Why EVE Online's Economy Is Deflating | The State of New Eden (Oct 2026)

A year of EVE Online's player economy in one desk show. Our EVE 500 index fell about a tenth over the year (about an eighth on the yearly average) while the money supply grew by more than a tenth. Players mined fifty percent more asteroid ore, and the minerals ships are built from lost a third of their value. Then we check sixteen claims from the players' own economists against the data; where a number is our estimate, we say so. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open 0:42 New Eden in ninety seconds 2:00 The big picture 5:49 The sector tour 13:35 Deep dive: minerals 18:08 The people vs the data 26:45…