what is eve online? I've heard of it and read a little but i'd like to hear from a player what you do and such.
Oh man, I don't know if I can even explain it..
It's an MMORPG, to say the least. But it's nowhere like WoW, or any other MMO in existence.
The economy is strictly player run, everything there is bought and sold by people. There isn't magically stuff for you to buy, everything on the market, has been mined, refined, put into production, and build via specific blueprints before it gets to the market.
PvP takes place in small gangs of 2-10 ships, or massive fleet battles. And when I say massive, I mean MASSIVE, like a couple hundred ships on either side of the battle. Not to mention the amount of organization they do. Corporations form squads, platoons, battalions, and each one has their orders on how to play.
If you make enough money in game, you can purchase a 30 day game card (~400-500mil ISK)
You can form Corporations, build space stations, mine asteroids, or pirate. In fact, CCP (creators of EVE) encourage players to scam eachother, the game is unforgiving. People will scam you out of ALL your money, and you can't do anything about it. It's an extremely hostile game, sometimes scary.
From the start, you can literally do whatever you want, there's no predetermined quest line to follow til you're the highest level, hell, there isn't even levels. You play by skills. Each ship has its own skill prerequisites, and you have to train the skills from the skill books, which train in real time. Say I want to get, Standard Missiles, training that would take roughly 20 minutes. But say I want to train Standard Missiles II? That would take an hour. Rank III? 3 hours, and so on. Basically, you can't just click on another player and say, he's a lower level then me, i'm going to gank him! Because it's based off of skills, players can seem noob-ish, but be this overbearing smash-monster from the depths of hell.
I could go on for hours, but seriously, just go look at some of the YouTube videos about it. It's a beautiful game, aesthetically, and functionally. I highly recommend it.
TL;DR : Fuck you, read it!