I'm not helping with the derailment of the thread here, but the great thing about Eve is its so broad in it's spectrum. You dont really have to ever even leave dock. You can become a banker, you can become a drug dealer, you can become a pirate, a miner, a mogul, you can do delivery contracts, you can pretty much do whatever you want, and when you get bored with that, start training something else, change careers mid course.

1v1? Yeah you're gonna get slaughtered by those guys with 70 mil SP - Get yourself a good corporation and go do fleet ops!! Some of the most exciting online gaming I've ever had were 100v100 fleet ops.