Motherhead wrote:

No I never looked at black 98% of the time. With decent hardware (mid grade video card, dual core CPU) ratting and missions with 50+ objects on screen (excluding blooms and particle effects, the only graphic elements they get right consistently) look fantastic. The scaling back to icon views and massive lag occurs during fleet battles. Fleet battles are the WoW equivalent of raid guilds will every bit of the faggotry that comes with it (as noted. "Titans" are ships that take months and the equivalent of many thousands of hours of grinding to produce, pure cocksuckery). I've never gotten near the 100+ vs 100+ ship fleet battles that are all over youtube because I am unwilling to treat any fucking game like a horrible primary vocation. PvP in 0.0 space with a reasonable group (5-20) of faggot pals vs the same Is the norm and, yes, you will get to see all that bling they put out in their trailers.

Most people stumble into Eve looking for a space sim and are daunted by the spreadsheets you have to master to make sense of mid level play. You might get sucked into the challenge of that aspect for a while before realizing that it was never what you signed up for, and kill your account. You have to be a special kind of asshole to subject yourself to 5 hours a night of the worst kind of space opera role-play horseshit that nerds in megacorps thrive on while forever staring at what amounts to ground controller radar.