# If the number of players on the server is not higher by this time next year **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 16, 2023, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/if-the-number-of-players-on-the-server-is-not-higher-by-this-time-next-year/416161 "2023-08-16T09:32:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 606
**Author:** ![Destiny\_Corrupted](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/destiny_corrupted/32/411527_2.png) [@Destiny\_Corrupted](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Destiny_Corrupted)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/if-the-number-of-players-on-the-server-is-not-higher-by-this-time-next-year/416161/606 "2023-12-23T22:08:56Z")
> [@Altara\_Zemara](#): > > It’s comforting to be able to work out from the year end stats on my various chars that more than 50% of Eve players engage in PvP. There’s no way that statistic is true. It just goes to show that CCP is [extremely bad at statistics](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-ccp-stopped-me-from-playing-my-game-style/417059/81). Possibly even intentionally, in order to present a certain unrealistic portrayal of their game. If you look at some pics people are posting of their stats, characters that play for about 3 hours are in the 50th percentile. There’s no way that that’s the demarcation point for when the bulk of all characters (not players, _characters_) start aggressively engaging in PvP. When analyzed a zKill snapshot maybe around two years ago, the figure I arrived at was something like 8% of the active _player_ base engages in aggressive PvP in _any_ capacity (most of those on the extreme low end of being part of like 1 total kill or something), and that was assuming 200,000 unique players. What’s likely happening here is that either CCP is cherry-picking characters for their statistics, or are including all PvP activity and not just the “kill” side in their statistics (which would come closer to 50%). --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/if-the-number-of-players-on-the-server-is-not-higher-by-this-time-next-year/416161)._