In the latest EVE Online developer blog, "Diagoras" shows a six year pattern of ship sales and the statistics surrounding these sales. It's a fascinating look at what was and is popular. Six years indeed makes a lot of difference.

After the release of the last statistics dev blog, one of the main requests for information to go alongside the PVP data was for information on the actual popularity of various ship types. Instead of raw numbers on how many are blown up, in this blog we shall show the relative popularity of various items against others of its type on the market throughout the past. These do not show the total individual numbers of these ships/items, they show the number of them traded on the market. This means that if the same ship was traded through the market twice, it would count for two.

There is a lot more to read and a terrific set of graphs to visually state the information. Head to the link provided above.