If you're the type of player who enjoys charts, figures and demographic data, you'll want to check out the economic newsletter for EVE Online's fourth quarter 2010. The lengthy PDF document contains all sorts of interesting facts. For example, EVE ended the year with around 360,000 accounts, with 725,000 character in-game.

Lead Economist Dr. Eyjólfur Guðmundsson said that numerous factors contributed to a very active fourth quarter:

"So active, in fact, that we saw the daily trade value record increasing twice in December, ending in an incredible 1.8 trillion ISK’s worth of trades in a 24-hour period, in more than 1.2 million individual trades – and this is only on the main EVE market, not taking into account contracts or direct trade between players."

For much more information, browse through the quarterly economic newsletter.