicted – 321B
So, even if these statistics are only rough estimations, they do paint a picture. It appears that Citadel losses are on average substantially more costly than POS were each month, while they inflict – both in outright terms, and more so as a percentage of their losses, substantially less ISK damage than POS.