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It takes a lot of time to get familiar with how the game works, how combat works, and how you should fit your ships for your play style. Definitely can feel like a job and/or hopeless at first, but once that initial investment of time has been put in the game can definitely be played casually.

It's a lot of fun to just mess around with a few people in some cheap frigates (basic small ships), sometimes more so than the actual "expensive" areas of the game.

[mawburn]

My favorite ships are faction frigs and T1 Cruisers/BCs, by far. They are the most fun to fly and if you pick your fights you'll easily beat bling.

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Even just a couple people flying around in Rifters can take on some decent sized ships if people know what they're doing.

I haven't played Eve in years but now I'm suddenly back to wanting to play.

[ajacksified]

Back when I was TEST's training director, my favorite thing to do was lead squads of about a dozen people in either alliance-provided free rifters, or any T2 frigates people wanted to bring. Great learning for the newbies; easy to replace if we lost everything; and every once in a while, we'd find a T2 battleship or carrier doing PVE, all alone, out in space...

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If you are who I think you are, you were always so helpful and actually got me interested in the game, thanks man o7.

[LanceH]

For a while, I got into doing this in hi-sec with destroyers that cost 200k-2m each.