I think it would be fair to say it was 95% boredom and 5% you needed a new pair of shorts. The perfect plan and months of building could unravel in just minutes. The game was filled with politics, spying, stealing, other stuff.

Flying with the right people made the difference between being able to enjoy the game or spending a month in a station being camped because a corp mate gave someone in the middle finger in local demanded “respect.”

You could go mining for hours in high sec and then suddenly a suicided ganker shows up and blows up your ship before the police could show up to stop that person. So you were always on the lookout for someone to kill you no matter if you were in high sec, low sec, null, or wormhole space. Anything and everything wanted to get on you kill mail!

It was fun for sure just don't operate expensive ships at 3am and get killed due to not paying attention! It was a game that took a fair amount of time as well. Glad I played it while I was younger I just don't have that kind of time these days.