Today for example I was fighting in my caldari cruiser, and it got blown up
So then me with a bunch of my corporation mates went and mined for a while, made like 3.5million ISK each, after that I bought myself a cruiser again and then me, and 2 other corporation mates wnet back to that system were i was blown up and started blowing the crap out of pirate ships for about an hour. And then my cruiser got blown up again! Luckily this time I had insurance on it, So I bought a new one and one of my guys recovered part of the equipment from my old ship. Now im waiting for some other corp members to come by with their battleships and cruisers and we are going to go hunt some more NPC pirates. There are about 7.800 people usually on EVE online, and wow, the game is amazing, its heavily social oriented. If you trying playing yourself, its possible and fun, but youll be flying a frigate for quite some time!.
Skill trainign is great too, just takes a while, i have 9 hours left till I get my cruiser LVL III skill, and 15 days to get Frigate LVL V so I can fly an interceptor :-/
You guys should try it out, the battles, the social enviroment, the mining, everything is so much fun, and the graphics are amazing too!
Also the scale of the ships, WOW, whenever i bring my frigate next to someones battleship, its amazing how drastic the size difference is, im like the size of one his engines! With my cruiser now im a little bigger, but still not even close to the size of a battleship!
The game developers are also awesome, they constantly updated their website with dev blogs, and they participate in the forums a lot too, a new big patch called shiva is coming out in 3 months which is going to add a lot of new content to the game such as "dungeons", new ships, new corporation management skills, new agents and a new tactical combat view.
Id say this game is one of my favorite ever! 10/10!!! Im completely addicted.
If any of you guys decide to play, my name in game is Cruz