I've been getting into EVE recently, I started an account a couple years back but only played for a couple months - didn't really have the time or money to invest in it back then. I'll probably message you later James, maybe if I see you in WCS or something.

Blackout:

EVE is a sci-fi MMORPG with spaceships and lasorz. The universe is truly massive (absolutely ridiculously massive), and it's not divided into servers as a game like WoW is; rather, different areas are run on different servers on the back-end, but you don't see that, the universe itself has only one "server" that you log in to. The game is driven heavily by players (economy, sector control, etc.), in comparison to most MMORPGS which are almost entirely NPC-run. It's not a safe, sterile environment for n00bs. If your ship gets blown up, your ship is gone. That said, different areas of space have different security levels, and you're generally safe enough in a high-security area.

You can do pretty much anything you like - you can get into mining or salvaging for raw materials, or production of finished materials (ships, fittings, etc.), or play the market as a trader, or be a solo PvP ganker (mercenary/pirate), or just run PvE missions, or gang up and do large-scale military warfare, or be a bounty hunter, or do exploration (usually coupled with something else to exploit your findings), or... you get the idea. You can do pretty much anything you like. It's a really cool game conceptually, but it takes a lot of getting used to, and it's not for the impatient.