CCP have always been very good with their understanding of the community; there are no other games that I can think of where the features have been driven quite as much by what the players started doing with the game instead of what the designers intended. Part of this was the whole Alliance idea, which was added after corporations started unofficially forming alliances for mutual benefit. This July there is a tournament between the alliances and CCP are taking it just a little further. EVE already has the best dedicated radio station with Eve Radio, something that benefits from everybody...

My time in Eve can probably be best described as consolidation. I'm faction grinding to make refining better at various locations and going through grabbing the magic 5s in skills that I've neglected over the years. Although I started playing at launch I had a gap in the middle and so I'm only (ha!) at 25 million SPs so I've missed a few along the way. I had one of those "5% over 3 years mounts up" moments that has encouraged me to do a few skill tweakings that will only take a week or so. Grinding wise I'm actually doing...