Eve Online is a game I desperately wanted to enjoy, however, at the end of the day it always just felt like work with the risk of losing your hard earned investments to a single mistake. The game is absolutely beautiful, the Eve Universe is HUGE and a lot of the dynamics are really nice, it's just at the end of the day it never held my interest.
Sucks about the guys ship, I can't imagine what the loss of that ship must've meant.