Garðr Víða II

I wanted to get a solid idea of how many Upwell structures we’ve currently got and see if I could get some base on the number being anchored per day, etc… so I pulled some data off the Adam4EVE site. It was pretty burly so I ended up grabbing just the statistics for all the Upwell structures in HighSec, 0.5 and above, that are being reported by CCPs ESI interface. This covers all structures that allow public access and thus are visible in-game in the structure browser. Any private structures are not listed on the Adam4EVE site, since they are not included in the provided data.

Here is what I came up with.

HighSec (0.5 and above) – Upwell structures anchored per year
Year Anchored	Astrahus	Athanor	Azbel	Fortizar	Raitaru	Sotiyo	Tatara	Grand Total	# of Days	Avg/Day
2016	621		35	72	305	2		1035	45	23
2017	516	273	280	59	1485	12	14	2639	363	7.269972452
2018	36	45	18	2	86		1	185	16	11.5625
Grand Total	1166	318	333	133	1876	14	15	3859	424	9.101415094

HighSec (0.5 and above) – Upwell structures anchored per Region
Region	Astrahus	Athanor	Azbel	Fortizar	Raitaru	Sotiyo	Tatara	Grand Total	Avg/Day
Aridia	2	3			1			6	0.0141509
Black Rise	17	4	4	1	21			47	0.1108491
Derelik	39	15	13	4	74	1		146	0.3443396
Devoid	33	9	10		54			106	0.25
Domain	130	38	35	11	232	2	2	450	1.0613208
Essence	48	9	12	6	55		1	131	0.3089623
Everyshore	52	16	11	11	56			146	0.3443396
Genesis	51	13	20	7	72		2	165	0.3891509
Heimatar	42	12	7	5	62			128	0.3018868
Kador	60	15	16	3	79			173	0.4080189
Khanid	54	8	11	4	46		2	125	0.2948113
Kor-Azor	27	7	8	2	47			91	0.2146226
Lonetrek	100	19	23	9	192	2	2	347	0.8183962
Metropolis	77	37	20	12	105	2	2	255	0.6014151
Molden Heath	11	2	1	1	13	1		29	0.0683962
Placid	11	2	6	4	23			46	0.1084906
Sinq Laison	92	30	23	14	141	1	1	302	0.7122642
Solitude	9	2	2	2	7			22	0.0518868
Tash-Murkon	66	30	29	8	127	1	2	263	0.620283
The Bleak Lands	14	3	1	1	15			34	0.0801887
The Citadel	74	16	32	12	171	1		306	0.7216981
The Forge	131	24	36	10	247	3	1	452	1.0660377
Verge Vendor	30	4	13	6	36			89	0.2099057
Grand Total	1170	318	333	133	1876	14	15	3859	9.1014151

HighSec (0.5 and above) – Upwell structure anchored
Upwell structure	Grand Total	Avg/Day
Astrahus	1170	2.759433962
Athanor	318	0.75
Azbel	333	0.785377358
Fortizar	133	0.313679245
Raitaru	1876	4.424528302
Sotiyo	14	0.033018868
Tatara	15	0.035377358
Grand Total	3859	9.101415094

So what is all this data telling us?

In Highsec, since the introduction of Upwell structures, we’re seeing an average of 9 being anchored daily with the majority of those being the Raitaru and Astrahus types. Both Domain and The Forge are seeing an average of 1 anchored every day within their regional borders.

Would you consider this proliferation? Maybe not yet but if it continues unchecked then I can see a day where it will be ridiculous.

There has been an argument being tossed around that “compared to the number of POSes that are in each system, the number of citadels is still tiny” and I’ll agree that, yes, there are way more POSes anchored than Upwell structures but there is a limit to the number of POSes you can anchor in a system and in comparison Upwell structures are very young. POSes were introduced in 2004, that’s 14 years of POS anchoring, if EVE is still around in 14 years and there are no limits placed on the anchoring of Upwell structures how many do you think Perimeter will have in it?

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