Once you get a handle on what you want out of your character it’s time to find people to team up with. CCP really does try to make sure that that the game is a social experience, because if you go it alone you just aren’t going to get much done. Teamwork is key to doing well in Eve, whether joining a corporation and collectively collecting riches, or starting a grew of marauders wrecking havoc on unsuspecting convoys. It’s great forming up a strike force to keep pirates at bay while your corporation tries to mine rare ores in a low security star system. Working with others is also about the only way you’ll ever get enough cash together to get a hold of the larger warships of the game, because they are pricey bastards, especially the top class ships where you’ll have to buy the blueprints, then mine and refine all the ores necessary to construct it in a factory.