I was wondering when this refrain would arrive lol.

Think about this: I live in a capital city. Sometimes I go to a bar on my way home from work, and I sit and have a beer in the sun and read the paper. I don't feel the need to shout "Hey everyone, look at my paper, let's all talk about the news together!", but I don't want a bar that's completely empty.
Sometimes I go shopping to a supermarket on my own while my gf is at work. I don't call my friends up first so that we can all roam around Tescos in a 10-man group together, and I don't ask strangers if they want to a company me and chat about stuff while we shop, but me alone in the place would seem deeply wierd.
Sometimes I go for a cycle around a local park. Knowing other people are strolling or cycling or having a picnic there is nice, but I'd rather leave my earbuds in than join a convoy.
Sometimes I go to the cinema on my own to see a movie. Other people eat crispsoudly, so solo pls.
There are 4 million people on my city's 'server'. I interact witha tiny minority of them, but they still need to be there.

The other players in an MMO are part of what gives an MMO its unique atmosphere. Eve is no exception. Seeing Rookie chat scroll away adds to the i pression of living in a vast teeming universe. I don't need to interact woth them, I just need tk know they're there.

I was wondering when this refrain would arrive lol.

Think about this: I live in a capital city. Sometimes I go to a bar on my way home from work, and I sit and have a beer in the sun and read the paper. I don't feel the need to shout "Hey everyone, look at my paper, let's all talk about the news together!", but I don't want a bar that's completely empty.
Sometimes I go shopping to a supermarket on my own while my gf is at work. I don't call my friends up first so that we can all roam around Tescos in a 10-man group together, and I don't ask strangers if they want to a company me and chat about stuff while we shop, but me alone in the place would seem deeply wierd.
Sometimes I go for a cycle around a local park. Knowing other people are strolling or cycling or having a picnic there is nice, but I'd rather leave my earbuds in than join a convoy.
Sometimes I go to the cinema on my own to see a movie. Other people eat crispsoudly, so solo pls.
There are 4 million people on my city's 'server'. I interact witha tiny minority of them, but they still need to be there.

The other players in an MMO are part of what gives an MMO its unique atmosphere. Eve is no exception. Seeing Rookie chat scroll away adds to the i pression of living in a vast teeming universe. I don't need to interact woth them, I just need tk know they're there.

That's a terrible analogy

why would you play a Massive MULTIPLAYER online rpg if you wanted to do solo pve content -_-?

Great analogy but you would have to add ax murders running around the bar, everyone around you in the movie blasting beer farts, someone outside the supermarket with a bullhorn offering to double groceries if you send him what you have in your cart right now and little bastard children throwing sticks in front of your bike at the park.

I can approach this one, as well. Gathering resources, selling them, watching my numbers go up is kind of fun. Many of my favorite single player RPGS are less story focused, and more sandbox and game mechanic focused. I like the idea of being able to fly around a giant universe just doing stuff to make my numbers go up.

But it's so much more fun when I have to be "on" the entire time because that random encounter isn't with some pre-screened level-appropriate AI-controlled monster. It's with someone who can, and will, kill me. I have to be smart. I have to be fast. I have to be prepared. I may play as if I'm here for the PvE, and if I couldn't ever get anything done because I was constantly being attackded, it wouldn't be fun (see also: single player RPGs with excessive random encounters). But that occasional moment, that life-or-death moment between the time I notice the threat to the time my ship finally reaches warp and I'm wondering if my tank is going to hold out that long... I live for that moment.

Also, the option of blowing someone away just because they annoy me is awesome. Most games you just have to put up with those people.

So I guess I am here for the PvP. I'm just not here for "good fights." I'm here to see just how finely I can skate the line between risk and reward.

Ideally you're better off being social with others when doing anything in Eve. The Solo PVE is horrible, but if you play with a group of friends/corpmates you'll enjoy eve, in general infinitely more than if you try to run it as a solo PVE mmo.

Great analogy but you would have to add ax murders running around the bar, everyone around you in the movie blasting beer farts, someone outside the supermarket with a bullhorn offering to double groceries if you send him what you have in your cart right now and little bastard children throwing sticks in front of your bike at the park.

That is a matter of being at the wrong place or being there at the wrong time.

I wouldn't want to attend to certain gas stations at dusk where groups of partially drunk young folk gang together to occasionally yell at passersby.

Also there are farting drunk misfits at some corners just around supermarkets.

There are young parents yelling at their misbehaving children - in a disgusting manner - at the grocery store.

In some supermarket I have also witnessed some slightly drunk young man drop a beer bottle by accident only to get called names by his buddy and subsequently get hit by him on the head with another bottle leaving a bleeding wound.

Your turn.

I think you should correct your views about eve by visiting some just slightly less crowded places besides the trade hubs.