Aww man. I've tried Eve online for about two years. In the end even got into a C5 and farmed like mad with a carrier and a dread until we got evicted by one of the bigger WH alliances. But could never really get past the carebear mentality of not wanting to lose ships in the end. And that, plus the perceived latency of 1sec game ticks without prediction kind of soured the fun.
The best that came out of it is that I've managed to get my name on the monument, which I've then visited in 2018. Coincidentally I've signed up to the game using my real name (which I've fought multiple times to get changed), so I have my actual name on the slab instead of just a character name in the end.