[jarvic]

Join a PvP corp, fly cheap ships, do just enough missions/exploration/pirating/trading/mining/whatever to keep yourself in ammo, and have a blast shooting people. EVE only turns into Spreadsheets in Space if you make it that way.

[mfringel]

In all seriousness, my theory is that the more you want to solo in EVE, the more it turns into Spaceships and Spreadsheets.