Just to point out that buying Ep will never happen as it is like buying premium items on other MMOs and unlike some other companies the Dev team here have stated that they will never offer anything ingame for RL cash that is game changing / will give someone an advantage over others so this whole argument is a mute point. The op said he played eve since Beta so obviously he has no idea what it is like to be a low skilled character playing in a game where nearly eveyone else has higher skills than you.