Played for about 18 months- If you have a thin skin, you'll consider most players griefers, which is why its also known as grief online. It does have a fairly high learning curve. I left because the game is becoming more oriented toward large groups called alliances (blob warfare)at the expense of small groups/solo players, Lag, unresponsive customer support, farmers, and the lead dev's belief that alliance politics is more important than everything else.
Other than that it was fun for awhile. Actually I preferred Earth and Beyond due to its more cooperative nature (no PvP) while in Eve its watch your back and trust no one which is sort of counter-intuitive to its premise of corporation/ alliance cooperation.
High Security space is fun for afk, chatting, goofing around, while in low sec space you need to be on your toes and keep a sharp eye out. 0.0 space is supposedly lawless but with alliances controlling it, some areas are safer than hi sec.
. unless some war is going on.