Best thing since sliced bread
Eve is a very difficult and incredible deep and complex MMO. This is not your World of Warcraft easy mode game. You start off with very few skills and skill points. These determine what ships you can fly, what weapon systems you can use, what sort of profession you will have - mining, trading, mission runner, fighter, scientist, ship builder, etc. There are so many avenues to choose from it will make your head spin, at first.
I have played Eve since 2003. The strong survive and the more skill points you have won't matter if you get caught with your armor down. There are many in Eve who understand the rules of combat and can use them to their advantage. Eve takes time - lots of time, more than WoW, more than Everquest - why? You must train skills - your attributes determine how quickly this will happen. Some skills take 30 days to train. Imagine that, one skill training for an entire month. You can only train one skill at a time.
You train even while you're offline - so that is some consolation. Imagine if you had to be online ...ugh, that would be awful. As it stands its a great system. Many skills at the beginning take a lot less time - minutes to hours to a couple days.
You can hop in and begin to enjoy the wonderful graphics, deep skill system, mining, researching blueprints and building your own ships - or using the market system to make your fortunes. So many things to do just like other MMO's, but much more complex.
Looking for something that will challenge your brain? Look no further, Eve Online is here!