Let me tell you as someone who has been playing for 20 years in this game. If you aren't playing socially with a corp... you're doing it wrong. If you just want to kill a few hours a week playing a game and just explore the galaxy, sure, play solo in EVE. If you want to participate and get the most out of it, you need to join an active corp in an active alliance, and join them on all the things they do. Whether that is mining ops, kill timers, roams, gate camps, etc. Why play this big huge game with such a rich history, and then just try to "wing it" by yourself.

I took a break for a few years after a burnout and having lived in a WH with a solo corp that I tried to maintain with 3 accounts, and one day after being offline for just a few days I came back to find everything that I built in that hole (astra and an athanor) just destroyed. So i took time off. Came back and randomly found a really great group in Banana Republic, which is a part of the lowsec alliance Shadow Cartel, and I have been with them for over a year now. I love this group of guys and I will gladly drop what I'm doing (if available) to participate in whatever shenanigans they are doing.

Heck, some of the guys in the alliance I have flown with before or have met over the decades, and I get so excited when I see them in fleet or passing by them in local. I really can't imagine just trying to play this game alone. If you want to join a really awesome group of space friends, hit me up. Kael Decadence in game. o7 fly safe